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MIRRJANA MIRA MAODUS
MIRJANA MIRA MAODUS RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION THE LIGHT OF MONPARNASSE OVER NISHAV
Officers' Dormitory, Tuesday, May 12, 7 p.m.
The SLU Niš Gallery invites you to the grand opening of the retrospective exhibition by Mirjana Mira Maoduš entitled The Light of Montparnasse over Nišava, which will be held on Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. at the Officers' Dormitory.
Mirjana Mira Maoduš belongs to a group of artists who began their artistic journey by acquiring their first academic knowledge and skills outside the borders of our country, presenting their works mainly abroad, and after five decades of work confirmed by awards and recognitions, she continued to create in her studio in Belgrade, in the area to which she is linked by memories from her childhood and early youth. The author's rich oeuvre is part of numerous domestic and international gallery, museum and private collections. The retrospective exhibition in Niš, organized by the SLU Gallery and the Cultural Institution Gallery 73 Belgrade, is an opportunity to present the painter's works created from the late 1960s to the present day to the wider and professional public of this region.
Mira Maoduš was born during World War II in an Italian military camp in the Serbian town of Medak. She completed primary and secondary school in Belgrade, and acquired her first painting skills while studying at the School of Applied Arts in Frankfurt. Acquaintance with the German scene influenced the author's poetics, which expressed her emotions, inner unrest and socially engaged attitudes through the contrasts of bright colors. Training at the Academy in Venice (Accademia di belle arti) and contact with the Italian school of expressionism gave rise to the works she presented at her first solo exhibition in Verona in 1973. After completing her master's degree in art history in Milan, Mira Maoduš moved to Paris in search of new experiences, where she continued her studies of painting at the Academy (Ecole National Superieur des Beaux-arts), approaching the Fauvist understanding of art.
Mira Maoduš's developing artistic path was undoubtedly contributed by the cosmopolitan spirit and life circumstances, which, after studying and working in Italy and France, took her to Moscow, New York and Tokyo. Details from nature, landscapes, faces devoid of individuality and the atmosphere on the streets were the motifs that, as in the very beginning, occupied her attention, until her stay in Japan, a country that cherishes calligraphy as a traditional form of artistic expression, had a decisive influence on her further creativity. By creating her own calligraphy, encouraged by the correspondence between Van Gogh and Gauguin, she began to express her nature, spirit and emotions. At first, she transferred parts of verses by Rimbaud, Cocteau and other French poets to the canvas, and by conceptualizing a layered colored field, based on the experiences of the art of Lettrism, she built abstract compositions rich in visual and meaningful content, giving the picture a relief structure and plastic content.
In the nineties, the world began to look at her people differently. Driven by a patriotic need to right injustice, she began her struggle by sending a message through her art and her works. Without wanting to give her work a political context, she began to express her national pride and love for her country by painting canvases with the words and verses of Jovan Dučić, Đuro Jakšić, Vladislav Petković Dis, Pushkin and Yesenin. Over time, using red, blue and yellow along with black and white, she introduced letters into her works that lead to a sign, syllables that refer to a concept or idea, words from the Serbian or Russian languages, names that direct her to what moves her and what she strives for. Thus was born the Cyrillic cycle, which the artist, in her constant search for the answer to the question Who am I, continues to explore and refine, intending to follow contemporary tendencies and modern influences and express her devotion to her roots and heritage.
The exhibition at the Officers' House will be open to the public until May 31st.
AUTHOR GUIDANCE AND AWARDS
Professional guidance through the exhibition and awarding of the best work at the 10th Niš Salon: 12/2
The audience was guided through the exhibition by the selectors of the jubilee Niš Salon, Ivona Fregl, an independent curator from Belgrade, and Professor Slobodan Radojković from the Faculty of Arts in Niš.
The winner of the 10th Niš Salon: 12/2 Award is Dušan Stipić Dudwarszky. On behalf of the jury, the award was presented by Radmila Kostić, museum advisor at the SLU Gallery Niš.
