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Exhibitions
June 2024. Solo Show/Collaboration | Gir Store, Belgrade
December 2023. Online Show | The Curators, Paris/NY
December 2023. Group Show | Galerie Fran Reus, Palma, Mallorca
September 2023. Solo Show | Navigator Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
June 2023. Solo show | Artistic Space, Belgrade, Serbia
May 2023. Group Show | BIEN Textile Art Biennale, Kranj, Slovenia
June 2022. Solo show | Galerie am Lindenhof, Zurich, Switzerland
December 2021. Group show | Bienvenue Art Fair, Paris, France
November 2021. Solo show | Transformart Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Exhibitions
June 2024. Solo Show/Collaboration | Gir Store, Belgrade
December 2023. Online Show | The Curators, Paris/NY
December 2023. Group Show | Galerie Fran Reus, Palma, Mallorca
September 2023. Solo Show | Navigator Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
June 2023. Solo show | Artistic Space, Belgrade, Serbia
May 2023. Group Show | BIEN Textile Art Biennale, Kranj, Slovenia
June 2022. Solo show | Galerie am Lindenhof, Zurich, Switzerland
December 2021. Group show | Bienvenue Art Fair, Paris, France
November 2021. Solo show | Transformart Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Marijana Janković aka NIGHTMARA has a degree in German literature and worked in translation as well as in journalism before moving into art. She grew up on a mix of television, movies, comics, video games, literature; and that built her sensibility. Her carpets, handmade in wool, and exploring pop culture in general as well as dreams and visions, strike by the tension between their often apparent comical motifs and the actual hard, patient work that is needed to produce them. This combination of fun and craft is in tune with our Zeitgeist, enhanced by pandemic-induced homebound melancholy and boredom.
These fluffy icons irresistibly make one want to touch and manipulate them, an absolute necessity in the carpet-trading business but oftentimes a blasphemy in the art world. On that aspect Janković adds: “I don't think the name carpet does much good for their reputation in the world of contemporary art. It is difficult to imagine them outside the context of homework, although there is a wave of young artists who create unexpected things and push the boundaries of textile art.”
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These fluffy icons irresistibly make one want to touch and manipulate them, an absolute necessity in the carpet-trading business but oftentimes a blasphemy in the art world. On that aspect Janković adds: “I don't think the name carpet does much good for their reputation in the world of contemporary art. It is difficult to imagine them outside the context of homework, although there is a wave of young artists who create unexpected things and push the boundaries of textile art.”
