Sanja Iveković, born in 1949 in Zagreb (Yugoslavia / Croatia today), lives and works there. She has participated in numerous international biennials and major exhibitions, such as documenta 8 (1987), 11 (2002) and 13 (2012) and has had comprehensive institutional solo exhibitions, for example in the South London Gallery (“Unknown Heroine“), the MUDAM, Luxembourg (“Waiting for the revolution“), 2012, at MoMA, New York (“Sweet Violence“), 2011, the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (“Urgent Matters“) and Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (“Practice Makes The Master“), 2009. In 2015 she was nominated for the Artes Mundi Prize. In 2005 Sanja Iveković was a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.