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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Katarina Zdjelar

Katarina ZDJELAR (1979, Serbia) is an artist based in Rotterdam. She completed her MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute and makes videos, sound pieces, book projects and different platforms. Her work investigates subjectivity and communication in a foreign language when a mental and physical struggle with language occurs. She exhibits solo and in group shows and is selected regularly for international film festivals.

Filmography

(all short, selection) Shoum (2009), The Perfect Sound (2009), Act I, Act II (2010) Rise Again (2011), My Lifetime (Malaika) (2012), Stimme (2013), Untitled (A Song) (2016), AAA (Mein Herz) (2016)

Katarina Zdjelar op IFFR

  • Gaze Is a Bridge

    Katarina Zdjelar | 22' | Croatia | World premiere (festival)

    Superimposed shots build a temporal bridge between two Croatian female artists from different era’s.
  • My Lifetime (Malaika)

    Katarina Zdjelar | 6' | Netherlands | International premiere

    Unique recording of Ghana’s National Symphony Orchestra during rehearsals at the National Theatre in Accra.
  • Stimme

    Katarina Zdjelar | 17' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Thatcher, the politics of anatomy and the implications of voice modulation and pitch are just some of the possible ruminations when training your voic
  • Rise Again

    Katarina Zdjelar | 11' | Netherlands | International premiere

    Asylum seekers step outside of their prescribed roles as refugees and engage in puzzling social activities in the woods at the edge of town.
  • Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Katarina Zdjelar & Maziar Afrassiabi

    Katarina Zdjelar, Maziar Afrassiabi | 45' | Netherlands | -

    A soundwalk about how listening and sound can mediate the body’s movement and behaviour in an architecturally defined environment.
  • Shoum

    7' | Netherlands | None

    Performing a pop song by Tears for Fears, a man from Belgrade meets his Waterloo.
  • AAA (Mein Herz)

    5' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Recorded entirely in one take, four different compositions are performed as one by a young woman. The intention is to keep the original style, tempo…