Isidora Gajic
1988 —
Isidora Gajic
Belgrade, Serbia, 1988.
Isidora Gajic is a Serbian visual artist based in Brazil, working primarily with photography, installation, and artist books. Born in Belgrade in 1988, she grew up between Serbia, Hungary, and Switzerland before pursuing her studies in Amsterdam, where she graduated in Photography. Between 2020 and 2023, she also participated in the Artist Masterclass Program at Latela Curatorial, in the United States.
Her work explores themes such as memory, transformation, femininity, mythology, and the emotional relationship between the body and nature. Combining analog, digital, and large-format photography with layered images and experimentation with materials and papers, Gajic frequently creates immersive installations in which images become atmospheric objects. Silk, light, movement, and transparency are recurring elements in her practice.
Her long-term series Sirenes consists of photographs printed on silk and suspended in space, inspired by Claude Debussy’s composition Sirènes and by archetypal female figures from mythology. The works investigate fluidity, sensuality, disappearance, and metamorphosis, creating environments in which photography interacts with architecture, air, and the movement of the viewer.
Gajic has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows in Brazil, France, Germany, Serbia, the Netherlands, and Latvia. Her recent solo exhibitions include Sereias at Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4 in Rio de Janeiro (2024), Sirenes at Simone Klein Showroom Fotografie in Cologne (2022), and the presentation of her handmade artist book Sirenes at the Les Rencontres d’Arles festival in Arles, France. In 2023, she also held a solo exhibition at Laurel Parker in Paris.
She has additionally participated in exhibitions at institutions such as SESC Quitandinha (2019), the Cvijeta Zuzorić Arts Pavilion in Belgrade (2022), and Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. In 2012, upon completing her studies, she received the NEW Dutch Talent award.
Alongside her artistic practice, Gajic collaborated with Brazilian artist Miguel Rio Branco between 2013 and 2020, contributing to exhibition production, book design, image research, and archiving.
Her international trajectory included studies at the Ecole d’Humanité in Switzerland, an institution founded by educator Paul Geheeb and rooted in a pedagogy inspired by Waldorf education. It was during this formative period, at the age of fourteen, that she began developing her artistic and photographic training.
In 2026, Gajic participated in the Mirante Xique-Xique residency in the Chapada Diamantina, Brazil, where she initiated new paths of research and artistic development.
Isidora Gajic lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
