FETTE GURKE | FAT CUCUMBER
| Height | 180 cm |
|---|---|
| Width | 135 cm |
| Length/Depth | 5 cm |
FAT CUCUMBER
TECHNIQUE
Painting
MATERIAL
Acrylic on canvas
DIMENSIONS
180 x 135 cm
YEAR OF CREATION
2024
UNIQUE PIECE
In der „FETTEN GURKE“ entsteht ein kleines Universum aus Witz, Absurdität und kritischem Blick auf Konsum, Kommunikation und Wahrnehmung. Ein Bild, das lacht und gleichzeitig fragt.
„Fette Gurke“ ist abgeschlossen und zugleich ein Auftakt.
Zwei weitere Arbeiten werden in der Zukunft folgen, keine Serie im klassischen Sinn, sondern Variationen eines Zustands. Ein Universum, das sich aus Alltagsfragmenten zusammensetzt und dabei eine eigene „Logik“ entwickelt.
Die Arbeit umfasst ein eigens verfasstes Gedicht. Es wurde mit der Schreibmaschine verfasst, das Original wird der Arbeit beigelegt.
Das begleitende Gedicht ist integraler Bestandteil der Arbeit, nicht erläuternd, sondern gleichwertig.
Die Arbeit wurde unter anderem beim Rundgang 2025 der Universität Osnabrück präsentiert und mit dem Ingeborg-Siebert-Kunst- und Kulturförderpreis Osnabrück ausgezeichnet.
Das Gedicht wurde im Rahmen anderer Ausstellungen bei der Vernissage persönlich vorgetragen.
Das Bild lacht nicht über die Welt.
Es spiegelt sie, leicht verzerrt, sehr bewusst.
In “FETTE GURKE,” a small universe unfolds, shaped by wit, absurdity, and a critical gaze on consumption, communication, and perception. A painting that laughs and, at the same time, questions.
“Fette Gurke” is complete, yet it also marks a beginning.
Two further works will follow, not a series in the classical sense, but variations of a state. A universe composed of fragments of the everyday, developing its own internal “logic.”
The work includes a poem written specifically for it.
The poem was composed on a typewriter; the original is included with the artwork.
It is an integral part of the piece, not explanatory, but equal in presence.
The work was, among other venues, presented at Rundgang 2025 at the University of Osnabrück and was awarded the Ingeborg Siebert Art and Cultural Promotion Prize (Osnabrück).
The poem was personally performed during the opening receptions of other exhibitions.
The painting does not laugh at the world.
It reflects it, slightly distorted, fully aware.
Versand: Die Arbeit – Leinwandstoff auf Keilrahmen – wird fachgerecht verpackt und versendet, inklusive signiertem Echtheitszertifikat.
Shipping: The artwork – canvas fabric stretched on stretcher bars – will be carefully packaged and shipped, accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity.
Žana Vojvodić
Artist: Painting (large-scale, colour-intensive canvases) and performance art (a physical exploration of pain, memory and society).
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Born in 1992 in Cloppenburg, Germany
Lives and works in Osnabrück, Germany
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Secondary occupation:
M.A. student in Art and Communication, University of Osnabrück
Life drawing model at art academies
Theatre educator, Theatrepädagogische Werkstatt Osnabrück, Germany
Café waiter
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For as long as I can remember, art has been a part of me, like a second heartbeat.
From a young age, I sensed that this was where I truly belonged, long before I understood what that meant. The path towards it was not always easy, yet one thing became clear to me early on: not working, not painting, feels like a quiet disappearance. Art is not a choice in my life, but a necessity.
My work emerges from both memory and the present at the same time.
Family images, fragments of everyday life, traces of consumption, fleeting gestures – I gather what remains. On the canvas, these fragments coalesce into pictorial spaces in which time, loss and intimacy coexist.
Nostalgia is a central driving force in my practice.
Not as a sentimental look back, but as an ambivalent space: it carries pain because it makes what is lost tangible, and it slows time. Within it, the fast pace of the present softens. An inner space opens up in which time becomes almost imperceptible.
My painting moves between intimacy and public space, between personal history and collective experience. It holds on whilst letting go. It arises from the desire to preserve and from the awareness that everything is in flux.
In a world of constant acceleration, these works aim to create images that endure—
images that may be quiet or loud, yet carry their own sense of time.
Images that are not only seen, but remembered.
For as long as I can remember, art has accompanied me like a second pulse.
I knew from an early age that this was where I truly belonged, long before I understood what it meant. The path to getting there was not always easy, but one thing became clear to me early on: for me, not working, not painting, means a quiet disappearance. Art is not a choice in my life, but a necessity.
My works emerge from both memory and the present.
Family photographs, fragments of everyday life, traces of consumerism, fleeting gestures – I collect what remains. On the canvas, these fragments coalesce into pictorial spaces in which time, loss and intimacy coexist.
Nostalgia is a central driving force behind my work.
Not as a sentimental look back, but as an ambivalent space: it carries pain because it makes what is lost tangible, and it slows things down. Within it, the rapid pace of the present grows quieter. An inner space emerges in which time is barely perceptible.
My painting moves between intimacy and the public sphere, between personal history and collective experience. It holds on and lets go at the same time. It arises from the desire to preserve something, and from the knowledge that everything is in a state of flux.
In a world of constant acceleration, images are created here that endure.
Images that may be loud or quiet, but which carry a time of their own.
Images that are not merely seen, but remembered.
Artist CV (Selected CV)
- 2025 Invitation to the group exhibition “FATA MORGANA”, an open-air exhibition by the Vanished.pop.up Group, Herrmannplatz, Osnabrück, Germany
- 2025 Nomination for the Art Award of the Ingeborg Siebert Foundation for Art and Music
- 2025 Second Prize, Ingeborg Siebert Foundation for Art and Music, University of Osnabrück, Department of Art and Social Sciences, Seminarstraße 33, Osnabrück, Germany
- 2024 “The Woman in the Mirror of Society”, solo art performance, Augustenburgerstraße 2, Osnabrück
- 2024 “KNOW HER NAME”, group exhibition, Augustenburgerstraße 2, Osnabrück
- 2024 “VENUSSPIEGEL ♀”, group exhibition, BBK Gallery, Osnabrück
- 2024 “BLACKBIRDS SINGING IN THE DARK”, group exhibition, EMAF No. 37 European Media Art Festival, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Museum Quarter, Osnabrück
- 2024 “Chaos im Kopf”, solo art performance, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Museum Quarter, Osnabrück
- 2024 “POLYCHROM Jazz Festival”, three artists painting live on their own canvases, Hase29, Osnabrück
- 2024 “Long Night of the Studios”, as a guest artist in a group exhibition organised by the Alte Post Studio, Osnabrück
- 2024 ‘Making Art Visible’, art project: painting a Litfaß pillar, Kulturbüro, Osnabrück
- 2023/2024 “behind me”, solo window display, Skulpturengalerie, Dielingerstraße, Osnabrück
- 2022 “FORMINE”, group exhibition, Student Centre, Osnabrück
- 2022 “plava magla u stomaku i mozagu”, solo art performance, Studio Stage, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück
- 2016 “Piepenbrock Art Promotion Prize”, single room in a group exhibition, University of Art and Art Education, Osnabrück
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