Julija Zaharijević (b. 1991, Belgrade), is a Vienna-Berlin based artist who deals with questions of reality— what constitutes it, and what takes for it to collapse into abstraction. She is interested in objects with symbolic value and how their visual appearances hint at ways to uncover the basis of their canonization, often rooted in the discourse shaped by the West and/or the patriarchy. She is curious about performativity, optical illusions, history of painting and modernism. Zaharijević works in various media, such as painting, sculpture and text.
Her work has been in solo exhibitions: Modern Painting, Bbberlin, Berlin (2022); solo presentation at viennacontemporary with Eugster || Belgrade (2022); Oh no! The View, Georg Kargl PERMANENT, Vienna (2021); Silver Lane, Alienze, Vienna (2021). Recent group exhibitions include: On the New –Structure, with Tamara Grcić, Eugster || Belgrade (2023), LISTE, Basel with Eugster || Belgrade (2023), Viennese Scenes and Beyond, Belvedere 21, Vienna (2023); hyper (hyper), Callirrhoë, Athens (2022); SYSTEMA, with Pina, Marseille (2022); Burn The Groves, Löwengasse, Cologne (2022); Jahresgaben 2022, Kevin Space, Vienna (2022), among others.
Julija Zaharijević has been selected to partecipate in the BPA //- Berlin Program for Artists’ edition of 2024-2025 and she is currently in the jury’s preselection of the STRABAG Artaward International for 2024.
Julija Zaharijević (b. 1991, Belgrade), is a Vienna-Berlin based artist who deals with questions of reality— what constitutes it, and what takes for it to collapse into abstraction. She is interested in objects with symbolic value and how their visual appearances hint at ways to uncover the basis of their canonization, often rooted in the discourse shaped by the West and/or the patriarchy. She is curious about performativity, optical illusions, history of painting and modernism. Zaharijević works in various media, such as painting, sculpture and text.
Her work has been in solo exhibitions: Modern Painting, Bbberlin, Berlin (2022); solo presentation at viennacontemporary with Eugster || Belgrade (2022); Oh no! The View, Georg Kargl PERMANENT, Vienna (2021); Silver Lane, Alienze, Vienna (2021). Recent group exhibitions include: On the New –Structure, with Tamara Grcić, Eugster || Belgrade (2023), LISTE, Basel with Eugster || Belgrade (2023), Viennese Scenes and Beyond, Belvedere 21, Vienna (2023); hyper (hyper), Callirrhoë, Athens (2022); SYSTEMA, with Pina, Marseille (2022); Burn The Groves, Löwengasse, Cologne (2022); Jahresgaben 2022, Kevin Space, Vienna (2022), among others.
Julija Zaharijević has been selected to partecipate in the BPA //- Berlin Program for Artists’ edition of 2024-2025 and she is currently in the jury’s preselection of the STRABAG Artaward International for 2024.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2022 | Modern Painting, BBBerlin, Berlin |
| 2021 | Oh no! The View, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna Silver Lane, Alienze, Vienna |
| 2018 | Bounce, Muhry, Hamburg |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | By the Means at Hand, Croatian Pavilion Venice Biennale, Venice (upcoming) INVERSION-CONVERSION, invited by Will Fredo, BPA// Raum, Berlin (upcoming) Century Women, BPA// Raum, Berlin (upcoming) |
| 2023 | Stranger Danger, Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb STRUCTURE: Julija Zaharijević and Tamara Grcić, Eugster || Belgrade LISTE 2023, Basel Über das Neue, part 2, Belvedere 21, Vienna Times New Roman, a reading by PW-Magazine, Molt, Berlin |
