Studio JI

1993 -2000 lived in Sweden. Mother of two children, divorced, retired. Worked as artist, from 1985 further. Had exhibited mostly drawings and ornaments like space installations and performances. Had been active in few NGO as member, activist and volunteer
From 2010 freelance art critique and curator. From 2017 antiquarian
Working as artist with abstract art and ornaments. Exhibited in Serbia and Sweden
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Member
-Serbian Antiquarian Association, Belgrade, 2017 - 2023
-Founder member, National Cooperative AGROPRIVREDA, Belgrade, 2013- 2021
-Theravada Budist Society MIDDLE PATH, Beograd, 2012-2014
-Secretary volunteer, NGO ZEA, ecology and sustainable development, Belgrade, 2005-2008
- Eco-Beo-Grad ecological association Belgrade, 2001-2005
- SDU Party, Serbia, Belgrade, 2001-2003
- Volunteer, EMAUS, Stockholm, 1997 -1999
- KVINNOJUREN, Alby, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999
- DEN INTERNATIONELLA KVINNOR, Stockholm, 1998 – 1999


Published essays in Serbian cultural magazines
-ICON PAINTER ON HIS WAY, ICONS OF MIJALKO DJUNISIJEVIĆ, essay, magazine Teološki pogledi Vol. XLVI, 1/2013, p. 281-290, Belgrade, UDK 27-1, ISSN 0497-2597, 2013
-UNDERGROUND AND ICON – THE QUESTION OF SUFFERING AND HAPPINESS, PAINTINGS OF ANDREJ BUNUŠEVAC, essay, www.Designed RS, December 2012
-WALTER UNTERRAINER - BACK TO ARCHITECTURE www.Dans.org.rs, site of Novi Sad Architect Assosiation /Društvo arhitekata Novog Sada, Novi Sad, April 2012
-ANICA SAVIĆ REBAC - IDEE ABOUT “OPEN CIRCLE”. Antic humanistic idea about connections between man, earth-nature and sky-spirit, essay, cultural magazine Gradina Vol. 34, Niš, 2010

-ABOUT WORK OF DJURDJEVO SCHOOL “MOJ PUT “(My path) DARINKE ZLIČIĆ, cultural magazine Nova Misao Vol. 07, essay about free Avant-guard school of classic philologist from Novi Sad Darinka Zlčić, in village Djurdjevo, 1988-1990, Novi Sad, 2010.
-WOODEN AND CARDBOARD HOUSES, art critique about architect Walter Unterrainer house Roch/Reidmann, Bregenz, 1996, Austria, arch. magazine DaNS, Vol. 50, Novi Sad, 2005.
-PUBLIC CYTY GARAGES IN BELGRADE - UNDERGROUND OR ABOVE, expert text, construction magazine Izgradnja / Construction, Vol. 58, p. 138-143, Belgrade 2004.
-TEXTURES, essay – book review of book Textures, Zoran Gavrić - translations of 3 essays of arch. Boris Podrecca, with comments.Architectural magazine DaNS, Vol. 45, Novi Sad, 2004.
-MODERN EU WOODEN ARCHITECTURE - WALTER UNTERRAINER, cultural magazine Beorama Vol. 118, p. 45-46, Belgrade 2001.
-O DRUGOJ PRIRODI MUZIKE, Intervju sa komp. M.L.Pashu. STUDENT, Beograd,1982
-FEW TESIS ABOUT ESTETIC, text in the catalogue of the exh. Prostori II/Spaces II Zajednice za istraživanje prostora / Group for the Investigation of Space, SKC, Beograd 1983

………………………………. Art critique on Radio Belgrade, RTS, The Third Programme / culture
-FASHION DESIGN OF DRAGANA OGNJENOVIĆ – CONSTRUCTION AS MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROCESS, Culture / Kultura, September 2013
-FRESHNESS, PAINTINGS OF IVANA PRLINČEVIĆ, Chronic / Hronika, November 2009
-SURPRISE IN COLOURS, GEOMETRY ABSTRACTIONS OF IRENA BIJELIĆ GORENJAK, Chronic / Hronika, March 2009
-THE NEW SERBIAN ICON PAINTINGS, Chronic / Hronika, May 2009
-TEXTURES, about work of arch. Boris Podreca, rubric Chronic / Hronika, Januar 2004

…………………………….. Internet Books
-PLANINE/MOUNTAINS, poetry collection, published at www.Academiaedu , my side, 2011
-NO ONE LIKE ME, BELGRADE PAINTERS GENERATION 73-74. Book with art critic about 5 Belgrade young painters generation 73/74, published www.Academiaedu , my side,2012
-DJURDJEVO SCHOOL - THE IDEA OF OPEN CIRCLE. Book with two essays about work of Djurdjevo school, edited 2010 in Gradina, Vol. 34, and Nova Misao Vol. 07, like, 3 the new ones, about my performances and lecturing made in Djurdjevo School, with photo documentation and transcript of one audio tape. Shoort stories

