Igor Bošnjak
Igor Bošnjak lives and works in Trebinje (Bosnia & Herzegovina) as a visual artist and filmmaker. He works on interdisciplinary research, addressing history, migrations, surveillance and image-time relations as key references in the experience of contemporary society. He is mainly working within the media fields of contemporary art: moving images, video, film, 3D animation, installation and photography. His artworks have been exhibited in over 35 solo exhibitions and over 120 group exhibitions around the world. His films and video works were screened at over 40 festivals and he received over 20 awards, grants and nominations for his art projects and research.
His works have been exhibited at: Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Wien; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Chelsea College of Arts, London; National Center for Contemporary Art & Museum of Modern Art Moscow and many other institutions.
His films and video works were screened at: Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.); Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and many other places.
Works by Igor Bošnjak
Humanity
2022, digital video
7 minutes
Immersive, hyper-realistic, metaphysical video about humankind. World/space is storytelling. The world is the story.
Observers From the Future
2022, digital video
11 minutes
This video depicts speculative and alternative reality worlds from the distant future which converge with reality today in the form of a meditative cinematic experience.
Memory Gate
2022, digital video
9 minutes
Delusions, memory, trauma, history, remembrance, sounds of homeland, climate, geography, eclectic cinema.
Perverted Gaze
2020, digital video
15 minutes
This video shows six border crossings in Bosnia & Herzegovina that were recorded using a drone. The aerial footage has been taken from various standpoints, communicating both an up-close look and a more distant perspective. The result generates insights into the activities at each location, offering a view of Bosnia’s apparently untouched mountain landscape.
Is There Death After Life?
2018, digital video
8 minutes
Is there death after life? It is the opposite question, because from this perspective things work completely differently.
Transformers
2015, digital video
9 minutes
“The Memorial of Victory”, the most significant memorial in the former Yugoslavia commemorating the fallen Partisans, can be found in the national park of Tjentište/Sutjeska. Designed by the sculptor Miodrag Živković, the monument was unveiled in 1971 at the site of one of the bloodiest battles between the Axis Forces and the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Army during the Second World War.
Everything you thought, was wrong
2014, digital video
13 minutes
A work in five chapters which shows the complete shift of social and ideological systems in the Balkan region. Recorded in an abandoned printmaking facility somewhere in Bosnia & Herzegovina. This video is the second part of a trilogy, following Hotel Balkan.
Hotel Balkan
2013, digital video
10 minutes
A meditative piece which defines borders between futuristic memory of the past and present thinking of the future. Filmed at Tito’s underground nuclear bunker in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Contemporary Cemeteries
2010, digital video
4 minutes
This video has two semantic layers in a direct visual correlation: the issue of “multicultural cemeteries” in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and the general “diversity of TV noise”.
The Situationist
2007, digital video
7 minutes
A homage to Guy Debord’s Situationist International movement.