The Niš Salon: 12/2, an annual exhibition that includes works by twelve artists selected by two selectors, is being held for the tenth time. The selectors of this year's jubilee exhibition are Ivona Fregl, an independent curator from Belgrade, and Professor Slobodan Radojković from the Faculty of Arts in Niš. In the Ivona Fregl selection, Dragoslav Krnajski, Dušan Stipić Dudwarszky, Sanja Latinović, Nina Todorović, Nina Marić and Danja Tekić exhibit their works, while Slobodan Radojković's selection includes works by Lidija Antanasijević, Vladimir Veljašević, Elizabeta Matorkić Bisenić, Vladimir Milanović, Ivana Milev and Mina Rakidžić Dostanić. The exhibition is traditionally accompanied by the award ceremony for the most successful work. The award for the current Niš Salon: 12/2 was decided by a three-member jury consisting of: Radmila Kostić, art historian and museum advisor at the SLU Gallery, Boris Kandolf, academic artist and M.A. Bratislav Bašić, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Niš. The award went to the artist Dušan Stipić Dudwarski for his work: Metabolism of Narratives.
The jury's minutes state the following: "The artwork Metabolism of Narratives is a spatial installation that problematizes the position of modern man in society in an innovative and thoughtful way. By building a layered field of meaning, the artist introduces the observer to spatio-temporal communication. Thus, with convincing metaphors that possess strong, compressed energy, he questions reality, pointing to the current paradoxes of time. Through clear conceptual articulation, he opens up questions of identity, manipulation, or rather, human existence, developing a critical discourse. Possessing consistency in his work, originality in the choice of materials and an enviable dose of criticality, Dušan Stipić Dudwarszky builds a complex visual language and an authentic stance within the framework of the domestic art scene."
In addition to Dušan Stipić Dudvarski, previous winners of the Niš Salon Award: 12/2 are Anica Vučetić (2016), Čedomir Vasić (2017), Vukašin Milović (2018), Radoš Antonijević (2019), Nikola Marković (2020), Marija Dragojlović (2021), Nikola Džafo (2022), Dunja Trutin (2023) and Biljana Đurđević (2024).
This exhibition of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš can be visited by the public until December 17th at the Officers' House in Niš.
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY MILJAN STEVANOVIĆ
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY MILJAN STEVANOVIĆ
Between the Visible and the Implied Aesthetics of Balance in Utopian Visions
on Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 7 p.m., Pavilion in Tvrđava, Galleries of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš
Miljan Stevanović was born in 1991 in Vranje. He completed his basic academic studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Čedomir Vasić, and received his master's degree at the same faculty in the class of Prof. Dobrica Bisenić. He received his doctorate in 2021 in the class of Professor Dr. Vladimir Milanović. He is employed at Metropolitan University as an assistant professor.
He has had seven solo exhibitions in Belgrade, Niš (2018), Novi Sad and Slovakia.
Miljan Stevanović draws his inspiration from nature. Landscape is the occasion and basis of his paintings. He constructs the visual relationship and composition based on the landscape he sees, transforming it into large painted surfaces of pastel colors, without much narration. He deposits, absorbs, refracts the color. Flora is reduced and occasionally emerges from the dreamlike landscape. The landscape is glimpsed from the painted surfaces like ghosts, as in dreams of unclear sequences. Does the artist seduce us with such a scene, drawing attention to the matter that surrounds us and titillating us with a sense of comfort and sweetness, while we are surrounded by beautiful landscapes and divine meadows? Through his works we also feel the smell of ozone, oxygen, fog, but also a variety of plants. He transposes the visual impression into an emotional state. Narrative and mere depiction of nature are negligible for him precisely for this reason, but he places the emphasis on the impression. With a specific way of treating color, through line and pasty brushstroke, he redefines the classical medium of painting. With the harmony of painted surfaces, lines and structures, the artist builds an individual artistic style in his own unique way.
The title of his exhibition is Between the Visible and the Implied: Aesthetics of Balance in Utopian Visions. Utopia is not unattainable but transformation through the act of painting. The lyrical overtone is a visual silence in order to notice the boundary between the visible and the implied.
Thus, Stevanović builds a composition of abstract surfaces, amorphous form in a self-contained effect, resembling a pastel thread embroidery of horizontal rows. The color follows the shadow and shape of the desired scene like a dream or a mirage. Everything seems fragile and tender, emphasizing the spiritual and emotional experience that the artist is having at that moment.
Miljan Stevanović's exhibition will run from November 13 to 30, 2025.
EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY JELENA SIMIĆ
“PERSONAL SYMBOL – CIRCLE DISTORTION”
Jelena Simić was born in 1995 in Blace. She completed her undergraduate and master’s studies at the Faculty of Arts in Niš in the class of Prof. Bratislava Bašić. She is the recipient of the “Diploma to the Best Graduate Student” award from the Faculty of Arts in Niš for the 2020-21 academic year. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She is a member of ULUS and SULUV. She has participated in around 40 collective exhibitions and has organized six solo exhibitions in Niš, Vranje, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Vrbas and Opovo.
The exhibition “Personal Symbol – Circle Distortion” is closely connected to and inspired by nature, from which the artist accumulates and draws inspiration. Distortion of the Circle, as a symbol, is represented in almost all works, occupying a central place in the composition along with abstract forms. In her works through drawing, graphics, collage and sculpture, the circle transformed into an ellipse connects the entire story, like an invisible thread, building a picture of reduced coloristic value. She uses color selectively as an accent (red and blue). On large surfaces that calm the entire composition, the work is partially divided by areas of applied textile or paper surfaces. By using them, the author emphasizes rusticity and texture, and the visual art itself is richer. We notice the ease in the expression of strong drawing parts that transition into the destruction of the material, by sewing, stabbing, tearing, hatching, gluing, scratching the surface of the painting or drawing, Jelena in this way indirectly suggests and warns of the destruction of nature by man. While on the contrary, by using natural non-painting materials: cotton, jute, papyrus, she explores their artistic, conceptual and communicative powers. The symbolism of the entire project or the artist's message is actually an appeal to the excessive use of plastic waste instead of natural ecological materials. The ellipse is a symbol, a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. Her communication with nature is continuous, she transposes it into a drawing, painting, sculpture. She transfers her empathy, experiences, feelings to the canvas through line, surface and even color, in her own unique way, she boldly depicts everything she feels, sees and what surrounds her.
The exhibition can be visited by the public until August 3, 2025.
Maja Đurović "Next Time"
Opening of the exhibition on June 26th at 8pm
Exhibition of mosaics by Maja Đurović: “Next time”
Maja Đurović (1977) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Graphics, in the class of Professor Biljana Vuković. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia since 2009. She has exhibited at seven solo and over seventy group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has won several awards for mosaic: FLU Award for Mosaic at the Exhibition of Awarded Students 2005/2006; Plaque for Artistic Contribution to Contemporary Mosaic by the group of fine artists Ametist in Belgrade 2007; Honorable mention at the exhibition of small-format mosaics by the “Ametist” art group in Belgrade in 2011 and an award for exceptional artistic work at the exhibition of the 5th Biennial of Mosaics, organized by the Student Cultural Center New Belgrade in 2012.
She received a commendation for graphics at the 25th October Art Salon in Kovin in 2007; Special recognition for merit at Art Fest & Doral, Miami, Florida, USA, 2012, as well as Plaques from the “Heritage of Metropolitan Pitirim” Fund for the contribution and progress of Serbian art in the Slavic world for participation in the exhibition “1150 Years of Slavic Literacy and Culture”, Moscow, 2013.
For the Tourist Organization of Serbia, she realized replicas: the Medusa mosaic from the ancient settlement of Mediana near Niš and the Venator mosaic from the Felix Romuliana palace near Gamzigrad, 2013. Maja Đurović’s research focuses on the analysis of the inner life of an individual, that is, the state of his or her own being in relation to the environment. Through portrait motifs and human figures, she visualizes the character of the portrayed, emphasizing their individual characteristics. Skillfully handling the technique of mosaics made in natural stone, Maja Đurović presents in a special way her story about passivity, alienation, and apathy in the time and society that surrounds us. The atmosphere is almost elegiac, stopped in a moment that indicates a deep thoughtfulness about one's own existence. All the exhibited works deal with the fate of an ordinary person through visions of lonely, depressed characters who move through the silence of space, wandering aimlessly.
The artistic program of the opening of the exhibition includes:
soprano: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, full professor at the Faculty of Arts in Niš
pianist: Staša Stamenković, professional piano associate, Faculty of Arts in Niš
GRAPHIC WORKSHOP SIĆEVO 2025.
