The Mirror – work in process (video: 1 min 14 sec)
Milica Dukić (1989, Kraljevo, Serbia) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad with Bachelor and Master degree in painting as well with Master degree in drawing. As a member of SULUV (The Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina) with the status of Independent visual artist as of 2018 she became a member of the Presidency of the Association in 2022. Milica is also a part of the collective Šok zadruga (MMC LED ART) since 2013, where she gained a valuable experience of working as a gallerist and participating in various programs (Total Art Sale, Never Finished Drawings...) In her solo exhibitions (15) and in more than 90 collective art projects, Milica has mainly explored the embroidery technique in combination with photography and textile. She also has a keen interest in inclusive art practices and volunteer work. She volunteered as an art insrtuctor at the center of the school Milan Petrović for persons with special needs on a number of occasions (latest project: Textile Newspapers). Milica had a unique experience of living one year in Switzerland as an artist-in-residence at the Ecole d’Humanité (2017/18) where she had an opportunity to teach several art courses (Drawing, Embroidery and Textile Art...). She is based in Novi Sad. At the moment, Milica lives in Jerusalem where she takes part in a long-term voluntary service program at organisation Akim-Jerusalem and she works with children and elderly with intellectual disabilities and parallel she is developing her art practice.
Education:
-Master studies at The Department of Arts, Drawing Study group at the Academy of fine Arts in Novi Sad, the class of professor Olivera Marić Nedić, 2014-2016. Thesis’ title: Of Things;
-Master studies at The Department of Arts, Painting Study group at the Academy of fine Arts in Novi Sad, the class of professor Goran Despotovski, 2013-2014. Thesis’ title: Reverse – Of people;
-Graduate Studies, The Department of Arts, Painting study group, The Academy of fine Arts in Novi Sad, the class of professor Bosiljka Zirojević Lečić, 2008- 2013;
-Graduate High school of Arts, technician for restoration and conservation, Kraljevo, 2004-2008.
Artist-in-residence programs (4) :
03/01-30/06 2023 Guest Artist at Art Cube Artists’ Studios Jerusalem. 17-24/07/2021 Hospitable Utopia, Užice, Serbia (orginized by Imporper Walls from Vienna, Austria); 01-07/10/2018 FaveLAB, Athens, Greece; 17/08/2017-30/06/2018 Ecole d’Humanité, Hasliberg Goldern, Switzerland (Supported by SCI & VCV organizations).
Public collections (10):
, National Museum Kraljevo, Rs; Culture Center Kučevo, RS; The Image of the City, SULUV gallery and MMC Led Art, Novi Sad, RS; Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, RS; Inclusive gallery (Special Education School Dr Milan Petrovic) Novi Sad, RS; Ecole d’Humanité, Hasliberg Goldern CH; Art Gallery Krusevac RS; Culure Center Ribnica Kraljevo RS; Šok zadruga Gallery Novi Sad, RS; Fondazione Imago Mundi, IT.
Solo Exhibitions (15):
2022 Textile (Tactile) Newspapers, The City Library, Novi Sad; Superhero, Galerija na štrafti, Novi Sad, RS; 2018 If everyone wore masks… SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; Heads or Tails / Kopf oder Zahl, Ruth Cohn Center, Hasliberg Goldern, CH; 2017 Photography as a result of mistake, Owl Club, Novi Sad, RS; 2016 Of things, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad Reverse – of people, City Gallery, Pozega RS; Movie picture and reality, Izba Cafe-Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; 2014 Reverse/ Les envers, The French Institute in Serbia, Novi RS; Reverse – of people, Shock collectives Central Gallery, MMC Led Art, Novi Sad, RS; Pain is black, SKC (Student Cultural Center) Fabrika, Novi Sad, RS; 2013; During university years, Cultural Center Ribnica, Kraljevo; 15th Art market, The House of King Peter I, Belgrade, RS; Artworks Macut Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; 2008 Paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, Cultural Centre Ribnica, Kraljevo, RS.
