Nebojša Šerić - Šoba (born in 1968, Sarajevo) is one of the main protagonists of the Sarajevo art scene. Over the last three years, he has exhibited in Bosnia and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Obala Gallery of Sarajevo (1997) and Mors Mossa Gallery of Goteborg, Sweden (1999). He has participated in several group exhibitions, e.g. the Young Artists Biennial of Rijeka (1997), Manifesta II of Luxembourg (1998) and the Body and the East exhibition at Modern Art Museum of Ljubljana (1998). In the Škuc Gallery, he will be showing a work which connects the pattern of the Greek tragedy with a contemporary "tragic" figure. The photograph - a footballer in the posture of the famous Greek sculpture "Dying Gaul" - speaks of the true tragedy of our time. He says: " ...since the Greek sculpture itself is not tragic, while the footballer is. The very absurdity of the footballer's agony is a synonym of the mass poetics which we (intellectuals) find so incomprehensible or see it differently than the rest." The tragedy of our time is also contained in the second work (Untitled) presenting a restaurant interior with the images of "contemporary martyrs" (M. Gandhi, Sitting Bull) as victims of the Western civilisation. In Villa Katarina, Nebojša Šerić - Šoba will present a project, an installation in connection with a performance, which in a humorous and very convincing way uses both social and architectural context of the exhibition place. On the facade of the building, he will attach a fake satellite "dish" as an appendix which tells us about poor countries and "gastarbeiters" - immigrant workers - who create for themselves a "temporary" home in the suburbs of large western European cities. The satellite dish, as the most frequent "decoration" on the facades, roofs and balconies of the homes of immigrant workers, represents a link both with their homeland and the outside world. The project by Nebojša Šerić - Šoba speaks about unconscious and hidden processes introduced by the contemporary communication methods and information demands, and about culturally determined visual signs.

The project is funded by the City of Ljubljana - Department for Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, OSI - Slovenia and OSI Bosnia & Herzegovina - Cultural Link Programme and was kindly supported by ALTOS d.o.o. Ljubljana, SATING d.o.o. Ljubljana. Vila Katarina, Rožna dolina, Cesta na Brdo 10, 1000 Ljubljana.