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Beijing 2008 · OLY
Projects
Sports Tools
Painting project
Parallels
Street photography · 2017–2019
Tokyo Agora
6 paintings · Tokyo 2020
Spaghetti
Art project
Photopoetry
Photography & poetry
Installations
Paris · One Year After
Installation · 2024
Youth Olympic Games
Installation · Lausanne 2020
FIBA Open Day
Installation · Geneva 2024
Le Rosey
Installation · Lausanne 2020
Lennen Bilingual School
Installation · Paris 2024
École Des Nations
Installation · Geneva 2024
Projects
Sports Tools
Painting project
Parallels
Street photography · 2017–2019
Tokyo Agora
6 paintings · Tokyo 2020
Spaghetti
Art project
Photopoetry
Photography & poetry
Gallery layout
01
Protection
2021 · 30 × 70 cm · Wood
Before each sumo match, the wrestler throws salt — purification, protection of the space. Here, the salt rises into the night sky and becomes stars, offering light and hope to Tokyo and the Games.
02
New Sports
2021 · 30 × 70 cm · Wood
Tokyo 2020 welcomed five new disciplines: softball, surfing, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing. Each athlete carries a ring colour, the continents arriving together through movement.
03
The Olympic Values
2021 · 30 × 70 cm · Wood
Respect, friendship and excellence rise as figures above the city. The sun takes the form of the Japanese flag, bathing Tokyo's rooftops and Mount Fuji in its light.
04
Determination
2021 · 30 × 70 cm · Wood
The medal podium emerges from the city itself, formed by buildings and lit windows. Respect, friendship and excellence step up to receive their medals — the values every Olympian carries as an ambassador.
05
All Together
2021 · 30 × 70 cm · Wood
Against Mount Fuji, the Skytree and the Japanese sun, five open hands connect to form the Olympic emblem. Each hand carries a continent's colour. Five fingers, five continents — we are all one, and we carry each other within us.
06
Celebrating the Games
2021 · 30 × 70 cm · Wood
All continents unite in festive celebration. The sky above Tokyo blazes in the five colours of the Olympic rings, shining over fifteen couples below — every possible combination of the five continents, dancing together.
Gallery layout
Reach
Real Eyes
Two Ravens
Passing
Dog Walk
Beneath
Little Steps
Hold
Landing
Counter
Two Rooms
Facing the Sea
Descending
Parallel Lines
Golden Hour
Departure
Palm Shadow
Yellow Line
The Bridge
Swan & Crow
Full description
Installations
Paris · One Year After
Installation · 2024
Youth Olympic Games
Installation · Lausanne 2020
FIBA Open Day
Installation · Geneva 2024
Le Rosey
Installation · Lausanne 2020
Lennen Bilingual School
Installation · Paris 2024
École Des Nations
Installation · Geneva 2024
Installation · Youth Olympic Games · Lausanne · 2020
Youth Olympic Games
Painted "by" is a live painting installation created for the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games — a project that turns the tools of sport into instruments of art. Ice hockey pucks, skis, rackets, blades: each leaves its own trace on a giant canvas. Every athlete becomes an artist.
Painted "by" — Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games
"Every athlete is an artist — we just sometimes need a different kind of canvas."
Installation · with FIVB & the French Volleyball Federation · House of the Olympians, Paris · 2024–2025
Paris · One Year After
One year on from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, this installation brought together 225 artworks — made by participants of all ages, including children, from pieces of old volleyballs — into a single collective piece, created with FIVB, the French Volleyball Federation, and the city of Paris.
The Installation
"Everyone is an artist — especially those who pass by saying, 'Oh, this is for children, I can't do art'… and a few minutes later 💥"
225 + 1
The Pieces
225 artworks, made from pieces of old volleyballs — first merged digitally into a single grid, then cut and reassembled by hand into one physical work.
The digital mosaic — 225 artworks, one grid.
The physical piece — cut by hand from old volleyballs.
Story
Hi!
I was born in Sarajevo, where the 1984 Winter Olympics took place. Our home address was Olympic Street 15 for several years in the Olympic village. My home for the last decade is the Olympic capital, Lausanne. I do think there is more to this journey than I can fully understand yet. I call it energy 🙂
I became the first Slovak decathlete at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. This experience showed me that there are no limitations to our goals and dreams. What matters is to believe we will find a way and to trust the process, sometimes beyond logic.
My first exhibition was held in Lausanne in 2017 — a mix of photographs, paintings, and poems. I've always liked the idea of painting with something other than brushes, and sports tools are just great for that. Not only them — it makes the process more creative and unpredictable.
Bio · Exhibitions · Contact
Bio
Visual Artist · Olympian Athlete
Beijing 2008 · Slovakia
Based in Lausanne, Switzerland
Education
MAS in Sport Administration and Technology
AISTS in Lausanne, 2015
Master's Degree in Business Economics
University of Economics in Bratislava, 2005
Exhibitions & Events
2026 — Scusate il Disturbo, PAC, Milan
2026 — La Biennale di Venezia, Carnevale dei Ragazzi
2025 — Sport × Art Project, FIVB & City of Paris
2025 — FIBA Open, Geneva
2024 — House of the Olympians, Paris
2021 — Olympic Agora, Tokyo
2020 — Youth Olympic Games, Lausanne
2017 — Lausanne Triathlon exhibition
Contact
slaven.dizdarevic@olympian.org
Lausanne, Switzerland
Open for exhibitions, collaborations & commissions
Installation · FIBA Open Day · Geneva · 2024
FIBA Open Day
Where the world of basketball meets the world of art. 51 original artworks — created by participants during the FIBA Open Day in Geneva — displayed around a film documenting the day. Each piece was made on the spot, transforming the sport into a moment of collective creativity.
Installation · Lennen Bilingual School · Paris · 2024
Dreams in Motion
A Sport and Art educational program carried out over two months at Lennen Bilingual School in Paris — bringing together movement, creativity, and expression, and culminating in a school exhibition that brought the entire community together.
Exhibition · Lennen Bilingual School · Paris
The Program
Dreams in Motion was developed as an immersive educational experience blending sport and artistic practice. Over the course of two months, students at Lennen Bilingual School in Paris explored movement as a creative language — translating physical energy into visual and expressive work.
The program concluded with a school exhibition, presenting the students' collective and individual works to the wider school community. Sport became a gateway to art, and art became a way of understanding sport.
Installation · École Des Nations · Geneva · 2024
Painted by Sport
A four-month Sport and Art educational program at École Des Nations in Geneva — where students discovered painting through the tools of sport, creating individual and team artworks that transformed physical movement into visual expression.
Exhibition · École Des Nations · Geneva
The Program
Painted by Sport was a four-month immersive program at École Des Nations in Geneva, inviting students to use the tools of sport — balls, rackets, skates, and more — as instruments of painting. Working both individually and in teams, they created canvases that carried the energy and mark of movement, turning each session into a shared act of creation.
The program culminated in a school exhibition bringing together students, parents, and the wider school community — a celebration of everything the children had built and discovered. The event also featured an inspirational speech reflecting on the journey: how sport can become art, and how art can deepen the meaning of sport.