Born 17th January 1978,
Prijepolje, Serbia. Multimedial artist. Curently living and working in Sarajevo, BiH. Demis Sinancevic duel fascinations with the language of art and freedom of expressions compel him to create works that explore below surface of contemporary life. Demis's works cover a wide range of visual experiments, from performance , Fotografija and video to installations, paintings and other classical media, and computer works. In some of his computer/manipulated environments, he features himself as an iconic figure, complete with his own doubts, personal matters, and identity issues. In other works he questions art history origins and rewrites it. Lately, researching virtual reality, light and light processes during creation of a matter.Active protaginist of post-war Sarajevo art scene and life. Founder and president of Visionary Society NGO. Together with other VS members, initiator of the BARAKE project ,new alternative art Sarajevo and Balkan cultural movement. Juan Puntes

One-man shows

2007
- DISPLAY PROJECT, streets of Tarragona City, Spain
2006
- LIGHTING CREATURES WITH ANGEL ZOE, Gallery 10m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
2004
- UNTITLED, (with Slaven Tolj and Braco Dimitrijevic), Karantena 8, Lazareti Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2000
- Mr.CONNAN of 2000, ACTION Art Club, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
- INCARNATION, Meeting Point Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
1999
- ALFIRISM, IPC Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
1988
- POP Ending, instalation (crashed car and one vinyl sculpture of Mickey Mouse) ,In front of the family house, Prijepolje, Serbia

Group shows (selected)

2009
- VIDEO BOX COMPILATION, Halogalerie, Olstyn, Poland (curated by Pierre Courtin)

2008
- KUNSTLERAMBASADOR exhibition, Radoy art center RKS, Radoy, Norway
- KUNSTLERAMBASADOR, HKS Hordaland Kunstlersenter gallery, Bergen, Norway (curated by Arne Rygg and Samir Fejzovic)
- BALKAN EXPRES FESTIVAL, Pixel Gallery, Warszawa, Poland
- 6th FESTIVAL OF SHORT FILMS, OKC Abrasevic, Mostar, Bosnia&herzegovina
- LA GENERALE, Parcours West Gallery, Paris, France
- VIDEO SALON 3, 10m2 Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
- VRANDUK 08 international art collony, Zenica City museum, Zenica, B&H

2007
- MY MOTHER TONGUE IS BOSNIAN, Galerie Kunst und Bauschlosserei, Leipzig, Germany ( curated by Veronika Somnitz )
- BARAKE PROJECT, PM Gallerie, Zagreb, Croatia
- CULTURE FAIR, 10m2 Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
- 4th BUSAN INTERNATIONAL VIDEO, Space Bande Gallery, Busan, Korea
- VRANDUK 07 international art collony exhibition, Zenica City museum, Zenica, B&H

2006
- TIPIC_NO, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany ( curated by Sabina Husicic )
- PERMANENT PRESENCE, White Box Gallery, New York, USA ( curated by Nebojsa Seric Shoba )
- TRANSITION COMPOUND, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany ( curated by Sanna Mericke )
- UNCHAIN the EU, Visionary Society exhibition, Kunstverein GRAZ, Regensburg, Germany ( curated by Demis Sinancevic )
- TRANSITION COMPOUND, Asahi Art Square Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ( curated by Sohei Iwata )
- DADADA Exhibition, Hamam Gallery, Mostar, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Pierre Courtin )
- NBA project (New Bosnian Art), Alternative Film&Video festival, Academic Film Center, Belgrade, Serbia ( curated by Ibro Hasanovic )

