Teodora Stojanovic

I’m painting because I want to change the established form, I hate the rules, I hate the usual adopted order ! I’m painting because I want to change the flows ! I’m painting because life is not birth, growth, and death ! Life is to achieve purpose in this world! Painting is my purpose ! I’m painting because I love it ! To love your own purpose means to love my self. I’m painting because I am an egoistic being. I’m painting because I can not escape from the form of nature of selfishness. Love to your own purpose is the most sincere love. I’m painting because I hate existence because of existence. People like to exist to do exist. Existe and not live no purpose. Every picture is part of me. It contains my thoughts, my feelings, my desires. All my former life and thoughts are assembled in each picture. Pictures over time become richer with each new experience in life. Every picture is my conscious and unconscious me. With a picture express my self at all. The picture says more than words. The words hide. Like every man is a special and unique, so every picture which the artist creates is also special and unique. Picture is a state of mind the artist himself at the time of creation. She's a trace and a seal.
I’m painting what I see, what I feel and compassion with others. I paint illness, accidents, wars, suffering, reality cruel without beautification, life on the Earth as I see it. Life is a constant struggle. I use dark tones because the life is something far away from light. Real happiness does not exist in life on earth in this body. We are souls trapped in our bodies. The body restrict us. Real happiness can only be felt when the soul fulfills its task in the body on the ground and leaves it. Only after separation from the body of the soul becomes free and omnipotent. I’m painting the struggle of the soul with the body that belongs to it to other people as well. My characters in the pictures are stronger than themselves, they fight, but whatever the hardships they pass, they rise above the body pain, above the suffering they have faced in their lives.
I’m painting egoistich world. Egoism is an integral part of the nature of all living beings, he is in ewerithing and nobody can escape from that, integral part fighting for survival. People crye when someone close to them go away from this physical world and celebrate when it came to him. This is one of the things that points on the egoist human nature. No one in this world will not say that he is completely happy, however people are happy when somebody is born, and turn head away from death- because she is a something strange, entering to something new. People celebrate the new bondage of the soul and complains about the person who has left her physical body. They complain because departure of a person from a physical body leaves void, there is no more physically present person whom they talked, lived, who was there to fill their time and needs, which they loved because of their needs. That's nature selfishness and love. We love because our subject of love is usefull.
I paint because painting is freedom and purpose.

Teodora Stojanovic

+381631085208 |+381658085208 | https://teodorastojanovic.com | Molerova 38, 11111 Belgrade, Serbia

Education:
- Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, postgraduate specialist studies of painting in the class of Professor Vladimir Veličković with average grade 9,22.
- Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the class of Professor Dušan Otašević with average grade 9,22.
- Master of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

- Memberships in art organizations: ICAF member, Ulupud-s board member, ULUS member, Focus Europa member

Honors and Awards:

2017- http://monthlymasters.org/ Monthly masters 1st place 2017.
2017- Alessandro Constance Foundation, International Awards Talent and Professionals Madrid, Ritz
2017- Biennal de Arte Roma Italy Award Caravaggio, Rome, Sale de Bramante
2017- International Award Dante Alighieri
2017- International Award Francisco Goya, Barcelona, Gran Theatre Del Liceu
2017- The Metropolitan Empire Prize, Constance Foundation
2017- Premio Arte, Milano, Teatro dal Verme, art curator Vittorio Sgarbi
2015- Second prize in the third international contest of small format that was announced by the Association of Independent Artists of Novi Sad

Important exibitions:

2018 - Artbox Project, online exibition, New York
2017 - Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Salon in October, Belgrade, Kalemegdan
2017 - Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tichung City Goverment, Dadun Cultural Center, Tichung City, Taiwan
2017 - 3-nd International Environment Exhibition at the Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South-Korea
2017 - 2-nd Biennal de Arte Barcelona M.E.A.M Museum of Europian Art Modern
2017 - III Encuentro International de arte Mediterraneo de Alicante
2017 - Open/No Theme Paintings, online exibition
2017 - Arte Milano, Teatro dal Verme, International exibition, Milano
2017 - Biennale Peschiera del Garda, Italy
2017 - Yu Kunh Art Museum, international exibition
2017 - Biennal de Arte Roma Italy “Associazione Socio Culturale Ea Editore” International exibition
2017 - Open/No Theme Paintings, online exibition
2017 - Rijeka Mini art international exibition
2017 - International art exibition Art without borders, Focus Europa members, Vlada Diljan galery
2016 - Cheongwoon art museum International exibition
2016 - 2-nd International Exhibition “Draw Environment with Art” Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South-Korea
2016 - The National Academy of Arts of the Republic of Korea, Nature, Human, Coexistence
2016 - Cheongwon Cultural Foundation Cheongwoon Art Museum, International Environment Exhibition
2014 - Majdan-Art, 5 international exhibition Art in miniature, Majdanpek
2013 - 15th Interbifep, International Portrait Gallery Tuzla

