Aleksandra Kostic Dimitrijevic was born in Belgrade, Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia).
She has lived and worked in Australia since 2012.
Aleksandra works across several different mediums incorporating installations, paintings, drawings, video works and mixed mediums in her practice.
Since 1994, she has exhibited her work regularly in group and solo exhibitions.
Her works explore a range of ideas about women’s emotional life, anxiety and mental health, the same as our relationship with sacred geometry in nature, and our ways of knowing and perceiving the divine in the environment.
Her expressionistic approach to the work describes her as an intuitive artist willing to expose her creative energy directly.
Education:
• 2002 – Master’s Degree (AQF) / Awarded a Master of Arts MFA at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia (Europa), 2 years of full-time study following a Bachelor’s Degree in the Department of Classic Graphic Techniques in the class of Professor Mile Grozdanic
• 1997 – Bachelor’s Degree (AQF) / Graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia (Europa), 5 years of full-time study at the Department of Classic Graphic Techniques in the class of Professor Mile Grozdanic
• 2023 – in Training and Assessment, CQUniversity, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Courses:
• 2023 – „Introduction to Psychology” by Yale University
Course authorized by Yale University, USA
Taught by: Paul Bloom, Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.
• 2021 – „Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art” MOMA
Course authorized by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, MOMA, USA
• 2020 – „Modern Art & Ideas” MOMA
Course authorized by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, MOMA, USA
Solo Exhibition:
• 2021 – “I am here & I exist” Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, QLD, Australia
• 2021 – „Oceania, My Destiny, My Secret Place” Artview Gallery Cairns, QLD, Australia
• 2019 – „She is here & She exists” Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• 2016 – „Holy Space between Ocean and Heaven” Cell Arts Space, QLD, Australia
• 2011 – Multimedia Exhibition, City Gallery Kotor, Montenegro
• 2009 – Multimedia Exhibition „Diary of Captain’s Wife” Gallery 73, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2009 – Multimedia Exhibition „Gift”, three authors, Gallery „Magacin”, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2005 – Drawings, Lithography and Light Installations from 1998 until 2002
Gallery of the Central Club of the Serbian Army, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2004 – „Lips, Source & Sanctuary” Digital Prints-Billboard Form
Fine Art Salon of the Cultural Center Čačak, Serbia
• 2002 – „Passengers through Time” Lithography, Gallery FLU (Faculty of Fine Arts)
Belgrade, Serbia
• 1999 – Graphics, drawings, ambience drawings-light installations
Cultural Center Despotovac, Serbia
• 1998 – „Passages” Drawings, lithographs and ambience drawings-light installations
Gallery of the Kolarac Endowment, Belgrade, Serbia
• and more than 35 important group exhibitions in Australia and Europe •
Members/Participation
• 2019 – 2021 Member of Umbrella Center of Contemporary Art, Townsville
• 2015 – 2020 Member in KickArts (NorthSite Contemporary Arts), Cairns, QLD, Australia
• 2016 – Participated in an Art-Postcard Project in the Souvenir City Project
KickArts Contemporary Arts Cairns, QLD, Australia
• 2016 – Certificate of Participation for completing the workshop in
Connecting Art with School Curriculum, Flying Arts – Alliance Inc
• from 1999. Aleksandra is a Member of The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS)
Awards/Stipends:
• 1995. Scholarship from the Republic Foundation for Development of Scientific and Art Youth, Belgrade, Serbia, Europa
• 1996. Award for Mosaic from the Fond JIK Banke / Yugoslav Export & Credit Bank Fund, (mosaic is a public art on the ZOO wall in Belgrade) Belgrade, Serbia, Europa
• 1994. Award from the Faculty of Fine Arts for the Best Evening Nude (Dragan Lubarda was an associate professor for the classes of Evening Nude in the Faculty of Fine Art at the University of Arts in Belgrade) from the Djurdje Teodorović Fund /Fond Djurdja Teodorovica, Belgrade, Serbia, Europa
Collections:
Gallery „Haos” Belgrade, Serbia
Selected publication:
• 2023. Art Edit Magazine, #36, page 152
• 2022. British Vogue, May and June issue, London, UK
• 2021. Vanity Fair UK, March, April, May issue, London, UK
House & Garden UK, March, April, May issue, London, UK
• 2015. „Monograph 20 years of Gallery Chaos”, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2007. „Put do knjige” Mile Grozdanic, Publikum, 2007, page 261
• 2006. „Nova slika” Jovan Despotovic
(International Association of Art Critics/Curators (AICA)), Clio 2006, page 386
• 2005. „Deset godina galerije Haos”
Art Pavilion „Cvijeta Zuzoric”, 2005, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2003. „Kalendar nove umetnosti i savremenog zivota”
Publikum, 2003, Belgrade, Serbia
