About
Jelena Bando



Jelena Bando is an academic painter who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2012. She has attended study visits and residencies in Germany (Wurzburg, Berlin, Leipzig, France (Paris) and Croatia (Kuberton).

She has exhibited in eighteen solo exhibitions in Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Sweden and France, and about thirty-five group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has won two awards for drawing and graphic arts (SKC Gallery, Belgrade; 15th Biennial of Drawing, Belgrade).

In 2013 she started the project 36 Mountains that has grown into a renowned festival of illustration.

She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.



Education


2009. — 2012.
Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia — MA

2011.
Communication Design in Wurzburg, Germany

2006. — 2009.
Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia — BA



Solo exhibitions

(SELECTION)

2020.
Nice to meet you / Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia

2019.
BY THE BAY, Oris-House of Arhitecture, Zagreb, Croatia
BY THE BAY, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2018
A PROPER SPACE, 
Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik

2017
A PROPER SPACE, Fritzi pallace, Lošinj Museum, Mali Lošinj

2016
A PROPER SPACE, Prsten Gallery, Zagreb
STUFFED COLLECTIVE, Juste Galley, Stockholm / Sweeden
MATCHES IN THE DISAPPEARANCE, VN Gallery, Zagreb

2015
THREE DAYS ENOUGH, Gallery Bravo, Zagreb
THE OTHER, Gallery Galženica, Velika Gorica, Croatia

2014
Jelena Bando and Goran Jovanović in Greta, Zagreb, Croatia

2013
JE SUIS PERDU, Gallery Nouvel Organon, Paris
DESSINS, PEINTURES, Musee Municipal Urbain Cabrol, Villefranche de Rouergue
IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT LOVER, Gallery Inkubator, Zagreb, Croatia

2012
NONATUREATALL, Gallery Ungeheuer, Berlin, Germany

2011
“Bando / Bovcon / Vuković”, MMC / Gallery Marisall, Rovinj, Croatia

2010
PALE FACE, Gallery Dom kulture, Bol, Croatia

2009
HYPOCRITICAL, Gallery Prostor, Zagreb, Croatia

Selected group exhibitions

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2020.
Flip over, see the rust / World Art Tokyo, Japan

2019.
Skalinada sketchbook exhibition, Rijeka, Croatia
AIR4, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
36 Mountains at Dobra Vaga, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ment group exhibition, Dobra Vaga, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2018.
AIR4, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Artist in residence, Galerie Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Krinzinger Projekte — Artist in residence, Vienna

2017
T-HT AWARD, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

2016
CREART EXHIBITIONS / Norway / Lithuania / Portugal

2015
A MORAL THREAD, Zagreb — Bogota
INTERNACIONALNI LASERSKI SAMIT, Lauba, Zagreb

2014
36 MOUNTAINS
NS: LE MONTE EN L'AIR, Paris, France

2013
Concours-exposition de graffiti et de street art, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France

2012
36 MOUNTAINS, Le Mat Gallery, Montpellier, France

2011
MUSEUM OF STREET ART, Dugave, Zagreb, Croatia C.R.T.A., Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

2010
GALLERY MARISALL, Zagreb, Croatia

2009
ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS N 10, Kunstraum Krauzberg, Berlin, Germany
III. EX-YU, Gallery SKC, Belgrade, Serbia

2008
DUBROVNIK SUMMER GAMES, Revelin, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Awards


2009.
— 2nd  award for graphics etching, Gallery SKC, Belgrade, Serbia

— 1st  award for drawing, 15th Biennial for drawing, Belgrade, Serbia



Residencies



2019.
HAFEN KOMBINAT, Leipzig, Germany

2017.
KRINZINGER PROJEKTE, Kuberton-Istria, Croatia



Contact



address: Graščica 7c, 10000 Zagreb
email:
jelena.bando@gmail.com
phone number: +385917948286

Jelena Bando — 2018