Bojana (S) Knežević

Curriculum Vitae

Bojana (S) Knežević is a media artist and researcher, working in the fields of performance, audio-visual installation, sound and radio art, and art education. In her projects, focusing on the unheard voices of marginalized or hidden individual, collective, and hybrid identities, she aims to deconstruct various stereotypes, social structures, and systems of patriarchal society. As a reaction to the systemic silencing of female, queer, and non-human bodies, she puts special emphasis on the sonic treatment of social phenomena, which results in intense soundscapes and sonic experiences based on the tension between noise and silence. Her projects can also be found under the aliases Boa Béres, BOASZ, and Sweet Conceptual Artist.

One of the podcast pioneers in the Balkans, she co-founded the art and media project and podcast Femkanje in 2013. Since 2021, she has been a founding member of the international sound art collective Audio Leakage Community. As an artist, educator and cultural worker, she collaborates with the Listening Biennial, Balkan Radikal (Berlin), and the Berlin School of Sound. 2018-2024 she worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.

She presented her work internationally in numerous museums, galleries, festivals and conferences, including MG+ Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, HEK Basel, Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD), Belgrade, MQ / TONSPUR Kunstverein, Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Bronx River Art Center, New York, 937 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, US, Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel (Museum), Regensburg, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, K48 Vienna, Kulturdrogerie, Vienna, DE BOUWPUT, Amsterdam, Gallery Podroom, Culture Center of Belgrade, Manifesta Biennial, Leakage. Inaugural stsing e.V. Conference, TU Dresden, IMMSANE Utrecht 2022 Congress, HKU Utrecht School of the Arts, International Festival of Computer Art MFRU, UMG Studio, Maribor, ISPOD BINE, sound art festival, Split.

She holds BA and MFA degrees (New Media Art) from the Department of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, and a doctoral degree (Interdisciplinary art studies – Digital Art) from the University of Arts in Belgrade.

https://linktr.ee/bojanasknezevic

Selected Publications

• Valeria Schulte-Fischedick / Künstlerhaus Bethanien ed. MANIFEST Yourself! (Queer) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Distanz Verlag, 2023; 

• Sanja Kojić Mladenov, LEAP AND DIVE – Discourses About Gender in Art, Proartorg Belgrade, 2020;
• Sanja Kojić Mladenov ed. Risk Change 03, Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad, 2020;
• Dejan Vasić, Performance, Performativity and Document, Silvija Dražić and Vera Kopicl, ed. Theoretical discourses of contemporary women’s culture, Institute for Gender Equality, Novi Sad, 2019; 

• Bojana S. Knežević and Katarina Petrović ”On the topic of Cosmos”, Boris Grojs ed. Beyond the Globe, 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3, Sternberg Press, Museum of Modern Art – MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2016;