* 1978, Montreal, CAD. Grew up in Belgrade, RS
Lives and works in Berlin since 2011
Education
2006-2010, BA Photographic Studies (Cum Laude), The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
1996-2001, BA English Literature (Honours List), University of Guelph, Guelph, CAD
Awards / Nominations
2022, Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur Stipendium, DE
2021, Käthe-Dorsch-und-Agnes-Straub Grant, DE
2020, Käthe-Dorsch-und-Agnes-Straub Grant, DE
2019, Nomination, Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize, NL
2018, Finalist, LensCulture Portrait Award 2018, INT'L
2016, Finalist, Hellerau Portrait Award 2016, DE
2016, Nomination, Photogrvphy Grant 2016, USA
2013, Finalist, Renaissance Photography Prize 2013, UK
2011, Winner, Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2011, USA
2011, Finalist, Vattenfall Fotopreis 2011, DE
2011, Nomination, Nationale Portretprijs 2011, NL
2010, Nomination, Ron Mandos Young Blood Award, NL
2009, Winner 4th Prize, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2023, Noontide, Haus Am Kleistpark Projektraum, Berlin, DE
2022, Odd Time, Cultural Center of Belgrade/ARTGET, Belgrade, RS
2019, Innere Orte, Kommunale Galerie Kulturhaus Karlshorst, Berlin, DE
2015, Verses of Emptiness, Kulturdomein Dommelhof, Neerpelt, BE
2012, Verses of Emptiness, Wim van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2012, Verses of Emptiness, EXP12 Gallery, Berlin, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023, Besides Beauty - Fotografische Studien zu Mensch und Natur, Alte Feuerwache Projektraum, Berlin, DE
with Jens Liebchen, Stefan Berg, Kathrin Linkersdorff
2022, Art & Nature, 39 Positions from Contemporary Photography, Marsano, Berlin, DE
with Ingar Krauss, Paul Hutchinson, Anett Stuth, Anna Lehmann-Brauns et al
2021, Women - Photographs, Fuentes Angarita Collection, Miami, US
2020, Genesis Discovery Award, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, PT
2020, Amici di Berlino, Via Alloro Gallery, Palermo, IT
with Nanne Meyer, Joachim Schmid, Stefan Koppelkamm
2019, Keep Your Eyes Peeled, aff Galerie, Berlin, DE
with Michael Danner, Jessica Backhaus, Göran Gnaudschun
2018, Family of No Men, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles / Cosmos, Arles, FR
2018, LensCulture Portrait Award, Somerset House, Photo London, London, UK
2018, B is for Bird, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, NL
2018, Monumental Landscape, Provinciehuis Noord Holland, Haarlem, NL
2017, CO-OP Der Greif, Unseen Fotofestival, Amsterdam, NL
2017, My name in 100 Colophons, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Istanbul, TR
2016, Hellerau Portrait Award 2016, Hellerau Festspielhaus, Dresden, DE
2014, Darmstaedter Tage der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE
2014, Unknown: Pictures of Strangers, Transformer Station, Cleveland, USA
2013, Renaissance Photography Prize 2013, The Wapping Project Bankside, London, UK
2012, Dutch and Belgian Photo Book, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, DE
2012, Wim van Krimpen Gallery, Unseen Fotofestival, Amsterdam, NL
2011, No Face, Wim van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2011, Labor Ost, V8 Verlag Gallery, Cologne, DE
2011, Art Amsterdam, Wim van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2010, Portrait Pavilion, Kasteel Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten, NL
with Rineke Dijkstra, Koos Breukel, Hans Aarsman
2010, Photo Academy Award, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL
2010, Young Blood Award 2010, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2010, Swiss Photo Award, ewz-Unterwerk Selnau, LaborOst, Zurich, CH
2009, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2009, Vision, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, NL
Bibliography
Sean O'Hagan, 'Pandemic park life and a secret knitting cult: the best photography books of 2021', The Guardian, December 22, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/22/pandemic-park-life-and-a-secret-knitting-cult-the-best-photography-books-of-2021
Diane Smyth, 'Severed from home, Serbian photographer Mirjana Vrbaski searches again for the familiar', The Calvert Journal, January 5, 2022, https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/13381/mirjana-vrbashki-serbia-canada-emigre-photography
Joerg Colberg, 'Odd Time', Conscientious Photography Magazine, July 19, 2021, https://cphmag.com/odd-time/
Der Greif Magazin für Fotografie, Jubilee Issue 10 Years, 2017
Martin Morgenstern (ed.), Hellerau Portrait Award 2016, Dresden 2016
Henriette Straub (ed.), 125 Years in Silent Pictures: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam 2013
Der Greif Magazin für Fotografie, Issue 7, pp. 35 and 65, 2013
Sarah Goodrum, A New/Old Ethics of the Photographic Portrait: Mirjana Vrbaski’s “Verses of Emptiness”, AfterImage Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 40, No. 1, Rochester, July/August 2012
Eva Brunner, 'Verses of Emptiness', in Brennpunkt Magazin für Fotografie, Berlin, March 2012
Portraits, in FOAM Album 2012, Foam Press, Amsterdam 2012
Verses of Emptiness, on the SIP Shpilman Institute for Photography blog, Jan 9, 2011
Joerg Colberg, 'A Conversation with CPC 2011 Winner Mirjana Vrbaski', Conscientious Photography Magazine, October 12, 2011, http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/extended/archives/a_conversation_with_cpc_2011_winner_mirjana_vrbaski/
Isabelle Meiffert (ed.), Vattenfall Fotopreis 2011, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld/Berlin 2011
Erik Vroons, Verses of Emptiness, in GUP International Photography Magazine, Issue 29, pp.88-95, 2011
Horst Kloever (ed.). LabOst, pp.236-243, Photeur.net: Berlin 2010
Mane Radmanovic (ed.), Studio Pure Presents 5, pp.36-47, Studio Pure: Belgrade 2010
NRC-NEXT, June 25, 2010, No. 71, pp.16-17
Re-Foto, October 2009, No. 63, pp.8
Collections
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NL)
Het Fries Museum (NL)
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Transformer Station Cleveland (US)
Stichting ArtService (NL)
and various private collections
Commissions
ZEIT Online, Ernst Busch Hochschule für Schauspielkunst HfS, FOAM Fotografie Museum, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nederlands Letterenfonds, Fonds Podium Kunsten, The Royal Academy of Arts (The Hague), The Royal Conservatoire (The Hague), National Theater (Het Nationale Toneel), Via Handelskade/Ministerie van VROM
Teaching & Lectures
Studio Vrbaški, Photographic Portrait Workshop, 2016-present (quarterly), Berlin, DE get in touch
University of Applied Sciences Europe, Photographic Portrait, Fall 2019, Berlin, DE
Fine Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee (KHB), Photography: Creative Process, Fall 2015, Berlin, DE
Fine Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee (KHB), Photography: Creative Process, Summer 2014, Berlin, DE
Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Guest Lecture: Quiet Portrait, March 11, 2011, The Hague, NL