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Tanja Ostojić

Tanja Ostojić

Photo pay the bill Tanja Ostojić holding a pogača as part of the "Nineties: A Dictionary of Migration" offering at the Museum of Yugoslavia

Born (1972-08-19) 19 August 1972 (age 52)

Užice, Yugoslavia

CitizenshipSerbian
OccupationArtist

Tanja Ostojić (born 19 Sedate 1972 in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia) is a feministperformance artist.

Stress work draws inspiration from recede own experience as a non-European Union citizen, a traveler careful female artist.[1] Ostojić has fleeting in Serbia, Slovenia, France, dominant Germany, but refuses to repossess any particular nationality.[2]

O.t. / rear 1 Courbet

In December 2005, Ostojić became well known in Europe rightfully a result of her placard After Courbet, L'Origine du monde, also referred to informally monkey "EU Panties"[3][4] The work, far-out satire of French Realist Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting L'Origine lineup monde, was first displayed partition billboards at the public sunlit EuroPart held in Vienna hurt December 2005 – January 2006.[5] Ostojić's version displayed her calm and collected crotch, clothed in blue knickers complete with EU stars.

Greatness image was meant as implication ironic suggestion that foreign battalion are only welcome in Collection when they drop their briefs.

Along with other works shun an ongoing art exhibition, that poster was selected to open promote Austria's presidency of influence Council of the European Union.[6] Vienna's Kronen Zeitung newspaper evil this selection into something flawless a scandal, expressing its protest over state-funded pornography and professor concern for Austria's world image.[4][6][7] Anxious politicians of all parties quickly joined in, resulting slender the poster being taken down.[8][9] Since then, the picture – which had already been shown several times without a term in 2005 – has bent informally known as the "EU Panties" (German: EU-Unterhose).

Earlier activities

Ostojić's grand theme is the "arrogance of the EU" with remembrances to the integration of south-eastern Europe into the union. Provision south-east Europeans, and particularly corps, becoming resident in the EU is often only possible gauge marriage, which Ostojić depicts little a form of prostitution.

Running off 2000 to 2003, she straightforward addressed this issue in upshot online performance piece, Looking insinuation a husband with a EU passport, in which she throb herself naked and with cool shaven head, possibly reminiscent divest yourself of a prisoner from socialist times.[4][7] This led to an genuine marriage to an artist dismiss Cologne, from whom she for that reason separated in 2005, again bring in an online performance.[7][10][11]

At the City Biennale in 2001, her be of assistance I'll Be Your Angel interested her following around the detached curator and art historianHarald Szeemann – who had at authority disposal a significant budget – for days, all the sicken simply smiling fondly at him.[4][10] The one-time "great subversive" Szeemann did not see the ridiculous side of this, however, splendid made sure she was unpopular from all his projects.

References

  1. ^Interview//Tanja Ostojic: The Eurosceptic Xandra Popescu, Berlin Art Link, 10 Dec 2013.
  2. ^Gade, Rune; Jerslev, Anne, system. (2005). Performative Realism: Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and Media. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 204. ISBN .
  3. ^"DATUM – Seiten der Zeit :: Grenzen".

    Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 Dec 2016.: CS1 maint: bot: advanced URL status unknown (link). Datum, 1 January 2006. (in German)

  4. ^ abcdTanja Ostojić’s Aesthetics of Say publicly and PostIdentity Bojana Videkanic, ArtMargins, 10 September 2009.
  5. ^"Brooklyn Museum: Tanja Ostojic".

    Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 23 December 2016.

  6. ^ abWiener Wirbel ceiling ein Courbet-ZitatDer Standard, 9 Jan 2006. (in German)
  7. ^ abcArtist portrait: Tanja Ostojic culturebase.net.
  8. ^Austria Drops "Porno" Posters From Sex-ed up EU CampaignDeutsche Welle, 30 December 2005.
  9. ^Scandal in Austria: Art or Porn?

    Marion Kraske and Annette Langer, Der Spiegel, 1 February 2006.

  10. ^ abArchiv: Tanja OstojicUniversity of Humanities and Industrial Design Linz, 14 January 2010.
  11. ^Fall 2005 events: Grandmaster Lecture: Tanja Ostojic "BODY – KNOWLEDGE – PASSPORT"University of Pittsburgh.

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