EDUCATION
1983 – Master Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade
1981– Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Tentativo, Mrdjan Bajic and Giuseppe Pietroniro, Residence of the Ambassador of Italy, Belgrade, Serbia
2023 Mrdjan Bajic Frontiere, RX&SLAG, Paris, France
2023 MRDJAN BAJIĆ - Unreliable Narrator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
2023 The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2019 Bring Me Back, Galerie Paola Verrengia, Provincial Archaeological Museum, Salerno
2018 Facciamo finta di niente, GABA, Galleria dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, Italy
2018 Transversales, Galerie RX, Paris
2017 Once More and Again, Kula Gallery, Split
2015 Geo-Strategic, Hub12 Gallery, Belgrade
2015 New Works, Galerija Rima, Kragujevac
2015 The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2014 Mine and Yours, Maison de la Culture, Metz
2013 Gallery of Contemporary Art Smederevo, Smederevo
2013 Sculptotechture, Galerie RX, Paris
2012 Solo – Mrdjan Bajic, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris
2011 New Works, Galerija Rima, Kragujevac
2009 Richard Deacon / Mrdjan Bajić: Kalemegdan Bridge, ULUS Gallery, Hall of the Belgrade City Assembly, Belgrade
2009 The Solo Project, Galleria Paola Verrengia, St. Jakobshalle, Basel
2008 Oxygen, Arte Gallery, Belgrade
2007 Backup Stories, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno
2007 I Did This, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Open Space, Catanzaro
2007 Reset_, La Biennale di Venezia, Serbian Pavilion, Venice
2003 Short Cuts, French Cultural Center, Belgrade
2002 Yugomuseum, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna
2002 Yugomuseum, 25th Biennale di São Paulo, São Paulo
2001 Yugomuseum, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Winer collection, Salon of City Museum Belgrade, Serbia
2026 20 YEARS OF ARTE GALLERY / ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY, Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš, Serbia
2025 Personal Stories / Political Realities, macLYON, Lion, France
2025. Sculpturally: Journey… Space…Context… Small Visual Arts Salon; Novi Sad, Serbia
2025. Subdokumenta; Collegium Artisticum; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
2022 UpCycle. Quando l’arte reinventa il mondo, Residence of the Embassy of Italy, Bern
2022 Large Format, Arte Gallery, Belgrade
2022 New Acquisitions 2022, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pančevo
2022 Urban Text, cet espace nommé Balkans, Institute des Cultures d’Islam, Paris (FR)
2021 XVIII 3D ART — Exhibition of the Sculpture Section of ULUPUDS, Small Gallery of ULUPUDS, Belgrade
2021 The Collector as Curator and Selector. Marjanović Collection, Arte Gallery, Belgrade
2020/21 Reflections of Our Time. Acquisitions of the Museum of Contemporary Art 1993–2019, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
2019 Bêtes de Scène, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
2019 Festival Dev9t, Stara Ciglana, Belgrade
2019 The Last Yugoslav Decade, Terra Museum Gallery, Kikinda
2019 New Year Exhibition, Belgrade Sales Gallery, Belgrade
2019 Large Format, Arte Gallery, Belgrade
2017 Architecture as Metaphor, Griffin Gallery, London
2017 Art of the Postcard, Handel Street Projects, London
2017 NB, Galerie RX, Paris
2017 HERITAGE 1989. Case Study: The Eighties through the Prism of Events… — Part 3, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
2017 Doctor, Paint Me! Artist, Heal Me!, National Gallery, Belgrade
2017 Sequences. Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia from the Collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
2017 Museum Night, Administrative Building of the Belgrade Fair, Belgrade
2016 Acquisitions 2001/2015, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2016 Acquisitions 2015, Zepter Museum, Belgrade
2016 BLANK, Galerie RX, Paris
2016 Uncensored Lies, Progres Gallery, Belgrade
2016 Monuments and Ideas. Critics’ Choice, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade
2015 Artistes à la une, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2015 Recipients of the Ivan Tabaković Fund Award, SANU Gallery, Belgrade
2015 Permanent Display, New Moment, Belgrade
2015 Acquisitions 2011–2014, Nadežda Petrović Art Gallery, Čačak
2014 Toward a Better World, Galerie Nest, Geneva
2014 Piet Mondrian. The Case of Composition II, National Museum, Belgrade
2014 50 Artists from the Collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art / Yugoslav Art from 1951 to 1989, Legacy House, Belgrade