The participants of this year's Graphic Workshop 2025 are:
Susanna Doccioli / Italy/, Nikola Radosavljević /Užice/, Marija Anđelković /Belgrade/, Jelena Milićević /Belgrade/ and Aleksandar Dević /Niš/.
In the jubilee year when the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš marks 120 years since the founding of the First Yugoslav Colony Sićevo, the International Graphic Workshop Sićevo, as a newly founded colony, celebrates 20 years of its existence. By popularizing the graphic medium, this type of residency brings together significant names from both the Serbian and international art scenes, but also follows the development of young authors from the graphic world. The collection of graphic sheets in the Fund of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš now numbers over 200 graphic sheets, of various techniques and styles created only thanks to the Graphic Workshop.
From June 2 to 8, 2025, graphic artists will be staying in Sićevo in the Colony building. In addition to working in the workshop, exchanging personal experiences in the field of graphic techniques, and socializing, the artists will spend one day in the city of Niš and visiting cultural and historical landmarks and getting to know the tradition and culture of our environment.
Susanna Doccioli / Italy /, Susanna Doccioli was born and raised in Rome. To further her education in the field of graphics and graphic and visual communication at the prestigious I.S.I.A. Institute for Graphic Design, she moved to Urbino. While staying in Urbino, she joined the International Center for Graphic Arts - KAUS. Later, she continued her education in Berlin and Rome.2018. In 2011, she founded the Stamperia Ripa 69 Association with other graphic artists, of which she is the president and collaborates with various institutions and workshops in organizing exhibitions and workshops in teaching woodcut techniques and basic engraving techniques. Her works are in many private and public collections. In addition to her artistic engagement, she is also engaged in pedagogical work, but also works as an illustrator and designer for numerous well-known publishing houses in Italy.
Nikola Radosavljević /Užice/. He was born in Užice in 1991. He completed his undergraduate and master's studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He received his doctorate in the field of new media graphic practices at the same faculty in 2020. He completed his second master's studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Graphics, in 2022. He has received several awards and recognitions, including the Graphic Arts Triennial Award, Ural, Russia, the Grand Seal of the Graphic Arts Collective Gallery and the Golden Needle of ULUS, the Grand Prize of the International Graphic Arts Triennial in Krakow, Poland. He has participated in a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad, as well as in many residency programs. So far, he has organized 38 solo exhibitions.
Marija Anđelković /Belgrade/, Serbian graphic artist born in 1988 in Belgrade. She completed her undergraduate and master's studies in Belgrade at the Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, in the class of Professor Dragan Momirov. As part of a student exchange, she spent one semester in Krakow. She has been a member of ULUS since 2013. So far, she has organized eight solo exhibitions. She has exhibited at numerous collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has been awarded several times for her work. She has participated in several domestic and international art projects and graphic workshops. She was invited by the International Center for Graphic Arts in Ljubljana to lead a master class in lithography in 2024. Since 2018, she has been employed at the Center for Graphic Arts and Visual Research at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, as a printmaker.
Jelena Milićević /1992/ is a visual artist whose work includes graphics, illustration, and neon installations. She graduated and received her master's degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she completed her master's studies in the graphics department in 2016. After her studies, she worked as a lithographer at the Center for Graphic Arts and Visual Research "Akademija". She developed her artistic experience and skills through collaboration with artists from the region, Europe, and South America, as well as through participation in numerous workshops and exchanges. She has exhibited in numerous collective exhibitions and has organized eleven solo exhibitions, of which we highlight the exhibition in London in collaboration with Faww Gallery. Her works are in private and public collections in Serbia and Great Britain. In addition to graphics, she also illustrates books of newspaper articles. She lives and works in Belgrade.
Aleksadnar Dević /Belgrade/ born in 1954. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, where he also completed postgraduate studies in the Department of Graphics. He is a member of ULUS. He has participated in numerous collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. In recent years, he has been intensively involved in computer graphics. For a short time, he worked as a professor of computer graphics and graphic design at the Secondary Art School in Niš, as well as at the Faculty of Arts in the subjects of Graphic Communication and Prosthodontic Graphics. From 2000 to 2004, he was the director of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts in Niš. He has received numerous awards for his work. He has organized over ten solo exhibitions so far.
