*1990 in Zrenjanin, Serbia
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
2017 – 2020
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Art, Germany, Meisterschüler
2015 – 2017
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Art, Germany, Diplom
2009 – 2013
Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Painting, Serbia, Bachelor Studies
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2025
Artists in residence | Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (upcoming)
2022
1st Prize of the Young Art Award 2022, Kommunale Galerien Berlin & Kunstverein Centre Bagatelle, Berlin, Germany
NEUSTART KULTUR: Kickstarter-Zuschuss für Absolvent:innen von Kunsthochschulen, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
2021
Grand Prize of the 14th Biennial of Watercolor, Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, Serbia
INITIAL Special Grant, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2019
4th Prize of the Collage Competition, Willi Münzenberg Forum, Berlin, Germany
1st Prize of the Video Competition, Nordhorn Music Festival, Germany
2018
Hegenbarth Stipendium, Foundation for Art and Culture Dresden of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden, Germany
2015 – 2017
DAAD-Study Scholarships for Foreign Graduates in the Fields of Fine Art, Design/Visual Communication and Film
2014
Award in the field of alternative comic, 12th International Comics Festival, Srećna Galerija SKC, Belgrade, Serbia
2013
Praise for drawing on the XVII Biennale of student drawings, Student’s Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia
Annual Award in a field of Painting, Academy of Arts Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
2nd Prize of the art competition PERSPECTIVES 12, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010
Award for the best drawing, Milivoj Nikolajević Fund, Novi Sad, Serbia
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2022
Blindfolded, with Gojko Dutina, Gallery O3ONE, Belgrade, Serbia
2021
Accent - Mind the Gap!, Showcase exhibition, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Germany
2020
walk so lightly, Exhibition of the Hegenbarth scholarship holders 2019: Elise Beutner and Nora Mesaros, Dresden City Art Gallery, Dresden, Germany
2019
I am the House, Gallery Šok Zadruga, Novi Sad, Serbia
Inside out, with Mona Pourebrahim, Gallery Brüderstrasse, Görlitz, Germany
2018
mostly sunny, with Gojko Dutina, Gallery EX14, Dresden, Germany
2017
Negativ Aktiv, with Maria K. Morgenstern, Gallery Senatssaal, Dresden, Germany
2015
Once upon a time in…, Cultural Centre Požega, Serbia
Once upon a time in…, Gallery Šok Zadruga, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014
Collages, Cultural Centre Novi Sad, Serbia
Series of everyday events, Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, Serbia
Ordinary stories, Gallery of Contemporary Art Pančevo, Serbia
Drawings, Gallery ART55, Niš, Serbia
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024
Neue Kunstwerke der Graphothek, Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany
Shortlist, Gallery KünstlerGilde, Esslingen, Germany
2023
The Paths of Cohesion II, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
The Paths of Cohesion I, MMG Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Connecting Worlds - Artists & Travel, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Germany
OSTRALE 023 - Biennale for Contemporary Art, Robotron-Kantine, Dresden, Germany
Utsusu - Chronicle Vol.2, Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany
2022
Kahnweiler-Preis 2022: Arbeiten auf Papier, Museum für Kunst, Rockenhausen, Germany
Young Art Award 2022, Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany
Verschwinden, Oktogon, Dresden, Germany
2021
14th Biennial of Watercolor: Incredible (im)possibilities: imagining the institution of the future, Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, Serbia
Academy POSITIONS, POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
art-figura 2021: Distanz, Exhibition on the occasion of the 9. Schwarzenberg Art Prize, Museum PERLA CASTRUM, Schwarzenberg, Germany
Leap and Dive, Gallery U10, Belgrade, Serbia
2020
Existenz // Kapitel 2: Spuren, Oktogon, Dresden, Germany
Meister 20, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
KUNST(RE_PUBLIC), HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
2019
IMAGE 2019, Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, Serbia
Often the future is already there, before we are equal to its challenges. Exhibition of the Prize winners, Willi Münzenberg Forum, Berlin, Germany
Home/Heim/Domov, Gallery DUUL, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Art for Humanism, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany
art-figura 2019: Nach allen Seiten, Exhibition on the occasion of the 8. Schwarzenberg Art Prize, Museum PERLA CASTRUM, Schwarzenberg, Germany
Ich wohne in der Möglichkeit, Sehsaal, Vienna, Austria
Neuzugänge zeitgenössischer Kunst im Kunstfonds 2018, Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, Berlin, Germany
