© Vahida Ramujkić
Vahida Ramujkić (born in Belgrade, 1973) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1997, received her MFA in 2001, and completed her PhD in 2018. Reflecting on the specific role and function of artistic practice in society, her professional and activist work is dedicated to creating conditions and frameworks for collaborative practices oriented toward building commons and forms of collective solidarity. She develops long-term projects, often working through collectives or initiating workshop-based and collective processes.
In 2001, together with Laia Sadurní, she co-founded the Barcelona-based collective ROTORRR, which over the following seven years functioned as a platform for orientation and action within the territories of "neoliberal transition." Her personal experience with the paradoxes of EU migration law is articulated in the book Assimil: Schengen Without Pain (2006).
She explores the potential for constructing shared narratives through long-term research projects such as Disputed Histories (since 2007), Documentary Embroidery (with Aviv Kruglanski, since 2008), and Storm and the Return Home (2006–2010). Vernacular practices of food fermentation served as the basis for developing the project Microcultures (with A. Kruglanski and M. Robes, 2011/12).
From 2017 to 2023 she co-founded and worked within the collective Minipogon, developing an attempt to establish autonomous and fair modes of production together with colleagues and residents of a refugee camp. Since 2020 she has been part of the governing structure of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS), where she coordinates the ULUS Debate and Research Program.
She is the recipient of the First Prize of the 25th October Salon in Belgrade for the work False Truths (2011). As part of her professional and activist engagement, she has worked within various organizations and collectives including ReEks (2016–2019), SAFS (2015–2016), No Name Kitchen (2017–2021), and Irational.org (since 2011).
Vahida Ramujkić's interview with Christine Düwel about her participatory and artistic projects.