MARIJA JOJIĆ

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ABOUT


Marija Jojić is a Serbian-Croatian visual artist living and working in Belgrade. Her interdisciplinary practice explores identity, gender performance, surveillance, internet culture, and the construction of the self through systems of repetition, documentation, and embodiment.

CONTACT
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Education
MFA in Painting
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade
2025

BFA in Painting
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade
2024


Certificates
Modern and Contemporary Art and Design Specialization
Issued by MoMA

Includes:

  • Modern Art & Ideas
  • Seeing Through Photographs
  • What Is Contemporary Art?
  • Fashion as Design

Teaching & PracticeMethodical Practice Report
Skadarlija Elementary School, Belgrade
Working with children and teaching
Issued April 2024

Methodical Practice Report
The National Museum in Belgrade
Museum education
Issued January 2024


Solo Shows
2025
In the name of all of us
Student Cultural Centre,Belgrade

2025
Poetics of introspection
Ostavinska Gallery, Belgrade


Group Shows
2025
Times Square billboard showcase
New York

2025
Individual practices
Gallery `73, Belgrade

2025
Line VI
Udruženje kreativna fabrika, Slavoljub bar, Belgrade

2025
Blooming
Ljubičica hub, Belgrade

2025
Personal Cuts
Student Cultural Center, Belgrade

2024
WLW ArtFest
Miljenko Dereta venue, Belgrade

2024
Student exhibition 2024
Kornjača Gallery, Belgrade

2024
Art is an Act of Total Attention
Center for Printmaking, Belgrade

2024
Annual Exhibition of the Faculty of Fine Arts
Belgrade

2024
Woman as a Rock
ArtFemine Festival, Niš

2023
Fluks, Annual Exhibition of the Faculty of Fine Arts
Belgrade

2023
Process, Student Creative Showcase
Silosi Cultural Center, Belgrade



Workshops & Events 2025
Echoes across borders
Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Prishtina

2024
Interdisciplinary event “The stage”
Stvaralački eho, KC Dorćol, Belgrade, 2024

2024
What did we inherit?
Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Belgrade

2023
Feminist Art Residency
Centar za devojke, Sićevo, 2023


Press
Kulturni dnevnik
RTS
2025

Interview

Visual art journal,
by Anna Gvozdeva
2025           







Last Updated 24.10.31
SELECTED WORK




1. PRAYERHUNTER: Gaze Study (fragment), 2026
PRAYERHUNTER: Gaze Study is a photographic investigation into the gaze as a learned social performance. Through a series of standardized portraits, participants respond to verbal instructions such as "look desirable," "look powerful," or "look harmless." By isolating the eyes and removing most contextual information, the project examines how femininity, vulnerability, authority, and desire are communicated through subtle visual cues. Rather than documenting identity, PRAYERHUNTER explores how identity is consciously performed, rehearsed, and recognized through the gaze.





2. The Self-Surveillance Protocol, 2026
The Self-Surveillance Protocol documents the repetitive act of self-measurement as a system of behavioral control. Through a series of standardized photographs depicting the artist's feet on a scale over an extended period, the work transforms a private ritual into an archive. Each image functions as a record within an ongoing protocol, exposing how contemporary ideals of discipline, self-optimization, and bodily control become internalized through everyday acts of monitoring. Rather than documenting weight loss, the project examines self-surveillance as a continuous performance in which the body becomes both subject and object of observation.




3. Memento Innocentiae, 2025
Memento Innocentiae explores the emotional distance created when human lives are reduced to statistics. Through a fragile installation of handmade paper figures, the work gives physical form to anonymous masses while emphasizing individual vulnerability. The childlike quality of the figures reflects innocence and the impact of social crises on younger generations. The repetitive process of creating them becomes a reflection on time, empathy, and the difficulty of comprehending collective suffering.




4. Performance of femininity, 2024
The video explores the performativity of female identity and the societal pressures that shape women’s appearance and behavior. Through interviews and footage of daily beauty routines, it examines how patriarchal expectations are internalized and how women navigate the tension between self-acceptance and the need to conform to ideals of femininity.


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5. Ballerina, 2025
Ballerina is a looping digital animation depicting a female figure continuously rotating around a pole. Through repetition and the absence of narrative progression, the work reflects on performance, endurance, and the cyclical nature of gendered roles. The endless loop transforms a graceful gesture into a mechanical action, questioning where performance ends and identity begins.





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