Danica Dakić Explained

Danica Dakić (born 1962) in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian artist and university professor. She works primarily with video art, installation and photography. Her works have been widely exhibited, including at documenta 12 (2007) and at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), where she represented Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] Dakić lives and works in Düsseldorf, Weimar, and Sarajevo.

Life and education

Danica Dakić was born in 1962 in Sarajevo[2] and grew up in Yugoslavia.[3] She studied from 1981 to 1985 at the Sarajevo Academy of Arts and then moved to the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she continued her studies until 1988 and completed her master's degree in painting.[4] In 1988 she left Yugoslavia and went to Germany, where she studied from 1988 to 1990 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Nam June Paik.[4] [5]

She spent the Bosnian war in Germany and in 1997 she returned to Sarajevo for the first time.

Work

Dakić works across all media – from drawing to photography, video and sound works, film, performances, and sculptural objects. Employing performative and participatory processes, she creates images and voices that interrogate ever-changing social, political, and cultural contexts also for their utopian potential. In her works she also incorporates personal factors. Her working method is characterised by her longstanding collaboration with the photographer Egbert Trogemann, the composer Bojan Vuletić, and the producer Amra Bakšić Čamo. Her projects are based on often lengthy research and production processes, which make intensive collaboration with the protagonists in her works indispensable. Starting out from a particular architecture, a historical place, or an (art) historical image, she creates stages with the participants on which individual worlds of images and narratives are created, beyond political, social, or economic classifications and codifications.[6]

The Bosnian War and the Siege of Sarajevo had a profound influence on her artistic development and her early work. Beginning in 1997, in collaboration with the Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA), she developed works in Sarajevo's urban spaces that engaged with the upheavals of a post-war society and that uncover processes of language development: In the video projection MADAME X (1997) she positioned herself for the first time in her hometown after all the changes caused by the war. In an alleyway in Sarajevo, her speaking mouth could be seen, but no sounds were heard.[6] In her work WITNESS (1998), she placed a video and sound intervention on the empty pedestal of the monument to the writer Ivo Andrić in Sarajevo's city park, to question the rewriting of history in times of great upheavals using the example of the missing bust of the Nobel Prize winner.[7]

Collections

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019-05-02. Biennale Arte 2019 National Participations. 2021-02-09. La Biennale di Venezia. en.
  2. Web site: Dakić, Danica Art Collection Telekom . www.art-collection-telekom.com.
  3. Book: Daniels . Dieter . Frieling . Rudolf . Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) . Kunstsammlung . Alstatt . Rosanne . 40 Yearsvideoart.de: Digital Heritage : Video Art in Germany from 1963 to the Present . 2006 . Amalgamated Book Services . 978-3-7757-1718-2 . en.
  4. Book: Court . Isabelle de le . Post-Traumatic Art in the City: Between War and Cultural Memory in Sarajevo and Beirut . 2020-11-26 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 978-1-350-19437-3 . en.
  5. Web site: Schmidt . Dr Sabine Maria . Düsseldorf: Porträt über zwei Düsseldorfer Künstler in Venedig . Westdeutsche Zeitung . de . 2019-05-31.
  6. Book: Dakić, Danica, 1962-. Danica Dakić. 2009. W. König. Groos, Ulrike., Milovac, Tihomir., Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf., Generali Foundation (Vienna, Austria), Muzej suvremene umjetnosti (Zagreb, Croatia). 978-3-86560-679-2. Köln. 5–6. 466379753.
  7. Web site: Danica Dakić – Witness. 2021-02-09. scca.ba. en-US.
  8. Web site: Danica Dakic born 1962 . Tate.
  9. Web site: Isola Bella . Centre Pompidou . en-EN.
  10. Web site: Bordeaux . CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de . CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux . Navigart.fr . fr . 2020-12-10.
  11. Web site: Dakic, Danica MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona . www.macba.cat . en.
  12. Book: 5 Orte: Julia Bornefeld, Vera Sous, Danica Danic, Suse Wiegand, Ulrike Grossarth . katalog.slub-dresden.de . de-DE.
  13. Web site: Danica Dakić, Triptychon moderna galerija ljubljana . old.mg-lj.si.
  14. Web site: Rittenbach . Kari . In Conversation: Danica Dakic Takes Off Masks . ARTnews.com . 2009-09-03.
  15. Web site: Danica Dakić. Role-Taking, Role-Making – Generali Foundation . foundation.generali.at.
  16. Web site: Hammer Projects: Danica Dakić Hammer Museum. 2021-02-09. hammer.ucla.edu. en.
  17. Web site: V.A.Z . S. H. i . Danica Dakić: Utisci nakon otvaranja bh. paviljona u Veneciji . Radio Sarajevo.
  18. Web site: Danica Dakic im Lehmbruck-Museum . Lokalkompass . 25 January 2017 . de.
  19. Web site: Allgemeine . Thüringer . Trilogie von Danica Dakić zu Aufstieg und Fall von Zenica . www.thueringer-allgemeine.de . de-DE . 2019-11-20.
  20. Book: La casa, il corpo, il cuore : Konstruktion der Identitäten : Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 20er Haus, 24. Juni 1999–10. Oktober 1999. 1999. Museum Moderner Kunst. Hegyi, Lóránd., Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria). 3-900776-81-4. Wien. 43425541.
  21. Book: In den Schluchten des Balkan : eine Reportage = In the gorges of the Balkans : a report. Kunsthalle Fridericianum. Block, René., Kunsthalle Fridericianum.. 2003. 3-927015-35-0. Kasel. 82772464.
  22. Book: herausgegeben vom Kreis Borken ; [Redaktion: Josef Spiegel, Günther Inhester]. Skulptur Biennale Münsterland Kreis Borken 2005 : latente Historie. 2005. DuMont. 3-8321-7666-7. Köln. 61488356.
  23. Book: Talking pictures : Theatralität in zeitgenössischen Film- und Videoarbeiten. 2007. K21. Alimpiev, Viktor, 1973-, Krystof, Doris., Scheuermann, Barbara J. (Barbara Josepha), 1975-, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany). 978-3-926154-90-3. Düsseldorf. 173071425.
  24. Book: Das ABC der Bilder ; [anlässlich der Ausstellung Das ABC der Bilder der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in Kooperation mit dem Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zum Wissenschaftsjahr 2007, Jahr der Geisteswissenschaften, Pergamonmuseum, Museumsinsel Berlin, 27. Juni - 9. September 2007]]. 2007. Staatliche Museen. Wullen, Moritz,, Staatliche Museen (Berlin), Ausstellung Das ABC der Bilder (2007, Berlin), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (Berlin). 978-3-88609-587-2. Berlin. 180171431.

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