Dragan Vojvodić: Sound(less)

Dragan Vojvodić: Sound(less)
10 October–8 November 2025
artKIT

You are cordially invited to the opening of the solo exhibition Sound(less) by the intermedia and interdisciplinary artist Dragan Vojvodić, which will take place on Friday, 10 October 2025, at 6 p.m. at the artKIT exhibition space. The artist will give a musical performance at the opening.

INVITATION (PDF)

The exhibition Sound(less) connects autobiographical discourse with the ideas of avant-garde and conceptual artistic practices, questioning sound and its absence. The artist starts from his own experience – music/sound – in order to articulate a space where the auditory shifts into the visual, creating a new context and narrative.

Through strategies of appropriation and reinterpretation, Dragan Vojvodić references authors such as Kazimir Malevich, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Joseph Kosuth – whose artistic approaches, as points of departure for re-examining the meaning and limits of the medium and the artwork, he transposes into a new context, opening a dialogue between historical heritage and personal experience.

Installations and ready-made objects are created from vinyl records – markers of cultural memory, documents of time, and testimonies of exile. Arranged in circular forms, they interrogate emptiness and discontinuity, while the potential reproduction of their sound evokes absence.

Biography

Dragan Vojvodić is a multimedia artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. His artistic practise encompasses various media, including performance, art action, installation, photography, video, spatial intervention, in-situ and object.

Over the years, Dragan Vojvodić has received numerous research grants, including the EU Japan Fest in Tokyo, ECoC Novi Sad 2021 and the Kizuna Scholarship from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has also been involved in several prestigious residency projects, including SIM House in Reykjavik (Iceland), USF Bergen (Norway), University of Illinois at Chicago (USA), Cite des Arts in Paris (France), Sumu residency at Titanik Gallery in Turku (Finland), Kamov residency at Museum of Contemporary Art Rijeka (Croatia), Koli residency in Joensu (Finland), Konstepidemin in Gothenburg (Sweden) and NCCA St. Petersburg (Russia), to name but a few.

Through his artistic work, Dragan Vojvodić has represented Serbia and Vojvodina in numerous exhibitions in countries such as Japan, Iceland, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia.

He has actively participated in international performance festivals in Croatia, Hungary and Italy and has exhibited his work in prestigious institutions such as the Rogaland Kunstesenter in Stavanger (Norway), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (Croatia), the Gallery of Contemporary Art of Istria in Pula (Croatia) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina (Serbia).

Dragan Vojvodić’s works have been exhibited at prestigious venues, including the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (Serbia), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad (Serbia), the Belgrade Cultural Centre (Serbia), the Goethe Institute Belgrade (Serbia), the BIH National Gallery in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna (Austria), the Gallery of the Cetinje Art Museum (Montenegro), the Centre culturel de Serbie in Paris (France) and DEPO 2015 in Pilsen (Czech Republic), to name but a few.

He has participated in numerous international art projects and biennials, including the Art Encounters Biennale Temisoara (Romania), Missing Stories, organised by the Goethe Institute in Belgrade (Serbia), Risk Change in Novi Sad (Serbia), the October Salon in Belgrade (Serbia), the Danube Dialogues in Novi Sad (Serbia) and the 700 IS Video Art Festival in Iceland, to name but a few.

His works can be found in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina (Serbia), the Pierre Courtin Collection in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Regional Art Museum of Southern Ostrobothnia, Erró Nelimarkka (Finland), the 700 IS Video Art Festival (Iceland), the Matica srpska Gallery in Novi Sad (Serbia), Terra in Kikinda (Serbia), the Obras Foundation in Portugal, DEPO 2015 in Pilsen (Czech Republic), the Contemporary Gallery in Zrenjanin (Serbia) and others.

Dragan Vojvodić has given presentations, artist talks, lectures and workshops in various institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad (Serbia), the Goethe Institute in Belgrade (Serbia), Joensu University in Finland, the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (Serbia), the Novi Sad Art Academy, the Belgrade Cultural Centre, the Prozori Gallery in Croatia, DEPO Pilsen in Croatia, the Erro Nelimarkka Museum in Finland and others.

He is a member of SULUV (League of Visual Artists’ Associations of Vojvodina) and ULUS (Union of Visual Artists of Serbia).

Dragan Vojvodić currently lives and works in Novi Sad.

https://draganvojvodic.wordpress.com/

< Dragan Vojvodić: Black Hole, mixed technique, 2019; Photo: Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić

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