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
(SELECTION)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