-WOMAN WITHOUT STATE, short story, Literary competition Lapis Histria, Croatia, 2021
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Redactor and translator of other authors
-SavaGor /Sebastijan Gorenjak NOĆ SLOMLJENIH STRELA, collection of short stories, redaction and introduction text. Publisher S.Gorenjak, ISBN 978-86-918205-0-3; COBISS.SR-ID 210810636. Belgrade, 2014
-Helena Leijd NOĆNO OKO / NIGHT EYE, poetry collection. Selection, translation, redactor and introduction text. Publisher Zoran Damjanović i sinovi, ISBN 978-86-85607-04-2; COBISS.SR-ID144161292. Belgrade, 2007
-Sava Gor KISS OF THE DRAGON WOMAN, poetry collection, selection, redaction and book review text. Publisher: Zoran Damjanović i sinovi, ISBN 978-86-85607-03-5; COBISS.SR-ID 144158988. Belgrade, 2007.
-Translations for UNION OF THE RAILWAYSWORKERS OF SERBIA, 2001-2004, some of them published in technical magazine Voice of the Railways, Belgrade, 2001- 2004
-Translations of business texts for many firms

……………….. Organization and mediation of public boards and exhibitions
-Curator and custos of the three group exhibition of visual art, in the organization of Studio JI, in KC MAGACIN and Ostavinska Gallery, Misterije Organizma – Telo / Mysteries of the organism - Body, 2018; U potrazi za smislom - Moj slučaj / In Search for Meaning – My case, 2020; and Natural – Artificial, 2020; Belgrade 2018-2020
-Guest in literary board VIDEO POETRY – KISS OF DRAGON WOMAN, SavaGor, SKC - clube, Beograd, 2008
-THE POWER OF WORDS AND WORLD WITHOUT WORDS, public forum. Organization Studio JI, mediator Jadranka Ahlgren, guests from Sweden poetess Helena Leijd and language expert Agneta Ottender. Short film, Nebojsa Pijević – Cross Over. DKSG Belgrade 2004
-POETRY OF HELENA LEIJD, Assocation of Serbian Writers. Organization Studio JI, mediator Jadranka Ahlgren. Belgrade, 2004.
-CREATIVITY = CAPITAL public debate on the art of J.Beuys, organization Studio JI mediator Jadranka Ahlgren. DKSG Belgrade, 2004
-FREEDOM THROUGH ENGAGEMENT – EXAMPLE OF JOSEF BEUYS, public debate, organization Studio JI and SDU mediator Jadranka Ahlgren SKC, Belgrade,2003
-URBAN PARADOXES OF BELGRADE, public debate. Organization SDP, mediator Jadranka Ahlgren. Guests - art historians and architects. Theme - urban design of Belgrade. KC Djura Jakšić House, Belgrade, 2002.
-DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, ARCHITECTURE AND ECOLOGY – REORGANISATION OF THE CENTRAL ZONE OF BELGRADE, public debate with guest eco - architect. Walter Unterrainer, Austria. Organization SDU and Studio JI, mediator Jadranka Ahlgren. National Museum, Belgrade, Oct. 2001.
-LOW ENERGY AND ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, lecturing of eco - architect. Organization Studio JI, mediator Jadranka Ahlgren, SKC, Belgrade, Oct. 2001
-NEW ART SWEDEN, 3 days program of performance & exhibition of 10 artist from Fylkingen, Stockholm and dance group TIGER, Stockholm. Organization Jadranka Ahlgren. SKC, Belgrade, June 1989
……………………….. Lecturing
- SERBIAN GARDEN – A. REBAC, Den Internationella Kvinnor, Stockholm, 2003
- ALTERNATIVE DJURDJEVO SCHOOL, DJURDJEVO, 1988-1990, YUGOSLAVIA
IM Projektet, Stockholm, Sweden, 1996
- ABOUT SPACE, Folketshus, Nynashamn, Sweden, with projection of slides, 24.II.1996
- HISTORY OF PAPER, IM Projektet, Stockholm, Sweden, 1995
- FORGOTTEN EXHPIRIENCES - IN THE CIRCLE OF NATURE , Alternative School
Djurdjevo, Djurdjevo, 1989
- ABOUT MATHERIAL AND DESIGN; Art Group for Space Ivestigation, Belgrade 1984
……………………………. Public actions and performances
-Performans and group exhibition The Serbian Garden, Worldwide Decentralized Networker
Congres, SKC Belgrade 2004
-Activist against public underground garage in Pionirski Park, Belgrade- With NGO Eco-
Beo - Grad, OTPOR and few other organisations, 2002/2003
-Performance IN, Arkiturskolan KTH, with Inger Arvidsson, Stockholm 1999
-Performance WOMAN-WOMAN-SPACE, Fylkingen, with Dinka Pignon, Stockholm 1992
-Performance WOMAN-WOMAN-SPACE, Djurdjevo School, with Ružica Petrović, 1989
-Performanse “The Middle Path” with Ružica Petrovic and Nenad Burgić, Kopaonik, 1989
-Few performances organized by Miroslav Mandić, part of the team, Belgrade 1987-89
-Performance WOMAN-WOMAN-SPACE, Gallery AUT, with Dinka Pignon, Grožnjan 1989
-Performance and art in town public space Town in Reincarnation, SKC Beograd 1982, 1983
……………………. Public projects
-RETURN TO ARCHITECTURE, professor in Umeo, Sweden, eco-architect Walter Unterrainer, lecturings in Belgrade in organization of Studio JI, mediator Jadranka Ahlgren. Three lecturings: Faculties of Architecture, Faculty of Forestry and one public in DKSG; workshop in high school TEHNOART, Belgrade. Project was supported by Swedish and Austrian embassy in Belgrade, Belgrade, 2012.
-RESTAURANT ZEA - HEALTHY FOOD . Author of project for NGO ZEA, Belgrade, with few apply for donation. Not realised, 2008
-MAMMY, TAKE ME IN THE PARK . Author of project, as member and volunteer in NGO ZEA. Realised with two groups children. Belgrade, 2009
- ONE PUPIL – ONE TREE , mediator and volunteer for Belgrade, work with elementary schools in organisation of Eco-Beo-Grad. Mediator of exhibition of pupils eco-paintings and eco-poetry in Festive hall Municipalyty of Vračar, Belgrade 2005, tekst about that - dailly DANAS, 5 jun 2005. Belgrade 2003-2005
-Cooperation on project PEACEFUL SCHOOL, Ministry of Education of SR, Belgrade, 2003
-LOW ENERGY, ECO AND ECONOMICAL ARCHITECTURE, organization Studio JI with SDU, Faculty of Architecture Belgrade; National Museum Belgrade; SKC. Two lectures, on Faculty of Architecture and SKC, and public lecture with discussion in National Museum, by eco-architect Walter Unterrainer. Mediator Jadranka Ahlgren.
………………………….. Texts in exhibitions cataloque of artists