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS: BJELICA, CVETKOVIĆ, KOVAČEV
Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš
PAINTINGS EXHIBITION: BJELICA, CVETKOVIC, KOVAČEV
PAVILLION IN THE FORTRESS (April 29 - May 23)
A joint exhibition of three artists with different approaches, ideas and concepts is an opportunity for the art public to become more familiar with the diverse trends of our contemporary art.
IVANA BJELICA (Novi Sad, 1969) graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Painting, in the class of Professor Milan Blanuša. She has held over twenty solo exhibitions and has exhibited at over a hundred collective exhibitions in the country and abroad (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Spain, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, Japan, India).
She has won several awards in the field of fine arts (drawing, painting, collage).
She is a member of SULUV, ULUPUDS and the Art Circle (Association of Artists of the Petrovaradin Fortress). She has participated in numerous art colonies, art expos and other art events. Her works of art are in numerous private, gallery and museum collections in Serbia and abroad. In addition to fine arts, she is involved in photography, graphic design and interior design. For many years, she was the editor of the art program of the Mali likovni salon gallery, Cultural Center of Novi Sad (2003-2007), she has realized a significant number of exhibitions of eminent artists from the country and abroad and has achieved successful cooperation with many cultural institutions.
He is the founder of the Lumens art association (2013), whose main goal is the development and promotion of contemporary fine arts and culture, international cooperation and education.
He is known to the Niš audience as a participant in the Sićevo Art Colony in 1978, 1994, 2019. The gallery in the Fund contains 6 works. He had a solo exhibition in 1982, and participated in the Niš Salon 2020.
He lives and creates as an independent artist in Novi Sad.
With a careful formulation of the plastic-poetic and aesthetic, he builds concise artistic wholes. At the center of her artistic research is nature or man in the environment in which we live, understanding the complex human destiny. The dynamic gesture and light-dark contrasts are not in the function of any drama, but rather serve to more clearly define space or ideas.
ALEKSANDAR CVETKOVIĆ (Aleksinac, 1947) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1973, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in 1975. In five decades of creative work, he has organized nearly eighty solo exhibitions in the country and abroad, and participated in the selections of several hundred art events on almost all continents.
He has won a number of domestic and international awards and recognitions, including: Awards for painting at the October Salon in Belgrade in 1977 and 1988; Award at the International Drawing Exhibition in Nuremberg in 1979; First Prize at the YAVA Biennial in New York in 1980; Award at the Alexandria Biennial of Art in 1980; Golden Palette of ULUS in Belgrade in 1985; Politika Award in Belgrade in 1990; Awards at the Nadežda Petrović Memorial in Čačak in 1978 and 1990; Award for Painting at the Milena Pavlović Barila Memorial in Požarevac in 1985 and 1995; Award of the City of Belgrade Despot Stefan Lazarević for 2021, Recognition for Outstanding Contribution to National Culture in 2024. His works are in numerous museum and private collections in the country and abroad.
He is a member of ULUS. He lives and works in Belgrade.
Cvetković follows his own feelings and the sensibility of society in a special way with a deconstructed visual language. Having traveled a long way from hyperrealism through new expressionism, informel and pop art to liberal modernism, he continues to explore mythological and historical themes. In the process of forming new, metaphorical wholes, he introduces new materials, while simultaneously nurturing his own pictorial system, achieving highly aesthetic visual art.
ĐORĐE KOVAČEV (1947) graduated from the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1972. In addition to painting, he is also involved in musical creativity in various genres. He lived and exhibited in Vienna, Austria from 1982 to 1986. He has had several solo and collective exhibitions. Currently, his permanent exhibition is in the “Kovačev” gallery in Čurug.
While still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, working in a conservation team at the archaeological site of Lepenski Vir, he came into contact with objects and artifacts created by a man, a member of the Lepen culture. His interest in archaeology dates back to that time, and he deepened it even more during the period when, as a museum associate, he made drawings for documentation at the sites of Velesnica, Gomolava, etc.
In the meantime, he studied various anthropological studies on Amazonian tribes such as the Yanomame. He was particularly interested in the study of Aborigines conducted by Geza Rahaim in the 1930s.
As a result of all these experiences, a cycle of paintings, totems, sculptures, and objects was created, which he himself titled: From Churug to Churunga (Churunga is a well-preserved relic of great importance for the identity of Aboriginal tribes).