Solo exibitions:

2017- “From reality to ilusion” Cafe galery A7, Belgrade

2015 - Solo exhibition "Ghosts of the Past" Gallery of the Cultural Center KIC Mladost, Futog, Serbia
2013 - Author's exhibition “Dragons” Atrium Gallery, Belgrade City Library
2008 - Author's exhibition “Portrets”, SKC, Happy galery

Projects:
2017-Hanam "Street Arts Festival", Representative of Gogyoshi Art Project (GAP) International Fred van Welie, Ed Hanssen and Han Sang-joon
Auctions:
2018. 2.11 Madlart, Belgrade
2018. 02.20 Artelisted
Art Fairs:
2017 - Art colony „Artefakt“ Veliko Gradiste, Serbia
2017 - 4 International Painting Symposium, Thessaloniki art fair, Unesco Clubs Centers & Associations
2017 - XII International art colony “My Balkans”, Pozarevac, Serbia
Certificates:
- Certificate for participation in Artbox Project online exibition
- Certificate for participation in 2-nd Biennal de Arte Barcelona

- Certificate for participation in Cultural Affairs Bureau international exibition

- Certificate for participation in 3-nd International Exhibition “Draw Environment with Art”

- Certificate for participation in 2-nd International Exhibition “Draw Environment with Art”
- Certificate for participation in Biennale Peschiera del Garda
- Certificate for participation in Biennal de Arte Roma Italy

- Certificate for participation in 4 International Thessaloniki art fair
- Certificate for participation in International exibition, Milano

- Certificate for Masterclase on 4 International Thessaloniki art fair

- Certificate membership ICAF

- Certificate for participation in Majdan-Art, 5 international exhibition miniature

- Certificate for participation in XII International art colony “My Balkans”

- Certificate for participation in Art colony „Artefakt“

- Certificate membership ULUS
Public colections:
Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South-Korea, 3 works
Small painting portret, Centre of Culture Stara Pazova, 3 works
Historical Archive Pančevo, 2 drawings
Kucevo, Center for Culture, Veljko Dugosevic, Contemporary Art galery,1 work

Publications and media:

2018 - Pagine d’Arte, 22 page
2017 - Art international contemporary magazine Mart/April, page 89, directed by Salvatore Russo
2017 - Art international contemporary magazine May/June, page 90, directed by Salvatore Russo
2014 - "Atlas of Artists of Applied Art and Designers of Serbia" Slobodan Maldini and Sofia Lancoš Maldini

Online presentations:

2018 - RTV Vojvodina article
2018 - Vesti online
2018 - b92
2018 - FoNet
2018 - Bizlife Magazine article
2017 - ELLE Magazine article
2017 - Prestige Magazine article
2017 - Super woman magazine article
2017 -Weather-sports-and-entertainment radio emission
2017- KULT Magazine, article
2017 -Fokus Magazine, article
2017 -Magazine 24h
2017 - Lavanguardia

Teodora Stojanovic was born in Belgrade 1981, father of the Greek and mother Serbian. Living in a community of separated parents, with her mother who never gave her enough love, and the grandmother she had experienced as the only protection and support she had not had the happiest childhood. Theodora has experienced the world as a cruel place in which to fight constantly and where there is no place for total happiness. Happiness is in moment, a ray of light in the darkness. As a result, Theodore fled to another world, a painting world that aroused imagination and where she found peace. She would often watch the pictures of Giorgio de Chirico who woke her up. Mystical places at the same time cold waved some sense of intimacy, but also mild imagination. Empty streets with buildings behind whose corners should be curled. - What's behind it? It can be any kind of beautiful square, a fountain, a beast that lurk ... what's behind the corner? Later, he finds such a similarity with Zurich on one of her journeys, but she does not stay in it.
With her grandmother, she enjoyed long conversations about life, existence, the world that later instigated interest in the philosophy that she would intertwine with the theme of her paintings. Her paintings speak exactly about what she's always thinking about, what she's hitting and what she feels. Pictures are a copy of life, actually the whole life is placed in a small one. Painting is for her the meaning of life. Life is all-encompassing, we need to fulfill our task on earth and in this body. -Only then our soul becomes free from the chains of body. The most fervent is the life of those people who are aware of their purpose, and empty and not much different from the animal codes of those who do not see it.
Her life is directed from the moment when the professor of painting with her students held the time of art in the elementary school and when she noticed her work she decided to send her to the painter of the contest where she won numerous awards which became an incentive for later to continue in the same direction.
Painting is for her everything, every thought of emotion, an experience. The picture speaks more than words. The picture is being an organism. - As simple as it looks, it is actually complicated as any living being and unrepeatable as any living being.