Sanja Iveković

Sanja Iveković (b. 1949,  Zagreb) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1970, when she began to exhibit her artwork. Iveković has exhibited her work at many national and international shows (Paris Biennale, Sao Paolo Biennale, Manifesta, Documenta, Liverpool Biennale, Istanbul Biennale, Prague Biennale and others), and her video works and video installations have been shown at numerous international video festivals (Ljubljana, Berlin, Geneva, Paris, Montreal, Los Angeles, Locarno, Tokyo, the Hague, Osnabrück, Bonn, Dessau, etc). In 1979, 1990 and 1994, she won the Canadian government fellowship for visiting foreign artists, and in 1994 she received the American Arts Link Fellowship. In 2005 and 2006, Iveković resided in Berlin as a German government fellowship (DAAD) recipient. She had retrospective exhibitions at Galerie am Taxispalais, Innsbruck (2001), nGbK, Berlin (2001), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2006), Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg (2006), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2007). Her works are in the collections of many museums including: MOMA, New York; Musée National d’art Modern Centre Pompidou, Paris; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto; Generali Foundation, Vienna; Tate Modern, London. In addition to creating art, Iveković also engages in female activism and is a founder and member of several women’s NGOs in Croatia.