Group Exhibitions (99):
2023 HAND JOB: KAJ VEMO O UMETNOSTI SODOBNEGA VEZENJA, Galerija Janeza Puharja Stolp Škrlovec, Kranj, SLO; 2022 New Year’s Art Sale- ”In the Spirit of Recapitulation, We Recapitulate DIscounts!”, Šok zadruga gallery, Novi Sad, RS; The Image of the City, SULUV gallery, Novi Sad, RS; Hand Job: What We Know About Contemoprary Nontraditional Embroidery – gallery Remont, Belgrade; Art for all – the Inclusive Art gallery, the University in Novi Sad; Video project “Identifications: Subtlety and Cruelty” at exhibition “Heroines”, The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, Novi Sad; International Biennial of Miniature Art, The Cultural Centre Gornji Milanovac, RS; Free to Create. Create to be free, The Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, RS; The 66th Annual exhibition of members of SULUV, The gallery of Fine Arts Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad, RS; 2021 Total Art Sale, Šok zadruga, Novi Sad, RS; Art Weekend Belgrade, Hotel Belgrade, RS; Hospitable Utopia pt. 2, gallery Improper Walls, Vienna, AU; Hospitable Utopia pt. 1, Improper Walls, Vienna, AU; Youth Biennial, Footnote Center, Belgrade, RS; Hospitable Utopia, gallery Reflektor, Užice, RS; Hot Art Sale, gallery Šok zadruga, Novi Sad, RS; The 24thSpring Annals – Spaces of Hope, House of culture in Čačak, RS; 2020 The 65th Meeting – Art colony Ečka at Contemporary Gallery, Zrenjanin, RS; Gorenje, Šok zadruga, Novi Sad, RS; To Another View, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; Do we know each other?/ Czy my się znamy?, Collective exhibition Book – Art object 4 (quadrennial) at Gallery Žad, Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, RS; The Space in Between, Gallery of National Museum in Vranje (together with artists: Ana Piljić Mitrović, Nevena Popović, Mirjana Odić, Milena Putnik, Vladimir Ilić, curator, Marija Radoš), RS; Humanitarian selling exhibition Artists for Sandžak at Gallery MMC, Novi Pazar, RS; Quarantine document, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; Total Art Sale, Šok zadruga, Novi Sad, RS; 2019 Total Art Sale, Sok zadruga Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; SMIC.,SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; The 13th Biennial of watercolors, Contemporary Gallery, Zrenjanin, RS; Space in the contemporary art scene of Vojvodina, Kazamat Gallery, Osijek, HR; Take time for art and Tea – Part 2, Galerie Vitrine, Lucern, CH; Re-Connection, Expaned Media Triennial, Gallery SULUV, Belgrade, RS; 2018 New Year Art Sale, Sok zadruga Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; Encounters, Art Space Augo Avgo, Leonidio, GR; 2017 The 12th Biennal of watercolors, Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, RS; The 8th Annual youth exhibition, Cultural Centre Ribnica, Kraljevo, RS; Acquisitions, Art Gallery, Krusevac, RS; 30 x 30, Srem Museum, Sremska Mitrovica, RS; 30 x 30, Contemporary Art Gallery, Cultural Center Pancevo, RS; 30 x 30, Art Center Gallery, Belgrade, RS; 2016 30 x 30, Cultural Centar, Zrenjanin, RS; Recognition 3, Gallery Nikola I, Niksic, ME; Masters 2015/2016, Student Cultural Center Fabrika, Novi Sad, RS; Recognition 3, City Gallery, Plovdiv, BG; Supplementary drawing classes, Pavilion in the Fortress, SLU Gallery, Nis, RS; Our youth, Gallery of the National Library, Kragujevac, RS; Inheritance reflection, Cultural Center Ribnica, Kraljevo, RS; Recognition 3, Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, RS; Recognition 3, National Museum, Kraljevo, RS; Recognition3, Art Gallery, Krusevac, RS; 2015 