About Divna Jelenkovic

DIVNA JELENKOVIĆ, M.A., was born in Belgrade in 1952. Divna graduated in 1977 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrad. In 1978  she become a member of ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia). 1982  Divna got her  M.A. in Painting, in the class of the Professor Stojan Ćelić, from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1982    Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, 1984    KNU Gallery, Belgrade, 1988    Art Gallery Stara kapetanija, Zemun, 1989    Fine Arts Saloon of the Čačak Cultural Center; 1990    Intermedium 90, Bojan Stupica Theatre Club, Belgrade; 1994    Gallery of the TANJUG International Press Center, Belgrade; 1995    Gallery of Modern Arts, Niš; 1995    Pirot Gallery, Pirot; 1997    Echo of the Archeform, Saloon of the Museum of Modern Arts, Belgrade; 1999    World Fine Art Gallery, Broadway, New York, USA; 2003    Palanka National Museum – Gallery of Modern Art, Smederevska Palanka; 2006    Organism of the Space – Creation, Destruction, Renovation – ULUS Gallery, Belgrade - 12 Individual Exibitions in Serbia and USA

Divna participated in over 70 collective Exibitions and about 80 study visits and colonies in the country of Serbia and abroad (France, Germany, Bosnia, Greece).

Divna Jelenković about her cycle of paintings "Organism of the Space":  

 "The Idea of the ORGANISM OF THE SPACE comprises the processes of CREATION, DESTRUKTION AND RENOVATION OF THE CITY as a principle of the architecture of the mind. 

With a gesture of initials, cryptograms, I am recording the continual message of thought's resonance.

The gesture of the hand, as an oscillator, assembles the structures made of clusters of light beams in spherical form. They open the gates to unknown spaces, forever resonation in all directions of spiral systems.

The light forms are invariably shifting, moving, attracted by the forces of an invisible center. 

The uniqueness, the individuality of the visual thinking is contained in a PERSONAL WORK, which deciphers the general principles of movement of the CONTINUUM. 

The expressive hand fuses a biorhythm with the energy of the totality, forming and organizing the space as the organic essence of a living organism - THE UNIVERSAL BEING."  

Divna Jelenković, Painter

 "What is this?" - Plato asked his students while drawing something in the sand with a stick.  "It's a circle."  "No, no... This is an imperfect shape that only resembles a circle... The circle is an idea."  "And are these the paintings of Divna Jelenkovic?"   "Of course not... Her true paintings are invisible." 

Velimir Abramović, Philosopher