IVANA KESER was born in 1967. She studied at the Fine Art Academy in Zagreb (1987-92). Her work resides in the newspapers she writes, illustrates and publishes herself in which she carries news from private life, commentaries, brief articles and author's photographs into a public domain. Her project "The exhibition of the local newspapers" (started in 1994), in the form of exhibitions and actions, appeared in different local contexts. In her work she questions the borders between boredom and pleasure as well between the private and the common. Ivana Kesser has participated in exhibitions including Manifesta I (Rotterdam 1996), Aspects/Positions (Vienna 1999) and After the Wall (1999 Stockholm).