Recognition 3, Pavilion in the Fortress, SLU Gallery, Nis, RS; Art department AUNS, Student Cultural Centre Fabrika, Novi Sad, RS; Differences, Student Cultural Centre Fabrika, Novi Sad, RS; From close, from a far 1914-1918, Museum Macura, Novi Banovci, RS; Spring. Art and society, The 19th Spring Annals, The Fine Arts Salon of The Cultural Centre, Cacak, RS; I know my limits. That’s why I go on., The French Institute, Novi Sad, RS; Commendation, participation at the auction From Zero, at Cultural Centre GRAD, Belgrade, RS; 2014 Evil doesn’t sleep, Sok zadruga Gallery, MMC Led Art, Novi Sad, RS; Masters, Students Cultural Centre, Fabrika, Novi Sad, RS; November salon, City Gallery, Kraljevo, RS; The 63th Annual Exhibition of SULUV Members, The Memorial Gallery of Fine Arts Collection Rajko Mamuzic, Novi Sad, RS; The Exhibition of New Members, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; 2013 The Big New Year Art Sales, Sok zadruga Gallery, MMC Led Art, Novi Sad, RS; Envisage, Gallery Oko, Novi Sad, RS; Bears – in honor of spring, Cultural Centre Parabrod, Belgrade, RS; 30 x 30, Cultural Centre, Zrenjanin, RS; Differences, Student Cultural Centre Fabrika, Novi Sad, RS; Night of the Museums – a homage to Francophone artists, The French Institute in Serbia, Novi Sad, RS; Palette of youth, Cultural Centre, Vrbas, RS; The mirror of discrimination Artists’ Corner, Kragujevac, RS; Portrait, photo exhibition, Cultural Centre Evergreen, Kraljevo, RS; The poetics of discovered materials, Gallery Macut, Novi Sad, RS; My place my people, photo exhibition, Artget Gallery, Belgrade, RS; Perspectives 11, Srem Museum, Sremska Mitrovica, RS; 2012 Perspectives 11, Art klinika Gallery, MMC Led Art, Novi Sad, RS; Life is beautiful, photo exhibition, Gallery Principij, Rijeka, HR; The Exhibition of Graduates of The Department of Fine Arts, The Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, RS; The Annual Youth Exhibition 3, Cultural Centre Ribnica, Kraljevo, RS; Art Base Festival, The House of King Peter I, Belgrade, RS; Drawings created during the third year of studies, the passage of Evergreen Gallery, Kraljevo, RS; 2011 Of people, International Festival of Photography “Organ Vida”, Zagreb, HR; Poetics of boarders, photo exhibition, SKC Fabrika, Novi Sad, RS; The Exhibition of Works of The Third Year Students of Painting Study Group, The Academy of Arts, Petrovaradin, Novi Sad, RS; 30 x 30, Cultural Centre, Zrenjanin, RS; 2010 The Exhibition of Photographs of Students of Fine Arts Department of the Academy of Arts, FKVSV, Novi Sad, RS; 2009 The First Club Exhibition of FKKK, Gallery Marzik, Kraljevo, RS; The Exhibition of Exam Works of Students of Fine Arts Department of the Academy of Arts, Pavle Beljanski Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; Feniks Festival, Youth Centre Valjevo, RS; 30 sec in former Yugoslavia, Festival of short electronic form (KEF), Belgrade, RS; Hidden areas of eroticism, Art Klinika Gallery, MMC Led Art, Novi Sad, RS; Izbanimaonica, Izba Cafe-Gallery, Novi Sad, RS; 2008 The 27th Republic Youth Exhibition of Photographs, Banatski Brestovac, RS; Everyone different – everyone equal, photo exhibition, Ozon Gallery, Belgrade, RS; The beauty of diversity, photo instalation, City Hall, Belgrade, RS; Diversities, Marzik Gallery, Kraljevo, RS; Circle the environment, MMC Kvart, Kraljevo, RS; I want to…, performans, Street Art Festival, Kraljevo, RS; 2007 Periphery, photo exhibition, Culture Centre Ribnica, Kraljevo, RS; Periphery, photo exhibition, MArt Museum, Rovereto, IT; 2006 My dreams, Marzik Gallery, Kraljevo, RS.
