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Biography

Vesna Opavsky (legally Vesna Opavski) is a visual artist whose practice merges ecology, digital printmaking, text, and participatory approaches. She holds BFA, MFA, and DA degrees in Graphic Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Her work consistently explores the relationship between the natural and the digital. Born in Serbia (Belgrade, 1976), of Slovak origin, lives in Belgium and exhibits internationally.

Memberships

• Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS)
• UBS Bratislava (Umelecká beseda slovenská) Slovakia
• MENSA, international organization that brings together people with high IQ
• Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) 

Awards

• 2023 - Recognition for the long-standing high quality of works at the exhibition ROOTS
• 2019 – Purchase Award of the Nacional Council of the Slovak National Minority in Serbia
• 2019 – Second Award – Open Art Festival, Novi Sad, Sebia
• 2012 - Small Seal Award - The First International Biennale of Small Graphic Art Forms held in the Gallery of Contemporary Arts in Nis, Serbia
• 2011 - The Main Purchase Award at the group exhibition LiraArt held in the Gallery Ikar in Zemun, Serbia 

Solo exhibitions

• May 2023, Seasonarium – The May Bloom of Nature, Institute for Culture of Vojvodina Slovaks, Novi Sad, Serbia (https://youtu.be/HGq1_YSIarI?si=VtkJz4EDeQGoNRj1)

• May 2023, Seasonarium, Serbian Cultural Centre, Pula, Croatia

• March 2022, Deep Ecological Layers, Gallery of Zuzka Medveďová, Bački Petrovac, Serbia

• August 2021, Outdoors Season and happening, The Centre of Fine Arts and Education – Šumatovačka, Belgrade, Serbia (https://youtu.be/IL1RdWvyc-c)

• October 2020, Seasonarium, Cultural Center of Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (https://youtu.be/skZVA9Q05U4?si=Sl-DlAseLHevDxEX)

• September 2020, Seasonarium, New Gallery of The Graphic Collective, Belgrade, Serbia

• July, 2015 - Art – a Follower or a Guide, Gallery of the Belgrade's Municipality Vracar, Serbia

• Februar, 2014 - Presentation of Doctoral thesis/art project Art as a Keyword, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Serbia

• October, 2013 - Presentation of Doctoral thesis/art project Art as a Keyword, Youth Cultural Center Belgrade, Serbia (video: https://youtu.be/AR0zOU1eJQI)

• August, 2011 - Nature Effects, El Gouna Yacht Club, Egypt

• May, 2011 – Digital Nature, Cultural Center Stara Pazova, Serbia

• November, 2009 – Master's thesis exhibition of digital graphics Windows To Nature, Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts (FLU), Belgrade, Serbia (video: https://youtu.be/sCntVCrQARo)

• September, 2005 – Media Center, Belgrade, Serbia

• May, 2004 – My Forest, cafe-gallery Bojan Stupica, Belgrade, Serbia.


Participatory, community-art and site-responsive projects

• 2022 (ongoing) – Community Herbarium, international art project

• August 2021 - Happening Park is my only Backyard, The Centre of Fine Arts and Education – Šumatovačka, Belgrade, Serbia  

• October 2013, Digital interactive project, Art as a Keyword, Youth Center, Belgrade, Serbia


Publications 

• Atlas of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia - 21st Century - co-authors Slobodan Maldini and Sofie Lancoš Maldini, 2014, Belgrade Serbia

• Slovaks in Serbia from the cultural aspect, Cultural Institute of Vojvodina's Slovaks, 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2012

• Digital graphics and their communication in the virtual and the real world, doctral thesis, University of Belgrade, 2015

• Dichotomy and Synthesis of Digital and Natural, Master thesis, University of Belgrade, 2009


Art residencies

• Augurst 2022, Green Mind, Varaždin, Croatia (https://youtu.be/EOu2xLvI9p4?si=rmAV4JN0PyW6_pk2)

• January 2019, ZILIK humanitarian project, Croatia

• March 2019 Glo’Art, Lanaken, Belgium

• July 2017 - XXIV International Art Colony - Kicevo, House of Art, Macedonia

• July 2016 – Aurora resort, Berovo Macedonia

• September 2015 – Aurora resort, Berovo Macedonia

• August 2011, – Art Colony Sokolica, Zvečan, Kosovo

• September 2009 – "Planetarium", mountain Tara, Serbia

• August 2009 – V International Fine Arts Colony, Zázrivá, Slovakia.

