Vanja Karas – Live in Singapore

Vanja Karas is a London based multidisciplinary Serbian artist, working in print, in space and on screen

The essence of her work reflects on the timeless themes of impermanence, the irrevocable passing of time and transience as the core of our existence. Her works evoke conceptual vivacity, beauty and emotional poignancy often revisiting the major motifs of the old masters and still life translating them into the modern world.

Vanja Karas will be live in Singapore from Friday, 22 November – Sunday, 24 November at the Singapore Affordable Art fair

Prior to moving into the art world and since completing her MA at Kings College London and Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Vanja has worked commercially as a Creative Director in design and advertising industries in London. She is now mainly focusing on her Art working in and exhibiting across a range of different media: photography, conceptual art, site-specific installation, sculpture, video art, textile design, print and VR.

MY ART AT THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR SINGAPORE

Vanja’s work has been commissioned for a number of private, public, museum and corporate collections and published in books and magazines. Her photographic print has reached £10000 at a recent Bonham’s Auction.

She has featured wit her work in numerous international exhibitions, festivals and residencies across Europe, Asia and America. Only this year her work has been exhibited in Japan, USA, Mexico, Italy, the UK and she is delighted now to be showing for the first time in Singapore. Earlier this month Vanja’s work was exhibited in the NaWei Gallery at the Fullerton Hotel, as one of the finalists of the Art Gemini International Art Prize.

She is also currently exhibiting in London as part of the God Save the Queen exhibition alongside some of the most celebrated artists such as Terry O’Neil, Rankin, David Swanell and Alison Jackson.

Earlier this year her work Flowers for Algernon was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts 251st Summer Exhibition, she also exhibited as part of this years 58th Venice Biennale and as part of a multimedia video installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca MACO (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Oaxaca).

Other past exhibitions, participation and awards include: Royal Academy of Arts (2019 and 2009 Summer Exhibition), 56th, 57th, 58th Venice Biennale, The Hall of Awa Museum Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca (MACO), Institute of Contemporary Art ICA, The Photographers’ Gallery, Turner Contemporary, Somerset House, House of St Barnabas, New Orleans Photo Alliance USA, Les Rencontres d’Arles France, Art Brussels, Mall Galleries, Chelsea Arts Club, Royal College of Art, Mercers Hall, Tobacco Docks, Royal Overseas League, Association of Photographers, Jonathan Ross Gallery London, China House Malaysia, Alliance Francaise Malaysia, Siddhartha Art Gallery Kathmandu, Palazzo Ducale Cantelmo Italy, Cata Odata Bali, Q-Park Car Park, New Moment Serbia.

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Affordable Art Fair Singapore exhibiting with Siger Gallery November 2019

Gallery Na Wei, Fullerton Hotel, Singapore. Finalists exhibition Art Gemini Prize | London’s Global Art Prize, Singapore. Private View, 9th November

God Save the Queen, Fiat Chrysler Motor Village UK Exhibition extended until 1 Dec 2019

Hall of Awa Japanese, Handmade Paper Museum.Tokushima. Wish I could have made it there myself too…Exhibition runs 5th October – 10th November 2019

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Empress Theatre, Vallejo, California, USA. Power Structures by Vanja Karas as part of Moving Silently, silent film art show, Empress Theatre, Vallejo, California, USA. Films accompanied with live music by The Clubfoot Modern Machine Orchestra. Also performing newly restored Metropolis by Fritz Lang. (upcoming July 2019)

251st Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition,  ‘Flowers for Algernon’, photography

58th Venice Biennale, Miniscule Venice, ‘The Time Machine’, sculpture installation, Fondamenta Sant’Anna

58th Venice Biennale, VOID, ‘Submerged Discourse’ a short experimental film, night outdoors projections, Rialto

58th Venice Biennale, Fit the Slit, ‘Dead Man’s Shoe’, Lido Alberoni Beach

Photo London, Somerset House, works exhibited as part of Egg Installation by Gavin Turk

Cross Lane Projects, Miniscule II, ‘Kenozoik’, sculpture

Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca, MACO, Mexico, Age of Extinction, Empire II, multimedia installations, video projections and photography. ‘Sculpting in Time’, short film, ‘Power Structures’ video / animation,  ‘Restitution’, photography.

Q Park, National Portrait Gallery, Chinese Open, The Year of the Pig, photography / mixed, site specific installation.