2014 16th Art Biennial. Timeline: Documents 1981–2012, Pančevo
2013 … Was ist Kunst? … Resuming Fragmented Histories, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz
2013 18th International Exhibition of Drawings, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
2013 The Collector as Curator and Selector, Progres Gallery, Belgrade
2013 La Qualité de l’Ombre, Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Koblenz
2013 Lo Straniero, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence
2012 Arte Fiera Bologna, Galleria Paola Verrengia
2012 Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade: 1937/2012, “Cvijeta Zuzorić” Art Pavilion, Belgrade
2012 Happy New Art, Associazione Culturale Atelier, Rome
2012 Deep Sleep / The Big Sleep, 26th Nadežda Petrović Memorial, Čačak
2012 EPK 2012: The Richness of Visual Reality. Selected Works from the Zepter Collection, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec
2012 Trajković Collection: Personal Suite, Museum “25 May”, Belgrade
2012 Third Art Salon of Fine Arts, Progres Gallery, Belgrade
2012 Five Decades of the Banja Luka Autumn Salon, Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska, Banja Luka
2012 White Venčac — Marble and Sounds, Bukovička Banja Park, Aranđelovac
2011 Closing Celebration, Mikser/Žitomlin, Belgrade
2011 First Permanent Collection Display, Zepter Museum, Belgrade
2011 Sculpture after Late Modernism. Vujičić Collection, Gallery ’73, Belgrade
2011 Sculpture, Object, or Where Is the Boundary…, “Cvijeta Zuzorić” Art Pavilion, Belgrade
2011 Sales Exhibition, Remont Gallery, Belgrade
2010 Avventure minime, MM MAC, Archivio Generale, Salerno
2010 Drawing Collection — Ljubomir Erić, “Cvijeta Zuzorić” Art Pavilion, Belgrade, March
2010 La mostra è aperta — Artists in Dialogue with Harald Szeemann, Fondazione Filiberto Menna, Salerno
2010 Progres Gallery, Belgrade
2010 My Experience in a Notebook, Art Gallery of the Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade
2010 From Paja Jovanović to Marina Abramović, National Museum Salon, Zrenjanin
2010 The Triumph of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2009 Mala Stanica – National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje;
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska, Banja Luka;
2009 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki
2009 (out), Steirischer Herbst, Public Space Graz, Institute for Art in Public Space Styria, Graz
2009 Telenor Collection of Contemporary Serbian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2008/09 Révélation / Razotkrivanje, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne;
2008 14th Sava Šumanović Memorial, Sava Šumanović Gallery, Šid
2008 Idea-(Non)-Realization 2, Remont Gallery, Belgrade; Vladislav Maržik Gallery, Kraljevo
2008 Collection: Telenor, “Cvijeta Zuzorić” Art Pavilion, Belgrade
2008 L’autre, Cairo Biennale, Cairo
2008 Le porte del Mediterraneo, Palazzo Piozzo, Rivoli
2008 Micro-narratives, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne
2008 Voyage sentimental, Poznań Biennale, Poznań
2008 Balkan Visual Art Biennial — Land, Book, Maps, Cultural Center, National Museum, Historical Archive and Boško Risimović Risim Legacy Gallery, Čačak
2007 48th October Salon. Micronarratives, Museum “25 May”, Belgrade
2007 Market Placement: “New Paintings” of the ’80s, Belgrade Sales Gallery, Belgrade
2007 One Writer Festival — The World Is a Big Book, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade
2007 Private Space–Public Space, Magacin Nolit, Belgrade
2006 Mediterraneo Contemporaneo, Castello Aragonese, Taranto
2006 Mobile Studios, Public Art Lab (Berlin), Belgrade
2006 Presentation, Remont Gallery; Viennafair, Vienna
2006 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
2006 Hansard Gallery / City Gallery Southampton
2006 National Gallery, Prague
2006 Defending Nature, 12th Art Biennial, Center for Culture and Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pančevo
2006 Pretty New Woman, New Moment Gallery, Belgrade
2004 Belgrade Art INC, Secession, Vienna
2004 Croisements, Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Martigny
2004 Critics’ Choice, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade
2003 New Year Sales Exhibition, “Zvono” Gallery, Belgrade
2000/01 Dossier Serbia, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2000/01 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Museum “25 May”, Belgrade