He lives and works as an independent artist in Churug.
Kovachev has a clearly defined concept in which he intertwines
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND PROMOTION OF THE MONOGRAPH "MIROSLAV ANĐELKOVIĆ"
OFFICERS' HOUSING
We invite you to the opening of the painting exhibition and promotion of the monograph "Miroslav Anđelković" by Sonja Vukašinović, on April 10, 2025 at the Oficirski Dom Gallery, starting at 7 p.m. The promotion of the monograph will be attended by Emilija Ćoćić Bilić, director of the SLU Gallery Niš, Malina Radonjić, art historian, Sonja Vukašinović, museum advisor from the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš.
The retrospective exhibition - in memoriam of Miroslav Anđelković consists of a selection of about forty paintings from his rich legacy as well as a selection of works from the Fund of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš.
Miroslav Anđelković was born on April 6, 1945 in Jelasnica. After graduating from art school in Niš, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He graduated and received his master's degree in the class of Prof. Nedeljko Gvozdenović. He became a member of ULUS, Lada, and the Niš Graphic Circle.
Miroslav Anđelković entered the art scene in Serbia in 1970 with the exhibition "Generation 1969/70" and was noticed by art critics and professional audiences. He exhibited his work about 35 times and was awarded 11 times for his work. Abroad, he exhibited in group exhibitions in Luxembourg, Paris, Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, Aarau, Craiova, Veliko Tarnovo, Moscow, and Nitra.
He collaborated with prominent writers and poets from Niš. He provided drawings for many literary works, such as "People of God" by Bora Sranković, "Ibis Age" by Stevan Sremac, "White Stone" by Dragoljub Janković, Lyrical folk songs of the Timok region "Oh, how the old mountain", "Divinska Mycenae" by Radmilo Radovanović, while with Tomislav Mijović he published four books of a joint poetic-lyrical diary under the titles: "In the gentleness and solitude", "Shimmers of calling", "Javke odsjaji, ugarci", "Vreme na okupu", and he illustrated Stevan Raičković's work "Notes about Black Vladimir".
He began his working life as a professor, first at the Gymnasium in Leskovac and Niš, and then moved to the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts in Niš, first as a curator, artistic director and director. He then moved to the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, where he worked until his retirement as a full professor. In 2011, he was awarded the Grand Plaque with the Charter of the University of Belgrade. He participated in a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad.
He passed away on April 15, 2021.
During his lifetime, he created over 400 paintings and countless drawings, watercolors, and graphics. The exact number is impossible to determine because the paintings have been stolen and a large number have remained in the permanent ownership of many institutions, museums, and galleries that have purchased his work or received it as a gift through participation in various art events and art colonies. His drawings adorn and illustrate many literary works. The family legacy includes 80 paintings and countless drawings and watercolors. Almost all of his work has been published in catalogues accompanying his solo and group exhibitions, and he has exhibited continuously for the past fifty years.
The development of his work has been accompanied by constant improvement and development without sudden leaps or drastic changes. The variety of colors changed depending on personal affinity and life circumstances, with the unlimited introduction of his emotional states and philosophical thoughts. Anđelković is inspired by nature, which he transposes. The paintings are dominated by a sensitively skillful harmony of the rational and the emotional, rich chromatic textures and visual parts, tonally harmonized with accents of warm and cold. His works exude strong emotion, which is presented through color but also strong expressive drawing.
Anđelković was one of the most attractive and versatile artists of Niš from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in Niš and Serbia. Through his active engagement at all levels of culture, he participated in the creation of the city's artistic and cultural life.
He exhibited his work 35 times, winning 11 awards. He participated in many famous art colonies in the former Yugoslavia.
Throughout his working life, he worked on the promotion and creation of the city's artistic life, as an academic artist, artistic director and later director of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš, but also through various juries, commissions, artistic councils, pedagogical work, following his artistic credo in the hope of achieving his goal. His work will remain permanently recorded and remembered not only in these areas but also beyond, because he left a deep mark in the history of artistic creation in our country.
NENAD NEDELJKOV ''Study II''
NENAD NEDELJKOV
Study II
paintings and video
On Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m., the exhibition of paintings and videos Studio II by Nenad Nedeljkov will open.
