Bogdanka Poznanović
Bogdanka Poznanović (Богданка Познановић, 1930, Begeč, Vojvodina - 9 June 2013, Novi Sad) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade (1956). She was one of the founders as well as a member of the editorial board of Tribina mladih (The Youth Forum) and the magazine Polja (Fields), editor of the Tribina Mladih Salon, art critic, professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and co-founder of Atelier DT20 in Novi Sad. She was a scholarship recipient of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1968/69) in Florence and Rome, and then did a three-month specialization (1977) at the Historical Archive of Contemporary Art in Venice.
She held lectures in Ferrara (1984) and was a visiting professor at the Drama, Art and Music Studies (DAMS) at the University of Bologna (1985). Her work has been displayed at numerous solo and group exhibitions. She had a retrospective exhibition at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Multimediale d’Europa (Domus Jani, 1990) in Verona. The award for the best work produced in Serbia at the festival of video creativity in new media VideoMedeja in Novi Sad has carried her name since 1996, and in 2001 Legacy of Bogdanka and Dejan Poznanović was founded at the New Media Center_kuda.org.
- Catalogues
- Miško Šuvaković, Bogdanka i Dejan Poznanović: umetnost, mediji i aktivizam na kraju moderne, Zagreb: Institut za istraživanje avangarde, Novi Sad: Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, and Belgrade: Orion Art, 2012, 151 pp. (Serbian)
- Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Bogdanka Poznanović: Contact Art, Novi Sad: Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, 2016, 160 pp. (English)/(Serbian)
- Literature
- Anja Foerschner, "Bogdanka Poznanović and the Emergence of Video and New Media Art", in Female Art and Agency in Former Yugoslavia, 1971-2001, Bloomsbury, 2024, pp 85-99. (English)
- Violeta Vojvodic Balaz, "Bogdanka Poznanović. The Art of Communication and the “Mainframe Arte Povera”", in Re:Source 2023 Proceedings, Venice: Resource, 2024, pp 205-209. (English)
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