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Bogomir Doringer

Bogomir Doringer (Belgrade, Serbia, 1983) is a Serbian/Dutch artist, curator, filmmaker and researcher.

Biography

Bogomir Doringer first studied sociology at the University of Belgrade. Later, moving to Amsterdam, he studied fine art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (graduating in 2008) before completing a Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy (graduating in 2011 with Cum Laude). He is currently participating in a PhD program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with his work "I Dance Alone" that gave birth to “Dance of Urgency”.

Over the past decades, Bogomir Doringer has immersed himself in art, research, lecturing, and curation. His practice explores human responses to evolving socio-political conditions and emerging technologies. He observes how the ritual of dancing and masking appears in contemporary times and what functions it has in our society. An ongoing research project, "I Dance Alone," captures nightlife spaces from a bird's eye view, examining the significance of people's dances. His doctoral artistic research in practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna culminated in identifying the "Dance of Urgency," a term encapsulating dances emerging in times of personal and collective crisis, serving as a source of empowerment for individuals and groups.

Projects and curation

Bogomir Doringer’s artistic curatorial expertise has been showcased at a variety of art venues, including Q21, MAK (museum of applied art) and the Naturhistorisches Museum, in Vienna. Het Nieuwe Instituut, Garage Rotterdam, Nxt Museum, and Mediamatic in the Netherlands. He also curates programs at the Synergy Art Festival in the Netherlands, and exhibited his work in various locations such as the Mobile Studio and Gallery Subotica in Serbia, Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Estonia ,  and Edith-Russ-haus, in Germany among others.

Bogomir Doringer’s work spans a wide range of activities, from his own artistic practice and exhibitions to curating programs and exhibitions, as well as leading pluridisciplinary research projects. These projects encompass conferences, artistic production, and collaborations between various institutions and artists.

Hospitality (2009- 2017)

Doringer's work "Hospitality" (2009-2017) was presented at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in 2011.  His monumental installation features a series of video interviews of former military personnel, projected on transparent blocks, a ferrofluid sculpture "hosting" biopsy samples. The fluid and biopsy symbolise the impact of depleted uranium and nanoparticles on soldiers' health. The project examines the relationship between fiction and reality, questioning the intention of "hospitality" and the responsibility of those who offer it, while highlighting the sufferers' silent wait for a cure or death. Hospitality was also exhibited at Edith-Russ-haus, Germany and the Hub Gallery, Belgrade.

Faceless (2013- 2018)

In 2013, Doringer began a series of international exhibitions titled "FACELESS", which tackled the prominence of masking figures in media, art and fashion post 9/11. The exhibitions FACELESS part I/II explored the phenomenon of inescapable recognizability in the media and the strategies used to become virtually faceless.The two part exhibition and research project was exhibited in Vienna and Brussels, as part of the CPDP(computer and data Protection) conference. The research project was later published as a book: "FACELESS: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies" published by the University for Applied Arts Vienna and Social Design Arts as Urban Innovation department. As part of this research on masks in contemporary society, he created a video installation, commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut, in 2019, to address the many different depictions and representations of the hoodie in the media, and issues surrounding privacy and surveillance.

I Dance Alone and Dance of Urgency (2016 - 2024)

Doringer’s most prominent body of work is perhaps his decade-long twin projects, “I Dance Alone” and “Dance of Urgency”. This project is a combination of Doringer's own artistic practice and research into crowd, movement and nightlife as well as a series of exhibitions, commissioned work and public programs that examine the relation between the crowd, nightlife and politics.

Doringer's focus on dancing and dance culture started through his own work, with “I dance Alone”, starting in 2016, an ongoing series of videos of dancing crowds, filmed from bird eye view, allowing viewers to observe large groups moving together and creating spontaneous choreographies.I dance Alone’ was  notably presented during the 2024 edition of  International Film Festival Rotterdam.

This work led to a research project comprising several symposiums, Frei(t)raume, or Envisioning Free Spaces, held in Berlin and Amsterdam between 2016 and 2022. Along with exhibitions and specially commissioned work, as well as the “Space of Urgency” project. Those symposiums gathered actors of the night life to discuss themes related to nightlife culture, gentrification, the politics of dancing and the social role of clubs.

In 2021 Doringer participated in the “Nachtvisie Amsterdam” a publication commissioned by the Amsterdam municipality with the aim to investigate the value of the Amsterdam night for the first time. Thanks to his research into night culture, Doringer participated in multiple projects looking at policy surrounding culture and nightlife.

In 2022, Doringer curated "No Dancing Allowed" at Q21 in the MuseumsQuartier of Vienna as a follow-up to the “Dance of Urgency” exhibition from 2018. “No Dancing Allowed” explored, and stated how dance and uncertainty are no strangers, congregation and movement when responding to personal and collective crises: a dance of urgency. Blending pedagogical, documentary and poetic frameworks, No Dancing Allowed (2022) curated by Bogomir Doringer, showcased artworks investigating movement, bodies and space as they are shaped by global restriction and was developped into a second exhibition in Rotterdam, in 2023.

Nxt Museum (2020-2024)

Since 2020, Doringer has served as the head curator of Nxt Museum, in this period, he launched three exhibitions. "Shifting Proximities" (2020-2022, with Jesse Damiani) used interactive artworks responding to touch, sound, and movement to explore our new relationship to space and closeness during the Covid-19 pandemic.

"UFO - Unidentified Fluid Other" (2022-2023) examined dance rituals, mythology, and emerging technology like video game design, virtual reality, CGI, and NFTs.

His third exhibition, "Life in a Different Resolution," Doringer curated a selection of artworks from the studio's two decades of production from the art group Random International, looking into the essence of humanity and examining how individuals bestow a sense of life upon artificial intelligence, despite the recognition that it is not yet sentient.

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