2018
partida, CSA La Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain
Finding is the first Act. The second, loss., Neuen Sächsischen Kunstverein, Dresden, Germany
DRAWN (OVER): CONTEMPORARY DRAWING FROM LEROY NEIMAN UNTIL TODAY, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
WIN/WIN 2018, Purchases by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony 2018, HALLE 14 – Centre for contemporary art, Leipzig, Germany
Annual Exhibition of the Finalists of 11. Heise Art Prize, Alte Feuerwache, Dessau, Germany
Existenz // Kapitel 1: Skizzen, Oktogon, Dresden, Germany
Double Trouble, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Karin Armbruster, Nora Mesaros, Lars Frohberg, Gallery Töplitz, Werder, Germany
2017
Banat Pavilion, Memorial of Revolution, Timisoara, Romania
Exhibition of the art group Híd Kör, SZAB Székház, Szeged, Hungary
Wollen und Können | Sollen und Dürfen, Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art, Dresden, Germany
Diplomausstellung, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany
Protagonisten in experimentellen Reichen, Büffelfish Gallery, Dresden, Germany
2016
Causa Obscura, OLG Dresden, Germany
The Evil doesn’t sleep, Gallery of Contemporary Art Niš, Serbia
I’ve seen a dying eye, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015
13th international COMICS FESTIVAL, SKC Belgrade, Serbia
The Evil doesn’t sleep, Gallery Šok Zadruga, Novi Sad, Serbia
ComiXconnection, Gallery Dr. Vinko Perčić, Subotica, Serbia
2014
12th international COMICS FESTIVAL, Srećna Galerija SKC, Belgrade, Serbia
Regional exhibition of contemporary arts Banat Pavilion, Apollo Hall, Youth Centre Pančevo, Serbia
Reconsideration of reality, Contemporary Gallery of Zrenjanin, Serbia
Youth Palette, Cultural Centre of Vrbas, Serbia
2013
XVII. Student Drawings Biennale of Serbia, Student’s Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia
Exhibition Youth 2013, Philip Morris Operations a.d. Niš, Serbia
Exhibition of works by students of the final year of the Academy of Arts, Gallery of Fine Arts in the Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad, Serbia
Exhibition “Perspectives 12“, Šok Zadruga, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Screenings & Filmfestivals
2023
in our second home, we are all poets, Allgemeiner Konsumverein e.V., Braunschweig, Germany
33 Jahre riesa efau, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2021
HfBK Dresden Shorts Vol. II, Dresden Academy of Fine Art, Dresden, Germany
2020
Experimental Superstars, International Film Festival for Experimental Films, Novi Sad, Serbia
Verstärker Art-Film-Festival, GEH8 Kunstraum, Dresden, Germany
Kurzsüchtig – 17. Middle German Short Film Festival, Felsenkeller, Leipzig, Germany
2019
Short Film Night, Dresden Academy of Fine Art, Germany
Nordhorn Music Festival, Nordhorn, Germany
Lift-Off Online Sessions, Pinewood Studios, United Kingdom
2017
Experimental Superstars, International Film Festival for Experimental Films, Novi Sad, Serbia
Projects
2021
Homage to Joseph Beuys - an animation workshop, workshop leader: Nora Mesaros, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Germany
Verschwinden, Artist book with original works, Idea and concept: Dorothée Billard and Susanne Greinke, Publisher: HfBK Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2019
Open Studios Neukölln, Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V., Berlin, Germany
mentoring_programm, Career Service, HfBK Dresden, Germany
2018
NETZWERK KREATIV 2018: Animated Music Video, Armin Kulla/Nora Mesaros, HfBK Dresden, Germany
2016
Drawing exchange: London: Dresden: Dresden: London, in cooperation with Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School, Germany
GRRR!Program, Comik-Workshop, ELEKTRIKA Pančevo, Serbia
2015
‘’Perspektivni biraju Perspektivne’’, as part of the Jury, MMC Led Art (Šok Zadruga), Novi Sad, Serbia
How did Mita Kombajn got his Nickname, The developement of a Comic in cooperation with Wostok, Pančevo, Serbia
2014
Conversation about drawing, Academy of Arts Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Additional Drawing Classes for the Talented, MMC Led Art (Šok Zadruga), Novi Sad, Serbia
Toward the audience (as member of project team), MMC Led Art (Šok Zadruga), Novi Sad, Serbia
Perspectives 2014 (as member of project team), MMC Led Art (Šok Zadruga), Novi Sad, Serbia
Shock gallery programm for 2014 (as member of project team), MMC Led Art (Šok Zadruga), Novi Sad, Serbia
Publications
Utsusu - Chronicle Vol.2. Self-published, 2024. Exhibition catalogue
Venticular_fibrillation. OSTRALE - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, 2023. Exhibition catalogue
Förderpreis Junge Kunst 2022: Nora Mesaros. Bezirksamt Reinickendorf, 2022. Exhibition catalogue
art figura 2021: Distanz. Schwarzenberg: Große Kreisstadt Schwarzenberg, 2021. Exhibition catalogue
Verschwinden: Artist book with original works. Dresden: Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, 2021.
