title: Bojan Šarčević
text: # Bojan Šarčević
  
  Bojan Šarčević (pronounced; born 1974) is a visual artist. His work includes video, installations, site-responsive architectural interventions, photographic collage, more or less abstract sculpture, and printed publications. Bojan Šarčević is represented by Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.
  
  ## Life
  
  Born in Belgrade, Šarčević spent part of his childhood in Morocco and Algeria, but was living in Sarajevo at the outbreak of the Bosnian war. Šarčević studied at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating in 1997. He continued his studies at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
  
  He has been a professor at Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2016 and a tutor at the postgraduate program deAteliers in Amsterdam since 2008.
  
  ## Solo exhibitions
  
  Šarčević held his first solo exhibition "It seems that an animal is in the world as water in the water", at the gallery BQ in Cologne. Since then he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including:
  
  Solo Exhibitions
  
  2020
  
  * BQ, Berlin, Germany
  
  2018
  
  * "Sentimentality is the core", Modern Art, London
  
  2016
  
  * "'invagination'", Modern Art, London
  
  2015
  
  * "'In the rear view mirror'", BQ, Berlin, Germany
  
  2014
  
  * "'In the rear view mirror'", Pinksummer, Genova, Italy
  
  2013
  
  * "'Gyrobifastigium'", Modern Art, London
  
  2012
  
  * "'L’ellipse d’ellipse'", Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
  * "'Rhombic Oath'", Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
  * "'A Curious Contortion in the Method of Progress'", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  
  2011
  
  * "'At Present'", BQ, Berlin, Germany
  
  2010
  
  * "'Come des chiens et des vagues'", Modern Art, London
  * "'Involuntary Twitch'", de Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
  * "'Le Grand Café'", St. Nazaire, France
  * "'Pink Summer'", Genova, Italy
  * "'At Present'", BQ, Berlin, Germany
  
  2009
  
  * "'The breath-taker is the breath-giver'", Galerie Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
  
  2008
  
  * "'Only After Dark'", Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
  * "'Already vanishing'", MAMBO, Bologna, Italy (exhb. cat.)
  
  2007
  
  * "'Only After Dark'", Le Credac, Ivry, France
  * "'untitled'", BQ, Cologne, Germany
  * "'Kissing the back of your hand sounds like a wounded bird'", Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria (exhb. cat.)
  * "'Already Vanishing'", MAMbo, Bologna, Italy
  
  2006
  
  * "'Sometimes a man gets carried away'", Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
  * "'To what extent should an artist understand the implications of his or her findings?'", Project Arts Centre, Dublin and The Model Arts – Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (exhb. cat.)
  * "'Replace the Irreplaceable'", Gallery Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
  
  2005
  
  * "'Wanting without needing, Loving without leaning'", ArtPace Fondation, San Antonio, TX, USA
  * "'Keep the illusion for the end'", BQ, Cologne, Germany (exhb. cat.)
  * "'Everything makes sense in the reverse'", Pinksummer, Genova, Italy
  
  2004
  
  * "'1954'", Galerie Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
  
  2003
  
  * "'Verticality Downwards'", Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany (exhb. cat.)
  * "'Where the hand doesn’t enter'", heat infuses, IAC Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbane/Lyon, France
  
  2002
  
  * "'Spirit of Versatility and Inclusiveness'", BQ, Cologne, Germany (exhb. cat.)
  * "'Rien ne peut venir que d’ailleurs'", Centre d’Art Contemporain Bretigny, Bretigny sur Orge, France (exhb. cat.)
  * "'Pinksummer'", Genova, Italy
  * "'Inova'", Milwaukee, WI, USA
  * "'TBA Inc.'", Chicago, IL, USA
  
  2001
  
  * "'Eingang Links'", Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
  * Gallery Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
  * "'Cover Versions'", Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (exhb. cat.)
  
  2000
  
  * "'Strange, I’ve seen that face before'", Modern Institute, Glasgow
  
  "'Favourite cloths worn while she or he worked'", Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (exhb. cat.) 1999
  
  * "'It seems that an animal is in the world as water in the water'", BQ, Cologne, and Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium (exhb. cat.)
  * "'Irrigation-Fertilisation'", Salon 3, London
  
  ## Selected collections
  
  21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  
  Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
  
  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
  
  Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
  
  FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  
  FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
  
  Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
  
  Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
  
  Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  
  MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
  
  Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
  
  MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  
  Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany
  
  Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
  
  TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  
  