Ljiljana Šunjevarić’s eyelashes.

Ljiljana Šunjevarić’s latest art collection will be exhibited for the first time in Nis, in the Pavilion in the Fortress from August 22 to September 15. With these paintings, the artist remains consistent with the issues of social reality, but makes perhaps the first more extensive contribution to the understanding of living conditions in the north of Kosovo in local art. The complex of the Trepča Mining Combine, which symbolizes the failed ideas of socialist workers’ progress, indirectly tells us about the policy of restoring Serbia’s sovereignty over the province, from the end of the eighties and the more than excessive epilogue from the nineties of the 20th century. However, Ljiljana’s paintings mostly thematize the twenty-year transitional vacuum in this territory, issues of people’s lives and endless waiting. With that, the artist painted views of this complex in a hilly landscape in muted tones, a genre scene from the Trepča restaurant, and portraits of the staff and its guests. With the Trepča exhibition, Ljiljana Šunjevarić makes precise but open artistic remarks and thereby provokes a response from the public consciousness.

Ljiljana Šunjevarić was born in 1979 in Užice. She graduated, master’s and doctorate in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade. He has been actively exhibiting at individual and group exhibitions in the country and abroad since 2000. She was awarded in the field of drawing. She is the author of several art projects in public space. She participated in numerous domestic and international art colonies and workshops. Her artistic works are represented in many collections: Painting Collection / Period after 1950 of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade; Contemporary art collection of Nadežda Petrović Gallery in Čačak; Collection of the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zrenjanin; Collection of the National Museum in Arandjelovac; Collection of the National Museum in Smederevo; Collection of the Museum of the City of Belgrade; Collection of the National Museum in Kraljevo; Collection of contemporary paintings of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art Nis and in several private collections. She is employed at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pristina with a temporary seat in Kosovska Mitrovica, as an associate professor.