2005
- BASICS Transmediale 05, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany ( curated by Amra Baksic Camo)
- VISIONARY SOCIETY AND FRIENDS, Barake, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
- INTERGROUND ,City Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
- UNPLUGGED, 1st exhibition of Visionary Society NGO, Barake, Sarajevo, (curated by Visionary Society NGO)
- RE_CULTIVATION, Visionary Society meets SICE, Barake, Skenderija, Empty House, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
- CADAVRE EXUISE, Roman Petrovic Gallery, Sarajevo, Mostar, Blagaj, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Rienke Enghartd )NBA (New Bosnian Art), MM Center-SC, Zagreb, Croatia ( curated by Ibro Hasanovic )2003
- 9th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL,Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina2002
- UPPSALA Short film festival, Uppsala, Sweden
- REAL PRESENCE, Museum of 25 May, Belgrade, Serbia ( curated by Biljana tomic and Dobrila Denegri )
- CETINJE BIENNALE IV, Blue Castle Gallery, Cetinje, MontenegroTOPIC, City gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Almedina Ferhatovic and Danilo Kreso )
- SEARCHING FOR IDENTIY 02-92, ARSAEVI exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Asja Mandic )
- IN ADVANCE, Artget Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia2001EXTRAPOLATION, White Castle Tabija, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
- 7th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, Sarajevo, Bosnia&HerzegovinaBERLINALE, Biennale of video art, Berlin, Germany
- MEDI@TERA Video Festival, Athens, GreeceART DEPO event by Jusuf Hadzifejzovic, Sarajevo Winter Festival, CDA hall, Sarajevo,Bosnia&Herzegovina

2000
- 6thSRAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, Sarajevo, Bosnia&HerzegovinaARTME, Academy Of Fine Arts Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

1999
- ACTA NON VERBA, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- ANUAL STUDENTS EXHIBITION, Academy of Fine Art Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&herzegovina1998
- BEYOND THE MIRROR, 2nd annual exhibition of SCCA, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Dunja Blazevic )
- 4th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
1997
UNTITLED, Gallery of Belgian Peace Mission in B&H, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

Awards
2000
- First award for best video, INSERT programe, 6th Sarajevo Film Festival

Video works2003
-DEMIS’S ANGELS, 16 min. Beta SP, dialogue, SCCA Pro.Ba, multimedial laboratory, Bosnia&Herzegovina
2001
-THIS COULD BE HEAVEN FOR EVERYONE, 3,16 min. Beta SP, no dialogue, SCCA Pro.Ba, multimedial laboratory, Bosnia&Herzegovina
-BREAKFAST ON THE GRASS, 3 min. VHS, no dialogue, Real Presence event production, Serbia
2000
- INCARNATION, 1,30 min. beta SP, no dialogue, SCCA Pro.Ba, multimedial laboratory, Bosnia&Herzegovina1998I DO NOT HAVE, 3 min. Beta SP, no dialogue, SCCA Pro.Ba, multimedial laboratory, Bosnia&Herzegovina Projects and Workshops 2008
- ARTISTAMBASADOR, long-term developing cooperation project and workshop with Norwegian Artists fromBergen, Oslo, Radoy, Sogndal. Project started at Hordaland Kunslersenter (HKS), Bergen, Norway.2006,2007,2008
- VRANDUK International art collony, Vranduk, Bosnia&Herzegovina
2006
- AUTOPLAY, meeting and workshop of east Europe and Balkan ngo’s, Context Gallery Belgrade, Serbia4th MSE Meeting, International conference of worldwide NGO’s, National Art Museum, Pristina, Kosovo

2005-2006
- BARAKE PROJECT, true cultural revolution, conglomerat of about 15-20 projects and workshops, concerts, and all kind of actions and cultural engagement in abandoned factory, Wilsonovo walkway, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina.
2004
- Art workshop LAZARETI, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2002
- Art workshop and collony Ecka by REMONT art asotiation, Ecka Castle, Zrenjanin, Serbia

Colections
- Private collection, Barcelona
- Piere Curtain collection, Sarajevo
- Huma&Nahit Kabakci collection, Istanbul
- Private collection,Dubrovnik
- Private collection, New York
- Beatrice Schlichtmeier collection, Regensburg
- Private collection, Leipzig
- Zenica City Museum collection
- Onuma Family collection, Tokyo Education 2001
- Academy Of Fine Art Sarajevo

