Tanja Ostojic, Foto: Goethe-Institut Tallinn

Tanja Ostojić

Tanja Ostojić (*1972) is a renowned Berlin based, Yugoslavian born performance and interdisciplinary artist who also works in the fields of research and education. She is internationally known as a pioneer of institutional gender critique and socially and politically engaged feminist art in the public space, especially related to migration and gender issues. Her artworks have a high level of theoretical reference and have been analysed and included in numerous books, journals and anthologies. The British Guardian recently named Ostojić one of the 25 best artists of the 21st century for her project Looking for a Husband with EU Passport (2000-05).

Ostojić studied at the University of Arts Belgrade and the École Régionale des Beaux-Arts Nantes, while in 2012-14 she was a fellow at the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has received various grants and awards; her performances and exhibition art works have taken her since 1994 to numerous important art venues and festivals worldwide. Her works are part of important Museum collections, she has given talks, lectures, seminars and workshops at academic conferences and at art universities around Europe and in the Americas.

Tanja Ostojić was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to September 2021.