Andrea Moračanin
“Center”
Lithographs and Projections
Salon 77, May 8 -June 1, 2025

On Thursday at 7 p.m., Salon 77 in Tvrđava will open an exhibition of lithographs and photo-projections by the younger generation artist Adrea Moračanin. The exhibition titled “Center” is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Niš, and the gallery in the former Bali-beg mosque is a perfect fit for her recent artistic work. Namely, with a simple and precise system of straight, bright lines on a deep black surface, Andrea Moračanin defines the views of the interior of a residential building. Even if we don’t know it, and this is her own childhood home, the development of the themes of temporality, eternity, or death, as Dr. Mina Rakidžić Dostanić notes, is clear. Therefore, the display of this graphic entity (and its extensions) in the space of a former religious building encourages the loading of a new value into the artist’s work, which is the view of the home as a sanctuary.

Andrea Moračanin (Kraljevo, 1995) completed her undergraduate (2018) and master’s (2019) studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, at the Department of Painting in the class of Prof. Dobrica Bisenić. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Department of Graphic Arts, FLU, under the mentorship of Prof. Vladimir Milanović. During her studies, she was a recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and during her doctoral studies, a scholarship holder from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, where she was engaged as a student-researcher at the Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.

She has participated in over twenty group exhibitions in the country and abroad (Belgium, South Korea, Poland, Romania). In 2022, she stayed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, as part of the “Start In Gdansk” project, where she completed a lithography course. In 2024, as part of the Erasmus+ project, she spent two months on a professional internship in Paris, as a printing assistant at the Michael Woolworth Atelier. She holds an art therapy certificate as part of the “Mad Balkans – transforming psychiatry through art” project organized by the Prostor Association from Belgrade and Oslo Metropolitan University.