Long story short


Born on 6 March 1989, Clement grew up in Lajkovac, Pozega, and Uzice, small towns in western Serbia. His parents were both artists. His father Milan (1957-2008) was a conceptual artist, working mostly on kinetic sculptures and automatic paintings, and his mother Biljana (1964) is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist. From an early age, Clement was interested in performing, singing, and acting in front of friends and family. In 2000-2001 he enrolled in an acting school of National Theater of Uzice. After finishing school he stayed in Theater for 4 more years, acting usually in plays for children. This decision was made because of the financial situation of the family; inability to go to Belgrade and study High School of Dramatic Art, instead, Clement attended the High School of Art in Uzice, and finished the sculpture department. Along the way, he found himself in visual art, and in 2008 decided to continue education in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje. On Academy is where he found performance and video art, and even after being awarded as the best student in the painting department he mostly works with his body, trying to combine the knowledge he collected in Theater and visual art. Most important, and first independent performance work named "Second skin" was created in 2011 and it was the turning point after which nothing stayed the same. Until 2016 he was exploring identity in his work, his own limitations, aesthetics, trying to be introspective but at the same time universal. In 2015 he started with the existential phase and stayed dedicated to the human experience in the contemporary world to this day. Additional to this Clement has had the collage practice for more than 10 years and it is part of many private collections over the world, exclusively represented in Limited by Saatchi (limited edition of prints) and Artig Gallery in Spain. He is also the author of 4 poetry books.

Detailed biography:

EDUCATION
2019 Masterclass, Marina Abramovic Institute
2015 BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2013 Academy of Fine Arts, Trebinje, Bosnia, and Herzegovina
 
SELECTED EXHIBITION
2021 The Koschatzky Art Award, Schönborn-Batthyány, Vienna, Austria
2020 I don’t want maybe, I want must, ULUS, Belgrade, Serbia
2020 Lusted man, Festival Photo Saint Germain, Paris, France
2020 The act of disappearance, Dogadjanja gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (solo)
2020 Time 244’33 – IVA.lab, gallery Podroom, Belgrade, Serbia
2020 Video Art Maiden, Kalamata, Greece
2020 Exhibition of empty pockets, DOB gallery, Belgrade, Serbia (solo)
2019 Regional Art Salon, City Gallery Uzice, Serbia
2019 V Festival de Video nodoCCS, Barcelona, Spain
2019 GRISIA youth, Rovinj, Croatia
2019 Janela Video-arte, ZONA Lamego, Argentina
2019 Videntities, City Gallery Belgrade, Serbia
2019 Inspired by Persephone, Artig Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Regional Art Salon, City Gallery Uzice, Serbia
2018 November Art Salon, Museum of Kraljevo, Serbia
2018 Mangelos award, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2018 Almost resistance, U10 Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 Regional Art Salon, City Gallery Uzice, Serbia
2017 November Art Salon, Museum of Kraljevo, Serbia
2017 DOBA OBNOVE, gallery Reflektor, Uzice, Serbia
2017 Borderland esc, City Gallery Uzice, Serbia
2017 BelgradePhotoMonth, City Gallery Vracar, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 DIFFERENT WORLDS, CEHOP, Bratislava, Slovakia; Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017 The good wife, Cultural Center Banski dvor, Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (solo)
2017 The good wife, BPM & UNILIB, Belgrade, Serbia (solo)
2016 The artist is dead, Cultural Center GRAD, Belgrade, Serbia (solo)
2016 DIFFERENT WORLDS, Photon Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Kino Siska, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 DIGITALBIGSCREEN, Delavski Dom, Trbovlje, Slovenia
2016 RETHink Art Digital Festival, Act&Art Productions, Rethymno, Greece
2016 OFF THE WALL, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, USA
2016 Methodologies, deconstruction of identity Cultural Center GRAD, Belgrade, Serbia
2015 sTERORtipi, Queer salon, Cultural Center GRAD, Belgrade, Serbia
2014 stART, University Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2014 Mulafoco, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Uruguay
2013 Mediterranea 16 – Errors Allowed, Progres Gallery – Belgrade, Serbia
2011 Japan, Gallery of Modern Art, Lazarevac, Serbia (solo)
2008 Body language, manifestation ISKON, Pozega, Serbia (solo)
 
AWARDS
2018 1st award, Regional Art Salon, City Gallery Uzice, Serbia
2018 Mangelos finalist, Young Visual Artists Awards, Serbia
2014 Best photographer of the year, Mulafoco, Uruguay
2012 Best student of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of East Sarajevo
2012 Best student of the Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts of Trebinje
 
 
OTHER
 
Art residency:
2019 iva.lab (Interaction) Pozega, Serbia
 
Gallery coordinator:
2016-18 Reflektor Gallery, Uzice, Serbia
 
Curator:
2017 Subversive aesthetic of the street - Igor Coko
          Manners - Dragan Petrovic
 
Project coordinator:
2017 BOUND – Tatjana Este
          Clothed paintings II – Danica Karaicic
          Grain festival of documentary art, UVUU, Uzice, Serbia

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