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About Alma
Mother of djevina, goddess of disobedience and ultimate pleasure
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Photo courtesy of Asiana Jurca Avci
The overall purpose of my work is to participate in collective feminist emancipation and the continuous development of my artwork towards multiplex visual forms.
Alma Gačanin is a visual artist, poet, and feminist living and working in Sarajevo. Her work is based on exploring the specificities of labour and the precarity of certain occupations, with a particular focus in the position of women in capitalism and gendered division of labour. In 2024 she was awarded through Artist Changemaker Program by the Global Fund for Women for contributing to gender justice and feminism in her practice.In 2022, she received ZVONO Award as the best artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Bienalle of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean in Milan, 2015. She holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts Education from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, specializing in Art Education. Alma works with different mediums, including drawing, photography, performance, and video. Alma is a member of CRVENA Association for culture and art. Her poems are published in magazines, collections, and web portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in the region.
*djevina: one name, many manifestations.
(selected solo & group shows, awards)
Gastarbeiter 2.0, Group Show, Manifesto Gallery, Sarajevo, October 2024
Hustera, Group Show, Liget Gallery, Budapest, August-October 2024
White Gloves, Performance, Queer Museum, Vienna, April 2024
Gastarbeiter 2.0, Group Show, nGbK am Alex, Berlin, April-June 2024
Artist Changemaker Award 2024, Global Fund for Women;
How well did you perform today, Performance-play, SMEEL, Stara Mestna Elektrarna Elektro ljubljana, Ljubljana, January 2024
My Categorical Imperative is to Serve, Solo Show, Manifesto Gallery, Sarajevo, October 2023
Mysteries of Orgasm, Collaborative performance with Eclipse & Vlasta Delimar, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, September 2023
PERSONAL BEST, Solo Show, Apoteka-Space for contemporary art, Vodnjan, September 2023
RADI GRUBO, IGRAJ NAPORNO (WORK HARD, PLAY HARD), Solo Show, Nova BAZA, Curator: Vesna Vuković, Zagreb, July 2023
Familiar Fantoms, Group Show, Residency Unlimited, Curator: Veronika Molnár, New York, May 2023
UMETNOST ANTI-RATA, CZKD, Group Show, Curator: Ana Simona Zelenović, Belgrade, April 2022
UNDER YOUR GAZE, Group Show, U10, Belgrade , July 2022
ECONOMY OF WOMEN’S WORK, Group Show, Craftsmen’s Center, Pristina, August 2022
DEAR BOSS, SOLO SHOW and performance ORAL FIXATION, Alma Gačanin and Anastasija Pavić, Galerija Novembar, Belgrade, August 2022
NOVI TALASi, Group Show (Winner- The Best Young Artist Award), Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2022
DRAGE DRUGARICE, Billboards project with Jelena Fužinato and Milena Ivić, produced by CRVENA (Sarajevo, Banja Luka & Mostar), October 2022
Exhibition of the finalists of ZVONO Award 2022 (Winner), Group Show, KRAK, Bihać, October 2022
Jeza kot produktivno čustvo
Alma Gačanin: Kako dobro si se odrezala danes? Stara mestna elektrarna, datum ogleda 25. 1. 2024.
https://veza.sigledal.org/kritika/jeza-kot-produktivno-custvo-r
HOW WELL DID YOU PERFORM TODAY?/Kako dobro si se odrezala danes?
Performance play, performed with Gal Oblak and Grega Močivnik, 24, 25. and 26. of January, SMEEL, Ljubljana, 2024;
Residency at the NGVU Podgorica- August 2023
Exhibition opening at Nova BAZA 20h, RADI GRUBO, IGRAJ NAPORNO
6.7.-23-7.2023
https://www.blok.hr/en/vijesti/alma-gacanin-radi-naporno-igraj-grubo
Winner of ZVONO Award 2022-YVAA The Young Visual Artist Award for young visual artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina up to the age of 35. The ZVONO Award for the award winner consists of a two months residency in New York at Residency Unlimited.