Bojana Videkanic is an art historian and an artist born in Bosnia and Herzegovina/former Yugoslavia. After becoming a
stateless person, she came to Canada as a government-sponsored refugee in 1995. Videkanic is an Assistant Professor
of contemporary art and visual culture in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada.
Her research focuses on the 20th-century socialist art in Yugoslavia and its contributions to the rise of global
modernisms through Yugoslavia’s participation in Non-Aligned Movement and various de-colonial cultural
practices. Her book Nonaligned Modernism: socialist postcolonial practices in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985 is published with
McGill-Queens University Press. Videkanic has also written about contemporary artists coming from the Balkan region,
most recently about Tanjas Ostojic’s seven-year long project Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojic which deals with recent cultural
and socio-economic histories of the post-Yugoslav region from a feminist perspective. Her current research
investigates memorial sites of the Non-Aligned Movement, in particular architecture and monuments built to
commemorate each NAM summit.
Videkanic’s artistic practice mines personal experiences of displacement, movement, and identity as these intersect
with larger political, social and cultural questions. Her most recent work deals with the transformation of her native
country into a law-free zone for the development of various neoliberal capitalist projects and new forms of
colonization. Videkanic is an assistant professor in fine arts at the University of Waterloo. Videkanic has exhibited at
festivals such as Nuit Blanche Toronto (2009), 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival Toronto (2010), MS:T
nternational Festival from Calgary (2012), Hemispherica, Montreal (2014), IPA Platform and Workshop, Bristol (2015),
IMAFestival, Serbia (2016). Videkanic also curates.
