Selection from Contemporary Montenegrin Art

LISBOA 2021

Exhibition “Selection from the contemporary Montenegrin art”, organized by the Public Institution Museums and Galleries of Budva and set in the prestigious Gallery Atelier Natália Gromicho in Lisbon, represents one of the possible selections from the current visually – artistic happenings in the rich Montenegrin art scene. The special significance of this exhibition reflects the possibility for valorization and presentation of contemporary Montenegrin art on the international level whilst opening new paths of further cultural cooperation between Portugal and Montenegro. Professional selection of the artists and their works was conducted by Lucija Đurašković, MA, art historian and art critique and academic artist Zoran Petrušić, whom himself had a deserved privilege to be represented with his artwork on the international Lisbon exhibition in 2019. The selection included affirmed Montenegrin artists of various artistic poetics and generations, ranging from those older and already recognized on the international level through artists of middle and younger age with respectable biographies and art reviews. Insight into this selection confirms that art, in its essence, always transcends the boundaries of the space in which it arises. Hence, the meaning of the art lies in its spatial transcendence that indicates how the language of art, in its specificity, overcomes everything that is particular, and it proves to be a part of one universal, allpervading being in whom the highest esthetics values are summing up. Finally, we wish to express our special gratitude to Mister Goncalo Madeira and Gallery Atelier Natália Gromicho for the exceptional professional cooperation and kind invitation to implement such a grand cultural project in Portugal for the very first time. In a special manner this project represents a distinctive insight into the overview of contemporary Montenegrin art.

Lucija Đurašković, MA Director of the PI Museums and Galleries of Budva

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Curator | Lucija Đurašković, MA Duration of the Event | 22 – 29th May 2021 Location | Atelier Natália Gromicho Fine Art gallery Rua Nova da Trindade, 5G Piso SL 1200-301 Lisboa - PORTUGAL Exhibition Hours | Mon-Sat from 2 to 6pm Private View | May 22nd, 2021, 3pm Vernissage Schedule | May 22nd, 3pm - 6pm

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From Fundus of Modern Gallery “Jovo Ivanović” Budva PI Museums and Galleries of Budva

Jovan Ivanović “Mingling on the Coast”, mixed media /48 x 60/ 2000 4

Jovan Ivanović

He was born in 1932 in Budva. H e graduated from the Art School in Herceg Novi –- D epartment of Sculpture, under the mentorship of Prof. Drago Đurović. Upon graduation, he went to Belgrade and worked with the painter Milo Milunović. He undertook study trips in France, Italy and Czechoslovakia. He exhibited his artwork since 1964, and that same year he b ecame a m ember of ULUCG (Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro). With this association, he participated in numerous collective exhibitions. He was an active participant in the Yugoslav Art Salon "November 13" in Cetinje, where he received the award in 1974. He also received the City of Budva Award in 1974, the II Award for Painting in Italy (Matera) in 1976, as well as the ULUCG Award for the drawing "Milo Milunović" in Titograd in 1989. He participated in the "Nadežda Petrović" Salon several times. H e was successfully engaged in pedagogical work in the elementary school "Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša" in Budva. He is the founder o f the Modern Gallery in Budva. H e died in Budva in 2017.

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Stevan Luketć “Budva”, graphic /38 x 52,5/ 1973 6

