JELENA MARTINOVIC MARTA
Born 1980, Belgrade
1999 – Faculty of Fine Arts Belgrade
Exhibitions:
1991 – XVI Spring festival, National museum, Belgrade, group exhibition (drawings, sculptures)
1993 – XVIII Spring festival, National museum, Belgrade, group exhibition (drawings, sculptures)
1993 – October festival, Applied Arts museum, Belgrade, group exhibition (drawings, sculptures)
1994 – XIX Spring festival, National museum, Belgrade, group exhibition (drawings, sculptures)
1995 – Solo exhibition, Youth Center “Sumice”, Belgrade, (drawings and paintings)
1996 – Solo exhibition in “B-art” gallery, Umka, (drawings and paintings)
1996 – solo exhibition at Children’s Festival in Kotor, Montenegro, (drawings and paintings)
1997 – Group exhibition in “B-art” gallery, Umka, (drawings and paintings)
1998 – group exhibition in “Altamira” gallery, Umka, (drawings and paintings)
2001 - international young artists meeting “REAL PRESENCE 1”,
Performance/installation “GUIDES” with Jovana Komnenic
2002, March -Students’ Cultural Center Gallery, Belgrade
performance/interactive workshop “A roll cake with apricot jam”
2002, May - group exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
2002, April – art festival “AS02” (April meetings 2002), Students’ Cultural Center, Belgrade
“Shoes” - interactive action in the city, photo-installation
2002, June – group exhibition in Youth Centre, Belgrade
2002, June - Students’ Cultural Center gallery, Belgrade
interactive workshop “Shoes and makeup”
2002, June – international students’ festival “GrIStuf”, Greifswald, Germany
interactive workshop – making sculptures carved in oak wood
2002, July – international young artists meeting “GASTHOF” in Frankfurt, Germany
interactive workshops
2002, August - international young artists meeting “Bridge Project” in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily, Italy
-Performance/interactive workshop “A roll cake with apricot jam II”
-Paintings “Ficodindia” (acrylic on canvas, 100x70), “Etna” (acrylic on canvas, 100x70)
2002, August – international young artists meeting “REAL PRESENCE II”, Belgrade
Installation “Gasthof flashbacks” with Marijana Gobeljic
2002, September –Students’ Cultural Center Gallery, Belgrade
video workshop “VOW”
2002, December – Students’ Cultural Center Gallery, Belgrade
“Sun in VIII house”, interactive workshop
2003, April – April Art Festival, Students Cultural center Gallery
“ZMS” group exhibition, installation “SINGER SAWING MACHINE”
2003, August – international young artists meeting “REAL PRESENCE 3”, Belgrade
Video: “A cup of coffee”
2004, July, 6th Yugoslav Biennal Of Young Artists 2004, Vrsac, Serbia, documentary video ”Curretage”
2004,September, 45th October Salon “Continental breakfast”, Belgrade, Serbia, video installation “A Good View”
Chiuretaj
Primul moment de inspirație pentru acest film a fost când am descoperit în garaj o trusă ruginită cu instrumente de chiuretaj. Apoi am aflat că bunicii mei folosiseră aceste instrumente în practicile lor medicale în anii ’50. Bunica mea era medic ginecolog, iar bunicul agronom. Avortul era ilegal pe atunci, așa că bunicul era cel care o asista pe bunica la operații.
La început am vrut să merg pe ideea unui film de scurt metraj în care bunicii mei ar fi vorbit despre viața lor, despre cabinetul pe care îl aveau și despre problema
avortului în acele vremuri. În timpul filmărilor s-au petrecut multe schimbări neașteptate, cauzate de relațiile unice, pe de o parte emoționale și pe de altă parte ierarhice între bunici și nepoată, între soț și soție.