Jelena Jureša (born in Novi Sad, in Yugoslavia) is a visual artist currently based in Ghent. Through her multidisciplinary practice, encompassing film, video installation, and photography, she investigates questions of identity, the politics of memory and oblivion, collective violence, and the historical and structural mechanisms of oppression. She has presented solo exhibitions at venues including the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Argos – centre for audiovisual arts in Brussels, Kunsthal Mechelen / De Garage (with Aernout Mik), Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien in Graz, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions and biennials such as Manifesta Biennale, Contour Biennale, Kunstverein Hamburg, Budapest Gallery, Maxim Gorki Theater and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst. Her films have screened at festivals including FID Marseille, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, and Doc Lisboa, and in collaboration with performance artists and musicians her work has been presented at theatre and performance festivals such as Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Donaufestival, Theaterformen, Auawirleben Theaterfestival, and Kunstenfestivaldesarts. As a Jackman Goldwasser resident artist in collaboration with the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, she conducted research on the relations of public art, capitalism, and patriarchy, and as a Q21 artist in residence in Vienna, she studied the work of anthropologists and racial hygienists during the Austrian imperial period, alongside post-WWII politics of oblivion in Austria. She teaches at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent and holds a Ph.D. in Arts from Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and KASK&Conservatorium. Since 2020, she has been working on her postdoctoral research project Revolt! On a Refusal to Sing — Thinking Resistance Through Music, Waste, and Complicity.