Slobodanka Stupar graduated from Applied Arts School in Belgrade (B.F.A.)
She graduated School of Fine Arts at University of Belgrade (M.F.A.)
She specialized at the School of Fine Arts in Athens.
The work
The separation of elementary metaphors and other figurative mechanisms, i.e. deconstruction, has become an effective tool for understanding and interpreting recent visual art. This is
especially true where the artist has moved from a more "classical" form of expression, arising from an academic training, to a practice involving a visualized language and semantic composition mode of expression, of which Slobodanka Stupar is an example. This transition was all the more likely in her case given the freedom which she already had in using the graphic art medium, closer to experimentation than the reproduction of any standard approach. Even from the outset of her artistic career she had been leaning towards a reexamination of the expressive capabilities of visual art.[1] Combining the incompatible, to maintain any discourse (in this case visual) one has to remove or circumvent ordinary comprehensibility, or "sense"; to make something "apparent" the plastic narrative had to be reduced to the brink of unrecognizability in order to be "seen" as a new work. This is precisely the kind of work Stupar has been producing over the last few years. The works at this exhibition are among those which have emerged from this new understanding of the function of art works as self-sufficient structures of meaning, autonomously establishing the scope of their own significance.[2]
1987 Area of Touch / Space of Contact, lecturing at Open School Djurdjevo, (Yugoslavia)
1992 Ceci n’est pas une pipe (communication project - live talk with the viewers, improvisational narration and excerpts from Miroslav Mandić’s book "Blue Rose"), collaboration with composer Lj. Jovanovic, Quantenpool Köln part of Kassel Documenta IX 's Piazza Virtuale TV project; live transmission on TV, Kassel and 3sat from Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne
1995 Mirror, performance in collaboration with LJ. Jovanovic, Simultanhalle, Cologne
1996 Ueber den Tiellerrand hinaus, performance with Inge Broska and Hans-Joerg, Tauschert at Tangenten Festival, Köln
1996 Answer to my Lette, open art project upon art communication
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade * Ludwig Museum, Cologne * National Museum, Belgrade * Museum of City of Belgrade Belgrade, * Museum Zepter, Belgrade *
National Museum, Kraljevo * National Museum, Vranje * National Gallery of Piraeus,
Greece * American College of Greece, Athens * Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Zrenjanin * Art Collection of the National University Library, Zagreb * Art Collection
"Lazar Vozarevis" Sremska Mitrovica * Collection of Graphic Art, Frechen *
Museum of International Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad * Collection
Grafički Kolektiv, Belgrade * Art Collections of Art Colonies Sisak, Poreč, Tuzla and Sopoćani
Bibliography (selected)
1979 Petar Gudelj, "Ako mi je malo svjetlosti (Napisano pred grafikama Slobodanke Marinovic Stupar)”, pref. solo exhib. Graficki kolektiv, Belgrade
1985 Kosta Bogdanovic, pref. solo exhib. Gallery KNU, Belgrade
1985 Dusan Djokic, "Telo kao motiv, grafike i sculpture Slobodanke Stupar u galeriji KNU u Beogradu", Borba, 10 October, Belgrade
1986 Dusan Djokic, pref. solo exhib, Gallery Dom kulture, Smederevo
1986–1987 Zana Gvozdenovic, "Grafike Slobodanke Stupar, pref. solo exhib., Gallery of the Yugoslav Cultural Centre, Vienna, Gallery "Kreonidis", Athens
1987 "Stupar im Jugoslawischen Kulturzentrum", Diplomatic Correspondence 1/87
1987 Nikos Aleksiou, "Slobodanka Stupar", Rizospastis, 11 April
1990 Irina Subotic, "Ruke i krstovi", pref. solo exhib., Gallery Kulturni Centar, Belgrade
1990 Ljiljana Cinkul, "U galeriji KCB otvorena je izlozba slika i crteza Slobodanke Stupar", 3. program Radio Belgrade, 5 February, Belgrade
1990 D. Devic, "Belezenje dodira", Narodne novine, 14 March
1990 Jasmina Tuturov, "Unutrasnji kosmos, uz izlozbu Slobodanke Stupar u savremenoj Galeriji u Zrenjaninu", Zrenjanin
1992 "Ölgemälde von Stupar", Fürstenfeldbrucker Tagblatt, 12 March
1992 "Spurensuche in der Natur, Die Galerie Rozmarin zeigt Werke der Künstlerin Slobodanka Stupar", Münchener Merkur, April
1992 "Der Reiz liegt im unmittelbaren Ausdruck Kuenstlerischen Wollens", Fürstenfeldbrucker Tagblatt, November
1992 Jürgen Raap, "Quantenpool in der Moltkerei-Werkstatt" Kölner Illustrierte, September
1993 Bernd v. den Brinken, Nachtsendung (3.15-3.45) ”C’est ci n’est pas une pipe" – Slobodanka Stupar, Ljiljana Jovanovic", Quantenpool Köln, Vilter Verlag
1995 Dr. Bettina Mette, "Nine Doors to Nowhere" und "Vertical/The Passage", pref. solo exhib. Simultanhalle, Cologne
1995 Bruno Schneider, "Türen, die ins Nichts führen, Slobodanka Stupar zeigt in der Simultanhalle eine Installation aus Reispapier, Spiegelstreifen und Stahlwolle", Kölnische Rundschau/Kölner Kultur, 9 June
1995 Jürgen Schön, "Lichtspiele", Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Nr. 140, 20 June
1995 "Werke ausländischer Kuenstler im Foyer des historischen Rathauses", Kölnische Rundschau, 14 September
1995 M. Zivojinov, "Ogledalo slike i muzike", Evropske Novosti, 21 September
1995 Ursula Franck, "Slobodanka Stupar (Simultanhalle Cologne, 28 May – June 1995) Arti October
1996 Jünger Küsters "Von Kunst und Alltag", Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger 16/17 March
1996 "Bilder voller Energie", Ruhr Nachtrichten, 17 October
1998 Jürgen Schön "Geheimnis der Schrift" Ausstellung Stupar, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Nr. 13, 16 January
1998 Gordana Stanisic, pref. cat. solo exhib., Gallery Zepter, Belgrade
1998 "Stepenice do neba", Novosti, 24 January
1998 Mirjana Radojcic "Nedodirljivi prostori", izlozba Slobodanke Stupar u galeriji Zepter, Politika 6 February, Belgrade
1998 Jovan Despotović, "Vrata i drugi zapisi Slobodanke Stupar" 3. Program Radio Belgrade, February, Belgrade
