Maja Bajevic was born in 1967 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She now lives between Paris and Sarajevo. Working with media as varied as video, light installations, photography or performance, she offers a critical insight in today’s social and political tragedies. In the video Double Bubble, she smartly plays with the idea of religions and the contrast between the values they promote and the crimes made “in the name of god”. Maja Bajevic is herself from a country deeply traumatized by nationalism and religious intolerance. The sound installation Avanti Popolo, is made of patriotic songs from 30 countries. Taking the viewer through a cacophonic soundscape, the work questions the ambivalence of anthems that both enhance a sense of belonging and easily shift into primal ideologies.

Maja Bajevic is currently showing at Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (England) and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul. Her recent exhibitions include: New Video, New Europe, The Kitchen, New York, NY (2006); Transmediale.06 - Smile Machines, AdK - AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, Berlin (2006); EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2005); 3rd Tirana Biennial 2005, Tirana (2005); Be what you want but stay where you are, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2005); How do we want to be governes? (Figure and Ground) Miami Art Central, Miami, FL (2004); Maja Bajevic P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2004), 2nd Bienniale Tirana 2003, Tirana Biennial, Tirana (2003); In den Schluchten des Balkan - Eine Reportage, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2003) and THE JEZEVO MOTEL PROJECT, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb (2003).

She is represented by Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich and Galerie Michele Rein, Paris, France.