2000 Aspekte/Positionen, 50 Years of Art from Central Europe 1949–1999, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
2000 Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2000 Fundació Miró, Barcelona
2000 Hansard Gallery / City Gallery Southampton
2000 National Gallery, Prague
2000 Seven Theses of Recent Serbian Sculpture, “Olga Petrov” Gallery of the Cultural Center, Pančevo
SELECTED BIENNIALS / INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS
2009 Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki
2007 Reset_, La Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Serbia, Venezia
2002 Yugomuzej, 25. Biennale di Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo
1990 APERTO, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
1990 The Ready Made Boomerang, 8th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
SELECTED PUBLIC PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS
2022 Monument to Zoran Đinđić, planned for Students’ Square, Belgrade; not installed as of 2022
2019 From There to Here, Kalemegdan Bridge, Belgrade, with Richard Deacon
2016 Memorial to Jelena Šantić — Orchid, an art installation with a scientific character, with Jelica Radovanović and Dejan Anđelković, Belgrade; not realized as of 2022
2015 Star or Angel, in front of the “Nadežda Petrović” Art Gallery, Čačak
2014 Sculpture on the Banks of the Danube, opposite the mouth of the Tisa, Stari Slankamen
2012 I Love America and America Loves Me, Bukovička Banja Park, Aranđelovac
2003 Theatrical Sculpture, Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade
1997 Jalovik
1992 Konsumationapparat, Collection Dout, Châteaulin, France
SELECTED PUBLIC AND INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Belgrade City Museum, Serbia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Serbia
National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade; Serbia
Zepter Museum, Belgrade; Serbia
Ville de Paris, Paris; France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Croatia
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka; Bosna and Hercegovina
Museum of Mining and Metallurgy, Bor; Serbia
“Olga Petrov” Gallery, Cultural Centre, Pančevo; Serbia
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zenica; Bosna and Hercegovina
National Museum, Kikinda; Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
SET DESIGN
2006 “Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac. A New Action,” music and stage spectacle, directed by Boris Miljković, Sava Center, Belgrade
2005 Stage-Music Story: Igor Stravinsky, The Soldier’s Tale, and Josip Slavenski, Menehmi, New Music Ensemble, directed by Boris Miljković, BEMUS Festival, Atelje 212, Belgrade
2003 The Blue Room, Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Alisa Stojanović, Yugoslav Drama Theatre
1994 Otvorena vrata, television series broadcast by Radio Television of Serbia; Mrđan Bajić created artworks for one of the main characters, sculptor Katarina Anđelić
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2017 Award for the Memorial to Zoran Đinđić (with Biljana Srbljanović), Serbia
2015 Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, Ministry of Culture and Communication of the French Republic
2012 Award at the 26th Nadežda Petrović Memorial, Čačak, Serbia
2011 Grand Plaque of the University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2003 Maksima Award, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pančevo, Serbia
2002 Mišićev Dukat Award, Mionica, Serbia
2001 Vladislav Ribnikar Fund, Belgrade, Serbia
2000 Sava Šumanović Fund, Novi Sad, Serbia
1993 7th PIJS, Pančevo, Serbia
1992 Prix pour la sculpture, Salon de Montrouge, Paris, France
1991 Ivan Tabaković Fund, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Belgrade, Serbia
1987 3rd PIJS, Pančevo, Serbia
1984 City Cultural Community Award for 1983, Belgrade, Serbia
Seven Secretaries of SKOJ, Zagreb, Croatia
1983 Painting Award at the 5th Dubrovnik Salon, Dubrovnik, Croatia
1981 Sreten Stojanović Fund, Belgrade, Serbia
Award of the Yugoslav Youth Art Colony, Ivanjica, Serbia
Award at the 1st Biennial of Student Drawing, Belgrade, Serbia
1980 Ilija Kolarević Fund, Belgrade, Serbia
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY / PRESS
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Jasmina Čubrilo, “Relational Sculpture: The Memorial to Jelena Šantić,” in: Sculpture: Medium, Method, Social Practice. 2, Proceedings, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, 2021, pp. 111–122.
