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)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (PDF)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (Serbian) (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

He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, department of painting. In his artistic practice, he uses various media – performance, artistic action, installation, in situ, video, sound, photography, sculpture, painting.

He participated in a number of artistic residency projects and represented the country at many exhibitions in Iceland, Japan, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, etc.

He exhibited at a number of solo and group exhibitions in Serbia, the region, and internationally, among which stand out: Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Cultural Center Belgrade, Goethe Institute Belgrade, Graphic Collective Gallery, Ozon Gallery, SKC Gallery and the Museum 25th of May in Belgrade; Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Gallery of Matica Srpska, Cultural Center of Novi Sad in Novi Sad; EuropeNow (CES), Columbia University and the Ejecta Project in the USA; National Gallery of BIH, Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Duplex and Zvono Gallery in Sarajevo; National Museum of Montenegro / Art Gallery »Dado« in Cetinje and Center of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica; Kunstlerhaus in Vienna; Nelimarkka Regional Art Museum in Finland; Cultural Center of Serbia in Paris, Prozori Gallery in Zagreb, Poola Gallery in Pula, Lazareti Art Workshop in Dubrovnik, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Toki Art Space in Tokyo, etc.

He participated in international performance festivals in Croatia (the 14th days of performances at the Gallery Center in Varaždin and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria), Hungary (Esetleg festival, Pécs) and Italy (Infr'action Venezia 3, Venice), Serbia (the 19th Biennale of Art in Pancevo, Museum of Vojvodina, MSUV, IMAF), and performed at the Rogaland Cultural Center in Stavanger (Norway), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica, the Aparaaditehas Cultural Center in Tartu (Estonia), the Poola Gallery in Pula and ARL Gallery in Dubrovnik, etc.

He participated in international art projects and biennials, among which stand out the collaborative project »By the means at Hand« by artist Vlatka Horvat in the Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Art Biennale in Venice (2024); 19th biennial in Pancevo (2020); Art Encounters, Timisoara (2019) and October Salon, Belgrade (2013); as well as the following: Missing Stories, Goethe Institute, Belgrade (2020–2022); Risk Change, MSUV, Novi Sad (2019); Milky Way, MSUV, Novi Sad (2022); Danube Dialogues, Novi Sad (2015, 2020); Festival of Light, Pilsen, Czech Republic (2018); Mikser Festival, Belgrade; (2010700 IS Video Art Festival, Iceland (2008); and others.

He is a participant in international artistic residency and research projects and programs: USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway (2024/2023/2012/2014); Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden (2023/2022/2014); Typa Print Museum, Tartu, Estonia (2020); National Center for Contemporary Art NCCA, St. Petersburg, Russia (2018); DEPO 2017, Pilsen ECoC 2015 (2017); Kamov residence, Rijeka (2017); Nelimarkka Museum, Finland (2016, 2009); Titanic Gallery, Turku, Finland (2008); SIM House Reykjavik, Iceland (2006); Cite des Arts, Paris (2011, 2004); University of Illinois, Chicago, USA (1996), as well as in residencies in Portugal and Spain, art colonies in Serbia such as the Terra Symposium, Kikinda (2017) or the Vlasina International Colony (2022).

Dragan Vojvodić receives numerous research grants and awards such as: University of Illinois, Chicago; EU Japan Fest Committee, Tokyo; Novi Sad ECoC 2022, Novi Sad; DEPO 2015, Pilsen, Czech Republic; Titanic Gallery, Turku, Finland, etc.

His works can be found in the following collections: Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Regional Art Museum of Southern Ostrobothnia in Finland, 700 IS Video Art Festival in Iceland, Matica Srpska Gallery in Novi Sad, Pierre Curtin Collection in Sarajevo, Terra Museum in Kikinda, Obras Foundation in Portugal, DEPO 2015 in Pilsen, Contemporary Art Center of Montenegro in Podgorica, Contemporary Art Gallery in Zrenjanin, Cultural Center Leskovac, as well as in private collections in the country and abroad (Finland, Denmark) and educational institutions in Serbia.

Dragan Vojvodić is a member of SULUV (Union of Associations of Fine Artists of Vojvodina) and ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia). He is the founder and coordinator of the NGO and residential art center Art Box in Petrovaradin (Novi Sad) and the eponymous portal for the promotion of culture and art (www. artboxportal.com).

https://draganvojvodic.wordpress.com/
drvojvod@gmail.com

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

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