Ana Viktoria Dzinic is a London-based artist who investigates methods of image construction and their relationship with processes of subjectivity production. Combining photographic paintings, multi-media installations and performances, Dzinic’s work explores the way in which the modes of production and circulation of images affect the apprehension and comprehension of self. Through various strategies of display that include script-based installations mimicking the spectacle of image making, text-based protocols, or series of paintings on fabric using techniques such as industrial printing, dyeing, layering and trompe l’œil, the artist questions the validity of inherited dialectics between process hiding and process revealing, original and copy, indexical and represented, branded and authentic. Dzinic’s practice unfolds through distinct series of works, establishing each time a new aesthetic trait that reveals a different type of image economy.
Ana Viktoria Dzinic (b. 1994, Schwelm, DE) lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (2022).
Solo exhibitions include Guardian Angels, Echo Correspondence, Vienna, AU (2024); Repetitive, NıCOLETTı, London, UK (2024); Flat lined but emotional, Van der Hoeden Contemporary, Hamburg, DE (2024); We should get her flowers, 032C Workshop, Berlin, DE (2023); Dio in the Face of God, Goldsmiths Degree Show, London, UK (2021).
Selected group exhibitions include Nowhere Three, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE (2024); World as diagram, work as dance, Emalin, London, UK (2023); Productive Narcissism, 032C Gallery, Berlin, DE (2024) ; Allow Cookies, Kupfer Project, London, UK (2023); No Angels, Willemhallen, Berlin Art Week, DE (2023); Trivial Pursuit, Entrance Gallery, New York, US (2022); London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2021). Selected performances include Nuts Cabaret, Earth, New York, US (2024); Propaganda and Decoration, NıCOLETTı, London, UK (2024); Presentation Club: Gallery Edition, Emalin, London, UK (2023); Presentation Club: Briefing Papers, Galerina & dieinternet.org , London, UK (2022); Pussy Riot, Boiler Room, London, UK (2020); Just Queer, SHOWstudio, London, UK (2018).
In 2024, Dzinic released her first book, Propaganda and Decoration, which can be purchased here. The publication contains the documentation of Dzinic’s first solo exhibition at NıCOLETTı, and a selection of notes submitted by a wide net of people including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jack Self, Natasha Stagg, Andrew Durbin, Patrick McGraw, Dean Sameshima, Gea Politi Seganfreddo, Shumon Basar, Jeppe Ugelvig (among many others). Essays by Tosia Leniarska, Claire Koron Elat, Laurie Barron, and a foreword by the artist’s close friend Zac Klein.