About
Adela Nurković Kulenović
Adela Nurković Kulenović was born in 1981 in Rožaje, Montenegro. She lives and works in Sarajevo.
She graduated from the Department of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 2007 and earned her Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the same academy in 2015 with the thesis “The Renewal of Painting – the Cyclical Nature of Painterly Phenomena”. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2007.
She has held solo exhibitions in Sarajevo, Rožaje, Ulcinj, Bijelo Polje and Maglaj, and has taken part in group exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, France, the United States and Kuwait. She has participated in art colonies in Mostar, Bijelo Polje, Rožaje and Betton, France.
Curriculum vitae
Education
- 2008–2015Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, Department of Painting. Master’s thesis “The Renewal of Painting – the Cyclical Nature of Painterly Phenomena”. Degree: Master of Fine Arts in Painting.
- 2000–2007Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, Department of Art Education, painting section. Degree: Professor of Art Education.
- 2007Member of the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ULUBiH).
- 2002ARS AEVI, Open International University, Sarajevo – courses in museology.
Solo exhibitions
- 2016“Bright Touches”, Roman Petrović Gallery (ULUBiH), Sarajevo
- 2016“Bright Touches”, Preporod Gallery, Sarajevo – part of the 32nd International Festival “Sarajevo Winter”
- 2015Master’s thesis exhibition “The Renewal of Painting – the Cyclical Nature of Painterly Phenomena”, Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo
- 2011Cultural Centre, Ulcinj, Montenegro
- 2011Cultural Centre, Bijelo Polje, Montenegro
- 2010AB Gallery, Maglaj
- 2008Cultural Centre Rožaje, Montenegro
- 2007Graduation exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo
- 2005Facta Gallery, Sarajevo
Group exhibitions
- 2017Hotel Evropa, Sarajevo – “In the Painterly Footsteps of Behaudin Selmanović in Stolac”, part of the Fifth Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week
- 2016“Remembering Hz. Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Sheb-i Arus)”, Preporod Gallery, Sarajevo
- 2016First exhibition of contemporary Bosnian artists in Kuwait, Kuwait – Capital of Islamic Culture 2016
- 2015/164th Sarajevo Salon of the Association of Fine Artists of Sarajevo Canton, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2015ULUBiH Annual Review Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2014“The Wall”, History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
- 2014ULUBiH Annual Review Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2014“Bosnian/Art”, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, USA
- 20138th Annual Exhibition of the Sandžak Association of Fine Artists (SULU), MMC Gallery, Novi Pazar
- 2012“Small Format”, Ras Museum, Novi Pazar
- 2012International Biennial of Contemporary Miniature Art, Museum of Contemporary Art and Miniature, Tuzla
- 2012ULUBiH Sixth of April Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2011ULUBiH Sixth of April Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2011April Meetings – “Small Format” exhibition, SKC Gallery, Belgrade
- 2011ULUBiH Annual Review Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2010“Small Format”, Roman Petrović Gallery, Sarajevo; LIKUM Gallery, Visoko; Museum of Modern Art, Zenica
- 2010Group exhibition, Betton, Brittany, France
- 2010ULUBiH Annual Review Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2010Exhibition of minority artists, Centar Gallery, Podgorica
- 2010“In the Meantime”, Asa Art Gallery, Sarajevo
- 2010ULUBiH Sixth of April Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 20105th Annual SULU Exhibition, Rožaje
- 2009Annual SULU Exhibition, Novi Pazar
- 2009“Small Format”, Roman Petrović Gallery, Sarajevo
- 2009“Small Format”, Visoko
- 2009ULUBiH Annual Review Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2009ULUBiH Sixth of April Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2009Exhibition for the Day of the Stari Grad Municipality, Sarajevo
- 2008“2+12”, Kuršumli Madrasa, Sarajevo
- 2008“Painters’ Chest 2008”, Cultural Centre Rožaje
- 2008Exhibition of Bosniak Muslim painters in Montenegro, Al Gallery, Podgorica
- 2008ULUBiH Annual Review Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
- 2008Exhibition for the Day of the Stari Grad Municipality, Sarajevo
- 2006“Days of Minority Cultures”, Cultural Centre Rožaje
- 2006“5th September Art Salon”, Cultural Centre Rožaje
- 2004“Young Artists Exhibit”, B. Smoje Gallery, Sarajevo
Art colonies
- 2016“Bandžov” Art Colony, Rožaje, Montenegro
- 2012“Stari most” Art Colony, Bijelo Polje, Montenegro
- 2010International Art Colony, Betton, Brittany, France
- 2009Art Colony, Mostar
Other
- 2017Academic and artistic programme marking the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week
- 2016Study stay in Stolac, “In the Painterly Footsteps of Behaudin Selmanović”
- 2016Homage to the painter Behaudin Selmanović – paper “Drawing and Colour in Behaudin’s Painting”, Bosniak Institute – Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation, Sarajevo
- 2016Lexicon of Bosniaks/Muslims of Montenegro, Almanah, Podgorica
- 2015Performance with the group “Freedom of Borders”, theme “Metamorphosis”, National Theatre Sarajevo – part of the “Sarajevo Winter” festival
- 2015Works published in Almanah magazine, no. 67–68, Podgorica
From the studio and exhibitions