Awards and Appraisals:
2021 The Creation of a lightbox for Superhero was selected to participate in the exhibition Free to create – create to be free and its realisation was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia; 2020 NGO Novo Kulturo Naselje and Magic Carpets awarded project – contemporary embroidery workshop Vezvezvez as the best proposal for interactive comunity art work; 2018 Awarded by The Inclusive Gallery, ran by Elementary and Secondary Boarding School Dr Milan Petrovic and supported Serbian Ministry for Education and the City of Novi Sad: Awarded for aristic project proposal – exhibition If everyone wore masks…; 2017 First award for the painting Three sisters at the Annual Exhibition of Young Artist, at Culture Center Ribnica, Kraljevo; 2015 Award at the competition for production of works of modern art, ran by Izba Cafe-Gallery, and supported by the City of Novi Sad. Awarded for the art project proposal – exhibition Movie picture and reality; First award for the painting The Horseman from the series of work Reverse – of people at the Arts competition know my limits. That’s why I go on. at the French institute in Serbia, Novi Sad; 2014 Second award for the painting The sitting figure of a young man – Darko, from the series of works Reverse – of people at The 14th November visual arts Salon, City Gallery, Kraljevo; 2013 First place for the series of paintings at The 3th Annual Youth exhibition, Cultural Center Ribnica, Kraljevo; Award from The University of Novi Sad for the high accomplishments in the area of Arts for the study year 2012/2013; 2012 Commendation in photography at the competition Life is beautiful, Principij Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia; Perspektive11, chosen as one of twelve emerging young authors by Art klinika, MMC Led Art, Novi Sad.
Art workshops, Seminars, Presentations:
2023– Studio visits and presentations during the residency at Art Cube Artist Studios in Jerusalem 2022 Participating in Constructing Communities workshop run by raumlaborberlin collective at the Art Cube Artist’s Studios, Jerusalem 2021 Textile newspapers – Embroidery workshop in coperation with the school Dr Milan Petrovic, Novi Sad, RS; 2020 Contemporary embridery workshops in organisationwith Novo Kulturno Naselje and School Dr. Milan Petrovic (Suported by Magic Carpets projects); Presentation of artworks development at the Academy of Fine Arts, Universety in Novi Sad, RS; 2018 Participant at the seminar of alternative policies: Institutional violence and self-defence of society, at CK 13, Novi Sad, RS; Vezvezvez – embroidery workshop at KC CERKNO (SL); Ecole circle Meet Up, Presetation of artpractice, Bern, CH; An educator at one-day Creative workshop (Artistic input for the volunteers), in collaboration with Theater Flucht, at the SCI office in Bern, CH; 2015 Evil doesn’t sleep , participation as an artist in the project; 2014 Recognition 3, residence program for curators and artists, Nis and Sicevo, RS; Pannonia art path, IPA project – Lend art, Zlatne Grede, HR, Apatin and Bac, RS; 2013; Street Balkan Fest, art colony, Tešanj, BIH; 2011 Serate Illuminate PAC 180 (Illumination night), mural workshop, Livorno, IT; 2010 Izbanimaonica, animated film wokshop, Izba gallery, Novi Sad, RS; Exit Europe, conference on cultural policies in the Balkans, Zagreb, RS; 2009 Art Colony, Rudno, RS, 2006 and 2004 Art Colony, Kovacica, RS.
Milica Dukić 