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, within the 2016 edition of the poetry festival.
She has published fourteen 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 () Ampula (Ampoule), Zlatno Runo, Belgrade, 2021. (COBISS.SR-ID 46695177) 55 Pesama (55 Poems), Zlatno Runo, Belgrade, 2026.(COBISS.SR-ID 200094473)
Theatre set design Year Theatre/ Ballet plays Author Director/Choreographer Theater / Production2004 Big white plotDimitrije VojnovMiloš LolićAtelier 2122006The President and Eve of Retirement Thomas Bernhard Dino MustafićYugoslav Drama Theatre 2006Other sideDejan DukovskiMiloš LolićYugoslav Drama Theatre 2007BanatUglješa ŠajtincDejan MijačYugoslav Drama Theatre2007Mensch MeierFranz Xavier KroetzMiloš LolićAtelier 2122008Dreamers Robert MuzilMiloš LolićYugoslav Drama Theatre 2009A Flea in Her Ear(adaptation)Greg LeamingLjubiša RistićYugoslav Drama Theatre 2010God is a DJFalk RichterMiloš Lolić Little Theatre "Duško Radović"2011Zoika's Apartment Mikhail Bulgakov Dejan MijačSerbian National Theatre2012OthelloWilliam ShakespeareMiloš LolićYugoslav Drama Theatre 2014 The Journal of Carnojevic Milos CrnjanskiMiloš LolićYugoslav Drama Theatre 2014Don JuanMolièreMaša KolarBudva City Theatre &Bitef Dance Company2014Dali & PicassoFernando ArabalDimitrije UdovičkiBitef Theatre 2015Triad Libretista J. HolbusMaša KolarZagreb Dance Centre 2015Mary StuartFriedrich SchillerMiloš LolićNational Theatre in Belgrade2017MacbethWilliam ShakespeareMiloš IsailovićXII Festival mediteranskogteatra Purgatorije2017MacbethWilliam ShakespeareMaša KolarCroatian National Theater2017The Wall, the LakeDushan JovanovicMiloš LolićSlovenian National Theater2018NORDOSTTorsten BuchsteinerJana MaričićBitef Teatar i Beo Art2018Five life's of sad MilutinMilena MarkovicAlexandra Milavić DaviesAtelier 2122018Novel on LondonMiloš CrnjanskiAna ĐorđevićBelgrade Drama Theater 2019Nathan der WeiseGotthold Ephraim LessingJovana TomićYugoslav Drama Theatre 2019The CaveIvan Ilić & Slobodan ObradovićJana Maričić BELEF 2019 - Theatre Vuk 2019La CelestinaFernando de Rojas Milan NeškovićYugoslav Drama Theatre&City Theatre Budva2019Knives in HensDavid Harrower Katarina Žutić Atelier 2122019On the Darkening GreenMilena Marković Jovana Tomić National Theatre in Belgrade2020Motion Dimitrije Kokanov Jovana Tomić Bitef Theatre2020The ScreensJean Genet Dino Mustafić Novi Sad Theater/ Újvidéki Színház2021The Son Florian Zeller Ana Tomović Atelier 2122021Kaspar Peter Handke Miloš Lolić Yugoslav Drama Theatre 2021 The Lustful Days of Hung Johnny Filip Grujić Jovana Tomić Novi Sad Theater – Újvidéki Színház 2021 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Jovana Tomić Serbian National Theatre 2022 Children of the Sun Maxim Gorky Jovana Tomić Montenegrin National Theatre 2022 Holy Prada Dimitrije Kokanov Sanja Mitrović Bitef Theatre 2022 Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. Alice Birch Jovana Tomić Atelier 212 2022 Yerma Simon Stone Ana Tomović Montenegrin National Theatre 2023 Unter Grund Sanja Mitrović Sanja Mitrović Schauspielhuis Dortmund 2023 The Loser Thomas Bernhard A.S. Pushkin Nataša Radulović Yugoslav Drama Theatre 2023 Pains of Youth Ferdinand Bruckner Jovana Tomić Yugoslav Drama Theatre 2023 Adam and Eve Miroslav Krleža Maša Kolar Croatian National Theater in Rijeka 2024 I Dreamed That I Woke Up Željko Hubač Dino Mustafić National Theatre in Belgrade 2024 Disappearance Tomislav Zajec Sanja Mitrović Atelier 212 2025 Birds of a Kind Wajdi Mouawad Dino Mustafić Belgrade Drama Theatre 2025 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Nataša Radulović Yugoslav Drama Theatre
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.
From the fall of 2026, Jasmina is working as the author on new multimedia research art work PROJECT 55 - Phenomenology of Bodily and Poetic Space.
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
External links
Jasmina Holbus Official Website
Let's Talk postproduction video Vimeo. Retrieved December 17, 2024.