2027
Hodanje po jajima
Solo exhibition, Vagon Gallery, Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Opening 20 October 2027
Duration 21–29 October 2027
The title reflects the caution required in a country where every word can have explosive political consequences. It also describes the artist’s own situation: anyone exhibiting a piece in Banja Luka that deals with electoral laws, the Bonn powers and nationalism treads very carefully. And knows that, despite this, some things will still fall apart.
On election night in October 2022, the High Representative, Christian Schmidt, amended the country’s electoral law using the so-called Bonn Powers. A few weeks later, the Central Electoral Commission decided on the allocation of delegate seats by drawing lots. Democracy as a raffle: imposed from the outside, blocked from the inside.
At the opening, Irena Pejčić performs “Kinder Jaje”. What remains are shells: empty husks, promises without substance. For the remainder of the exhibition, two videos will be shown side by side: the recording of the performance and archive footage from the BHRT broadcaster. It shows the draw taking place at the Central Electoral Commission, which determines the distribution of political power. The artist’s silent gesture meets the images of political reality to which she responds.
Every ten minutes
Solo exhibition, Red Carpet Art Award, Karlsplatz Showroom, Resselpark (entrance to the underground station), 1040 Vienna (Austria)
Duration tbc
A light installation born of absence.
144 signal lights: the sort used in factories and control rooms to indicate malfunctions. One goes out every ten minutes. The interval is not chosen at random: it corresponds to the estimated frequency with which a woman or girl is killed by a partner or family member — according to data from UN Women and UNODC. Over the course of 24 hours, the field of light empties, position by position, until nothing remains.
A signal light exists to be noticed the moment it changes. The installation ‘Out of Order’ slows down this logic. The change happens once, can never be undone, and demands to be witnessed at its own pace.
No image, no body, no name. There is only a number, translated into a duration of time. A statistic can be read in a second and set aside. The installation demands to be observed, waited out and endured. It does not illustrate the number. It takes its time.
2026
Pulverturm 2026
Group exhibition, OKFK Feldkirch, Pulverturm, Ganahlstraße, 6800 Feldkirch (Austria)
19–20 September 2026
In September 2026, OKFK will once again host an event at the Pulverturm in Feldkirch. Under the title “Pulverturm 2026,” the historic building will be transformed into a hub for contemporary art and music over the course of three weekends. The program is a call for dialogue and offers a space for diverse artistic perspectives.
Images of the Body and New Perspectives: The second weekend, from September 18 to 20, will focus on the exploration of the self and identity.
Intervention #2
Solo exhibition, Gallery Ruberl, Himmelpfortgasse 11, 1010 Vienna (Austria)
15 July – 05 August 2026
With its exhibition series “Intervention”, Galerie Ruberl invites young artists to create a dialogue between their work and pieces from the gallery’s collection. The encounter between different generations and artistic positions creates new perspectives and opens up unfamiliar viewpoints on familiar works.
In this edition, Irena Pejčić poses the questions: What does it mean to depict a body? And whose gaze determines what becomes visible in the process? For Pejčić, these questions serve as the starting point for her artistic practice. Through photography, installation, and sculpture, she explores the body as a site of experience, social attribution, and resistance.
For this Intervention, the artist has selected works from three of her series: Vulvae, Cycle, and Lust. The juxtaposition of her works with those by Arnulf Rainer, Michael Horsky, Franz Ringel, Hermann Nitsch, and others — curated by Irena Pejčić — reveals different approaches to the representation of the body. What connects them is a shared interest in the body as an artistic medium. At the same time, the various regimes of gaze under which bodies are represented, perceived, and evaluated come to the fore.
Ticktack
29–31 May 2026
Solo exhibition as part of the Independent Space Index Festival and the Rufolfsheim-Fünfhaus District Festival, viktoria, Viktoriagasse 5, 1150 Vienna (Austria)
26 plaster heads. Suggestive, nameless, impossible to overlook. The number is no coincidence: in 2023, 26 women in Austria fell victim to femicide. Irena Pejčić translates this statistic into sculptural presence – serial yet singular, silent yet demanding. Each of the identical forms represents a life that threatens to vanish from the public consciousness as soon as the headline fades. Ticktack is not a memorial in the traditional sense. It is a beat that never stops. A rhythm of repetition and inevitability. The clock is ticking. The numbers recur. What remains when language fails is form. Six to seven kilograms of plaster per sculpture. A weight that speaks for itself.
