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Sanjeshka (Sanja Pupovac) is a Serbian artist born in Zadar, in 1983. Daughter of a Jugoslav diplomat, she moved frequently throughout her childhood. During the Jugoslavian crisis, she was living in Kuwait with her family, when they were denied citizenship from both Serbia and Croatia. As a result, the family lived inside the Jugoslavian Embassy in Kuwait and was unable to leave the country. During this prolonged condition, Sanjeshka attended an Indian school. Her culture and work, especially her verbal influences stem in both Arabic and Indian poetry and culture, in addition to the more obvious Italian influences. Sanjeska studied at the Politecnico in Milano where she currently teaches Art and Design.

The artist begins her career in design and progressively moves towards her artistic practice that comprehends photography, video, performance, poetry, sculpture, and audio. Sanjeshka is known to generate collaborations with dissimilar artists such as musicians and painters and create new shared terrain.

A few accomplishments and institutions include the performative works “Goddamned Cat Lady”, “It cannot be. Can it?”, “Heart Break Epitaph + Dead Kids Epitaph” on the occasion of the show “My clowder is ready we gather at dawn” at Casa degli Artisti (Milano, November 2022); Solo show “More Wings than Needed” (Bolzano, Spazio Cut, Settembre - Ottobre 2022) performative lecture for the presentation of Spazio Libero residency (September 2022) at Casa degli Artisti in Milano (June - December 2022); “Six past Nine” residency and virtual exhibition on New Art City platform (London, May - July 2022); Edicola Radetzky for her “Unsuccessful” solo show (2020), a performance piece carried out at Assab One for “Reading Books to Unsuccessful workers” (2020), Fotonica studio and Day Off magazine for the presentation and publication of “Internet Rules” (2019), Triennale Design Museum for the show Italian Design Beyond the Crisis where her magazine Golden Compass nominated PataMagazine was exhibited, her photograph “Birches” exhibited at the Venice Art Biennale (2013).

Sanjeshka reflects on the dangerous and disastrous detachment of man from spirituality and the realm of the unsaid. In her work, she explores the urgent need to formulate a language as an escape (trojan horse) from hyper productivity and hyper positivism. Her work often praises inaction and reflects on the society of information.