10. Niš Salon: 12/2
Officers’ Home 20 November – 17 December 2025
For the tenth time, the public will be able to visit Niš Salon: 12/2, an annual exhibition that includes works by twelve artists chosen by two selectors. The selectors of this year’s anniversary exhibition are Ivona Fregl, an independent curator from Belgrade, and Professor Slobodan Radojković from the Faculty of Arts in Niš. Ivona Fregl’s selection includes works by Dragoslav Krnajski, Dušan Stipić Dudwarszky, Sanja Latinović, Nina Todorović, Nina Marić and Danja Tekić, while Slobodan Radojković’s selection includes works by Lidija Antanasijević, Vladimir Veljašević, Elizabeta Matorkić Bisenić, Vladimir Milanović, Ivana Milev and Mina Rakidžić Dostanić.
The selection of works by Ivona Fregl includes both classical and so-called new media: sculpture, painting, collage, assemblage, video, photography, performance and installation. Interpreting them, Ivona Fregl states, among other things: Dragoslav Krnajski’s works problematize the socio-political situation, inflammatory rhetoric and the present tension that affects us all. Dušan Stipić Dudvarski’s monumental installation exposes the subordinate position of modern man and the meaninglessness of such an existence. Sanja Latinović’s performances point to the precarious work of artists, but also to the importance of unity and collective actions through empathy. Nina Todorović’s video works and collages establish nature’s constant resistance to unprofessional, brutalist attempts to tame it. Nina Marić’s visually receptive polyptych Herbarium – New Life represents the dual nature (medicine and poison) of plants. Danja Tekić’s works take us back to ourselves, to a place, a peaceful world in which all options are not only possible but also present in parallel.
Slobodan Radojković’s selection consists of works from the domains of graphics, drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures and objects. Lidija Antanasijević observes socio-political movements with the selected works. Vladimir Veljašević’s reduced landscapes are characterized by the proportionality of surfaces and the flow of lines, while Elizabeta Matorkić Bisenić’s collages carry a personalized thought about humanity and renunciation. As a paraphrase of her own work, Vladimir Milanović’s colored drawings carry transparency and lightness. In non-standard sculptural materials, Ivana Milev’s interweavings constitute a monumental object. Mina Rakidžić Dostanić’s work is executed with unconventional graphic procedures, conceptually indicated by reflections on the nature of space and surroundings.
Ivona Fregl (Belgrade, 1969) graduated in 2005 from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Department of Art History, Department of History of Architecture. In the period 2016-2018, she was a curator and member of the artistic council of the Lucida Gallery in Belgrade. She is one of the founders and director of the citizens’ association for the development and advancement of visual and fine arts ART-ZUM. Since 2018, she has been working as an independent curator. She has organized, realized and was the author of the text in the catalogs of more than fifty solo and group exhibitions. She is a member of ULUPUDS in the status of an independent artist (cultural expert).
Slobodan Radojković (Niš, 1967) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje in 1992. He completed his postgraduate studies in graphics (1996) and his doctoral studies in art (2016) at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He works at the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš, as a full professor for the subjects of Graphics and Graphics with Technology. He was employed as a curator and graphic designer at the Gallery of the SLU Niš from 1994 to 2015. He initiated the establishment of the Graphic Workshop Sićevo in 2006.
He has been a member of ULUS since 1993, since when he has exhibited at more than 350 collective exhibitions in the country and abroad (Macedonia, Bulgaria, Argentina, Japan, Greece, USA, Canada, Egypt, France, Romania, China, Montenegro, Mexico, Italy, Hungary, Belgium…). He has held 32 solo exhibitions in many cities in Serbia (Niš, Belgrade, Pirot, Novi Sad, Kikinda, Prokuplje, Smederevska Palanka, Kraljevo, Kragujevac, Raška, Leskovac) and abroad (Bulgaria, USA, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Montenegro, North Macedonia).
At the opening of the 10th Niš Salon: 12/2, the performance Čoveče, ne žruti se by Sanja Latinović will be performed. The Niš Salon Award for the most successful work will be awarded later, during the duration of the exhibition. The public will be able to visit it until November 17.