Uroš Pajović (b. 1993) is a researcher, curator, and creative director. He is a founding member of the artist collective Center for Peripheries and the research collective Kollektiv Quotidien. Since 2022, he has been the Art/Creative Director of the Berliner Zeitung (). He crosses streets on red, loves signage in public space, long walks throughout street-view archives, and Californian toponyms and odonyms.     u@uros.fyi    CV    Insta    CfP    
Exhibitions, Publications & Curatorial Projects (Selection)
2024/25
Center for Peripheries — Solo Exhibition Pillar of Societies
Neue Galerie, Innsbruck 🇦🇹




See more on the Center for Peripheries website.
2024
Group Exhibition Your Water Our Water
Delphi Space, Freiburg 🇩🇪 / aqb, Budapest 🇭🇺 / U10 Belgrade 🇷🇸
The installation-and-publication piece The World According to Danube (2024) brings together the many roles that the Danube plays in European and global political, pop and everyday culture in a trilingual newspaper.
The individual articles in German, Hungarian and Serbian deal with the Danube and its connection to the topics of nation-statehood, migration, science fiction and environmental issues. Pajović points out the complex interrelationships and conflicts between cultures and societies that are “touched” by the course of the river. The individual copies of the newspaper can be taken away and in this way spread the stories about the Danube beyond the exhibition space.—
As part of the trinational project YOUR WATER OUR WATER, a traveling exhibition is being created that links the three art spaces DELPHI_space in Freiburg, aqb in Budapest and U10 Artspace in Belgrade along the Danube. On display are works that deal with historical and ecological contexts in relation to the Danube and other bodies of water. The exhibited paintings, photographs, sculptures and video works question the interactions between industry and the river landscape, examine human-water relationships or deal with water as a metaphor for transformation and renewal.

Curated/Texts by Hanna Weber
2024
Center for Peripheries — Group Exhibition Food
Gruppe Motto Galerie, Hamburg 🇩🇪




See more on the Center for Peripheries website.
2024
Center for Peripheries — Group Exhibition Public Viewing
Loop Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin 🇩🇪




See more on the Center for Peripheries website.
2022, 2023
Curatorial — Group Exhibition The Other Side of Water
Cultural Center of Belgrade 🇷🇸 / Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin 🇩🇪
The Other Side of Water is a group-exhibition-triptych featuring the works of artists who have a practice based in extensive research and are interested in dealing with the notions surrounding the politics and poetics of water. The first iteration of this project took place at the Cultural Center of Belgrade (Serbia) in 2022 and the second iteration, at Berlin’s Bethanien, through new chapters carried the visitors from oceans and their stories of migration, trade, power; via the movement and flow of rivers, bridging and demarcating; to the ways humans have shaped, tamed, tried to manipulate, and imagined water bodies.—
Curated by Uroš Pajović and Roshanak Amini (Berlin); and Uroš Pajović, Roshanak Amini and Sofija Vučeta Posavec (Belgrade)
2022/23
Curatorial — Group Exhibition With a Little Bit of Luck... Win Big!
Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin 🇩🇪
A good immigrant always speaks in German, no matter how broken; a bad immigrant only uses another language. A good immigrant submits their documents in the order they were listed; a bad immigrant misses one paper. A good immigrant has a job; a bad immigrant steals jobs. A good immigrant is grateful; a bad immigrant criticizes.
Observing immigration, integration, and naturalization not as legal processes or bureaucratic phenomena, but as equivocal notions, the group exhibition Mit ein bisschen Glück… groß gewinnen! pokes at the tensions inherent to any multicultural society, including Germany.
Mila Panić’s humorous and (self-)satirical series takes the horror and absurdity of bureaucratic processes of immigration head on; the installations from Center for Peripheries explore the questionable aspects of praise and judgment tied into the learned ideas of integration; and Saša Tatić’s large-scale pieces tap into the painfully natural confusion of being away from where one comes from – versus the sense of belonging.
There is no universal experience of immigration, and yet: that one look, that one smirk, or that one back-handed comment could not escape you if you have ever been ‘the Other.’ No worries, however: with a little luck, you might win big, too.—
Curated by Uroš Pajović
2022
Group Exhibition The South in Us
in collaboration with Naeem Mohaiemen
City of Women Festival, Ljubljana 🇸🇮




See more on the City of Women Festival website.
2022
Center for Peripheries — Solo Exhibition The Neighbor’s Garden
Retramp Galerie, Berlin 🇩🇪





See more on the Center for Peripheries website.
2020
Co-Editor — Book Lefebvre for Activists
as part of Kollektiv Quotidien
ADOCS Publishing, Hamburg 🇩🇪




See more on the ADOCS website.
2019
Visual Essay — Whatever Mattered Wasn’t Water
InForma Magazine, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan 🇵🇷
To essay
2018
Essay — Southward and Otherwise
in collaboration with Naeem Mohaiemen
ArtMargins, MIT Press, Boston 🇺🇸




See more & read on the MIT Press website.
2015-18
Workshop, Performance, and Exhibition Series — Commonotions
Belgrade 🇷🇸 (2015, 2016), Bonn 🇩🇪 (2017), Berlin 🇩🇪 (2018)
The workshop series uses various media and techniques to explore the phenomena of city, architecture, space and people. 
The series is divided into four segments, each contained in the previous, but also based on it. The goal is to introduce the participants with spatial actions, contemporary artistic and architectural practice and the art and architecture scene, as well as educate about spatial entities in relation to their architecture, history, culture and identity.
2016
Installation You Know Nothing About Time
Architecture Salon, Museum of Applied Arts Belgrade 🇷🇸 
You Know Nothing About Time is not about how notions that consist the social context are connected by the physical manifestations of spaces and architecture – it’s vice versa: it’s about how architecture as a discipline and an element of everyday life is vowed with the paradigms of the social and cultural context (in this case, of the Balkans).
These unfinished houses, like common denominators, witnesses to the economic, sociological, aesthetic, and political conditions in the Balkans, exist across the region. As if all part of one big family, they tell many stories which somehow all sound similar: stories of structures built by and for people who primarily act on instincts, and whose decisions (including those architectural in nature) are primarily made that way.
In relation to the three cubic meters and the space of the window (or: window within a window), the installation relates to the ‘left behind-ness’, ‘incomplete-ness’, ‘useful-ness’ as a triad, but also as individual characteristics – just like the houses in question, You Know Nothing About Time is only a backdrop for traces of everyday life.
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Curated by Zoran Dmitrović and Natalija Paunić

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