Saša Tkačenko currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. His artistic practice engages spaces and their transformation when exposed to other media, as their architectural features interact with sculpture, video and installation. Tkačenko’s works thus create dynamic situations in which the audience plays a constituent part, often reflecting on motives and stories from popular culture and contemporary human life. He has been exhibiting since 2008, including shows at institutions such as Centre Pompidou Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Basel Social Club, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania, Times Museum Guangdong, ACP – Australian Centre for Photography Sydney, Belgrade City Museum, Künstlerhaus Bremen, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art New York, Castello di Rivoli – Museo di Arte di Contemporanea Torino. Tkačenko participated in artist-in-residence programs at ISCP in New York and T.I.C.A-AirLAb Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art. His works were shown at art fairs such as Liste Art Fair Basel, Rewriting our imaginations organised by LISTE, Art Geneve, Flash Show Budapest, Not Cancelled (online). His works are in collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and Telenor collection of contemporary art.
Saša Tkačenko currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. His artistic practice engages spaces and their transformation when exposed to other media, as their architectural features interact with sculpture, video and installation. Tkačenko’s works thus create dynamic situations in which the audience plays a constituent part, often reflecting on motives and stories from popular culture and contemporary human life. He has been exhibiting since 2008, including shows at institutions such as Centre Pompidou Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Basel Social Club, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania, Times Museum Guangdong, ACP – Australian Centre for Photography Sydney, Belgrade City Museum, Künstlerhaus Bremen, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art New York, Castello di Rivoli – Museo di Arte di Contemporanea Torino. Tkačenko participated in artist-in-residence programs at ISCP in New York and T.I.C.A-AirLAb Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art. His works were shown at art fairs such as Liste Art Fair Basel, Rewriting our imaginations organised by LISTE, Art Geneve, Flash Show Budapest, Not Cancelled (online). His works are in collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and Telenor collection of contemporary art.
Solo exhibitions
2024 | I Could Live in Hope, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia |
2022 | This Mess We’re In, Galeria e Bregdetit, Vlöre, Albania |
2021 | Tell my mother I’m going home, I have been destroyed by hippie powers, Center for Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica |
2020 | Pop up: ghost booth / with Emir Šehanović / public spaces Belgrade, Serbia and Zagreb, Croatia |
2019 | Your Truth, Interpretation and Nostalgia / with Vladimir Miladinović / Parts Project, Hague, Netherlands |
2018 | Because Vanity Is Stronger Than Fear, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia |
2017 | Oh yeah… Oh yeah…, Contemporary Gallery, Subotica, Serbia |
2016 | Of course I still love you / with Nina Ivanović / Navigator Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia |
2015 | Tracks and Traces / with Andreas Fogarasi / Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia |
2012 | Great Expectations / An exhibition with Marko Markovic / DOB Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia |
2011 | Object H, Gallery Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany |
2008 | Hygiene, Magician Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia |
Group exhibitions
2023 | Stranger Danger, Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD, Zomertank 2023, Leuven, Beligium My Rhino is not a Myth – Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania |
2022 | Artissima Art Fair, Turin |
2021 | Liste Art Fair, Basel |
2020 | FLASH SHOW, Budapest, Hungary Liste: Rewriting our imaginations, public space in Basel Reflections of our time: Acquisitions of the Museum of Contemporary Art 1993-2019 |
2019 | What Could / Should Curating Do? / delegated performance / Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia |
2018 | Behind The Image, Kunstsammlungen Museen, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany |
2017 | Ponovo upotrebiti: past as costume and inspiration, Zachęta Project Room, Warsaw, Poland |
2016 | MUVI 06 / Museums – Video – Films, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia |
2015 | Ex & Post – Eastern Europe under the lens, ACP – Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia |
2014 | Storytelling, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania |
2013 | 7 Ways to Overcome the Closed Circuit, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany |
2012 | What happened with the Museum of Contemporary Art?, MoCAB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade |
2011 | Spring Serbian Salad „Fresh, Colorful and Delicious“, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria |
2009 | The Outerworld of the Innerworld of the Innerworld of the Outerworld, HFBK, Hamburg, Germany |
2008 | Sistema Binario, Belgrade Summer Festival 08, Belgrade, Serbia |
2007 | Progressive Hopes, Magacin Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia |