Marica Radojcic Presic

Marica Radojčić (Prešić): ART BIGRAPHY

Marica Radojčić was born in Novi Karlovci, Yugoslavia. Graduated and obtained Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Belgrade.
Her mathematical papers belong to universal algebra, numerical mathematics and mathematical linguistics. Fulbright award for mathematics for the academic 1985/86 which she spent at the Courant Institute, New York University.
Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics and the University of Art, Belgrade, Group for Digital Art. Visiting professor at the University of California - Berkeley, University of Hamburg, University of Bon, MGU - Moscow etc.
Her mathematical results have been included in international mathematical monographs and scientific papers.
Her art is of contemplative nature, experimental and multimedial, based on mathematical and philosophical ideas (semantical layers of language, paradoxes, infinity, algorithms, truth theories,…).
Since 1985 she has had exhibitions in New York Galleries (4 solo shows and around 20 group shows there). Participated in several important international shows in Europe, USA, Africa.
In 1993 she founded Mathematical Art Workshop (at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade), and 1998 she founded association Art and Science, both meant to be places where connections and interrelations between art and science would be explored.
In 2002 with a couple of other artists she founded Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Art Belgrade, Group f or Digital Art where she was teaching for 4 years.
For many years she has been occupied with organization and production of projects both artistic and scientific. Collaborates with a number of artists and scientists around the world. Member of ULUS and IKG.

Solo exhibitions
1982. Osijek, Gallery of the Youth Centre
1984. Sremska Mitrovica, Museum of Sirmium
1985. Belgrade, Gallery 73
1985. Titograd, Gallery of the ULUCG - the national association of the visual artists of
Montenegro
1986. Slavonski Brod, Gallery of the Labour University Đuro Salaj
1987. Belgrade, The World Mildly Shif ted to the Left, Gallery of the Cultural Centre of
Belgrade
1987. Belgrade, On the Edge of Rejection (with Jovan Čekić and Fedja Klikovac–selection
by J. Tijardović), Museum of Modern art, Gallery-Legacy of M. Zorić and R. Čolaković
1988. New York, Individuals Gallery (curated by Eric L. Stark)
1989. New York, Vertical Escape, E. L. Stark Gallery
1989. Belgrade, Salon of the Museum of Modern Art Belgrade,
1989. Belgrade, Gallery AZ
1990. New York, Stark Gallery
1991-94. NO EXHIBITIONS (The war in Yugoslavia)
1995. Belgrade, Words..., Gallery of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade
1998. Gent, Periodically, Experimental Intermedia
1999. New York, States of Inquiry, Stark Gallery
2001. Belgrade, Digital Art (with Vedran Vučić), Gallery Singidunum
2002. Belgrade, Return of Departure (sound Miša Savić & Phill Niblock), Gallery of the
Cultural Centre of Belgrade
2005. Klagenfurt, Branching (digital animations, digital print, digital sound in space),
Kunstlerhaus
2006. Cologne, Walling In, (virtual space with original sound – diffracted video
projection of the live performance), Alte Feuerwache, Festival Phill Niblock//Experimental Intermedia (curator Georg Dietzler)
2006. Ruma, Algorithm of Destruction, Homeland Museum Ruma (virtual space with original sound – diffracted video projection of the live Performance, live performance)
2008. Belgrade, Art gallery Stara kapetanija, Branching, (digital prints, digital animations, digital sound, drawings, barbed wire, ivy, performance with Manja Ristić)
2009. Novi Sad, Gallery of Matica Srpska, Gift Collection of Marica Radojčić, (oil paintings, installations, digital prints, digital animations, digital sound, drawings, paper works)
2009. Lazarevac, Gallery of Modern Art, Roots of Branching, (digital prints, digital animations, digital sound, drawings)
2009. N.Banovci, Muzej Macura with Kosta Bogdanović, (oil paintings, installations, drawings, paper works)

