Ivona Pleskonja

"Born in 1974. in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Ivona Pleskonja belongs to the generation of young and ambitious artists. She has received acclaim for her works at exhibitions such as the October Salon and the Vrsac Youth Biennale (1998). As a student, she won several awards from the FLU (Faculty of Fine Arts) fund for the best study and drawing, and another award for the best photography from the BC processor fund. In her quest for answers regarding identity, Ivona also cultivates self-portrait, the area of work which she compares to a two-blade sword.-The need to make self-portraits seems at times like a hermetic, mesmerized circle but it may also be an egocentric phase that I think I am gradually leaving now. It is good to find inspiration in ones intimate, personal life, but art must not be totally hermetic. Intimacy should be used to breed something universal, explain Ivona Pleskonja.In this out-of-time game between gods and people, primordial human fears come to the surface again. Ivona Pleskonja does not talk about everyday, topical problems which are easily overcome, nor does she address current issues which are but a mere speck of dust in the history of mankind. Each epoch has its own problems and this is no news. But in each epo...

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Painting Department in1998. Holds an MA degree from the same Academy since 2001, Painting Department. Member of Association of Fine Artists of Serbia since 1998. Was a scholar of Madlena Jankovic fund as a young talent. The work Amazons is in collection of The Museum of Belgrade City since 2006. Participated on many solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and aboard.INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS2007* Belgrade Double, Rothamel Gallery, Erfurt, Germany Origin, National Gallery, Belgrade Heroes, Balgrade Gallery, Belgrade2003* Le Soleil, Centre scolaire international Hlne dAnjou, Paris 2002* Winter Magic, Sand Gallery, Belgrade2001* Look, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery , Belgrade 2000* First Light, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade1998* Taki, Window of Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade,

2014. Children of the Sun , Gallery of Center for graphic art and visual research of Academy, Belgrade
2014. Children of the Sun, Gallery of Cultural Centre, Belgrade
2012. Spirit, Art Salon of the Cultural Centre, Novi Sad
2011. Spirit, ULUS Gllery, Belgrade
2009. One World, Arte Gallery, Belgrade
2007. Belgrade Double, Rothamel Gallery, Erfurt, Germany
2007. Origin, National Gallery, Belgrade
2007. Heroes, Belgrade Gallery, Belgrade
2003. Le Soleil, Centre scolaire international “Hélène d’Anjou”, Paris
2002. Winter Magic, Sand Gallery, Belgrade
2001. Look, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery , Belgrade
2000. First Light, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade
1998. Taki, Window of Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade