Selection

The last show of the year presents a selection of yet unseen works by young Belgrade artists, working primarily in painting. As a group, they are bound together by a fresh outlook of the contemporary art world, but also with a certain sense of ambivalence that comes with it.
The gallery space is disturbed by huge blocks of cardboard boxes that divide it and give it a feeling of a storage, a haunted atmosphere, one similar to the feeling of finding your place in a mass of others. But this uncertainty is contradicted with paintings that correspond to each other with eeriness, an honest glimmer of fear and dream like figures. Through motifs that seem like figments of imagination, they indirectly paint a picture of a horror-esque reality, that for the young artists is not necessarily scary, but filled with intrigue for the other-worldly. They come together with a premonition, by supposing a sinister foundation for what’s to come, bearing in mind the beauty of the possibility.

Vanja Žunić

Marko Obradović (b.1998) works in painting, printmaking and installation. His work explores identity and pop culture through the lens of the abject and the trans-human. In his practice, he approaches each work as a character study which he places in various liminal spaces and situations. Marko graduated from the painting department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He has shown his work locally and recently had a solo show in De Bouwput, Amsterdam.

Milica Mijajlović (b. 1993) explores aesthetics of immigration, spectacle and trauma, largely influenced by the post-war years in the Balkans and her life between Serbia, Montenegro and central Europe. She likes to point out that, above all, she deals with love and its absence, as embodied in the abstract yet recognisable shapes reminiscent of explosions, eruptions, flowers or weapons, that are now part of her own visual language. Milica Mijajlović graduated from Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), and has, since then, shown independently and in groups at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Podgorica (Montenegro), City Surfer in Prague, East Topics residency in Budapest, Fotopub in Novo Mesto (Slovenia) etc.

Kristina Cvetuljski (b. 1997) uses thinned oil paint to represent landscapes, or, more so – spaces and places that aren’t necessarily familiar or recognisable. One of the main preoccupations of the painting process is the atmosphere, along with finding new perspectives, both personal and objective, inside certain landscapes which themselves anticipate or lack action. Kristina graduated from the painting department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and has shown her work in group shows locally.

Ilija Dinčić (b. 1998) finds inspiration in movies, music, poetry, books or just words that sound interesting, which he initially mediates through drawing and sketching, to finally arrive at painting. He often moves from one interest to another, ending up working on different series at the same time. Beside painting, Ilija works with sculpture, installation and moving-image. Ilija graduated from the painting department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and has since shown his work in group shows locally.

Pavle Ćurčić (b. 1998) explores many ways in which we can re-examine the idea of value, working through various mediums ranging from painting and video pieces to virtual reality (VR) environments. Pavle graduated from the painting department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and has shown his work in group shows locally.