Darja bajagic biography

‍Living Content: You had your first institutional solo show last year at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, in Graz, Austria. Can you tell me how much mediation was necessary to present your work in an institutional setting?

Are you often asked to give artist talks in order to explain your work in front of a public?

Darja Bajagić: Halle für Kunst & Medien is a small institution, and I didn’t have any boundaries for what I could and couldn’t do.

I wasn’t asked to censor any of the things that I wanted to show. Plus, I was in regular communication with the curator--it was easy going.

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They did ask me to participate in a panel and to suggest other panelists for it, but I declined.

LC: Who would you have chosen if you had to?

DB: Probably Vanessa Carlos, my gallerist at Carlos/Ishikawa.

She’s in tune with what I’m doing and she has a sense of humor, which I think is essential. Anybody that I would’ve picked would’ve had to have a sense of humor--not just in reg