Selected group exhibitions
1983. Belgrade, October Salon, Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić
1984. Belgrade, Spring Exhibition of the ULUS, Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić
1984. Niš, Spring Exhibition of the ULUS, Gallery of Modern Art Niš
1984. Belgrade, Drawing and Small Plastics, Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić
1984. Belgrade, Belgrade-Inspiration of the Artists, Gallery of the Cultural Centre
1985. Belgrade, Critics have proposed, the Public Chooses, Gallery AZ
1985. Belgrade, October Salon, Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzori]
1985. New York, Micro MAX, Gallery Now
1986. New York, Four Women, Gallery Pearl
1986. New York, Micro MAX, Gallery Now
1986. New York, Personal Space, Wiesner Gallery
1986. New York, Happy-New-YE-Art Show, Wiesner Gallery
1986. New York, Group Show, Wiesner Gallery (selection: Gergelj Urkom)
1986. Belgrade, Interrelation Art (selection: Aleksandar Đjurić), Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić
1987. New York, Group Show, Gallery E.L. Stark
1987. Belgrade, Letter - the Sign and the Meaning, Gallery of the ULUS
1988/89 Buffalo, Albright-Knox Lending-library
1989. Sarajevo, Yugoslav Documents '89, Olympic center Skenderija
1990. New York, Group Show, Stark Gallery
1991. Siegen, Gummersbach, Eckenhagen, Kunst, Europa
1991. New York, Group Show, Stark Gallery
1992. Belgrade, Multi Media Section of ULUS Artists, ULUS Gallery Belgrade
1992. Za Slovom/Beyond Logos, Museum of Modern Art Belgrade - Legacy Čolaković
(author of the Exhibition: Marica Prešić)
1993. Belgrade, Suodnošavanja (Interrelationships), Museum of Belgrade
1993. Belgrade, Continum, Dannia Art
1993. Belgrade, Ex Tempo, Gallery of the Central Club of Yugoslav Army
1993. Belgrade, Simetrija (Symmetry), Regional Symposium and Exhibition, Gallery 73
1993. Belgrade, The Look f rom Aside: Approaching XXI Century (author of the exhibition:
Mirjana Živković), Gallery of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade
1993. Wellen/Belgium, Building Plans & Schemes, Cultural Centre of Heusden-Zolder
(author of the exhibition: Guy Bleus)
1995. Johannesburg, Af ricus, First Johannesburg Biennial
1997. Paris, L’Art La Lumiere L’Energie, NIKOLA TESLA, Centre Culturel Yougoslave
1998. Belgrade, Povest o vizuelnom (The Story of Visuality) - in honour of Aleksa
Čelebonović selection: Ivana Ćelić)
2004. Belgrade, RE DISCOVER, Museum 25tth May, international exhibition of the
association IKG, (author of the exhibition: Dorothée Bauerle-Willert)
2005. Tallinn-Estonia, WITHOUT BORDERS, Museum of Architecure, international
exhibition of the association IKG
2006. Čačak, Open Book of Balkans (selection: Nikola Šindik), Hous of Culture Čačak
2007. Sarajevo, Open Book of Balkans, First Balkan Biennial (sellection: Nikola Šindik),
Skederija


