Marina Vasiljevic Kujundzic | artist

About the Artist

Marina Vasiljevic Kujundzic is Belgrade (Serbia)
born sculptor based in Singapore. Marina
graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the
class of professor Jovan Kratohvil in her home
country in 1989 and completed her postgraduate
studies in 1991.
From her earliest years Marina developed a strong
interest and curiosity about the world of art. Her
remarkable enthusiasm and artistic talent drove
her to produce hundreds of sculptures ranging in
size and materials such as metal, polyester, stone,
clay, painted wood, terracotta and different
fabrics displaying her versatility in the sculptured
media.
Marina has been exhibiting her art for over the
past twenty years in Europe, and Asia. She has
had numerous one-man, group, and invitational
shows. Her works are part of the permanent
collection of Museum of Contemporary Art
Belgrade and many private collections worldwide
own and enjoy her art.

IN INTERSPACE BETWEEN "HIGH" AND
"UNDERGROUND" ART
An important part of the artistic production in Belgrade, and
partially Novi Sad, in the '80s had a very accentuated
relationship with the new wave in rock music. What was at the
beginning impulsively called new image painting was in fact,
together with other urban happenings, part of a striking picture of
the spiritual climate of the somewhat wild but primarily (at least at
first sight) carefree eighties. Not burdened with politics, artists
were able to create, particularly in the first half of the decade,
distinctive post modernist works – mostly structured and
sophisticated. At the end of the '80s there was a change in the
visual production, with a generation of artists – primarily sculptors
– whose plastic language was far from the boisterous
expressiveness of their immediate predecessors. Although it
was frequently marked as new generation – which I found wrong
and Prussian in relation to their activity and those works: by their
context and their broad deliberation they belong to the body of
post modernism, regardless of their mimicry of the paradigmatic
works of modern art.
The exhibition called The Early Nineties – Yugoslav Artistic
Scene, held in late summer of 1993 at the Contemporary Fine
Arts Gallery of Novi Sad, showed this generation's horizon
clearly, although slightly post festum. It was the generation of
artists who matured at the end of the '80s and the very transition
to the '90s. Those were the artists who could in some way be
connected to the concept of unexpressionism and who marked
the end of the eighties: first of all, Srdjan Apostolovic, Dusan
Petrovic, Dobrivoje Krgovic, Zdravko Joksimovic, then artists
who brought a little bit of the narrative into the dictate of geometry
– Dragan Jelenkovic, Bozica Radjenovic and Marina Vasiljevic
Kujundzic, and the group Apsolutno (Absolutely) from Novi
Sad, with Zoran Pantelic, Rastislav Skulec and Dragan Rakic.
M.P. (THE ART AT THE END OF THE CENTURY)

Landscapes 1991

Landscape
with Throne
2007

Marina is holding sculpting and drawing courses for beginners, adults and children implementing
simplified and efficient program. After attending a beginner course under Marina's supervision
participants will gain essential understanding of basic techniques and will be able to apply their
knowledge in the real life and make their own art. Send message for enquires.