Artist statement

My approach to new phases of artistic searching is with the eternal feeling of devotion.The painting on the textile, especially on the silk is "the life" for me.  I'm attracted by the themes and elements of the Andean civilization, civilization before Inca's appearence , a proper coded speech like alegories, methaphors and symbols which are communicating with our contemporary world . Revealing- concealing of an ancient culture and putting it into urban context with the aim of linking the past and present and of course with the future.The union of the ritual and erotic powers supported by the luxurious imagination breathes on the passoionately painted silk , material that I'm using for expressing my personal attitude. On such delicate material we have a union between precise drawing, clearly colours and a tale. Narrative model is woven into the subtle soul of silk and I hope it does not diminish the feelings you are experiencing while watching my art work, mostly motives about man and woman. There is an obvious enjoying in the act of painting in the colour, form and erotic symbols. I am talking and painting about love and altruism. Even though things have changed nowadays, my message is that love can heal everything 

Jelena Popovic  painter and fashion designer

Belgrade , Serbia & Montenegro

Solo shows

1997  paintings  , Centro de Desarrollo delas Artes Visuales , Havana , Cuba

         paintings  , Museo de la Nacion , Lima , Peru

         paintings  , Gallery »Marko« , Belgrade

1995  paintings  , Gallery »Singidunum« ( little gallery) , Belgrade

1994  City Parliament ,(International Ladies Grandmaster Chess Tournament) fashion show , Belgrade

1990-1977  fashion shows and exhibitions in  hotels:« Kristal« , » Dijamant« , »Delfin«, »Parentium« , »Pical«, »Galeb« , »Mediteran«, »Rubin« ,  Pore , Croatia

1988  »Forster« , Vienna

1986  »Murou« hotel , Vienna

»Plitvice« hotel ,(International Chess tournament) Plitvice,  Croatia

»Roeckl« , Munster ,Germany

1985  »Jugoexport« furniture salon , Belgrade

         Little Gallery » Singidunum » , Belgrade

         Cultural Center Gallery, Apatin , Yugoslavia (painted textile ,silk)

1984  The Spinning Whell , ( sold colection of hand painted scarves), Washington

1983  Gallery Luis Schutz , Frankfurt

1982  Applied Arts Salon ,Cultural Center Gallery (fashion show ) ,Belgrade

1981  Club »Grau« , Piura , Peru

1980  »Intercontinental« hotel ( on the occasion of Unesco conference), Belgrade

         Sports Cultural Centar of Yugoslavia , Brussels ,Amsterdam (fashion show)

1979  »Libertas« hotel , Dubrovnik , Croatia

         »Orlando« hotel , Dubrovnik , Croatia (fashion show)

Yugoslav Cultural Center , Stuttgart

»Lercher« hotel (fashion show ) , Klagenfurt , Austria

1976  »Maestral«  hotel , Sveti Stefan  , »Plava koljka« hotel, Sveti Stefan  , »Plaa« hotel , Budva , Montenegro ( Yu) fashion show  hand painted silk

1975  »Elafuza« hotel , Bol  Bra , Croatia

1974  Supetar - Bra , Croatia

1973  »Mercator« , Belgrade

1971  »Verudela« hotel , Pula , Croatia

1968  »porer« Gallery , Opatija , Croatia

She had her own fashion shows in many towns along the Adriatic coast in the period 1968-1979

Group shows

2001  »33. May Exhibition« , »25th of may«Museum , Belgrade

1998  TISO  - Museum of Applied Arts , Belgrade

1997 -  Yugoslav artists for children of Cuba , SULUJ Gallery , Belgrade

1991  » Singidunum«  Gallery, Belgrade

1990  »Likovni mart« , Gallery »Singidunum , Belgrade

1988  Galeria Altos de Sarmiento , Buenos Aires , Argentina

        - »Likovni mart« ,«Singidunum« Gallery , Belgrade

1987  Contemporary Fine Art Gallery , Ni

1986  »Likovni mart« ,«Singidunum Gallery , Belgrade

        - »Sesame« Gallery , Dubrovnik , Croatia

1985  »Likovni mart«, Gallery »Singidunum« , Belgrade

        - » Newyears Fashion meetings« ,«Singidunum« Gallery, Belgrade

1984  »Likovni mart« , Gallery » Singidunum« , Belgrade

1983  »Antique & Fine Furniture , Props & Artifacts , Toronto , Canada

-National museum , Zajear

-»Studio B«  Gallery , Skoplje , Macedonia

-Inex-Sirogojno«Zlatibor« , T.Uice

1982  »Otvoreni Oktobarski Salon« ,Gallery »Pinki« , Belgrade

        - »Likovni mart« , »Singidunum Gallery

1981  Tourism Fair , Belgrade

»Pinki« ,Belgrade

»Singidunum« Gallery (8th of march)

1980  »Pinki«, Belgrade

1979  »Otvoreni Oktobarski Salon«, »Pinki« Gallery , Belgrade

1976  »Vidikovac« ,Beogradjanka building(on the occasion of the 8th of march)

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