About artist
Olivera Gavrić Pavić, born in Belgrade in 1964. Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, section of painting, in 1990. Got her master‘s degree (section of painting) at the same Academy in 1992. She is member of two professional art organizations in Serbia (ULUS and ULUPUDS) Graduated at the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1988. She writes art critics and various texts from the field of visual arts.
So far she had 17 one-man exhibitions (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Leskovac, Kragujevac, Munich, Calcutta, Zemun, Zajecar, Prijepolje) and more than 130 group exhibitions in country and abroad. Between 1998 and 2005 realized 10 mosaic-icons in sacral objects.
She works on mosaics continualy since 1988. Her mosaical opus encircles three wholes: mosaics untill year 2000 in which she explores relief form, sacral mosaics and mosaics after 2000 in which are gathered all experiences from the past. After organizing author's exhibition "Ktizma Teu" in 2001 that gathered 12 painters mosaicists, she founded the group "Ametist" together with three colleagues who are also dedicated to mosaic (Snežana Marinković, Petar Vujošević and Borislav Nježić). With that group of artists she had more than 25 exhibitions, realized several projects and professional speeches.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Paintings, mosaics and drawings 1995-2009, „Ladders to Heaven and sweetlemons“, Museum in Prijepolje
2007 – Mosaics, retrospective exhibition, Gallery 73, Belgrade, The National Museum in Zaječar, The National Museum in Kragujevac, Serbia
2000 – Mosaics, Gallery Old Captaincy , Zemun, Serbia
1999 – Drawings and photographs of mosaics, Gallery of the Art Camp Arts Acre, Calcutta, India
1998 – Drawings and photographs of mosaics, Church – municipality and parochial center of the Serbian Orthodox Church – Munich, Germany
1997 – Mosaics, Art Gallery of the National Museum, Kragujevac, Serbia
1996 – Mosaics, Gallery Bell, Belgrade, Serbia
Paintings and drawings on paper, Scenes of Unknown, Gallery Andrićev venac, Belgrade, Serbia
Important artists residences and workshops
2006 - International fine art caravan 2005-2010, Struga, Macedonia
2004 - ART FORUM - Velika Hoča, The art colony of Balcan region, Kosovo and Metohia,
Serbia and Montenegro
2004 - Demonstration of mosaic techniques in the gallery Stara Kapetanija, Zemun,
Serbia (with Amethyst art group)
1999 - Art–workshop of German atist Tina Schwichtenberg in the art-camp ARTS ACRE,
Calcutta, India
1999 - BELGRADE WAR STUDIO, art-workshop on main street
in Belgrade during Nato - bombing, Yugoslavia