biography

Danica Bićanić was born in Novi Sad, Serbia (1985). She acquired her master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad - Sculpture Department (2010) and Ph.D. in fine arts (2022) at the same Academy. She has won several student awards - Award for Most successful graduate work at the Sculpture Department (2008), "Art Clinics" Award "Perspective" for a perspective student in the category Sculpture (2008), "University of Novi Sad Award for excellent results achieved in the field of arts" (2009). She has been active in the field of art since 2006. She has had 16 solo and numerous group exhibitions and other performances in our country and abroad (Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain, USA, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, Poland). Since 2011, she has worked on numerous projects in the field of culture, and since 2017 to 2024 she has been a member of the Presidency and program coordinator of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina. She lives and works in Novi Sad as an art program editor in Student's Cultural Centre.

The artistic practice of Danica Bićanić, dedicated to researching the relationship between the subject and the world and the accompanying phenomena of that encounter, is characterized by a process - a space-time act that transforms into an artwork. In those processes, the artist is not distanced from the final outcome but participates in them through direct physical action or an alien presence... Accordingly, the document and the approach to the work of art as a document is her essential preoccupation, both when it comes to the conceptual aspect and when it is in question, the actual performance or presentation and interpretation of the work. In that case, the document is not just a textual, audio, photo, or video recording that bears witness to an ephemeral artistic act. Segments of the artistic work, such as objects, are transformed into documents - prints on flags, video works, photographs, etc., becoming authentic work. Over time, the document undergoes various interventions, is re-documented, destroyed, and then a new document is created from its remains, which changes its meaning in different uses and evolves in an unknown direction. In this way, through documentation, the work is complicated, it becomes a process in itself, and its genesis takes place. This procedure aims to achieve a specific layering and the so-called historicity of the work. It indicates the transforming dimension of the work, where it appears as an open, endless process, which has its duration in time (past, present and future) and cannot be seen as final and out of context. The information itself, which is presented through a specific document, is in a dependent relationship with the context, the moment in which it is presented, and the observer, which expands and multiplies its meaning. As a result, the meaning and the representation itself are relativized, aiming at pointing to the bigger picture. That broader picture would actually be the picture of fluid spaces, impermanence, restlessness, searching, and the view of eternal wonder about the world.