She has been professionally engaged in interior design since 1997 and has designed residential and commercial spaces. Since 2015, she has been the co-owner and the director of a company which has designed and built a number of residential buildings in Belgrade.[2]
Holbus resides and works in Belgrade. She has a son, Alex Julius Holbus, from a previous marriage to Yugoslav-Serbian ice hockey player Mirko Holbus.[3]
Bibliography
Holbus has been engaged in literary work since 1990. She took part in the Festival Voix Vives de méditerranée en méditerranée 2016, a poetry festival in Sète, France, during which her poetry was translated into French and published by Al Manar, a French publishing house specializing in literature from the Mediterranean region[4]
She has published thirteen collections of poems:
Noći uzdaha (Nights of Sighs), Prometej, Novi Sad, 1990.(COBISS.SR 3167239)
Ne mogu pobeći (I Can’t Escape), Prosveta, Belgrade, 1993.(COBISS.SR 51439111)
Gde prestaje reč (Where Words Stop), Rad, Belgrade, 1994.(COBISS.SR 29573644)
Bela (White), Plato, Belgrade, 2002.(COBISS.SR 99564812)
Holbus has been the creator of various multimedia projects in architecture and graphic design, as well as audio-video installations. She worked as the art director for the project Bojan Z. Sextet in Sava Centre, Belgrade, and the Synagogue in Novi Sad in 2013. She was the creator of video works for Bojan Zulfikarpašić's tour of his jazz piano album Shelter with a View, which toured France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland in 2014 and 2015.[4] She was also the author of the multimedia art research project Let's Talk, exhibited in 2016 at the Gallery Štab in Belgrade.[6]
Awards
2009 - GRAND PRIX FOR BEST PLAY MIRA TRAILOVIĆ presented by BITEF Festival ″Dreamers″ by Robert Musil, directed by Miloš Lolić | production Yugoslavian Drama Theatre
2013 - ANNUAL AWARD FOR BEST SCENOGRAPHY presented by The Association of Fine Arts Artists & Designers of Serbia, for special artistic contribution in the production of ″Othello″ by W. Shakespeare, directed by Miloš Lolić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2017 - SPECIAL AWARD FOR ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT | XII Festival of Mediterranean Theater Purgatory ″Macbeth″ by W. Shakespeare, choreography by M. Isailović Production Bitef Theater (Serbia) & Cultural Center (Montenegro)
2018 - AWARD FOR BEST PLAY | ″Nord-Ost″ (North East) by Torsten Buchsteiner, directed by Jana Maričić | production Bitef Theater & Beo Art, Presented by audience at the Borin Theater Days, Serbia
2018 - ARDALION - AWARD FOR BEST SCENOGRAPHY | XXIII Yugoslavian Theater Festival (Serbia) ″Five life’s of sad Milutin″ by Milena Marković, directed by Alexandra Milavic Davies Production Atelier 212; Belgrade, Serbia
2019 - ANNUAL AWARD FOR THE BEST ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT | ″Nathan der Weise″ by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, directed by Jovana Tomić | Yugoslavian Drama Theatre, Serbia
2021 - ANNUAL AWARD FOR THE BEST SET DESIGN & special artistic contribution in the production of ″Kaspar″ by Peter Handke, directed by Miloš Lolić | Yugoslavian Drama Theatre