Original projects
1992. Belgrade, Za Slovom/Beyond Logos, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade,
international exhibition (author of the project: Marica Prešić - selection, production,
selection of texts for catalogue, texts: Za Slovom/ Beyond Logos, States of inquiry)
1994. Belgrade, Kiss Me Violetly, poetry box of verses by Gordana Brajović,
publisher BMG-Belgrade (author of the project: Marica Prešić - idea, design,
the prize Zlatno pero/Golden pen 94 for Marica Prešić)
1990 - 98. Belgrade, Words..., long lasted still unfinished artistico- mathematico-
philosophical project about some fundamental problems of natural language: power
and weakness of language, roots of language, terror of and over language, possibilities of foundation, algorithmic properties (so far achieved: series of drawings dimension A4, series of drawings - dimensions 54x79 cm, 79x108 cm, two iron sculptures - dimensions 400x270x7 cm, 270x470x7cm, two installations made of stumps, grass, natural fungi grown on the stumps, glass - dimensions 110x75x45 cm, 40x37x30 cm, series of texts, exhibition Words... hold in the Gallery of the Cultural centre Belgrade in 1995)
1997. Sundsvall - Sweden, Five Eggs & Hundred Kilogrammes of Gypsum dust, joint
project with Benjamin Edelberg, Los Angeles (author of the project: Marica Prešić –
ambient in the train wagon, sound, light effects, performance
1997. Sweden (three weeks in special train from Copenhagen to Narvik and back),
The Power of Form ?, a workshop during the EASA 97 - European Architecture
Students Assembly (guiding of the workshop, students installations in Lysekil and Narvik)
1993-98, Belgrade, Mathematical Art Workshop (author of the project: Marica
Prešić - foundation of the Workshop at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade bearing in mind exploration of the relations and connections between art and science, reconstruction of the space for the Workshop, acquisition of equipment, organization of several projects, production)
2002. Belgrade, Ava-Nir (with Miša Savić), Roman Well-Kalemegdan
2002. Belgrade, Return of Departure (sound Miša Savić & Phill Niblock), Barutana
2003. Belgrade, Erasing, International Cultural Centre, international project (author: Marica Prešić- space ambient, sound, light effects, performances, video and LCD projections)
2004. Belgrade, Erasing, International Cultural Centre, Museum 25tth May, Planetarium,...
long lasted international project (author: Marica Prešić- performances, projections,
presentations, discussions, exhibition) - project in progress
2005. Belgrade, Erasing, International Cultural Centre, Brick Factory Terra Nova 98
long lasted international project (author: Marica Prešić- performances, actions,
concerts, discussions, exhibition) - project in progress
2006. Wien, Branching (installation: digital animations, digital sound & talk),
Medienwerkstatt, Project Körperchen (curator Gertrude Moser-Wagner)
2006. Belgrade, I shall illuminate the dark side of the Moon, International multidisciplinary project, Nikola Tesla Museum, Magacin, Belgrade Public Bath, City Hall
2006. Belgrade, Stringing, (performance with Selena Savić), City Hall Belgrade
2009. Belgrade, Double Exposition, Serbo-Austrian project, Gallery Stara Kapetanija
(drawings, computer animations, paper works, installation, sculptures)

