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.