Nenad Nedeljkov's various conceptual and thematic interests are determined by his current artistic moment on the human figure and the possibility that the motif of the body responds to the desire for the visibility of the incorporeal. Therefore, on the basis of being and the body, a contribution is made to the eternal unraveling of the universal order, in the context of perishability and inexorable finality, and spiritual imperishability and biological vitality.
In an exceptional interweaving of digital and manual formative procedures, the artist creates variations of one and the same motif. A centrally composed cutout of a figure, with outstretched arms as in a crucifixion, is anatomically and graphically defined or almost completely distorted or reduced.
The two-channel video work Studio II is directly based on the cycle of variations in mixed media, entitled Studio, and represents its very successful extension, while the video Outside the Area suggests the flow of time and the cosmic rule of continuous movement.
Nenad Nedeljkov was born in 1971 in Zrenjanin. He graduated in painting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He received his master's degree in digital art from the Interdisciplinary Studies Department of the University of Arts in Belgrade. He has realized 15 solo exhibitions and participated in a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad (the Netherlands, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, USA, India, Australia, Turkey, Italy, Colombia, Great Britain, Switzerland, Greece, Mexico, France, Portugal, Argentina, Japan, Peru, the Netherlands).
The exhibition of works by Nenad Nedeljkov can be visited by the public in Niš until March 30th, at the Pavilion in the Fortress.
ACQUISITIONS 2015-2023
ACQUISITIONS 2015-2023 / PURCHASES OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES.
In its fifty-five years of existence, the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš has, thanks to various types of acquisitions (purchases, gifts, Art Colony "Sićevo", Graphic Workshop "Sićevo"), formed an impressive fund that currently numbers 1,798 works of art, classified into six collections. Since purchase is the safest and most relevant method of acquisition from the point of view of the value of a work, during the first twenty years of its existence, the Niš Gallery purchased works from numerous exhibitions for its collections, but this process was forcibly interrupted in the early 1990s, with the closure of the city and republic funds for the purchase of works of art due to the deteriorating economic situation in the country. After a long break, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia began to announce annual competitions for “financing works of art for the needs of art gallery and museum collections” in 2014. Regularly participating in these competitions, GSLU Niš has purchased 61 works with the funds of the Ministry of Culture, including 2023, including 22 paintings, 16 sculptures, 15 works of new media and 8 works on paper. Since eleven works purchased in 2014 were exhibited at the previous exhibition Acquisitions, on this occasion we are presenting to the public for the first time all the paintings and sculptures purchased in the period from 2015 to 2023.
The exhibition consists of paintings by: Mihael Milunović, Nikola Džaf, Miško Pavlović, Bratislava Basic, Nikola Marković, Pulai Arpad, Ivan Šuletić, Vesna Knežević, Jadranka Mišić Pejović, Ivan Milenković, Srđan Đile Marković, Tadija Janičić, Igor Antic, the DIMTIM group, as well as sculptures by: Mrđan Bajić, Željka Momirov, Gabriel Glid, Dragan Drobljak, Rajko Popivoda, Gordana Kaljalović Odanović, Zdravko Joksimović, Dragan Jelenković, Marko Crnobrnja, Nikola Pešić, Dragoslav Krnajski, Radoš Antonijević, Balša Rajčević, Rade Mutapović and Anđela Grabež. All the purchased works possess high aesthetic and artistic regularity, they typically characterize the individual artistic handwriting of the artist, testify to the dominant motif-thematic preoccupation of the author and to the authentic visual expression. Most of the works contain clear echoes of general social circumstances at their semantic level and represent the author's intellectualized reaction to the characteristics of the current time, expressed in a metaphorical or symbolic manner.
The purchase policy of the GSLU Niš is continuously based on respecting several important principles, namely: unifying the exhibition and museological activities of the institution, adequate monitoring of the national scene, filling the collections with works by artists who are not represented in them or are insufficiently represented. Thanks to the purchases made, the collections of contemporary painting and contemporary sculpture have been significantly enriched with valuable works, the vast majority of which were exhibited in Niš, the number of authors represented in the GSLU Niš fund has increased, and most importantly - the purchases made have significantly contributed to the development of these collections, not only from the point of view of quantitative replenishment, but primarily from the point of view of increasing their overall qualitative value and updating. The exhibition will run until April 6.