From the series Cramps on the sheet, 1999
silver gelatin print
Edition of 50
8 x 12,5 cm
Aleksandra Vajd (1971) holds a BA and an MA in Photography from FAM and as well as a degree from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Ljubljana from 1997.
From 2004 to 2006 she received a Fulbright Scholarship to study photography at SUNY, New Paltz, NY. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions in Europe (Futura and Josef Sudek Atelier in Prague, Modern Gallery, City Museum and City Gallery in Ljubljana) and the United States (Bard College and Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, the Czech Center in NYC, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Bard College). She have received numerous grants and awards, among them the 2005 First Prize of the Frame005 Award, Brno, Czech Republic, a 2006 nomination for the Deutsche Borse Photographic Award (for the exhibition MANWOMAN UNFINISHED 2001-2006 in Galerija Fotografija), London, Great Britain, and together with her husband Hynek Alt, with whom she is working and exhibiting frequently, were Finalists for the 2006 OHO Group Award, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Year 2007 they received honorable mention at the Aperture, New York, USA. They are one of the founders of the association Format1 and a co-editors of the magazine Fotograf, in Prague.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2007
manwomanunifinished, DVD projekce, Krakow Photo Festival, PL (catalogue) (together with Hynek Alt)
manwomanunfinished, DVD projekce, Likovni salon Celje, SL (together with Hynek Alt)
manwomanunfinished, F/Stop Photo Festival, Leipzig, DE (catalogue) (together with Hynek Alt)
2006
untitled 2003, Atelier Josefa Sudka, Praha, CZ
Book: manwomanunfinished, Kibla, Maribor, SI (together with Hynek Alt)
Book: manwomanunfinished, Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, SI (together with Hynek Alt)
Exposed Appearance, Public presentation at CEC ArtsLink, New York City, USA (together with Hynek Alt)
The Documentation Project, At 932 2nd Avenue, New York City, USA (together with Hynek Alt)
2005
Exposed, Vitrínka P. A. S., Praha, CZ (together with Hynek Alt)
You Look Like I Look, Czech Center, New York, USA (together with Hynek Alt)
2004
untitled 2003, Modern Gallery in Ljubljana, SI (autorská kniha a katalog)
Various pictures, Gallery Loža, Koper, SI (autorská kniha a katalog)
2001
Crumbs upon the Sheet, Second Kiss, Umetnostna galerija Maribor, Razstavni salon Rotovz, Maribor, SI
Second Kiss, PHOTO gallery, Sarajevo, BA
ZONA, Měsíc fotografie, Bratislava, SK
2000
Second Kiss, Minus seven and minus three and a half, SloFine Arts, Manifesta 3, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, SI
Family Album, Obala Art Centar, Sarajevo, BA
Crumbs upon the Sheet, Galerija Avla NLB, Ljubljana, SI
Selected group exhibitions:
2008
Dočasný důkaz, photo5, Olomouc, CZ
Centrum současného umění Ládví, NOD, Praha, CZ
2007
Second Cities, Košice, SK
Neexistuju, když mě nevidíš, Galerie Futura, Praha, CZ
Photographic Biennial Dunaujvaros, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros, Hungary
manwomanunfinished/book, Leipzig, DE
F-Stop Photo Festival, Lipsko, DE
I Don't Wanna Talk, České centrum, Moskva, RU
Intercity: Berlín - Praha, KMZA, Berlín, DE
Gallery for Wintertime, ZAK Gallery, Berlín, DE
Současná slovinská fotografie, Měsíc fotografie, Bratislava, SK
2006
Not quite/not right, Histories, Bodies and Concepts in Contemporary Photography, Galerie Božidar Jakac, SI
Finalists of the OHO Group Award, Gallery and Center P74, Ljubljana, SI
Check-In-Europe, Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art, European Patent Office, Munchen, DE
MFA Thesis Show, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Arts, New York, USA
I Image, Galeria Nowa Przestrzen, Lodž Photographic Festival, PL
1:1 The Interpersonal in the Contemporary Art, Gallery PM, HDLU, Zagreb, HR
I Image, Středoevropský dům fotografie, Bratislava, SK
2005
EuroPART, Aktuelle Kunst aus Europa, Billboard Project, AT
Intercity: Berlín - Praha, Mánes, Praha, CZ
2LIVE, Gallery of Fine Arts Koroska, Slovenj Gradec, SI
I Image, Dorothya Gallery, Budapešť, HU
EgoArt Prize: Finalisté 2005, NoD Roxy, Praha, CZ
This is not an Archive, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, USA
2004
Unfinished, quartier 21/Piroschka, MuseumsQuartier Wien, AT
2003
Osebno-Izrazno-Dokumentarno, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, SI
Adria Art Annale, Split, HR
2002
Places of life - European Award for Women Photographers 2002, Scuderie medicee, Prato, IT
2001
Eye and its Truth, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, SI
Corpus del AKTi III, Jakopiceva galerija, Ljubljana, SI
Compilation, Umetnostna galerija Maribor, Razstavni salon Rotovz, Maribor, SI
Woman's room / woman's view, Festival of Woman Photography, Paromlin, Zagreb, HR
Personal-political, International photo exhibition, Mala galerija, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, SI
From Birth to Birth - Family motive in Slovene Art of the XX. century, Umetnostna galerija, Maribor, SI
1999
Homo.sapiens.3000, Multimedijski center Kibla, Maribor, SI