• May 2008 – International Painting Colony "Bele Crkve 2008", Prolom Banja, Serbia

• August, 2004 Kratov - Macedonia, under the auspices of the Ministry of the Republic of Macedonia

• July 2004 – "CasaTerra", international colony of conceptual art in Puglia, Italy, organization Atelier Azura, www.atelierazur.net.


Selected group shows

• 2025, December, International - Mini Print – Montenegro, Podgorica

• 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 December, Small Prints, The Graphic Collective Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2025, December, 18th Biennial of Slovak Artists from Serbia, Galéria Zuzky, Bački Petrovac, Serbia

• 2025, December, Roots 11 – an exhibition of small-format works by Slovak artists living in Serbia, Institute for Culture of Vojvodina Slovaks, Novi Sad, Serbia

• 2025, November, Roots 11 – an exhibition of small-format works by Slovak artists living in Serbia, “Mira Brtka” Gallery, Stara Pazova, Serbia 

• 2025, August – In Search of Another Life, a group exhibition by the regional online art community Art Ćakula, ALUZ Gallery, Zrenjanin, Serbia

• 2025 July, BioAwaking, Pecka Outdoor Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 2025, June – In Search of Another Life, a group exhibition by the regional online art community Art Ćakula, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Serbia

• 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2006 i 2005 May Exhibition – The Graphic Collective Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2024, September, Roots 10 – an exhibition of small-format works by Slovak artists living in Serbia, “Mira Brtka” Gallery, Stara Pazova, Serbia

• 2024, September Circles of Mediala - Jovo Ivanović Gallery, Budva, Montenegro

• 2024, July, Roots 10 – an exhibition of small-format works by Slovak artists living in Serbia, Institute for Culture of Vojvodina Slovaks, Novi Sad, Serbia

• 2023, December, 17th Biennial of Slovak Artists from Serbia, Galéria Zuzky, Bački Petrovac, Serbia

• 2023, October, 5th International Printmaking Triennial, Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzorić”, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2023 September, For a business card in the front row!, HUB. Kerkrade, Netherlands 

• 2023, September, Small Print – Novi Sad 2023, Šok Zadruga Gallery, Novi Sad

• 2023, August, Talks with Myself, regional art community Art ćakula, Juraj Klović Gallery Rijeka, Croatia

• 2023, June, Roots 9 – an exhibition of small-format works by Slovak artists living in Serbia, Institute for Culture of Vojvodina Slovaks, Novi Sad, Serbia

• 2023, June, Roots 9 – an exhibition of small-format works by Slovak artists living in Serbia, “Mira Brtka” Gallery, Stara Pazova, Serbia 

• 2023, June, Letters to Mediala, House of Đure Jakšića, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2023, May, Letters to Mediala, Galerija Altstadthalle, Zug, Switzerland

• 2022, December, Letters to Mediala, Krug Gallery, Budimpešta, Hungary

• 2022 October, For a business card in the front row!, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, Netherlands

• 2022, September, Talks with Myself, regional art community Art ćakula, Azimut Gallery, Šibenik, Croatia

• 2022, August – Slovak Graphics in Serbia, Institute for Culture of Vojvodina Slovaks, Novi Sad, Serbia

• 2022, July, Slovak Graphics in Serbia, Cultural Club 4SE, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2022, June, Art and Wine 8th edition, Vinegrower’s House, Oplenac, Serbia

• 2022, June – Roots 8 – an exhibition of small-format works by Slovak artists living in Serbia, Institute for Culture of Vojvodina Slovaks, Novi Sad, Serbia

• 2022 May, For a business card in the front row!, ECI Roermond, Netherlands

• 2022 May, Format Graphics (as part of the Fête de l’Estampe festival), ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2022 March, Toon Hermans Theater in Sittard, Netherlands

• 2022, March, brut & friends, Šivčeva hiša Gallery, Radovljica, Slovenia

• 2022 February, 16 years of WARP - Contemporarty Art Platform, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

• 2022 February, For a business card in the front row!, Lumière Cinema, Maastricht, Nederlands

• 2021 Print Meet II, Online edition, Trakya University, Turkey

• 2021 June, Art and Wine 7th edition, Vinegrower’s House, Oplenac, Serbia 

• 2021 June, Small print – Novi Sad Biennal, La Vista Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia 

• 2021 April, Spring Salon, Cultural Center, ULPU Gornji Milanovac, Serbia

• 2021 March, Petit Format de Papier, Grand Curtius, Liège, Belgium

• 2021 January, De 20ste Biënnale van het klein formaat, WARP Contemporary Art Platform, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