Antonello Tolve, Olivier Kaeppelin, Branka Arsić, Mrdjan Bajić. 2D=3D, Galerija Rima, Kragujevac, 2020.
Ješa Denegri, “Mrdjan Bajić,” in: Themes in Serbian Art. Serbian Art 1950–2000, Trajković Collection Foundation, Belgrade, 2019, pp. 205–208.
Leonida Kovač, Mrđan Bajić: Rasprizorujuće transverzale, Supervizuelna, Belgrade, 2017.
Marina Andrić, Feđa Klikovac, Richard Deacon, Most na Kalemegdanu / Kalemegdan Bridge, Belgrade Fortress, Belgrade, 2014.
Ana Bogdanović, Skulptotektura. Mrdjan Bajić, Vujičić Collection Foundation, Belgrade, 2013.
Graeme Sullivan, Art Practice as Research. Inquiry in Visual Arts, SAGE Publications, London, 2010.
Lóránd Hegyi, “Mrdjan Bajic, il pathos delle micro-narrazione / Lavorare nel groviglio del flusso storico,” in: Arte in centro Europa. Malinconia, fluidità, sovversività, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2010. (Part of the text reprinted in: Skulptotektura. Mrdjan Bajić, Vujičić Collection Foundation, Belgrade, 2013, pp. 151–154).
Miško Šuvaković, “The Antinomy of 20th-Century Sculpture…,” in: The Triumph of Contemporary Art, Vujičić Collection Foundation, Belgrade/Novi Sad, 2010, pp. 315–317.
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Enrico Mascelloni, “Lontananze balkanike / Balkan Distances,” in: Le porte del Mediterraneo / The Gates of the Mediterranean. Rotte dell’arte contemporanea / Routes of Contemporary Art, Skira, Milan, 2008.
Martina Corgnati, “Tristi Mediterranei / Sad Mediterraneans,” in: Le porte del Mediterraneo / The Gates of the Mediterranean. Rotte dell’arte contemporanea / Routes of Contemporary Art (ed. Martina Corgnati), Skira, Milan, 2008.
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Zoran L. Božović, Mrđan Bajić (eds.), Mrđan Bajić: Backup, Cicero, Belgrade, 2006.
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Jasmina Čubrilo, “Mrđan Bajić,” in: The Belgrade Art Scene of the Nineties, Radio B92, Belgrade, 1998, pp. 47–49.
Ješa Denegri, The Eighties: Themes in Serbian Art (1980–1990), Svetovi, Novi Sad, 1997, pp. 16, 75, 79, 126–130.
Zoran L. Božović, “Mrđan Bajić,” in: Visual Art of the Eighties and Nineties in Belgrade — Conversations, Cicero, Belgrade, 1996, pp. 19–28.
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Lidija Merenik, “Neo-Expressionism of the Phenomenal and the Object-Based,” in: Belgrade: The Eighties: New Developments in Painting and Sculpture in Serbia 1979–1989, Prometej, Novi Sad, 1995, pp. 71–73.
Branka Arsić, Rečnik / Dictionary, Dental, Belgrade, 1995.
Lidija Merenik, “Sculpture. Body. Reality,” in: Mrđan Bajić. Knjiga / Book, Kolubara Projektovanje i inženjering, Belgrade, 1987.
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