-I. Kalezic, paintings, exhibition MELANHOLY, KC Rakovica, Belgrade, 2013
-A. Bunusevac, paintings, exhibition THE LAST DAYES, gallery OTKLON, Belgrade, 2010
-I. Prlincevic, paintings, exhibition FASCINATION WITH LANDSCAPES, Gallery Sue Ryder, FLU Cetinje, Herceg Novi, 2013
-M. Djunisijevic, icon paintings, LIGHT OF LIGHT, Galerija CK Valjevo,2013
……………………….. Texts, art critique, www Scribd 2011 - 2023
https://www.scribd.com/user/56114067/Jadranka-Ahlgren

How the "black muse of MEDIALA" and the "mystic"/according to the superficial and sensationalist (purpose: more sales) description of the author Dejan Djorić, Belgrade (wrote about MEDIALA)/, cured me of stuttering 1964-1971, according to Ilija Savić's method and Dolores Gestalt Therapy, my memories, 2023

Studio JI and Mijalko Djunisijević, offer to exhibition ABSTRACT / ICONIC 2022

Fashion design ALEKSANDRA RANKOVIĆ, 2021, GOOD IS BEAUTIFUL, and, parallel with the philosophy of functionalism and the economy of suprematism, 2021

Fashn Design Stella Jean, Parallel With EMBT Architects 2010, 2021

NIKOLA MIHIC MARTINELO, Exhibition, Vodice 2021 Text for Catalogue, 2021

Ornament KAL. DESCRIPTION 2. Jadranka Ahlgren. Dec 2020

Colors as Icon-Theology - The New Serbian Icon Painting, Mijalko Djunisijevic. Art critique, 2018

New Icon - Nikola Saric, 2018

Arion Asllani_ Urban Landscapes, Town Mapping / art critique, 2018

Hitchcock s Erotica-logics on the Paintings of Ivana Prlincevic, 2018

Marko Kodžic, Painter, 32, Salzburg. art critique, 2017

Fashion and Film, Painting Exhibition of Ivana_Prlincevic, Belgrade, 2017

The new Petar Sibinovic exhibition in KOLARAC , Belgrade, 2017, Sculptures which interacts with space

