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Vladimir Miladinović‘s solo show, Nondescript Places, is on view at Ravnikar, Ljubljana, from January 22nd until March 8th, 2025.

The exhibition of artist Vladimir Miladinović, titled Nondescript Places, presents a selection of his recent works, which focus on key historical and social phenomena in his immediate surroundings. For many years, the artist has devoted his practice to the study of memory and the politics surrounding it, which in Serbia and across the former Yugoslavia are heavily coloured by nationalism. His works highlight selected instances of media manipulation, nationalist incitement, and historical revisionism, which were central to the political and armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

Through his works, Miladinović also explores and depicts the complex mechanisms shaping public discourse and historical memory. He focuses on the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s, offering insight into the details of specific war crimes committed during the struggles for dominance and territory in the name of national ideology. Using drawings, paintings, and occasionally “ready-made” objects, he brings attention to concealed and forgotten events that have marked the lives and destinies of many people and communities for generations.In this exhibition, the artist presents works from recent years as well as a completely new piece, which extends his reflective approach to historical memory into the context of Slovenia’s more recent history.

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112x152cm, watercolor on paper, unique

Photo: Flavio Palasciano

Vladimir Miladinović (1981) lives and works in Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade and has completed doctoral level courses in the department of Art and Media Theory at the University of Arts, Belgrade. He has been working as an independent artist since 2007. He was a member of the Working Group “Four Faces of Omarska” an art/theory group that questions memorial production strategies. Miladinović’s main interests lie with the politics of remembering, media manipulation and the creation and reinterpretation of the history. His work engages with war and post-war trauma. It deals with media, forensics, political and ethical identification and presentation of war crimes, but also with current transitional ideologies of denial and erasure. It questions how media and institutions in the post-war societies create public space, consequently shaping collective memory. He is using art as a forum to create a counter-public sphere that raises questions about war, media propaganda, manipulation of narrative, historical responsibility and intellectual engagement.

Text: Miha Colner