Jasmina Holbus

Serbian interior designer and poet

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Jasmina Holbus

Born|  (1968-11-21) 21 November 1968 (age 55)
Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Occupation| Poet, designer
Nationality| Serbian
Period| 1990–
Genre| Poetry, stage design
Five lives of Milutin – Atelier 212, 2018 Mary Stuart – National Theatre in Belgrade, 2015 Pains of Youth - Yugoslav Drama Theatre, 2023 Children of the Sun - CNP, 2022 Unter Grund-Schauspielhuis Dortmund, 2023. Middlesex - Serbian National Theatre, 2021 Kaspar - Yugoslav Drama Theatre, 2021 The Lustful Days of Hung Johnny - Novi Sad Theater – ÚjvidékiSzínház, 2021 Children of the Sun - CNP, 2022

Jasmina Holbus (born 21 November 1968) is a Serbian stage designer, poet and interior designer.

## Design Work[edit]

Holbus graduated from Chelsea College of Arts in London in 1996, with a degree in interior design. She has been a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia since 1993 and a member of The Applied Artists and Designers Association of Serbia since 2007,[1] holding the status of an independent artist.

She has been professionally engaged in interior design since 1997 and has designed residential and commercial spaces. Since 2015, she has been the co-owner and the director of a company that has designed and built a number of residential buildings in Belgrade.[2]

Holbus lives and works in Belgrade. She has a son named Alex Julius Holbus from a former marriage with Yugoslav-Serbian ice hockey player Mirko Holbus.[3]

## Bibliography[edit]

Holbus has been engaged in literary work since 1990. She took part in the Festival Voix Vives de méditerranée en méditerranée 2016, a poetry festival in Sète in France. Her poetry is translated into French and published by Al Manar, within the edition of the poetry festival in 2016.

She has published thirteen collections of poems:

* Noći uzdaha (Nights of Sighs), Prometej, Novi Sad, 1990.(COBISS.SR 3167239)
* Ne mogu pobeći (I Can’t Escape), Prosveta, Belgrade, 1993.(COBISS.SR 51439111)
* Gde prestaje reč (Where Words Stop), Rad, Belgrade, 1994.(COBISS.SR 29573644)
* Bela (White), Plato, Belgrade, 2002.(COBISS.SR 99564812)
* Nemir (Unrest), Plato, Belgrade, 2002.(COBISS.SR 99564300)
* Šestar (Caliper), Plato, Belgrade, 2002.(COBISS.SR 99565068)
* Slagalica (Jigsaw), Plato, Belgrade, 2006.(COBISS.SR 131309324)
* Repozicija (Reposition), Plato, Belgrade, 2010.(COBISS.SR 174830860)
* Tempo, Plato, Belgrade, 2013.[4](COBISS.SR 218927628)
* Hipotenuza (Hypotenuse), Zlatno Runo, Belgrade, 2015.(COBISS.SR 216700428)
* Izbor (Choice), selection of poems from the previous ten published books, Zlatno Runo, Belgrade, 2015.(COBISS.SR 216700172)
* L’hypoténuse at autre poèmes, published by Al Manar, France, 2016 (ISBN 978-2-36426-074-0)
* Ampula (Ampoule), Zlatno Runo, Belgrade, 2021. (COBISS.SR-ID 46695177)

## Theatre set design[edit]

She has been engaged as a stage designer since 2003 in the creation of more than forty theatre productions.

Year | Theatre/ Ballet plays | Author | Director/
Choreographer | Theater / Production