Organic Form II. Exhibition Petar Sibinovic Gallery U 10, Belgrade 2016

Exhibition NOT in THIS WAY, ANDREJ BUNUSEVAC. Gallery Ulicni Izlog. Belgrade, 2016

Exhibition diSTRUKTURA Cultural Centre Belgrade Oct 2015

Organic forms, Petar Sibinovic, Exhibition ESSE Gallery OTKLON Belgrade Oct 2014

Landscape and Hair Line.Paintings of Irena Bijelić Gorenjak 2014

Sailing Boats and Ladies – Specific Individual Brush Stroke of Ivana Prlincevic,2014

Dragana Ognjenovic. Exhibition Constructions.GalleryFLU. Belgrade, 2013

Exhibition OD- DO, Curator Milan Bosnic, Gallery Magacin, 2013

Icon painter on his way, Icon Paintings of , Mijalko Djunisijevic. Town Valjevo April 2013

Non objective visual sense in work of Ivana Kalezic. Painter, 2012

Woman-Sun, Vodice (Dalmatia, Croatia), Festive Female Costume , 2012

Abstract Calligraphy - Nenad Burgic, Beograd (1952-90),2012. Texts, essays, history of design, art and culture www Academiaedu 2011 – 2023
https://kth.academia.edu/JadrankaAhlgren



Analyzing Pirot Carpet IV - BIBICA pattern, or, From Tajikistan to Balkan and America, 2022

Analyzing Pirot Carpet III - ARROW, 2022

The first rituals, forest goddess cults, hilling spas and Golden Fleece – Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, 2022

Landscape machine, or, HVAR = SVAR, part III, the legend about Dragon Eye Lake, Rogoznica, Dalmatia, 2022

Landscape machine, or, HVAR = SVAR , part II, The Forgotten Symbolism of Swirl, 2022

Landscape machine, or, HVAR = SVAR, part I, 2022

Fashion design Aleksandra Ranković, GOOD IS BEAUTIFUL, and parallel with the philosophy of functionalism and the economy of suprematism, 2021

Fashion design Stella Jean c. 2010, ABSTRACT ORNAMENTAL CACOPHONY IN COLORS, with a parallel to the work of arch. MIRALLES and B. TAGLIAGUE in the same years, 2021

Moving South via Island Palagruža, Adriatic Sea, to Italy -Vinca Culture 4500 BC, 2021

Neo Hittite - Maya. Two Buildings, Three Similar Ornaments. 2021. Analyzing Pirot Carpet II, Pattern TWO. 2021

Ornament KAL. Description. 2020

The Serbian Djed (commander) Analysing the motifs from the Serbian traditional home woven woolen rugs - kilims, part I, 2019

Vinca Ornament – Vibration, Swirl, and similarities, 2018

Cap Horse Tail, similar caps : Balkan, Central Asia, Calash people, and Caddo Indians, 2018

Costumes of Balkanites - Minimalistic basic design in two main colours: black and white, with two type of ornamentation, geometric, like Anatolian, or flower, like Pannonian, 2017

Cap Sun ARCHETYPE DeSIGN, Archeo-Design Investigation in Pictures - from 5000 BC to now / - PART I, 2017

Abstract Calligraphy Nenad Burgic, Belgrade, 1952-1990, 2016

Vikings and Balkanites the Cousins. Dictionary of Similar Words. 2016

Metal, and Balkan’s lofty thoponyms finishing with tin: Blagotin, Dobrotin, Divostin /Pelf-tin, Good-tin, Big-tin/, 2015

Woman-Sun, Analysing colour of woman festive folk costume from townVodice, Dalmatia, 2012
…………………. Jadranka Ahlgren www Slideshere - https://www.slideshare.net/jadrankaahlgren

Architecture as art - from 1999 owner of my alternative art – design studio STUDIO JI
Last Arhitectural competitions:
-HANDYCRAFT BASSAR MALMO OPPORTUNITY SPACE, V.Alen Institute, NY 2016
-FROM BORDER TO HOME, collective housing, Finish Arch. Museum, Finland 2015.
-IEREK, ARCHITECTURE AS ART, INDIVIDUAL ART CONTRIBUTIONS, urban planning, Kairo 2017
-MILD HOME, collective eco-housing, with arch. Aleksandra Nikolić. Belgrade, 2014.
-WOODEN PARK PAVILION, Rosenlundsparken, Stockholm, Sweden – realised 1999
………………………. Acvisitions:
- Wooden model of Auguste Perret church Notre Dame du Raincy, in big scale,
Museum of Architecture, Stockholm
- Concrete goat sculpture in colours, elementary school Stockholm, 1998
………………………………………………………………………………Belgrade, March 2023….