Dr. Phil. Đejmi Hadrović (Jamie Hadrovic) creates short films, videos, photography, performances, and installations. Her dominant themes are the position of women in the Balkans, patriarchal structures, and violence after the 1990s.

She won the Slovenian highest national visual art award – Rihard Jakopič in 2024. In 2022 she won the Young Visual Artist Award (OHO) in Slovenia. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Viennese Museum MUSA, SCCA-DIVA Archive in Ljubljana (SI),  and Residency Unlimited, New York. Đejmi was a fellow of WHW Akademija in 2023. 2018 she received the City of Vienna Award; in 2017, she was a scholarship recipient of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. 

CONTACT: jamiehadrovic@gmail.com

CV

EDUCATION

2023 Ph.D., Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2016 M.A., Time-Based Media, University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, AT
2012 B.Sc., Culture and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, SI
2011 Erasmus Exchange, Philosophy Department, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, TR

AWARDS

2024 Mayor’s Award for an Honorary Citizen, Trbovlje, SI
2024 Alumni UP Award for Excellence, University of Primorska, Koper, SI
2024 Rihard Jakopič Recognition – Highest Visual Arts Prize in Slovenia, Ljubljana, SI
2022 Young Visual Artist Award Winner (OHO), P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
2020 Social Art Award (Shortlisted), Berlin, DE
2019 PS37 Award, Simulaker Gallery, Novo Mesto, SI
2018 Wohn- und Atelierstipendium, Transleithanien Foundation, Vienna, AT
2018 Förderungspreise der Stadt Wien – Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT
2017 Best Photography Award for Zahida is a Feminist, KIBLA, Maribor, SI
2016 Award for Excellence in Studies, University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, AT
2016 Digital Big Screen, 2nd Prize for Crossing Borders, Trbovlje, SI

GRANTS

2023 WHW Akademija Fellowship, April–October, Zagreb, HR
2023 Residency Unlimited, YVAA, February–March, NYC, USA
2021 Hydra Pace & Anna Lindh Foundation Grant, Košice, SK
2021 Kulturreferat, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2021 Fem-Queer Funding Pool, Gender Studies Research Grant, Vienna, AT
2020 Ph.D. Research Grant, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2019 Kulturreferat, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2018 Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Scholarship for Specialized Professions in Culture, SI
2017 KulturKontakt & Austrian Chancellery, Vienna, AT
2017 Project Grant, University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, AT

SOLO SHOWS

2024 Voices of Reflection: Ode to Palestine, Curator: Maja Kač, ZDSLU, Ljubljana, SI
2023 P74 Gallery, Curator: Nina Skumavc, Ljubljana, SI
2023 The Letter, the Veil, the Looter, Curator: Lilia Kudelia, Residency Unlimited, NYC, USA
2022 Simulaker Gallery, Curator: Adrijan Praznik, Novo Mesto, SI
2020 International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns, Curators: Ana Grobler, Eva Jus, Tamara Klavžar, Ljubljana, SI
2020 Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Curators: Sanja Kojić Mladenov & Tijana Filipov Mezei, Novi Sad, SR
2019 Space 107, Curator: Mika Maruyama, Vienna, AT
2019 Nova Galerija DDT, Curator: Marina Gržinić, Trbovlje, SI
2019 Kino Šiška, Camera Gallery, Curator: Urška Aplinc, Ljubljana, SI
2018 Kulturdrogerie, Curator: Markus Hiesleitner, Vienna, AT

ART RESIDENCIES

2023 Boundary Crossing, Theater Glej, HKU Academy Utrecht & Kadir Has University, Istanbul, TR
2023 WHW Akademija, Zagreb, HR
2023 Residency Unlimited & Trust for Mutual Understanding, YVAA, NYC, USA
2022 IoDeposito: B#SIDE WAR FESTIVAL, IT
2021 KAIR, HYDRA PACE, Košice, SK
2020 City of Women Festival, Ljubljana, SI
2020 Arkabarka, Belgrade, SR
2020 MSUV – Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Risk Change, Novi Sad, SR
2019 PCAP Residency, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Reykjavík, ISL
2018 Kulturdrogerie, Summer Atelier Residency, Vienna, AT
2017 Kaliska Residency, Kaliska, PL
2017 KulturKontakt & Austrian Federal Chancellery, Vienna, AT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

ART TALKS, WORKSHOPS

2024

• ARTWEEKEND LJUBLJANA – Panel with Đejmi Hadrović and IRWIN, moderated by Zdenka Badovinac. ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, SI.

2023

• “The Letter, the Veil, the Looter” – Residency Unlimited, Curator: Lilia Kudelia with Đejmi Hadrović. NYC, USA.

2022

• IoDeposito: B#SIDE WAR FESTIVAL – Curator: Chiara Isadora Artico. May–June, IT.

2021

• Kuma International Summer School: Borders and Migration – Organized by Adela Jušić. August, Sarajevo, BIH.
• KAIR, HYDRA PACE – June–August, Košice, SK.

2020

• Cultural Center Magacin – Organized by Kyungrim Lim Jang. February, Belgrade, SR.
• Academy of Arts Novi Sad – Organized by Dr. Bojana Knežević. February, Novi Sad, SR.

2019

• University of Iceland, School of Social Science – Organized by Prof. Kristín Loftsdóttir. May, Reykjavik, ISL.

2017

KultuKontakt and Austrian Chancellery – January, Vienna, AT.

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna – Organized by Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić. March, Vienna, AT.

WORKS IN COLLECTION

2023 Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, USA
2023 Private Collections (Curators: Lilia Kudelia, Maryam Ghoreishi, Nathalie Anglès), NYC, USA
2021 Private Collections (Curators: Petra Houskova, Husam Abusalem), SK / PS
2020 MUSA Wien, Vienna, AT
2019 Trans-Leithanien Foundation, LI
2019 DIVA Station – Digital Video Archive, SCCA, Ljubljana, SI