• 2020 December, be*pART, Atelier Montez, Roma, Italy

• 2020 October Petit Format de Papier, Espace Beau Site, Arlon, Belgium

• 2020 October, 9th International Festival of Fine Arts in Kranj organized by The Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies, Slovenia

• 2020 October, Art and Wine 6th edition, Vinegrower’s House, Oplenac, Serbia 

• 2020 September, Petit Format de Papier, Musée du Petit Format, Nismes, Belgium

• 2020 July, Triennial Festival of Expanded Media Section of The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) ATLAS of Particles – Are you … (predictable)?, Pavilion CVIJETA ZUZORIĆ, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2020 June, Contemporary Visual Art of Slovaks in Serbia, Gallery 73, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2020 June, online group exhibition Utopia – Dystopia Nova Gradiska Culturel Center, Croatia

• 2020 May, online edition 4th International Printmaking Triennial, organized by Association of Fine Artists of Serbia

• 2020 May, online edition of May Exhibition organized by The Graphic Collective, Serbia

• 2019 December, Collettiva D'Arte Contemporanea, Gall'Art Gallery, Roma, Italy

• 2019 December, 15th Biennial of Slovak Artists from Serbia, Galéria Zuzky, Bački Petrovac, Serbia

• 2019 December, Exhibition of the contemporary artists of Gall’Art Roma, Italy

• 2019 October – International group exhibition Fine Art meetings in the House of king Peter I Karadjordjevic, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2019 October, Small print – Novi Sad 2019, La Vista Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia 

• 2019 October, Art Fair Zagreb, Gall'Art Roma Stand, Croatia

• 2019 September, Novi Sad Open Art 2019 “Young Graphics”, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Serbia

• 2019 August, Art Today, Umetnost – Danas, Gallery of National Bank of Serbia, Belgrade

• 2019 June, International Triennial of Expanded Media, Multimedia Art and New Media Art – RECONNECTION, Museum of Vršac, Serbia

• 2019, May Exhibition – ULUS Gallery, organized by Graphic Collective, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2019, April - International Triennial of Expanded Media, Multimedia Art and New Media Art – RECONNECTION, ULUS, Gallery Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2018, October – International group exhibition Fine Art meetings in the House of king Peter I Karadjordjevic, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2006 i 2005 May Exhibition – The Graphic Collective Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2017, decembar – 14th Biennial of Slovak Artists from Serbia, Galéria Zuzky, Bački Petrovac, Serbia

• April 2016 – Art exhibition of private Artworks Collection Šumatovačka – Remembering the Future, Gallery of Cultural Center Šabac, Serbia

• 2015, decembar – 13th Biennial of Slovak Artists from Serbia, Galéria Zuzky

• March 2015, Adriatica La Via dell'Arte, Gallery Antichi Forni, Macerata, Italy

• November 2014, Group exhibition by MakroArt Hunger – Museum of Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade

• September 2014, 2nd International Printmaking Triennial, Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Serbia

• June 2014, Serbian Print Exhibition, UHCL Art Gallery, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA

• May 2014, Earth Week Art Exhibition, Technische Universität Berlin, Campus El Gouna, Egypt

• November 2013 - Print exhibition of 29. International Art Colony, Smederevo, Serbia

• October 2013 - “The best for those to come”, exhibition of Radio Television Vojvodina, Studio M (Radio Novi Sad), Serbia

• December 2012 – Small Seal Award, The First International Biennale of Small Graphic Art Forms, Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Niš, Serbia

• December 2012 - EX-YU prints Exhibition, Gallery SKC, Beograd, Serbia

• July 2012 – Group Exhibition of Graphics and Photographs “Watersign” -京都 Kyoto, Japan

• June 2011 – Group exhibition on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the UBS association – Artmission 90, Šarišská galéria, Prešov, The Slovak Republic

• April 2011 – Group exhibition on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the UBS association – Artmission 90, House of Art, National Educational Centre, Bratislava, The Slovak Republic

• December 2009 - 10th Biennial of Slovak Artists from Serbia, Galéria Zuzky Medvedovej, Backi Petrovac, Serbia

• August 2009 – V International Fine Arts Colony and Exhibition of Paintings, Zázrivá, Slovakia

• April 2009 – "Graphics Without Printing and Impressions" – Exhibition of Digital Graphics of the Belgrade Circle – Graphic Collective Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

• July 2006 – Group exhibition "Method Graphics", art gallery "Cvijeta Zuzoric", Belgrade, Serbia


Artworks

Vesna's artworks come printed on various materials (paper, canvas, cardboard...) with a original file placed on a memory stick...

Biography

Doctor of Arts, specialized in digital graphic art. She uses unique technique to present her impressions about nature...