Darja Bajagić: Sketchbooks (2014-2017) - August 29th, 2024

On the occasion Darja Bajagić’s exhibition “Damnatio Memoriae” (2017) with KALEIDOSCOPE x Spazio Maiocchi in Milan, KALEIDOSCOPE published “Darja Bajagić: Sketchbooks”: a new artist book dedicated to the entire body of Bajagić’s sketchbooks, dating from 2014 to 2017—an ongoing practice of combining drawing and painting with sourced imagery and text revelatory of her research process, formal preoccupations, and recurring obsessions.

79 pages
Softcover with dust jacket
28 x 22 cm
Language: English
Published by KALEIDOSCOPE and Spazio Maiocchi in 2017

Bajagić is one of the preeminent contemporary artists of the last ten years. In 2024, Bajagić represents Montenegro at the 60th Venice Biennale. 

Bajagić’s exhibition in Venice, “It Takes an Island to Feel This Good” reflects on the multidimensional history of the Montenegrin island of Mamula, whose fort, built in 1853 by the Austro-Hungarian general Lazar Mamula, was converted into a concentration camp by the fascist forces of Benito Mussolini’s Kingdom of Italy during the Second World War; and was revitalized with the assistance of foreign investments as a luxury hotel beginning in 2016. The title is taken from the slogan on the hotel’s website. “It Takes an Island to Feel This Good” is curated by Ana Simona Zelenović and organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro at the initiative of commissioner Vladislav Šćepanović.

Bajagić is also the co-founding director of Kriti Ponor, a center and residency for creative research opening in Risan, Montenegro in Fall 2024.