Andrej Tisma

Who is Andrej Tisma?

Andrej Tisma was born in 1952 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1976. He has had solo exhibitions since 1972, and since 1969 has taken part in some 600 collective exhibitions in Yugoslavia and about 40 other countries.

Concerned with concrete poetry, mail art, photography, performance, electrography, video, web.art and music. He was involved with the international mail art movement since 1974 and has organized about twenty mail art exhibitions in Yugoslavia and Canada.

Since 1996 Tisma is dedicated to web.art. His web.art works are included in the Net Art Idea Line, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Rhizome Artbase, New York, USA; Net Art Guide, Stuttgart, Germany; Net Art Collection of the Irish Museum Of Modern art, Dublin, Ireland. He took part in the Ars Electronica festival, Linz, Austria. Lately is working in the field of music too.

He has been publishing art criticism and essays since 1976, in Yugoslavia and abroad. A collection of his articles, essays and rubber-stamp works has been published in San Francisco by the Stamp Art Gallery in 1996.