Tanja ostojic biography definition

Lexicon of Tanja Ostojić (2011–17) is a long-term interdisciplinary participatory research project in which online social media networks as well as collaborations with women sharing the same first name and family name have been utilised.

The name-sisters are of diverse nationalities, diverse ages, different levels of education, professions, social backgrounds and life experiences, but all of them are able to communicate in the Serbo-Croatian language and they or their parents originate from the SFRY.

Through personalised sociological research, interviews and direct social and creative exchange, the Berlin-based artist Tanja Ostojić creates maps that document the ways in which over 30 project participants―33 name-sisters—have migrated (during and after the war, or for economic reasons), and which identity and gender issues concern them.

One of the projects portrays the labour conditions of the name sisters including unemployment, underpay and exploitation. The exhibition has a n