WORKS TEXTS
Saša Tkačenko currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. His artistic practice engages spaces and their transformation when exposed to other media, as their architectural features interact with sculpture, video and installation. Tkačenko’s works thus create dynamic situations in which the audience plays a constituent part, often reflecting on motives and stories from popular culture and contemporary human life. He has been exhibiting since 2008, including shows at institutions such as Centre Pompidou Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Times Museum Guangdong, ACP – Australian Centre for Photography Sydney, Belgrade City Museum, Künstlerhaus Bremen, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art New York, Castello di Rivoli – Museo di Arte di Contemporanea Torino. Tkačenko participated in artist-in-residence programs at ISCP in New York and T.I.C.A-AirLAb Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art. His works were shown at art fairs such as Art Geneve, Rewriting our imaginations organised by LISTE, Flash Show Budapest, Not Cancelled (online). His works are in collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and Nobel Collection of contemporary art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
I could live in hope, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2022
This mess we’re in, Galeria E Bregdetit, Vlore, Albania
2021
Tell my mother I’m going home, I have been destroyed by hippie powers, Center for Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica Montenegro
2020
Pop up: ghost booth / with Emir Šehanović / public spaces Belgrade, Serbia and Zagreb, Croatia
2019
Your Truth, Interpretation and Nostalgia / with Vladimir Miladinović / Parts Project, Hague, Netherlands
2018
Because Vanity Is Stronger Than Fear, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Or We Gonna Do It Together?, ENA Viewing space, Budapest, Hungary
Ruins of Future Utopia, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2017
Oh yeah… Oh yeah…, Contemporary Gallery, Subotica, Serbia
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Smederevo, Serbia
2016
Of course I still love you / with Nina Ivanović / Navigator Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Places to Stay / with Leonard Qylafi / Arts at 5 Anderson Street, New York, USA
2015
Tracks and Traces / with Andreas Fogarasi / Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
Walking and listening. Topographies of vision / with Goran Micevski / Parallel Vienna, Austria
2014
The Case of Fabric, Podroom gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade
2012
Great Expectations / An exhibition with Marko Markovic / DOB Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Manual Work, Gallery Nova, Belgrade, Serbia
Manual Work, Cultural centre Pančevo, Gallery Dvorište, Pančevo, Serbia
2011
Object H, Gallery Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany
2008
Hygiene, Magician Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
I could live in hope, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2022
This mess we’re in, Galeria E Bregdetit, Vlore, Albania
2021
Tell my mother I’m going home, I have been destroyed by hippie powers, Center for Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica Montenegro
2020
Pop up: ghost booth / with Emir Šehanović / public spaces Belgrade, Serbia and Zagreb, Croatia
2019
Your Truth, Interpretation and Nostalgia / with Vladimir Miladinović / Parts Project, Hague, Netherlands
2018
Because Vanity Is Stronger Than Fear, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Or We Gonna Do It Together?, ENA Viewing space, Budapest, Hungary
Ruins of Future Utopia, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2017
Oh yeah… Oh yeah…, Contemporary Gallery, Subotica, Serbia
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Smederevo, Serbia
2016
Of course I still love you / with Nina Ivanović / Navigator Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Places to Stay / with Leonard Qylafi / Arts at 5 Anderson Street, New York, USA
2015
Tracks and Traces / with Andreas Fogarasi / Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
Walking and listening. Topographies of vision / with Goran Micevski / Parallel Vienna, Austria
2014
The Case of Fabric, Podroom gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade
2012
Great Expectations / An exhibition with Marko Markovic / DOB Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Manual Work, Gallery Nova, Belgrade, Serbia
Manual Work, Cultural centre Pančevo, Gallery Dvorište, Pančevo, Serbia
2011
Object H, Gallery Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany
2008
Hygiene, Magician Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland
2023
Stranger Danger, Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD, Zomertank , Leuven, Beligium
My Rhino is not a Myth - Art Encaunters Bienial, Timisoara, Roamnia
Blue Exhibition - Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
2022
Belgrade Biennale - 59th October Salon Belgrade, Belgrade, Serabia
Artissima Art fair, Eugster || Belgrade, Turin Italy
And Now the Good News Works from the Nobel Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Drawing together, 201 Exquisite corpse, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland
Predatory, with Flaka Haliti, Bojan Šarčević, Eugster II Belgarde, Belgrade, Serabia
2021
Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland
2023
Stranger Danger, Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD, Zomertank , Leuven, Beligium
