Early Life, Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb & Berlin DAAD

Born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia, second child of Avgust Šosterič (a Slovenian mining engineer) and Vera Šosterič (a professor from Vojvodina). Grew up in Beočin, North Macedonia (Skopje), and subsequently Zagreb. Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (graduated 1976), followed by postgraduate Master’s Workshop (Majstorska radionica) led by Ljubo Ivančić and Nikola Reiser. Continued postgraduate studies in Fine Arts at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin on a DAAD fellowship.

Nova Slika, Byzantine Fresco Traditions & Zagreb Public Interventions

Established a prominent position within the Croatian and Yugoslav avant-garde. In the early 1980s, her work reflected the vital currents of nova slika (New Image Painting) and the Trans-Avantgarde, deeply influenced by Byzantine and Serbian medieval fresco painting discovered during her participation in the Sopoćanska viđenja colony.

Exhibited at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and the Salon mladih. Selected to represent Yugoslav art at the 5th Biennale of Sydney (1984).

Expanded her practice into collaborative, site-specific public art initiatives: Autorski izlog (Author’s Showcase, 1983), Dućani kulture (Culture Shops, 1985), and her landmark first performance PLAN (Zagreb, 1985).

Video Collaborations with Hrvoje Horvatić & Wartime Exile

In 1986, began a decisive twelve-year collaboration with film director Hrvoje Horvatić, co-producing and directing approximately thirty television documentaries and film essays on the contemporary art scene between 1986 and 1990.

Following the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars in 1991, they lived in exile in Italy and Stockholm (where they taught at the Royal Institute of Art in 1992/1993), before permanently settling in London, where they continued creating pioneering single-channel video works until Horvatić’s premature death in 1997.

Films and installations widely screened across international film festivals, curated by Mark Nash, Frits de Wit, and broadcast on Channel 4.

Professorship at Sheffield Hallam, STILL & Curatorial Leadership

Appointed Professor of Visual Arts and Reader in Media at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2000, presented her major UK solo project STILL (Site Gallery, Sheffield), an autobiographical and deeply personal body of photographic and moving-image works.

Photographic practice featured in seminal surveys: Charlotte Cotton’s The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, 2004) and Sally O’Reilly’s The Body in Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, 2009).

Curated and creatively produced major transnational initiatives: Imaginary Balkans (2002–2003), IAA – imagine art after (2007–2010), and The Endless School (2010).

Passed away in London on 23 April 2012. In September 2012, the tribute retrospective The Adventure of the Real was held at Studio Tommaseo – Trieste Contemporanea.