Goran Đorđević

Goran Đorđević (Goran Djordjevic; 1950, Yugoslavia) is a former artist. Graduated in electrical engineering in Belgrade and visual studies from MIT. As of 1979 he has realized a series of works based on copying, such as Short History of Art (1979/81) and Harbingers of Apocalypse (1981). Helped organizing "The Last Futurist Show" by Kasimir Malevich (1985), Walter Benjamin's lecture: "Mondrian 1963-1996" (1986), and The International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show) (1986).

Since 1993, he has worked as a doorman of the Salon de Fleurus, New York, a live reenactment of Gertrude Stein's Paris salon from the early 20th century, housing copies of her collection of modern art. Đorđević also collaborated on the project International Exhibition of Modern Art Presents Alfred Barr's Museum of Modern Art in New York which was part of the official selection of Serbia and Montenegro on the Venice Bienale in 2003. In recent years he became an associate of the Museum of American Art in Berlin, working as its technical assistant. He now lives in New York.

Exhibitions

Solo

• October ‘74, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, 1974. [1]
• Protiv umetnosti [Against Art], SKC Gallery, Belgrade, 1980.
• Glasnici apokalipse, original i kopije / Harbingers of Apocalypse, Original & Copies, III bulevar 106/15, Belgrade, 1980; Museum für (-Sub)Kultur, Berlin, 1980; PM Gallery, Zagreb, 1981; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 1981. Exh. flyer. Review: Antun Maračić (Studentski list).
• Kopije / Copies, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, 1981; Studentski centar, Osijek, 1981; Museum für Kultur, Hamburg, 1982; GSC, Zagreb, 1982; PM Gallery, Zagreb, 1984; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 1984. Exh. invitation, Zagreb. Review: Željko Kipke (Studentski list).
• Bilder über Bilder, Kunstmuseum Hannover, Hanover, 1982; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 1984.
• Kako kopirati Mondrijana [How to Copy Mondrian], National Museum, Belgrade, 1983.
• Prizori moderne umetnosti [Scenes of Modern Art], SKC Gallery, Belgrade, 1985; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 1985.

Retrospectives

• Proti umetnosti: Kopije 1979-1985 / Against Art: Copies 1979-1985, City Gallery, Ljubljana, 2012-13. Curated by Branislav Dimitrijević, Dejan Sretenović and Jelena Vesić. [2] [3] [4] [5]
• Alles fake - Kunst über Kunst. Goran Đorđević. Aus der Sammlung des Osthaus Museums, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, 14 Jun-11 Sep 2016.

Publications

• "Umetnost kao oblik religiozne svesti”, Oktobar 75, Belgrade: SKC, 1975. (Serbian)
  • "On the Class Character of Art", The Fox, New York, 1976, pp 163-165; repr. in Prelom 8, Belgrade: Akademija, Fall 2006, pp 236-238. Repr. from The Fox, New York, 1976, pp 163-165. (English)

• Who is Goran Đorđević, section in Prelom 8 (Fall 2006), Belgrade: Akademija, pp 236-269.
  • Goran Djordjević, "On the Class Character of Art", pp 236-238. Repr. from The Fox, New York, 1976, pp 163-165.
  • Branislav Dimitrijević, "Altered Identities: Đorđević as an Artist, SKC as an Institution", pp 241-247.
  • "Story on Copy. An Interview with Goran Đorđević", trans. Jelena Maksimović, pp 249-268. Conducted by Branislav Dimitrijević, Svebor Midžić, Siniša Mitrović, Branimir Stojanović and Jelena Vesić on 26 December 2002 in the Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade. A version printed in Prelom 5 (Spring/Summer 2003).

• Umetnik kao publika, Belgrade: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011, 12 pp. Booklet for the Kopije 1979-1985 exhibition; includes a 1984 interview with Đorđević by Slobodan Mijušković. [6] (Serbian)
• Against Art, Goran Đorđević – Copies [1979–1985], Belgrade: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014. Catalogue.