VITA
Dejan Kaludjerović was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He received an MA in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2004. In recognition of his achievements in the visual arts, he was granted Austrian citizenship in 2010. In 2017, he co-founded the Vienna-based art and cultural organization Verein K – Kunst, Kultur, Kritik, where he has since served as Program Curator. He also served on the Advisory Board of KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE Vienna (2023–2026).
Dejan Kaludjerović is a contemporary artist working across painting, drawing, installation, and video. His practice explores identity, memory, and socio-political dynamics, often using childhood as a lens through which broader cultural and societal structures are examined.
His long-term Conversations Project is based on individually recorded interviews with children aged 7–10 from diverse socio-economic, cultural, and geopolitical contexts. Through recurring questions addressing themes such as freedom, war, belonging, and identity, the project has developed a transnational archive of children’s statements. Rather than approaching these interviews as sociological documentation, Kaludjerović understands them as articulations of ideological conditioning, revealing how collective narratives and political structures are internalized and expressed through children’s language.
He has exhibited internationally at numerous solo and group shows in Europe, USA, South America, Australia and Asia: The Ford Foundation – Center for Social Justice, New York, USA; 1st Contemporary Biennial TEA 2024, Tenerife, Spain; 60th Venice Biennale, Vlatka Horvat’s project for the Croatian Pavilion; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, USA; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, USA; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein kunst forum (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany; Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania; Project 88, Mumbai, India; Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Fundacion PRÓA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy; Museum of Modern Art,Warsaw, Poland; 10th Bucharest Biennale, 8th Sinop Biennale, Steirischer Herbst 21, Graz, Austria; Artium Museum, Spain; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Kunstraum Niederösterreich, DOM Museum and Kunstlerhaus Vienna; LENTOS, Linz; Cultural Centre Belgrade (solo); Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna (solo); Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan; Santa Maria delle Croci Ravenna (solo); Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (solo); 6th Athens Biennale, 1st and 4th Beijing International Art Bienniale; CAC Vilnius; Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina; Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy; Essl Museum (solo); Tokyo Wondersite – Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tokyo; Kunstpavillion Innsbruck; 28th International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana; Kunsthalle Krems; 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th and 55th International October Salon Belgrade; Museum of Modern Art Saint-Etienne; 2nd Sinop Biennale, 2nd Bucharest Biennial of Youndg Artists; Landesgalerie Linz am OÖ Landesmuseum, Linz; Prague Quadriennail and Manifesta 4 (archive project), Frankfurt, Germany and 6th Moscow Biennale – Special Project Alanica. The Experimental Method.
Winner of following competitions and residencies:
2024 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – KAMOV Residency, Rijeka, Croatia;
2023-2025 SKH – Stockholm University of Arts Research Grant, The Optimism of Nostalgia – The Grey Zone, Collaborative Artistic Research Project by Anja Suša and Dejan Kaludjerović;
2021 DCCC – Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture Residency, Dnipro, Ukraine;
2020 CSU Artist in Residency, Celje; Slovenia in collaboration with Memphis Linz, Austria;
2019 Tobačna001 Artist in Residency – Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Ljubljana; Winner of the competition Art and Reconciliation, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina in collaboration with University of Arts London (UAL) and King’s College London.
Winner of 2018 Villa Lena Foundation Residency, Italy, as well as Tirana Art Lab Residency, Tirana, Albania.
Dejan Kaludjerović was nominated for the MUMOK – Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2017.
Winner of 2017 BKA Studio and travelling fellowship Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Winner of 2016 CCA Andtrax Artist-in-Residence, Mallorca, Spain and LowRes Jerusalem Residency, Jerusalem, Israel.
Winner of 55th October Salon Award, Belgrade, 2014.
Winner of Sazmanab Contemporary Art Center Residency, Teheran, Iran for 2015 and YARAT Residency, Baku, Azerbaijan for 2014.
Winner of Atelier Tokyo for 2011 (Studio and traveling fellowship of 6 months provided by BMUKK).
Winner of the CEC ARTSINK Scholarship for 2008, which included a residency at the Santa Monica 18th Street Art Center in the USA as well as the Unidee residency in Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy in 2005, and a three-month Kultur Kontakt Austria residency in Vienna in 2002.
He is living and working in Vienna.
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibited internationally at numerous solo and group shows in Europe, USA, Australia and Asia
Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, St. Louis (solo)
Tobačna 001 – Museum and Galleries Ljubljana (solo)
Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna (solo)
Art Cube Artists’ Studios Jerusalem (solo)
Santa Maria delle Croci Ravenna (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (solo)
6th Moscow Biennale – Special Project Alanica The Experimental Method
28th International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana
43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th and 55th International October Salon Belgrade
1st and 4th Beijing International Art Biennial
1st Bucharest Biennial of Young Artists
Manifesta 4 (archive project), Frankfurt
Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
Landesgalerie am OÖ Landesmuseum, Linz
Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
Artium Basque Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
Museum of Modern Art Saint-Etienne
Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto
Tokyo Wondersite – Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tokyo
LA TRAVERSE Centre d’art contemporain d’Alfortville
AWARDS
DCCC – Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture Residency, Dnipro, Ukraine
CSU Artist in Residency, Celje; Slovenia in collaboration with Memphis Linz, Austria
Tobačna001 Artist in Residency – Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
Art and Reconciliation, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina in collaboration with University of Arts London (UAL) and King’s College London
MUMOK – Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2017 nominee
Villa Lena Foundation Residency, Italy, 2018
Tirana Art Lab Residency, Tirana, Albania, 2018
BKA Studio and travelling fellowship Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2017
CCA Andtrax Artist-in-Residence, Mallorca, Spain, 2016
LowRes Jerusalem Residency, Jerusalem, Israel, 2016
55th October Salon Award, Belgrade, 2014
Sazmanab Contemporary Art Center Residency, Teheran, Iran for 2015
YARAT Residency, Baku, Azerbaijan for 2014
Atelier Tokyo for 2011 (Studio and traveling fellowship of 6 months provided by BMUKK)
Unidee residency in Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy in 2005
Kultur Kontakt Austria residency in Vienna, 2002