2018
The Hall of Awa Museum , Tokushima, Japan, “Awakenings’ printed on handmade washi paper.

Barge House, OXO TRIBE 2017 International Art Festival

Jonathan Ross Gallery Christmas exhibition

Harts Lane, Atina exhibition

Mall Galleries, Art for Youth annual exhibition

Palazzo Ducale, Atina, Italy site specific installation

The House of St Barnabas, Emerald Winter Pride Prize finalist. ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’, mixed media.  So delighted to be selected as one of the finalists of this prestigious award!

Tallinn Art Week, Haus Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, Empire II, photography installations and film screening.

Q Park, China Town, Chinese Open, The year of the Underdog

Royal Bank of Scotland, Auction by Bonhams in aid of Art for Grenfell. My print sold as highest bid for £10 000

Montague Armstrong Gallery, St Leonard’s, Down from London, exhibition

Winns Gallery, London & Kenni Kessler Gallery Penang The Silk Road, The Metamorphosis of Silk , sculpture installation, VR and photography

LA Photo Curator, Global Photography Awards, Awakenings part of Still Life 2.0, selection curated by Yorgos Efthymiadis

Chelsea Arts Club Exhibition and Auction Totems and Taboos

Camberwell College of Arts, Atina Reunion exhibition

2017
C.A.R., Cata Odata, Ubud, Bali

57th Venice Biennale, Age of Anxiety Empire II, short film, ‘Sculpting in Time’ Castello, Riva Dei Sette Martiri

57th Venice Biennale,  Fit the Slit, Venice Lido, Alberoni Beach, site specific installation

The Han Collection Gallery, Museum Street, London. The New Dawn curated by Jhy-Yen Lo.  In association with PingHub International. ‘Wings of Desire’

Q Park, National Portrait Gallery, Chinese Open, Les Coq Artistes

Barge House, FIX Photography Festival

Remember Her

Fiat Chrysler, Mayfair Gallery, KANOJO

Parco S.Stefano, Atina, Italy,

Cross Lane Projects, Kendall Empire II

Dalston Studios. Short Films by Artists

Lenscratch Earth Day exhibition curated by Aline Smithson. ‘Beachy Head’

Cavendish Square Car Park, Frieze Week, Crash,

Fiat Chrysler, Mayfair Gallery, David Bowie Tribute

2016
Asylum Chapel Gallery, Homunculus, ‘To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful’, Sallust

The Space Gallery, Goa, India, ‘Paper Spirits’ site specific installation

HM 90 – presented by Art Society Soho, and Creative Debuts in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays, ‘HM Queen, Vanitas’.

BLACK+WHITE presented by Art Society Soho, and Creative Debuts in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays

REVOLUTION, presented by Art Society Soho, and Creative Debuts in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays

PHOTOVILLE Festival, Brooklyn Bridge Park, presented by United Photo Industries, New York, special edition of the ‘Curated Fridge’, curated by Aline Smithson, ‘Road Trip’

Chelsea Arts Club, members exhibitions, Collage and Special Materials members show. ‘HM Queen, Vanitas’.

Espacio Gallery 28th Annual London Independent Photography exhibition

Jonathan Ross 286 Gallery Annual Exhibition

2015
Permanent installation of Tokyo Geisha, Kokoro W2

Chelsea Arts Club, Hat Auction, including Stephen Jones, Philip Tracy, Jane Taylor and Patrick Hughes

London Festival Of Architecture, Forman’s Fish Island Riviera, Den-City, ‘Who Killed the Goose’, installation

House of Illustration, exhibition and silent auction in aid of Nepalese earthquake

Turner Contemporary, Margate, the Art Car Boot Fair with Art Society Soho.

Art Society Soho, Car Boot Art Fair, Brick Lane, ‘Peeping Tom’, mixed media

56th Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Disquiet, ‘An Experimental Journey Undertaken Involuntarily’ sculpture installation and printed edition.

56th Venice Biennale, Fit the Slit, Venice Lido, Alberoni Beach, ‘Say it with Fire’, site specific installation

Chelsea Arts Club, London, members’ exhibition, Peeping Tom, photography

Q Park, Chinatown Soho, London, Chinese Open, Year of the Sheep

2014
Let Art Work Gallery, Pune, India, GOD,

Chelsea Arts Club, Members’ exhibition, London

Office Sessions III

Royal College of Art, Kensington, 27th Annual Art for Youth exhibition, Ensō – The Lightness Of Impermanence And Tokyo Geisha, Masks Of Seduction

Embassy Tea Gallery, 27th London Independent Annual Exhibition

Office SessionsS II,  East India Docks, London, ‘Ensō: The Lightness Of Impermanence’v

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Vanja Karas is represented in Asia by Siger Gallery

Siger Gallery, founded by Jon Baker, was established in 2012 to promote and sell a broad range of emerging UK and international artists.