Serbian Art during Wartime
Zoran Naskovski

Born in 1960 in Izbiste, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia.
MA in visual arts, University of the Arts /Faculty of Visual Arts/Belgrade, YU

Works in different media.
Deals with the issues related to contemporary Yugoslav society as well as global phenomena
like movies, NBA (especially 3 points in the last second) fetishism, state of the body, aiming at disclosing visual mechanisms standing behind the contemporary visual obsessions.

solo exhibitions:

1998.
Galerie Le Lys, with Vesna Pavlovic, Paris, France
White Light/White Hit, 7Stages, Atlanta, GA, USA
White Light/White Hit & L 'origine du Monde, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, YU
1995.
Composition 1, with Bata Krgovic, National Museum of Belgrade, YU
1994.
White Cloud, S
KC Gallery, Belgrade, YU
1992.
Mondrian 1872-1992, with Nikola Pilipovic and Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Contemporary Art Galery Pancevo,YU
Mondrian 1872-1992, with Nikola Pilipovic and Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, YU
1991.

DOB
Gallery Belgrade, YU
1988.
Art Salon, Kragujevac, YU
1987.
DOB Gallery, with Zdravko Joksimovic and Dusan Vrga, Belgrade, YU

selected group exhibitions:

1999.
AAA, Institute for Earthquake Ingeneering and Ingeneering Seismology, Museum of the city of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
Without the Wall, Marble Palace, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Stirring Streaming Dreaming, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Garden of Eros, Palau de Virreina, Barcelona, Spain


1998.
Balkan Answer, The Festival of Video Art from the Former Yugoslavia,St. Petersburg, Russia
French-Baltic-Nordic Video & New Media Festival, Tallin, Estonia
Focus Belgrade, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
BELEF - Belgrade Summer Art Festival, Urban Provocations, Belgrade, YU
CO+++,Mini-international Festival of New Video Art, Novi Sad, YU
Union - Reunion /Love, Lust and Romance, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
If 6 Was 9, International Festival of Film and Video, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, YU
B 92 - The First Nine Years, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, YU
The 45th Festival of Yugoslav Short and Documentary Films, Belgrade, YU

1997.
New Icon, III Cetinje Biennial, Montenegro
Map Room, Michaelis Art Gallery, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa
Murder One, 2nd SCCA Annual Exhibition, CZKD, Belgrade, YU
The Loop, Golden Eye Gallery, Novi Sad, YU
De Valigia, Railway stations, Belgrade-Stockholm, YU-Sweden

1996.
19th Memmorial of Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, YU
Resume, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, YU
(KC "Boro i Ramiz", Prishtina, Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Museum of Contemporary Visual Arts Novi Sad, Castle of Culture, Vrnjacka Banja)
A View to a Wall, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, YU

1995.
Gaze Scenes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
Gaze Scenes, 1st SCCA Annual Exhibition, CZKD, Belgrade, YU
Experiencing Memory, National Museum, Belgrade, YU
Map Room, DOB Gallery, Belgrade, YU
The Wall Project, B 92 offices, Belgrade, YU

1994.
II Cetinje Biennial, Montenegro
I Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Konkordia, Vrsac
, YU
Art Garden, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, YU
Early Nineties, Petrovich Castle, Podgorica, Montenegro


1993.
Early Nineties, Contemporary Art Gallery, Novi Sad
, YU


videography:

- 1999.

"White Light/White Hit" -1998.
"L 'origine du Monde" -1997.
"Voice of the Hand" - 1997.


comissioned projects and presentations:
Performance "Sweet 15" and video screening of "L origine du Monde", presentation and discussion with the Society of Psychiatrists of Serbia, National Library of Serbia, 1998.
"5D - Astral Projection" - New Moment 9/10, 1998.
"Cross-roads" - 3 + 4, No 2, 1997.
"Red or Dead" - New Moment 6, 1996.
"Cut" - New Moment 3, 1994.

television portrait
"Greatest Hits" - In Medias Res, Art TV, YU, 1998.


awards:

The award of 2nd SCCA Annual Exhibition, Belgrade, YU, 1997.
The award of 19th Memmorial of Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, YU, 1996.

address:
Zoran Naskovski
Nevesinjska 8
11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
ph: 381 11 430 217
e-mail:znaskovski@mailexcite.com