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2004. | Big white plot | Dimitrije Vojnov | Miloš Lolić | Atelier 212
2006. | The President and Eve
of Retirement | Thomas Bernhard | Dino Mustafić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2006. | Other side | Dejan Dukovski | Miloš Lolić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2007. | Banat | Uglješa Šajtinc | Dejan Mijač | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2007. | Mensch Meier | Franz Xavier Kroetz | Miloš Lolić | Atelier 212
2008. | Dreamers | Robert Muzil | Miloš Lolić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2009. | A Flea in Her Ear
(adaptation) | Greg Leaming | Ljubiša Ristić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2010. | God is a DJ | Falk Richter | Miloš Lolić | Little Theatre "Duško Radović"
2011. | Zoika's Apartment | Mikhail Bulgakov | Dejan Mijač | Serbian National Theatre
2012. | Othello | William Shakespeare | Miloš Lolić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2014. | The Journal of Carnojevic | Milos Crnjanski | Miloš Lolić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2014. | Don Juan | Molière | Maša Kolar | Budva City Theatre &
Bitef Dance Company
2014. | Dali & Picasso | Fernando Arabal | Dimitrije Udovički | Bitef Theatre
2015. | Triad | Libretista J. Holbus | Maša Kolar | Zagreb Dance Centre
2015. | Mary Stuart | Friedrich Schiller | Miloš Lolić | National Theatre in Belgrade
2017. | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Miloš Isailović | XII Festival mediteranskog
teatra Purgatorije
2017. | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Maša Kolar | Croatian National Theater
2017. | The Wall, the Lake | Dushan Jovanovic | Miloš Lolić | Slovenian National Theater
2018. | NORDOST | Torsten Buchsteiner | Jana Maričić | Bitef Teatar i Beo Art
2018. | Five life's of sad Milutin | Milena Markovic | Alexandra Milavić Davies | Atelier 212
2018. | Novel on London | Miloš Crnjanski | Ana Đorđević | Belgrade Drama Theater
2019. | Nathan der Weise | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Jovana Tomić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2019. | The Cave | Ivan Ilić & Slobodan Obradović | Jana Maričić | BELEF 2019 - Theatre Vuk
2019. | La Celestina | Fernando de Rojas | Milan Nešković | Yugoslav Drama Theatre&City Theatre Budva
2019. | Knives in Hens | David Harrower | Katarina Žutić | Atelier 212
2019. | On the Darkening Green | Milena Marković | Jovana Tomić | National Theatre in Belgrade
2020. | Motion | Dimitrije Kokanov | Jovana Tomić | Bitef Theatre
2020. | The Screens | Jean Genet | Dino Mustafić | Novi Sad Theater/ Újvidéki Színház
2021. | The Son | Florian Zeller | Ana Tomović | Atelier 212
2021. | Kaspar | Peter Handke | Miloš Lolić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2021. | The Lustful Days of Hung Johnny | Filip Grujić | Jovana Tomić | Novi Sad Theater – Újvidéki Színház
2021. | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | Jovana Tomić | Serbian National Theatre
2022. | Children of the Sun | Maxim Gorky | Jovana Tomić | Montenegrin National Theatre
2022. | Holy Prada | Dimitrije Kokanov | Sanja Mitrović | Bitef Theatre
2022. | Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. | Alice Birch | Jovana Tomić | Atelier 212
2022. | Yerma | Simon Stone | Ana Tomović | Montenegrin National Theatre
2023. | Unter Grund | Sanja Mitrović | Sanja Mitrović | Schauspielhuis Dortmund
2023. | The Loser | Thomas Bernhard A.S. Pushkin | Nataša Radulović | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2023. | Pains of Youth | Ferdinand Bruckner | Jovana Tomić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
2023. | Adam and Eve | Miroslav Krleža | Maša Kolar | Croatian National Theater in Rijeka
2024. | I Dreamed That I Woke Up | Željko Hubač | Dino Mustafić | National Theatre in Belgrade

## Participation in other projects and exhibitions[edit]

Jasmina Holbus was an Art director for the project Bojan Z. Sextet in Sava Centre in Belgrade and a Synagogue in Novi Sad in 2013. She was the author of video works for the tour of Shelter with a View jazz album – piano concert of Bojan Zulfikarpašić, France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Switzerland 2014/2015. She was the author of various multimedia projects in architecture, graphic designs and audio-video installations – Barcelona Art Biennial, 2005. She participates in group exhibitions of the applied arts in the country on a regular basis. She is the author of Let's Talk Multimedia Art Research Project, at "Štab" gallery Belgrade 2016.[5][6][7]

## Awards[edit]

* 2009 - GRAND PRIX FOR BEST PLAY MIRA TRAILOVIĆ presented by BITEF Festival ″Dreamers″ by Robert Musil, directed by Miloš Lolić | production Yugoslavian Drama Theatre
* 2013 - ANNUAL AWARD FOR BEST SCENOGRAPHY presented by The Association of Fine Arts Artists & Designers of Serbia, for special artistic contribution in the production of ″Othello″ by W. Shakespeare, directed by Miloš Lolić | Yugoslav Drama Theatre
* 2017 - SPECIAL AWARD FOR ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT | XII Festival of Mediterranean Theater Purgatory ″Macbeth″ by W. Shakespeare, choreography by M. Isailović Production Bitef Theater (Serbia) & Cultural Center (Montenegro)
* 2018 - AWARD FOR BEST PLAY | ″Nord-Ost″ (North East) by Torsten Buchsteiner, directed by Jana Maričić | production Bitef Theater & Beo Art, Presented by audience at the Borin Theater Days, Serbia
* 2018 - ARDALION - AWARD FOR BEST SCENOGRAPHY | XXIII Yugoslavian Theater Festival (Serbia) ″Five life’s of sad Milutin″ by Milena Marković, directed by Alexandra Milavic Davies Production Atelier 212; Belgrade, Serbia
* 2019 - ANNUAL AWARD FOR THE BEST ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT | ″Nathan der Weise″ by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, directed by Jovana Tomić | Yugoslavian Drama Theatre, Serbia
* 2021 - ANNUAL AWARD FOR THE BEST SET DESIGN & special artistic contribution in the production of ″Kaspar″ by Peter Handke, directed by Miloš Lolić | Yugoslavian Drama Theatre

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Jasmina Holbus. biography". ULUPDS. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
2. ^ "office". Real home Belgrade. Archived from the original on October 5, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
3. ^ "IGOR PERVIĆ JU JE JAKO VOLEO Jasmina Holbus ima sina sa DVA IMENA iz braka sa OVIM SPORTISTOM". Blic.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved January 19, 2023.
4. ^ "Promocija knjige poezije Jasmine Holbus". Urbanbug. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
5. ^ "Jasmina Holbus Vas poziva na otvaranje mutimedijalnog umetničko-istraživačkog projekta LET'S TALK PROGRAM!". Telegraf. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
6. ^ "Let's Talk – postproduction video / Multimedia art research project / Concept: Jasmina Holbus". Retrieved February 3, 2019 - via Vimeo.
7. ^ "Let's talk: Multimedijalni umetničko-istraživački projekat Jasmine Holbus u galeriji Štab". ELLE. Archived from the original on October 7, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2019.

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