Vukašin Nedeljković

Born 10th September 1975 (Belgrade, former Yugoslavia)
Website asylumarchive.com

Vukasin Nedeljkovic is a visual artist based in Ireland. He holds an MA in Visual Arts Practice from IADT, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Technological University Dublin. He initiated a multidisciplinary project Asylum Archive, a platform open for dialogue and discussion inclusive to individuals who have experienced a sense of sociological or geographical ‘displacement’, social trauma and violence. It is an act of solidarity to bring a different perspective on the life of people who came to Ireland to seek protection. Asylum Archive’s objective is to collaborate with asylum seekers, artists, academics and activists, amongst others, with a view to creating an interactive documentary cross-platform online resource, critically foregrounding accounts of exile, displacement, trauma and memory. He exhibited both nationally and internationally. His recent contributions include Reiterating Asylum Archive: Documenting Direct Provision In Ireland, 2018 and Asylum Archive: an Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland, 2016, 2017. He was recently awarded the Arts and Activismbursary from the Arts Council of Ireland, and has recently published the Asylum Archive publication.

Publications

Photography books by Vukasin Nedeljkovic

2018 Asylum Archive, Dublin: Vukasin Nedeljkovic, ISBN 978-0-9569493-5-6

Awards and honours

2019 Cork County Council Award, Arts Office, Cork
2018 Arts and Disability Award, Arts+Disability Connect, New Work, Arts Council of Ireland
2018 Basic Space Residency Award, Unit 4, Dublin City Council, Dublin
2017 Arts and Activism Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland, Managed by Create, National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts in Social and Community contexts
2011 Create, National Development Agency For Collaborative Arts In Social And Community Contexts, 1st phase, Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin
2010 Mayo County Council Project Arts Award
2009 Exercises in Folkatronica, Digital Media Residency, Visual Artist Ireland, Dublin
2008 Shared 1st prize, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2019 Asylum Archive, Source Arts Centre, Thurles
2019 Killing Time, in collaboration with Cathy Coughlan, Dance | Theatre | Gallery Installation, Rua Red Gallery, Tallaght
2019 Leave to Remain: Refugees in Ireland 1847 – 2017, Little Museum of Dublin, Dublin
2019 Asylum Archive Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
2018 Asylum Archive Basic Space, Unit 4, Dublin City Council, Dublin
2017 Asylum Archive Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
2016 Asylum Archive National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Gallery, Dublin
2015 Asylum Archive Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2013 Other Lives The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon
2013 Asylum Archive, Dublin City Council Library and Archive, Dublin
2010 Disappearance of the Railway Hostel, Kiltimagh Town Hall Theatre, Kiltimagh
2007 Asylum Seekers, St. Mary’s Abbey, Ballyhaunis

Group exhibitions

2019 The Parted Veil: Commemoration in Photographic Practices, curated by Chris Clarke and Fiona Kearney, Glucksman, University College Cork, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Shifting Terrain: Images of Migration and Detention, Centre for Emerging Media, Orlando, USA
2018 Body/Battleground, curated by River Champion, A4 Studious, Dublin
2018 The Earth As Our Home, curated by Karen E. Till, Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University, Ireland
2018 No Man’s Land, Polititis Art Coaltion, The Yards, Rochester, New York, USA
2018 Finding Home: The Global Refugee Crisis, University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, USA
2017 Forms of Resistance, curated by Alessia Cargnelli, Catlalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast
2016 Asylum, GARN and Galway 2020, Cornstore, Galway
2016 Mapping Spectral Traces, curated by Karen E. Till, Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University, Dublin
2016 Claremorris Open Exhibition, curated by Helen O’Donoghue, Claremorris, Ireland
2014 Asylum Archive, with contributions by Anthony Haughey, Rory O’Neill, Zoe O’ Reilly, Seaview and 255 Photography, Aras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Ireland
2014 One Year and Still No Change, with contributions by Zoe O’ Reilly and Rory O’Neill, curated by Irish Refugee Council, Powerscourt Gallery, Dublin
2013 Uncertain State, curated by Trish Lambe, Gallery of Photography, Dublin
2013 Erase Racism, with contributions by Rory O’Neill and Zoe O’Reilly, Dublin City Council Civic Offices, Atrium, Dublin
2012 Future Perfect, curated by Jim Ricks, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
2011 Feile na Tuaithe, Museum of Country Life, Castlebar, Ireland
2011 Public Gesture, The LAB, Dublin
2010 Claremorris Open Exhibition, curated by Lisa le Feuvre, Claremorris, Ireland
2010 An Instructional Tour, MART, Bratislava, London, Berlin, Dublin
2009 Living in Direct Provision, Irish Film Institute (IFI), Dublin
2009 EVA, Reading the City, curated by Angelika Nollert and Yilmaz Dziewior, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2008 Cead Mile Failte, co-facilitated with Bryan Duffy, Linenhall Arts Centre, Catlebar, Ireland
2008 Claremorris Open Exhibition, curated by Lizzie Carey Thomas, Claremorris, Ireland

Projects

Asylum Archive (2008 – present)
Asylum Archive is a multidisciplinary project and platform to collaborate with asylum seekers, artists, academics, civil society activists and immigration lawyers, amongst others, with a view to creating an interactive documentary cross-platform online resource, critically foregrounding accounts of exile, displacement, trauma and memory. Ronit Lentin describes Asylum Archive as an “archive of silence and secrets” which challenges Irish society to “confront the return of its repressed pain of incarceration and e/migration”. Asylum Archive frames the humans who are “warehoused by the state” – those who are “incarcerated in varying states of deportability” and “banned from the sacred realm of Irishness”– as active agents in their own right”.