Stevan Luketić Stevan Luketić (1925-2002) was born in Budva. After finishing elementary school in Budva, he attended the gymnasium in Budva and Kotor, but at the age of sixteen, he joined the antifascist youth movement and went to war as a partisan. After the war, from 1946 to 1949, he was in the Yugoslav People's Army squad stationed on the Free Territory of Trieste and subsequently, as military personnel, went to Zagreb and joined the Art Section. Revealing the gift for sculpting, and particularly thanks to the persuasion of the sculptor Pavao Perić, Luketić enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Although he was a student of Kršinić, Luketić's role model was Vojin Bakić. Soon he entered Bakić's studio as an assistant and later on became his associate. Primarily working in metal and melting it into abstract sculpture, Luketić became a sculptor of modern form who moved off the classical figuration. Likewise, according to his stylistic essence, he belongs to the artists of Informalism tendencies of the early sixties that showed particular interest in substance, especially stone and metal. Around the 1970s, he got close to so-called waste materials sculpture, especially by processing car cooler's reticulate structures that after the intervention he set as individual sculptures or grounds for assemblage (for example, Sculpture XVI/62, Sculpture XXIII/63, Sculpture XVI/64...). Luketić is the author of numerous sculptures that can be found in museums (Mourner, Bunker, Shell, Form, Rotating form, Industrial icon etc.), and in private collections. Regularly and continuously, he presented his artwork in the country and abroad, and for his prolific oeuvre, he r eceived many significant awards and recognitions. He is the author of a large number of r epresentative public monuments (Zagreb, Lepoglava, Budva) and reliefs. In 1987 he was appointed professor at the Faculty of Culture in Cetinje. He lived and created in Zagreb until his death in 2002.

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Đeljoš Đokaj “Untitled”, graphics-print /49 x 36/ 2000 8

Đeljoš Đokaj Đeljoš Đokaj was born in 1933 in Milješ, near Podgorica. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade – Department of Printmaking, in the class of Professor Boško Karanović in 1963, and in 1966 he completed his master's studies in Belgrade (ALU). From 1964 to 1969, he worked as a professor at the Higher Pedagogical School in Priština, where he was one of the Faculty of Fine Arts foundation's initiators. Upon foundation, he headed the Department of Printmaking. From 1969 to 1984, he lived and worked in Rome, where his artwork was accepted with great affection by critics and art lovers. His works have been represented at important art festivals throughout Italy. In 1984, Đokaj settled in Augsburg, Germany, where he opened a graphic studio and continued his creative work, exhibiting throughout the country and abroad, with notable success and various awards. He exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe. The most important ones were h eld in Rome, Augsburg, Milan, Tirana, Zagreb, Munich. He received multiple national and international awards, including the Thirteenth of July Award of Montenegro (1977), the Naim Frasheri Gold Medal (Shkodra, Albania – 2011), as w ell as the "Critics Choice" Award – Bolaffi d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy (1975). He passed away in 2016.

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Rudi Goga “Astral Chemical Goddess”, oil on paper /58 x 70,5/ 2000 10

Rudi Goga

Born in 1948, in Ulcinj, Montenegro. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Priština in 1979 in the class of academician Muslim Mulići. In 1982 he completed his postgraduate studies in Dusseldorf (Germany) with Prof. Joseph Bays. Later, he was engaged in pedagogical work. Goga was a member of ULUCG (Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro) in Podgorica from 1991. He had sixty-three solo exhibitions and participated in over a hundred and fifty collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. He died in Ulcinj in 2017.

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Naod Zorić “Portrait of a Montenegrin”, mixed media /67 x 47/ 1999 12

Naod Zorić

Born in 1968 in the village of Đurđevića Tara, Montenegro. In 1993 he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts (FLU – Department of Painting) in Cetinje in the class of Prof. Radomir Reljić. He is a member of ULUCG (Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro). His paintings and drawings can be found in museums, galleries and private collections in the country and abroad. Study trips: France, Greece, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, Slovenia... He participated in many art symposia and colonies in the country and abroad. He lives and works in Kolašin.

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Cvetko Lainović “Waiting”, oil on canvas /50 x 40/ 2004 14