My Rhino is not a Myth - Art Encaunters Bienial, Timisoara, Roamnia
Blue Exhibition - Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
2022
Belgrade Biennale - 59th October Salon Belgrade, Belgrade, Serabia
Artissima Art fair, Eugster || Belgrade, Turin Italy
And Now the Good News Works from the Nobel Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Drawing together, 201 Exquisite corpse, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland
Predatory, with Flaka Haliti, Bojan Šarčević, Eugster II Belgarde, Belgrade, Serabia
2021
Liste Art Fair, Eugster || Belgrade, Basel, Switzerland |
Conflicts, Drugstore, Belgrade, Serbia
2020
FLASH SHOW, Budapest, Hungary
Liste Showtime, Liste Art Fair, public space, Basel, Switzerland
Reflections of our time: Acquisitions of the Museum of Contemporary Art 1993-2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
2019
Unprotected Witness no. 1: Afrodisiac, Museum of African Art, Belgrade, Serbia
What Could / Should Curating Do? / delegated performance / Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
Experimental Film, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, screening program, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
Behind The Image, Kunstsammlungen Museen, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany
Articulations, Evangelic church, Pančevo, Serbia
Between Us, MoCAB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
The Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics – NO EFORT, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia FACELESS, Österreichischen Kulturforum Berlin, Germany
City+City, Night of Cinema program, at Russian History museum, Yakutsk, Russia
Unleashing, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA
You’re a Giant, Vozdovac Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Schaulager, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Experimental Film, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, screening program, Belgrade, Serbia
Oath – With Ease, Centre for Graphic Arts and Visual Researches, Belgrade, Serbia
2017
Ponovo upotrebiti: past as costume and inspiration, Zachęta Project Room, Warsaw, Poland
Scanning a City, TEA – Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
The Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics – NEWER BETTER, QUARTIER GENERAL, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Books from the Balkans, K. K. fon Stricka villa, Riga, Latvia
2016
MUVI 06 / Museums – Video – Films, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Extravagant bodies – Crime and Punishment, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
Debatable Screenings – Potentials Within, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, USA
15 years of „Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos“ Award, MoCAB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Museum ON/OFF, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Selection, Swiss embassy residence, Belgrade, Serbia
South by Southeast. A Further Surface, Times Museum, Guangdong, China
Contemporaneity and Crisis, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2015
Ex & Post – Eastern Europe under the lens, ACP – Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Constellations, Centre Culturel De Serbie, Parris, France
Contemporaneity and Crisis, Gallery U10, Belgrade, Serbia
As a Memento, Mutoscopio Festival, screening program, Puebla, Mexico
City+, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
WonderLab, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
New Beginnings. Latest Aquisitions from the Ciollection of MoCA Belgrade, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
The present of Modernism / kino part of the exhibition, mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
FACELESS, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Storytelling, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania
Multiplicity, Mixed Greens, New York, USA
Multiplicity: City as Subject / Matter, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, New York, USA
Second Hand, The Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade Now, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austria
AIVA International Video Art Festival, screening program, Finspång, Sweden
Now&After, International Video Art Festival, State Museum of GULAG, Moscow, Russia FACELESS, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013
7 Ways to Overcome the Closed Circuit, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
Memory of space, Contemporary Gallery, Subotica, Serbia
Berlin Brücke Belgrad, General Public, Berlin, Germany
Exhibition of the MANGELOS AWARD 2013 finalists / YVAA, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2012
What happened with the Museum of Contemporary Art?, MoCAB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
In a New Context, Magacin Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
Without Delay, Galllery of Grad Culture Center, Belgrade, Serbia
Exhibition of the MANGELOS AWARD 2012 finalists / YVAA, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2011
Spring Serbian Salad „Fresh, Colorful and Delicious“, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2010
Real Presence, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2009
The Outerworld of the Innerworld of the Innerworld of the Outerworld, HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
2008
Sistema Binario, Belgrade Summer Festival 08, Belgrade, Serbia
Step out, Magacin Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