Novosadska ženska proza: Od ispovesti do putopisa. Novi Sad: City of Novi Sad, 2020.
Nora Mesaros, I am the House. Novi Sad: Gallery Šok Zadruga, 2019. Solo exhibition catalogue
Image 2019. Zrenjanin: Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, 2019. Exhibition catalogue
Nora Mesaros, Mona Pourebrahim, Inside out. Dresden: Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, 2019. Exhibition catalogue
art figura 2019: Nach allen Seiten. Schwarzenberg: Große Kreisstadt Schwarzenberg, 2019. Exhibition catalogue
DRAWN (OVER): Contemporary Drawing from LeRoy Neiman Until Today. Edited by Mirjana Dušić-Lazić. Novi Sad: Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, 2018. Exhibition catalogue
Banat Pavilion. Edited by Sorina Ianovici-Jecza. Timisoara: Fundatia Triade Timisoara, 2017. Exhibition catalogue
Diplomkatalog 2017. Dresden: Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, 2017. Exhibition catalogue
STRIPOLIS No.09. International Magazine for Comic. Zrenjanin: Cultural Centre of Zrenjanin, 2017. Magazine
STRIPOLIS No.08. International Magazine for Comic. Zrenjanin: Cultural Centre of Zrenjanin, 2016. Magazine
KOMIKAZE. International Magazine for Comic. Zagreb: Udruga Komikaze, 2016. Magazine, Nr. 43.
Annual Catalog 2015. Edited by Slađana Petrović Varagić. Požega: Cultural Centre Požega, 2016. Exhibition catalogue
POLJA. Magazin for Literature and Theory. Novi Sad: Cultural Centre Novi Sad, 2015. Magazine, Nr. 493. Mai – Juni 2015
Nora Mesaros, Collages. Novi Sad: Cultural Centre, 2014. Exhibition catalogue
Nora Mesaros, A Series of everyday events. Zrenjanin: Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, 2014. Exhibition catalogue
40. Youth Palette. Vrbas: Cultural Centre of Vrbas, 2014. Exhibition catalogue
Banat Pavilion. Edited by Marijana Kolarić and Nebojša Milenković. Belgrade: National Library Belgrade, 2014. Exhibition catalogue
12. International Comic-Salon. Belgrade: Srećna Galerija SKC, 2014. Exhibition catalogue
The Art of the Youth. Niš: Niš Art Foundation, 2013. Exhibition catalogue
XVII. Student Drawings Biennale of Serbia. Belgrade: Cultural Centre – Studentski Grad, 2013. Exhibition catalogue
Exhibition of works by students of the final year of the Academy of Arts Novi Sad. Novi Sad: Academy of Arts Novi Sad, 2013. Exhibition catalogue
30 x 30. Zrenjanin: Cultural Centre Zrenjanin, 2011. Exhibition catalogue
XVI. Student Drawings Biennale of Serbia. Belgrade: Cultural Centre Studentski Grad, 2011. Exhibition catalogue
The World Biennial Exhibition of Student Photography. Novi Sad: Academy of Arts Novi Sad, 2011. Exhibition catalogue