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Jasmina Holbus
Born	(1968-11-21) 21 November 1968 (age 56) Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Occupation	Poet, designer
Nationality	Serbian
Period	1990–
Genre	Poetry, stage design

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

Design work

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, 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 which has designed and built a number of residential buildings in Belgrade.

Holbus resides and works in Belgrade. She has a son, Alex Julius Holbus, from a previous marriage to Yugoslav-Serbian ice hockey player Mirko Holbus.

Bibliography

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, France, during which her poetry was translated into French and published by Al Manar, a French publishing house specializing in literature from the Mediterranean region

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.(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

Participation in other projects and exhibitions

Holbus has been the creator of various multimedia projects in architecture and graphic design, as well as audio-video installations. She worked as the art director for the project Bojan Z. Sextet in Sava Centre, Belgrade, and the Synagogue in Novi Sad in 2013. She was the creator of video works for Bojan Zulfikarpašić's tour of his jazz piano album Shelter with a View, which toured France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland in 2014 and 2015. She was also the author of the multimedia art research project Let's Talk, exhibited in 2016 at the Gallery Štab in Belgrade.

Awards

• 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

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. ^ "Jasmina Holbus". www.ulupuds.org.rs. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
5. "Promocija knjige poezije Jasmine Holbus". Urbanbug. Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
6. "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.

External links

• "Večni duh tradicije". Politika. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
• "Pozorište nije trend". Politika. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
• "Сценографија је нова шкољка". Politika. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
• "Poezija nosi energiju pomnožene ljubavi". Politika. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
• Let's Talk postproduction video Vimeo. Retrieved December 17, 2024.

• 1968 births
• Living people
• Theatre people from Belgrade
• Serbian women poets
• Serbian designers
• Writers from Belgrade