PROMOTION OF THE MONOGRAPH AND RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF MIODRAG DAJA ANĐELKOVIC

* PAVILION IN THE FORTRESS – THURSDAY, 2 October 2025 at 7 pm

The promotion will be attended by Radmila Vlatković, museum advisor, Zvonimir Kostić Palanski, writer, Ljubiša Brković, artist and Radmila Kostić, author of the monograph

MIODRAG DAJA ANĐELKOVIC was born on 6 April 1945 in Jelasnica.

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1970 in the class of Professor Miodrag Rogić. He completed his postgraduate studies at the same Academy in 1972 in the class of Professor Boško Karanović. While still a student, he participated in the conservation of churches in Kuršumlija, Tutin, Crna Rijeka, and Prizren. He was a member of the ULUS and the Society of Serbian Artists “LADA” and Group A. As a scholarship holder of the “Moša Pijade” fund, he attended professional training in Paris (1980).

In addition to participating in exhibitions, he actively participated in the artistic life of the city and wrote professional texts for “Narodne novine”.

He published the textbook “On Graphic Arts” (1986), and much later published the book “Memory as an Incidental Occurrence” published by the NCC (2011).

He regularly participated in the work of the Art Colonies “Classic” (1994 – 1995), the Art Colonies “Sićevo” (1976, 1993 and 2014), and the Graphic Workshop Sićevo (2007).

Since 2018, he has been a member of the editorial board of the “Architect” newsletter of the Society of Architects of Niš. He has spent his entire working life as an expert advisor at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Niš.

In addition to painting and drawing, he has been engaged in essay writing and art criticism.

He has held 35 solo exhibitions and more than 300 collective exhibitions.

He has been awarded 12 times for his work. He has exhibited abroad at collective exhibitions in Lucerne, Basel, Aarau, Rheinach, Bucharest, Paris, Varna, Kuwait and Jordan.

He passed away on September 15, 2021 in Niš.

Through Miodrag Anđelković’s layered oeuvre, we are introduced to a multitude of styles and techniques, following his desire to experiment, for new, more dynamic content.

In search of new challenges through the eternal dilemma between the beginning and the final form, he reduces his artistic language by taking from nature only what suits his current meditative state. During the process of creation itself, he determines the degree of expressiveness, complexity, liveliness and authenticity.

The basic idea guiding the entire creative act of Miodrag Anđelković is the creation of an authentic work of art that, in its hidden meanings, carries the truth and reality of the experienced. With a recognizable artistic language, he softens the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, confronting imaginary worlds.

Exploring new artistic paths, he forms unexplored secret passages into his own universe, combining the organic and the inorganic, the concrete and the irrational.

The motifs of his graphics, drawings, watercolors and paintings are inspired by imagination, memories, literature or everyday events, giving them dimensions of the timeless, eternal.

During the creative process, he forms his own imaginary in an original, imaginative way as a complex visual expression that stimulates various associations.

Bringing the thought and the emotion into a harmonious, mystical balance, he skillfully moves in a wide range from the figurative, through the associative, to the completely abstract.

Setting high professional standards, he always returns to pure, original visual expression.

As an accomplished artist and Eurydice, in addition to working in painting and graphic techniques, he also dealt with painting, conservation and restoration of frescoes, essay writing and art criticism.

Standing out with its carefully constructed, mature, artistic expression, the work of Miodrag Anđelković represents a significant segment in the consideration of not only Niš, but also the entire contemporary Serbian painting.