New Members
17 January – 1 March 2026
Group exhibition, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (Austria)
In the basement of the Künstlerhaus, the professional association is introducing its new members, who were admitted last year. Their works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic approaches – ranging from painting and installations to autobiographical art and architecture.
2025
Nothing to see here
11–13 December 2025
Group exhibition, Grossraum, Vienna (Austria)
The exhibition ‘Nothing to See Here’ brings together three artistic approaches that engage with society’s reflection in their own distinctive yet complementary ways. The ironic, almost casual title serves as both an invitation and a warning: what happens when we look? What do we really see? And what remains hidden? Three voices raise questions without answering them – through abstraction, the alienation of materials and political performance.
At the heart of the exhibition lies the idea of holding up a mirror to society. Yet it is no flawless mirror, no smooth surface of reflection. It is a mirror full of scratches, distortions and cracks – a mirror that forces us to question not only the world, but also ourselves. The exhibition invites us to look, to look away, and to look again. What begins as simple observation tips over into confusion, absurdity and poetry.
L’Origine revisitée
18–19 October 2025
Solo exhibition, Grossraum, Vienna (Austria)
The vulva is one of the most tabooed yet, at the same time, most standardised parts of the body in the history of art and culture. The exhibition counters this with 71 photographic portraits of real vulvas. Taking Gustave Courbet’s ‘L’Origine du monde’ as its starting point, the exhibition views the female body not as an ideal, but as an expression of individual diversity. Differences are not smoothed over. They are recognised as distinct forms of human physicality – the ‘aesthetics of diversity’.
The photographs are displayed as art prints in a calm, respectful setting. Each image stands on its own. Together, they form a visual archive of difference, dignity and visibility. The vulva is made visible without being objectified, and the exhibition invites visitors to question norms and taboos.
Eight Lines
28–31 August 2025
Solo exhibition as part of the anniversary symposium “working title – 25 years 100 per cent” organised by the Typographic Society of Austria, Castle Raabs on the Thaya, Oberndorf near Raabs (Austria)
Stop it
29 August 2025
Reading performance of the poem “Stop it” by Sonja Knecht in the Bosnian language (translation produced in collaboration with Jelena Jokić-Bornstein) as part of the anniversary symposium “25 years 100 per cent” organised by the typographic society of austria, Raabs Castle on the Thaya, Oberndorf near Raabs (Austria)
With Love & Rage
4–8 April 2025
Group exhibition, Voices of Rebellion, Kult41, Bonn (Germany)
Under the title “With Love & Rage”, the exhibition at Kult41 in Bonn brought together photography, poetry, prose and visual art by women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people. Positions that are often unheard, overlooked or silenced in a patriarchal world.
Love and rage are not opposites here. Rage at violence, sexism and marginalisation drives and binds. Love carries the solidarity that grows from it. At the centre was international solidarity: the connections between struggles fought in different places that are nonetheless intertwined. The exhibition saw itself as a safe space for stories that have gone unheard for too long, and as a dangerous space against the systems that seek to silence them.
2024
Stop it
8 December 2024
Reading performance of the poem “Stop it” by Sonja Knecht in the Bosnian language (translation produced in collaboration with Jelena Jokić-Bornstein) as part of the opening of the exhibition “My obsessions are so exhausting”, Babsi Daum’s studio, Vienna (Austria)
Femicide
25 November 2024
Pop-up event as part of the “For a Life Without Fear” campaign during the City of Vienna’s “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” campaign, ega, Vienna (Austria)
Land of Mine
25 September – 12 October 2024
Solo exhibition, Vagon Gallery, Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Peace of the Vulva
24–25 May 2024
Group exhibition as part of the Mariahilf District Festival “Kunst mit 6”, Aids Hilfe Haus, Vienna (Austria)
2023
Land of Mine
24 November 2023
Pop-Up, Central Cinema Centre, Wiener Neustadt (Austria)
sarajevo mon amour
11–18 August 2023
Film screening, Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
The Bliss of Provocation
7–16 April 2023
Group exhibition, Porn Film Festival, Vienna (Austria)
Futissage II
31 March – 15 April 2023
Group exhibition, Holy Fut in collaboration with Junge Kunst, Süsswasser, Vienna (Austria)
2022
The Pearl
17–18 September 2022
Pop-up, Bricks 15, Vienna (Austria)
Futissage I
12–28 March 2022
Group exhibition, Holy Fut, Kunstraum Daniel Russegger, Klagenfurt (Austria)
best before
19–27 June 2021
Group exhibition as part of the graduation show of the Master School of Communication (die Graphische), Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (Austria)