Jelena Jureša
Jelena Jureša (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) is a visual artist. Through her films and video installations, she explores themes of identity, collective violence, complicity, and historical denial. Her work pushes the boundaries of conventional cinematic language, critically engaging with hegemonic narratives. Recently, her research has focused on practices of oppression — how they operate and implicate us in systems of violence — resulting in multidisciplinary projects that are both political and deeply personal.
Jureša’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts in Brussels, Künstlerhaus in Graz, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. In 2015, during her residency as a Jackman Goldwasser artist in collaboration with the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, she began researching the intersections of public art, capitalism, and patriarchy, alongside the construction of male and female histories within these frameworks. As a Q21 artist-in-residence in Vienna in 2016, she studied the work of anthropologists and racial hygienists during the Austrian imperial period, as well as the post-WWII politics of oblivion in Austria.