Selected bibliography:
Vlastimir Kusik, Monotipije Marice Prešić (Monotypes of Marica Prešić), Glas Slavonije,
Osijek, January 15, 1982
Aleksandar urić, Nečuvena upornost (Unheard-of Persistence),
Politika, Belgrade, July 17, 1984
Emilija Milošević, Preface for the Catalogue of the solo exhibition in the Museum of
Sirmium, Sremska Mitrovica, 1984
Aleksa Čelebonović, Preface for the Catalogue of the Solo Exhibition
in the Gallery 73, Belgrade, 1985
Aleksa Čelebonović, Preface for the Catalogue of the Solo Exhibition
in the Gallery of ULUCG, Titograd, 1985
Balša Rajčević, Ženska senzibilnost (Woman Sensibility), Radio Belgrade I, Broadcast Vikendmagazin, Belgrade, March 3, 1985
Snežana Lukić, Belo na belom (White on White), Politika Bazar, Belgrade, April 12, 1985
B.S., Eksperimentalni stvaralac (Experimental Creator), Praktična Žena, Belgrade, March 16, 1985
Review of the solo exhibition in the Gallery of ULUCG, TV News of the Radio-Television Titograd,
Titograd, June 26, 1985
Review of the solo exhibition in the Gallery of ULUCG, Radio-Titograd, Titograd, July 13, 1985
Leonard Horowitz, Women Artists: Equality of Quality, Artspeak, Vol.VIII,
No 12, New York, February 16, 1986
Reproduction of the work Circular Writing about the Circle Artspeak, Vol.VIII, No 13, New York,
March 1, 1986
Aleksandar urić, Preface for the Catalogue of the Solo Exhibition in the Gallery of the Cultural
Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 1987
Zv.J., Svet blago pomeren ulevo (The World Mildly Shifted to the Left), Večernje novosti, Belgrade,
January 20, 1987
D.N., Svet blago pomeren ulevo (The World Mildly Shifted to the Left), Politika ekspres, Belgrade,
January 21, 1987
Zoran Markuš, Beogradski mozaik (Belgrade Mosaic), Politika, Belgrade, February 10, 1987
Jovan Despotović, Na ivici odbijanja (On the Edge of Rejection), Moment Belgrade, No 10, p. 91
Ješa Denegri, Text in the catalogue for the solo show in the salon of the Museum of Modern Art,
Belgrade, 1989
Jasna Tijardović, Na ivici odbijanja (On the edge of rejection), text in the catalogue of the solo
show in the salon of the Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, 1989
Joseph Semah, Amidst universal language and the world of an artist..., text in the catalogue of the solo show in the Salon of the Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, 1989
Bertha Urdang, Open Letter to Marica Prešić, text in the catalogue of the solo show in the salon of the Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, 1989
Mirjana Živković, Interview in Politika, September 5, 1989
Mirjana Živković, Mi, umetnost i Evropa (We, art and Europe), Politika, July 11,1991
Joseph Semah, Inmitten universaller Sprache und der Welt eines Ktnstlers (Fragment eines Essay), text in the catalogue of the exhibition Kunst Europa, verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1991, pp. 7.38-7.39
Zoran Gavrić, Belgrader Kunstszene, Von der Bedeutung dieser Bezeichnung, text in the
catalogue of the exhibition Kunst Europa, verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1991, pp.
7.VII-VIII
Zoran Markuš, Oslonac nadi (Support to Hope), Politika, February 15, 19
Zoran Gavrić, Analiza krsta (Analysis of the Cross), edition Estetsko i sveto, Gradina 7-8-9
(1993), pp 108-113
V. V. Bychkov, POST-adekvaciy: Marica Prešić, philosophico-metaphysical poetry, 20
pages, 1994, (in Russian with English translation), unpublished, fragment published in
the monograph Marica, Mathematical art Workshop, Belgrade 1996
Dragana Popović Petrović, Act Beyond Acting, text in the catalogue of Africus, First
Johannesburg Biennial 1995
Aleksa Čelebonović, Povest o vizuelnom (The Story of Visuality) , CLIO, Belgrade 1998, pp.
445-448
Luk Lambrecht, Experimental, DeMorgen Belgium, 13 February, 1998, pp. 33
Lidija Merenik, Selective Chronology: New Tendencies in Paintings and Sculptures in Serbia 1979-1989,

WALLING IN

batajnica, brick factory terra nova 98, 2005
performance, video
production of the project erasing 2005

The contemporary world is becoming more and more alienated. The man himself has contributed a great deal in making the wall between him and exterior. In such a way he is in fact walling many exits in.
Starting from that idea Marica Radojčić walled in an entrance in the brick furnace and herself inside it. After one week she destroyed the wall from inside and made herself free. Is that freedom definite the artist is not quite sure…
The performance took place in the frame of the log lasted international festival Erasing, that was happening in July 2005 in the brick factory Tera Nova 98, located in the environment of Belgrade.
festival in cologne
Multimedia festival Korona//Experimental Intermedia in Cologne , lasted 18. January - 9. February, took place on several locations (galleries, churches, cultural centres and non-official places).
This year festival has been foxed on the work of Phill Niblock, American composer, film and video maker. Apart of concerts of Phill Niblock's music, projections of his early short films, multimedia events included Phill Niblock's electronic music, projections of his new video works and live performances of his compositions, several close friends and collaborators of Phill Niblock have been invited to the Festival to make their tributes.
One of them, Marica Radojčić showed a video installation Walling In. It was in fact a spatial projection of the video recorded during her performance that took place last year in the Brick Factory Tera Nova 98 in the frame of the project Erasing 2005.

Marica Radojčić