Real Presence, Castello di Rivoli-Museo di Arte di Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
2007
Progressive Hopes, Magacin Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
Real Presence : Floating Sites, Garaji, Istanbul, Turkey
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade
Nobel Collection
Yettell Collection of contemporary art
2020
FLASH SHOW, Budapest, Hungary
Liste Showtime, Liste Art Fair, public space, Basel, Switzerland
Reflections of our time: Acquisitions of the Museum of Contemporary Art 1993-2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
2019
Unprotected Witness no. 1: Afrodisiac, Museum of African Art, Belgrade, Serbia
What Could / Should Curating Do? / delegated performance / Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
Experimental Film, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, screening program, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
Behind The Image, Kunstsammlungen Museen, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany
Articulations, Evangelic church, Pančevo, Serbia
Between Us, MoCAB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
The Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics – NO EFORT, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia FACELESS, Österreichischen Kulturforum Berlin, Germany
City+City, Night of Cinema program, at Russian History museum, Yakutsk, Russia
Unleashing, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA
You’re a Giant, Vozdovac Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Schaulager, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Experimental Film, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, screening program, Belgrade, Serbia
Oath – With Ease, Centre for Graphic Arts and Visual Researches, Belgrade, Serbia
2017
Ponovo upotrebiti: past as costume and inspiration, Zachęta Project Room, Warsaw, Poland
Scanning a City, TEA – Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
The Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics – NEWER BETTER, QUARTIER GENERAL, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Books from the Balkans, K. K. fon Stricka villa, Riga, Latvia
2016
MUVI 06 / Museums – Video – Films, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Extravagant bodies – Crime and Punishment, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
Debatable Screenings – Potentials Within, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, USA
15 years of „Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos“ Award, MoCAB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Museum ON/OFF, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Selection, Swiss embassy residence, Belgrade, Serbia
South by Southeast. A Further Surface, Times Museum, Guangdong, China
Contemporaneity and Crisis, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2015
Ex & Post – Eastern Europe under the lens, ACP – Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Constellations, Centre Culturel De Serbie, Parris, France
Contemporaneity and Crisis, Gallery U10, Belgrade, Serbia
As a Memento, Mutoscopio Festival, screening program, Puebla, Mexico
City+, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
WonderLab, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
New Beginnings. Latest Aquisitions from the Ciollection of MoCA Belgrade, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
The present of Modernism / kino part of the exhibition, mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
FACELESS, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Storytelling, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania
Multiplicity, Mixed Greens, New York, USA
Multiplicity: City as Subject / Matter, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, New York, USA
Second Hand, The Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade Now, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austria
AIVA International Video Art Festival, screening program, Finspång, Sweden
Now&After, International Video Art Festival, State Museum of GULAG, Moscow, Russia FACELESS, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013
7 Ways to Overcome the Closed Circuit, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
Memory of space, Contemporary Gallery, Subotica, Serbia
Berlin Brücke Belgrad, General Public, Berlin, Germany
Exhibition of the MANGELOS AWARD 2013 finalists / YVAA, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2012
What happened with the Museum of Contemporary Art?, MoCAB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
In a New Context, Magacin Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
Without Delay, Galllery of Grad Culture Center, Belgrade, Serbia
Exhibition of the MANGELOS AWARD 2012 finalists / YVAA, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2011
Spring Serbian Salad „Fresh, Colorful and Delicious“, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2010
Real Presence, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2009
The Outerworld of the Innerworld of the Innerworld of the Outerworld, HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
2008
Sistema Binario, Belgrade Summer Festival 08, Belgrade, Serbia
Step out, Magacin Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
Real Presence, Castello di Rivoli-Museo di Arte di Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
2007
Progressive Hopes, Magacin Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
Real Presence : Floating Sites, Garaji, Istanbul, Turkey
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade
Nobel Collection
Yettell Collection of contemporary art