Upcoming Diploma 2026
05.02.–10.02.2026, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Opening: Thursday 05.02.2026, 18:00
Kolossaal, A_U1.08, Akademiestr. 2, München
More Info: AdbK Diplom 2026
The marked and marking (2025)
Video (1080 x 1551 px), 9:13 min, loop, projection on frosted glass
3D mesh reconstructions, original voice recording by the artist
Music and sound design: Dominik Lekavski
Protective symbols tattooed into skin become the medium for a re-enactment of resistance. Female characters, deliberately unstable, emerge through 3D mesh reconstruction from sourced photographs. Throughout different layers of time and narration these characters perform a determined walk. The Sicanje tattoos – once a maternal and communal act of protection under Ottoman rule – are digitally reproduced and, in the process, estranged from their embodied origins. By tracing traditional tattoo practices through synthetic media, the marked and marking explores the volatility of symbols in digital circulation: a cycle that strips protective marks of their original function.
Offset Plate Reverb from the Yugosphere (2024)
aluminum offset printing plates coated with light-sensitive emulsion (103 x 79 cm each), wire rope, stainless steel fasteners
2x audio resonators, 30:00 min, loop
On behalf of a process of migration, the understanding of 'home' or 'dwelling' is epistemologically decoupled from a physical place. Its meaning becomes altered to that of a cultural sphere. Two aluminum offset printing plates are being excited by chaotic feedback systems, glitches, noise and found radio sounds in a musically hauntological manner. Research-related text fragments and screenshots merge with autobiographical photographs, yearning to be embedded into a meta-narrative of identity and belonging.
Sound design by Dominik Lekavski.
Diaspora Rave (2023)
concrete (26x26cm), stainless steel eyebolt, stainless steel chain, turf & soil
Concrete reflects the post-war landscapes of Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia, where half-finished buildings and construction sites remain decades after the Yugoslav wars. Brutalist architecture of the 1950s and 1960s established a distinct southeastern visual identity, which echoes in the material choice. Seven concrete smileys comment on social roles, expectations, and the retreat into hedonism.
Kolo (2022)
Concrete, stainless steel, 26x26 cm each, augmented reality, sound loop
The work places the Yugoslavian circle dance Kolo in relation to rave culture shaped by the acid house movement of the 1990s. Both are understood as collective practices structured by repetition, shared rhythms and communal ecstatic states. Seven concrete smiley spheres are arranged in a circular formation. An augmented reality layer introduces rotating, semi-transparent figures above the objects. The accompanying sound work consists of an elongated and distorted audio transformation of found footage documenting a large group dance of the Kolo in Bosnia, rendering the material as a ghostly, temporal echo.
1513 (2021)
The GDPR cookie notice, designed to protect user data, is often experienced as intrusive rather than appreciated. Corporations of varying size use the cookie layer to collect data or pass it to third parties. Permission buttons are made prominent, while rejection options are minimized or hidden. The phrase we suspect that you are interested exemplifies the implied authority of an invisible we, whose identity—website, corporation, or unknown third parties—remains unclear. Research estimates that reading all cookie notices in a year would take an average of 192 days.
The title references the 1513 Spanish Requerimiento, a document granting conquistadors and missionaries pseudo-official permission to claim land and resources. Parallels are drawn between these historical procedures and contemporary practices of data extraction, highlighting patterns of authority, consent, and appropriation across space and time.
PARA x 20Seconds Magazine (2023)
PARA (Anja Lekavski, Kalas Liebfried, Jakob Braitio) curated the 6th issue of 20Seconds Magazine – a publication for experimental music and art – exploring the tension between fiction and reality, as well as the possibilities of participation and performance within a print medium. The magazine functions as an active interface, a set of instructions for readers, positioning them as analysts of dynamic processes and potential future performers.
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one million attempts to find the right one (2022)
Woven textile, recycled polyester
A Juicy Mystery (2022)
Woven textile, recycled polyester
Single channel video
(00:30min, loop)
He has the Key (2022)
Your Key is my Key (2022)
Stainless steel tubs, rust
These works presents a series that examine access, control, and hidden processes within digital and technological systems. One Million Attempts to Find the Right One (2022, woven textile, recycled polyester) translates the number of possible iPhone passcode combinations into a tactile, woven pattern, making the scale of digital access and personal exposure visible. A Juicy Mystery (woven textile, recycled polyester) materializes the opacity of technological systems, rendering the concept of the “black box” tangible.
Two stainless steel tubs, He has the Key and Your Key is my Key, feature laser-engraved fragments generated by computer, with occasional figurative forms emerging from abstract, anime-inspired compositions. The images are burned into the steel, a material commonly used in industrial machinery, emphasizing their impermanence despite the apparent solidity of the medium.
Off Merge (2023)
Anja Lekavski & Rosanna Marie Pondorf
crocheted textiles, cushions, fitness band, engraved marble
The installation follows the structure of a classical theater play. Five crocheted textiles mark the acts, embroidered with settings and themes, while engraved marble plates depict scenes and dialogue between two women and a minor male figure. Textiles and fitness bands form a large corset that acts as both stage and performance space. Visitors can sit on the cushions and listen to the dialogue as audio in the room.
Edition N°2 * Hedonistic Apocalypse (2022)
with works by Navine G. Dossos, Gregor Hildebrandt, Jonas Hoeschl, Anna Jermolaewa, Lorand Lajos, Anja Lekavski and Jol Thoms
Rosa Stern Space presents it‘s second box of new editions as a curated exhibition focusing on the topic of “HEDONISTIC APOCALYPSE”. The edition includes seven works by both established and emerging artists. The proceeds will guarantee the continued existence of our non-profit art association and enable us to continue the program at a high level in 2023. The main part will be used for the development and production of new works and exhibitions by international and local emerging artists. The edition will be set up in our exhibition space and consequently shown as part of our forthcoming program.
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