Mrđan Bajić(1957)
Mrđan Bajić was born in 1957. in Belgrade. He graduated at The Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in class of professor Jovan Kratohvil, at the Sculpture department. He worked as an assistant professor at the same Faculty from 1985. to 1990. He got a Pollock-Crasner Paris scholarship in 1995. He started working again at Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1997. as a professor.
Jasmina Čubrilo’s opinion is that Bajić is a representative of the rhetorical artistic current of the new Serbian art scene, which started at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century. Actually, Bajić started accenting the rhetorical line in his work at the beginning of the ‘80s. At the first half of the ‘90s, Bajić was creating artworks in a rich neo-expressionist manner, while later, at the end of the ‘90s, he started calming the formal expression of his artworks. He influenced many of his students, young artists.
Mrđan Bajić had solo exhibitions in many European cities such as Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Paris, Stockholm, Krakow, and also he had numerous group exhibitions in Rome, New York, Sydney, Krakow, Paris, Graz, Copenhagen, Venice, Monaco and Thessaloniki. He participated at the 25th Sao Paolo Biennale in 2002, with his work Jugomuzej (eng. Yugomuseum). He also presented his project Riset (Reset) in the Serbian Pavilion at the 52nd Visual Art Biennale in 2007.
Prizes: Fond Ilija Kolarević, (Beograd, 1980); Fond Sreten Stojanović, (Beograd, 1981); Sedam sekretara SKOJ-a, (Zagreb, 1983); Premija Gradske zajednice kulture za 1983. godinu, (Beograd 1984); III PIJS, (Pančevo, 1987, 1993); Fond Ivan Tabaković, SANU, (Beograd, 1991); Nagrada Salona Monruž za skulpturu, (Pariz, 1992); Sava Šumanović, (Novi Sad, 2000); Fond Vladislav Ribnikar, (Beograd, 2001).