| 2022 | Jahresgaben 2022, Kevin Space, Vienna Der Einfluss der Raumes auf die Reichweite des Verkehrs, Rinde am Rhein, Dusseldorf Pina at Systema, Marseille hyper (hyper), Callirrhoë, Athens Make room in your mouth, curated by Olamiju Fajemisin, WAF Gallery, Vienna Burn The Groves, Löwengasse, Cologne |
| 2021 | The Leftovers—reading hosted by Angharad Williams & Gianmaria Andreetta, Kevin Space, Vienna |
| 2020 | Centric City with Wandl, symposium: We need more than one term for these big things, curated by Melanie Ohnemus, Universitätgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna Hard pressed, Magacin, Belgrade E++ Platin B., Vienna |
| 2019 | Hug of Death, curated by Josephine Strau, Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna – Nome d’us, curated by Sanna Helena Berger, Shore, Vienna Volcanoes, LIFE SPORT, Athens Finalists for D. B. Mangelos Award, Remont gallery, Belgrade Nome d’us, curated by Sanna Helena Berger, Shore, Vienna Mundane, curated by Natalija Paunić, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade |
| 2018 | Wechat Reading: Chatfight Rave, White Cube, Xian, China You’re a Giant, Voždovačka galerija, Belgrade |
| 2017 | Infos, Real Positive, Cologne Reading at ferry tales, St. Johann ferry “Ueli”, curated by Natalie Portman collective, Basel |
| 2016 | SORRY publication release, Gärtnergase, Vienna BELONG ANYWHERE, Garret Grimoire, Vienna Emozionale, Via Cesare Balbo 32, invited by Antonia Lia Orsi, Milan |
| 2015 | You’ve Seen Me Before I, Between Appropriation and Déjà-vu, part of Prosperous Poison. On the Feminist Appropriation of the Austrian Unconscious, mumok kino, Vienna Battle-ax & Julija Zaharijević, curated by_vienna – Brigitte Huck & Martin Guttmann, Galerie Charim, Vienna |
EDUCATION
| 2010 | 2024 – 2025 BPA// Berlin program for artists 2014 – 2020 Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien 2013 – 2014 Beaux-arts de Paris, école national superièure 2010 – 2013 Fakultet likovnih umetnosti, Beograd |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2023 | Why Is The Dice Woman Not Madder? Text about the practice of Daphne Ahlers, Kunsthaus Glarus, Mousse Publishing, 2023 Press text for Iterations by Matthias Noggler, DREI Köln, 2023 How to feel better, Helping Yourself 2020, Caribic Residency |
| 2022 | Narcissism, book Burn The Groves, published by Löwengasse, Cologne |
| 2021 | Press release for aquadrome bubblepad by Julia Znoj, Unanimous Consent, Zurich |
| 2020 | Three Axes in NEWS Issue 0. As part of Forum: Bread and games, organised by Open Space, curated by Natalija Paunić. Launched at Swiss Church, London Press release for Nein, Sie irren sich nicht! Paintings untouchable by Laura Hinirchsmeyer, Galerie AAAA, Vienna Contemporary’s Zone 1 Press release for Yours to Discover by Dan Vogt, Shore Gallery, Vienna Destiny, commissioned text for Alienze, Vienna/Lausanne |
| 2019 | One, Two, Three, Four, Bla, Bla, Bla, TTYL, zine, published by Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade PW Magazine, Interview with Pia-Marie Remmers: https://www.pw- magazine.com/2019/julija-zaharijevic-i-definitly-curate-a-vision/ |
| 2018 | Million Dinar Baby, co-published with Muhry, Hamburg |
| 2016 | SORRY, self-published with Writing Club, Vienna |
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
| 2024 | Shortlisted for STRABAG Artaward 2024 |
| 2023 | BMKOES Artist Residency Istanbul |
| 2022 | Recipient of Art Mentoring Program from Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| 2019 | Participant of summer school School of Expressions, September, Ostrava, Czechia Shortlisted for D. B. Mangelos AwarD, Belgrade |
COLLECTIONS
| 2023 | Art collection of the City of Vienna |
CURATORIAL PROJECT
| 2016 | Offspace Gärtnergasse, Vienna, 2016 – 2020 |