Tanja ostojic biography template
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Tanja Ostojic
In August 2000 I started “Looking for a Husband with EU Passport” project: www.cac.org.mk/capital/ostojic. After publishing an ad with this title, I exchanged over 500 letters with numerous applicants from around the world.
After a correspondence of six months with a German man Klemens G. I arranged our first meeting as a public performance in the field in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, 2001. One month later we officially married in New Belgrade. With the international marriage certificate and other required documents I applied for a visa. After two months I got one entrance family unification visa for Germany, limited to three months, so I moved to Düsseldorf where I was officially living for three and a half years.
In spring 2005 my three-year permit expired, and instead of granting me a permanent residence permit, the authorities granted me only a two-year visa. After that K. G. and I got divorced, and on the occasion of my “Integration Project Office” installation opening in Gallery 35 in Berlin (July 1, 2005), I organized the “Divorce Party.”
Looking for a Husband with a EU Passport
In August 2000 I started “Looking for a Husband with EU Passport” project: www.cac.org.mk/capital/ostojic. After publishing an ad with this
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In conversation keep Tanja Ostojić
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Tanja Ostojić
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Photo of Tanja Ostojić holding a pogača as part of the "Nineties: A Dictionary of Migration" exhibition at the Museum of Yugoslavia | |
| Born | (1972-08-19) 19 August 1972 (age 52) Užice, Yugoslavia |
| Citizenship | Serbian |
| Occupation | Artist |
Tanja Ostojić (born 19 August 1972 in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia) is a feministperformance artist. Her work draws inspiration from her own experience as a non-European Union citizen, a traveler and female artist.[1] Ostojić has lived in Serbia, Slovenia, France, and Germany, but refuses to claim any particular nationality.[2]
O.t. / after Courbet
[edit]In December 2005, Ostojić became well known in Europe as a result of her poster After Courbet, L'Origine du monde, also referred to informally as "EU Panties"[3][4] The work, a satire of French Realist Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting L'Origine du monde, was first displayed on billboards at the public exhibition EuroPart held in Vienna in December 2005 – January 2006.[5] Ostojić's version displayed her own crotch, clothed in blue underwear complete with EU stars. The image was meant as an ironic suggestion that foreign women are only welcome in Europe when they drop their underwe