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.

Lecture works

Walter Benjamin: Mondrian '63-'96, Marxist Center, Ljubljana, 1986. "Benjamin" presents several works of the abstract artist ranging in date from 1963 to 1996. Originally broadcasted on Belgrade TV (TV Galerija). Source. (English)

Other

• Istorija Muzeja Moderne Umetnosti at Kuda, Novi Sad, 2005. [1] (Serbian)
• The Unmaking of Art, Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2011, [2]; Arnolfini, Bristol; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, 2012; Tranzit, Budapest, 2012, [3]; Institutions by Artists, Vancouver; Le Plateau, Paris, 2013. (English)

Exhibitions

• Protiv umetnosti, SKC, Belgrade, 1980.
• Glasnidi 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.
• Kopije / Copies, SKC, Belgrade, 1981; Studentski centar, Osijek, 1981; Museum für Kultur, Hamburg, 1982; GSC, Zagreb, 1982; PM Gallery, Zagreb, 1984; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 1984.
• Bilder über Bilder, Kunstmuseum Hannover, Hanover, 1982; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 1984.
• Kako kopirati Mondrijana, National Museum, Belgrade, 1983.
• Prizori moderne umetnosti, SKC, Belgrade, 1985; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 1985.

Other exhibitions of note

• Kazimir Malevich: Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10, Ljubljana, March 1986.
• Salon de Fleurus, New York, since 1993.
• Kunsthistorisches Mausoleum, Belgrade, since 2002.
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936, Galerie 35, c2004.
• Proti umetnosti / Against Art: Copies 1979–1985, City Gallery, Ljubljana, 2012-13. Curated by Branislav Dimitrijević, Dejan Sretenović and Jelena Vesić. [4]

Publications

• "Who is Goran Đorđević", 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).
• What is Modern Art? (Group Show), 2 vols., eds. Inke Arns and Walter Benjamin, Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2006, 116+96 pp. Catalogue of an exhibition at Bethanien, Berlin. Preface (EN), Preface (DE). [5] (English)/(German)
  • Walter Benjamin, Beti Zerovc, "My Dear, This Is Not What It Seems To Be", PDF. Interview.
• Umetnik kao publika, Belgrade: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011, 12 pp. Exhibition booklet for the Kopije 1979-1985 exhibition. [6] (Serbian)
• Walter Benjamin: Recent Writings 1986-2013, New Documents, 2014, 216 pp. Collects nine essays by "Walter Benjamin", augmented with interviews and a bibliography. Review, [7].
  • "The Unmaking of Art", pp 128-154, ARG.
• Les fleurs américaines / Museum of American Art, Dijon: Les presses du réel, and Berlin: Museum of American Art, 2014, 256 pp. Catalogue published following the eponymous exhibition at Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau, Paris, 13 Dec 2012 - 17 Feb 2013. Texts by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Walter Benjamin, Xavier Franceschi, Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel. [8] (French)/(English)

Literature

• François Aubart, "Walter Benjamin: Histoires des œuvres", Zérodeux 65 (2013). (French)
  • "Walter Benjamin: Histories of Works", Zérodeux 65 (2013). (English)

Links

• http://www.mgml.si/en/city-art-gallery/virtual-exhibitions/against-art-goran-dordevic-copies-1979-1985-solo/
• http://www.osthausmuseum.de/web/de/keom/aktuell/ausstellungen/dordevic.html