Biography
Lazar Stojić was born in 1998 in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated in 2021 in the class of Professors Mrdjan Bajić and Rados Antonijević at the sculpture department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He is currently doing master studies in the class of Professor Martin Boyce at the sculpture department on Faculty of Fine Arts HFBK in Hamburg, Germany.
He participated in numerous group exhibitions and art projects in the country and abroad, among which stand out: the group exhibition “Real Presence” in the Magacin Kraljevića Marka space, “What will happen next” group exhibition as part of the Hfestival, “Inter/Action”, group exhibition in the Gallery Belgrade Youth Center and the first edition of the Youth Biennial. Lazar was part of the “Imagining Health” project, in cooperation with the Center for Health, Ethics and Society Research of the University of Hamburg, and of the project “Photography in Context”, which resulted in group exhibitions at the ICAT HFBK Gallery in Hamburg.
Lazar is the winner of the Award for the Artistic innovation from the Miloš Bajic Fund. Together with Bogdan Djukanović, he is the author of the sculpture that is permanently located in the hall of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
Lazar lives and works in Hamburg and Belgrade.
Artist statement
Lazar in his artistic practice works in the field of sculpture, art installation, printmaking and digital photography. The main subjects of his artistic research are relationships between artistic value and money, visual arts and design, between the natural and artificial.
Selected group exhibitions
“Stone in Architecture and Art”, group exhibition, RTS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2019
“What will happen after”, group exhibition, a part of the HFestival, Gallery space of Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), Belgrade, Serbia, 2019
” Inter/action”, project and exhibition, collaboration between students from Faculty of Fine arts in Belgrade and students from art history department of Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Gallery of Youth center in Belgrade, Serbia, 2020
“Projekat Zenit 21_21”, artistic research project that resulted with group exhibition, Gallery of Faculty of Fine arts in Belgrade, Serbia, 2021
Exhibition of prize-winning student artworks, Gallery of Faculty of Fine arts in Belgrade, 2021
“Youth Biennial”, biennial group exhibition in various institutional and public spaces on Kalemegdan fortress, Belgrade, Serbia, 2021
“Things to come”, group exhibition curated, Cultural center Dorcol gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2021
“A(rt)lantis”, group exhibition, Novembar gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2022
“Imagining Health”, group exhibition in the collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Health, Ethics and Society from the Hamburg University, ICAT HFBK Hamburg, Germany, 2022
“Photography in context”, group exhibition in the collaboration with the students from the art history department of Hamburg University, ICAT HFBK Hamburg, Germany, 2022
“Leaving the Holocene”, group exhibition, MOM Art Space, Hamburg, Germany, 2023
Projects in public space
“Space in space” sculpture project by Bogdan Djukanović and Lazar Stojić for the 15th anniversary of FIST (Festival of international student theatre). Project was realized in collaboration with Department of Management and Production of Theatre, Radio and Culture of Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, during the year 2020.
Sculpture is permanently located in the main hallway of Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
Prizes and support
Prize for distinctive creative innovation from the fund “Miloš Bajić, painter and professor”, 2021
Development and promotion of the artist practice is supported by Humanitarian foundation Dots from December 2021