Bibliogrphy (Selected)
- Edina Nurikic, Together virtual space, BH Dani, December 2008.A.Adamovic, In searchin for identity, BH Dani, No. 264.bhdani.com/arhiva/264/opservatorij.shtml
- Molly Kleiman, Sarajevo Art Diary, Artnet magazine artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/kleiman/kleiman9-5-06.asp
- Belma Becrbasic, Where visionaries will go? BH Dani No. 450.Kunstaspekte, International kunstinformationen, SICE-Transition Compound Berlin, presstextekunstaspekte.de/index.php?tid=25009&action=termin
- Sabina Husicic, TIPIC_NO - Junge Kunst aus Sarajevo 8. 9. - 23. 9. 2006, KunstlerHaus Stuttgartkuenstlerhaus.de/de/archiv/tipic-no-junge-kunst-aus-sarajevo_1348
- Stephane Sauzedde, Pierre Courtin collection,aoui.org/10m/DP%20-%20PIERRE%20COURTIN%20COLLECTION%2010M2.pdf
- Paul M. Art de Tarragona, INICIOS.ES, Display project book.inicios.es/2008/07/21/arte-desde-tarragona-matt-siber-bon-art-y-display/ Abel Figureas, Display, The End, ARTIGA, Revista d’art pensament contemporani, No. 4. Novembre 2007.art-tarragona.com/artiga/Artiga4.pdfGuus Wreeburg, Stiching C SRS newsletter #1. and #2 2006. stichtingc.org/read/stichtingc/4049?submenu=4039
- Amra Baksic Camo, Sarajevo III, A New Scene, Uppsala Kortfilm
festival cattalog 2002.shortfilmfestival.com/filmver2upload/Katalog2002.pdf
- Veronika Somnitz, My mother Tongue is Bosnian, Fachschafstrat Slavistik online News, 03.08.2007uni-leipzig.de/~fsrslav/news/news.php?id=103
- Christian Franzika, My mother tongue is Bosnian, artpa newsletter 04.08. 2007. http://galeriekub.de/ ausstellungen
2004-2008
- Juan Puntes, Permanent presence cattalogue, New York, July, 2006.Sohei Iwata, Transition_compound exhibition at Asahy Art square gallery Tokyo, Asahy newpapers, March, 2006.Regensburg-Kultur, Kulturkolumne: Kunstler aus Sarajevo im KuntvereinGraz, Europe must be better.Von Helmut Hein, Mittebayerische Zeitunng, Aus der Bosnischen Baracke in die grosse, weite Welt. Jetz im Regenburger Kunstverein GRAZ: Zehn avantgardististiche Kunstler aus Sarajevo Befrein Europa, 03. May 2006.UNCHAIN the EU, exhibition of Visionary Society NGO catalogue, text by Jurgen HuberAsja Mandic (ARSAEVI curator), Searching for identity, Praesens 2002./02.Patricia Kish, Strong and provocative young art scene, Jutarnji list (Morning page), 27.06.2002.Asja Mandic (ARSAEVI curator), Sarajevo scene, Contemporary, special issue 2002.Alma Custovic, Audience has made its choice, Oslobodjenje (Liberation), 27.08.2000.Nisvet Dzanko, Who can speak about art?, BH Dani, Oktober, 1999.9th Sarajevo Film Festival Catalogue, text by Amra Baksic Camo6th Sarajevo Film Festival catalogue, Text by SFF team4th Sarajevo Film Festival Catalogue, Text by SFF teamARSAEVI 92-02, Searching for identity catalogue, text by Asja MandicMedi@tera video festival Greece catalogueSICE (Sarajevo International Cultural Exchange) catalogue, text by Sanna MerickeMonography of Academy of Fine Art Sarajevo (ALU)