Cvetko Lainović

Cvetko Lainović (1931-2006) was born in Podgorica, attended schools in Ljubljana and Zagreb, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb under Prof. Miše and Prof. K. Hegedušić (1954). Since 1975 he created as a fr eelance artist. In 1956 he became a member of the Association of Fine Arts of Montenegro and, in 1970, a member of the Association of Fine Arts of Serbia. Thanks to his cosmopolitan personality, he accomplished a gr eat number of individual exhibitions in renowned galleries in-country and particularly abroad (New York, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cairo, Chicago, Washington, Palermo, Firenze…). Besides, numerous group exhibitions bear witness to his exceptional creativeness and highly appreciated artist out of his country. Many countries, particularly France, accepted him as he w as native French. Their art critic was particularly interested in each of his presentations. His participation in the Paris Salon d'Automne at the Grand Palais, one of the most prestigious international art exhibition, confirmed his reputation among the most distinguished world painters and their accomplishments. His last presentation in Montenegro was in Kolašin, within the 10th anniversary of Art Colony Town on Tara in 2003. He received the award of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagr eb (1954), the City of Titograd Award (1965, 1969), the 13th July National Award of Montenegro (1977). Most of his prolific life he sp ent in Belgrade. Along with the r esearch in painting, Cvetko rendered his philosophy of art even through the written word.

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Dimitrije Popović “Omaggio a Leonardo”, drypoint, watercolor /25 x 31/ 1983 16

Dimitrije Popović

Born in 1951, in Cetinje. He graduated from the Academy o f Fine Arts in Zagr eb in 1976. In 1974, during his stay in Paris, he met the Parisian art collector Mr Davrier, and as part of his collection, Popović exhibited in 1978 at the Alexander Braumüller Gallery with artists Salvador Dali, Ernst Fuchs, Victor Brauner, Dado Đurić, Leonor Fine and others. In 1982 in Pforzheim, the Liberta Gallery and Universal Fine Arts of Washington, D.C., organized a joint exhibition of prints with Salvador Dali. In the same year, on the occasion of the gr eat jubilee "Leonardo a Milano 1482–1982", he exhibited a series o f drawings Omaggio a Leonardo in Milan's Palazzo Sormani. On the occasion of the 27th International Art Festival "Due Mondi", in the city of Spoleto, where the festival is held, was organized an exhibition of his paintings, drawings and gr aphics. In the jubilee year – two thousand year s of Christianity, he exhibited in Rome and presented the series of the crucifixion CORPUS MYSTICUM in Sant Andrea al Quirinale, Santa Maria del Popolo – l'Agostiniana Arte Sacra Contemporanea and in the Pantheon. He is one of fifteen artists, art critics and philosophers (M. Botta, M. Cacciari, M. Paladino and P. Portghesi) who were invited to respond to the "Letter of Pope John Paul II to artists". The answer s wer e published in the book "Artists Respond to Pope John Paul II", published by Sri spa – Milan, 2003. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in several major collective exhibitions around the world. He has received several awards and published several books.

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Dimitrije Popović “Omaggio a Raffaelo”, drypoint, watercolor /25 x 31/ 1983 18

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Anka Burić “Records”, wine on paper /30 x 40/ 2004 20

Anka Burić

Born in 1956, in Nikšić. She graduated from Professor Dževad Jose's class at the Academy o f Fine Arts in Sarajevo – Department of Printmaking. Anka continued her education attending postgraduate studies at the Vitwarna Umeniu Academy in Prague (1982–1983), under the mentorship of Prof. Ladislav Čepelak. In 1983 she completed her master's studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class o f Prof. Branko Miljuš. She has r eceived several awards and recognitions. She has had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in a large number of group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has been a full member of CANU (Montenegrin Academy of Arts and Sciences) since 2009. She works as a full professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, at the Department of Printmaking. She has the status of a prominent cultural creator of Montenegro.

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Selector Lucija Đurašković, MA – Art Historian and Art Critic Lucija Đurašković was born in Kotor, where she finished Gymnasium. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy - the department for the History of Art in Belgrade, in 1984. Since 1985 she has worked in Budva Cultural Centre (present-day Public Institution Museums and Galleries of Budva). In 1987, due to the Greek government's scholarship, she attended the program postgraduate studies of Byzantine Art at Aristotle's university in Thessaloniki, in the class of famous Byzantinist academician E. Tahiaos. She was the head of the work unit "Museums" (PI "Museums, Gallery and Library") as a curator, senior curator and since 1999 as a museum advisor, whilst she was appointed director of the Institution in the period from 2001 to 2005. During her term as a director, in 2003, a Museum of the Town of Budva was established (archaeological and ethnological collection). Furthermore, Museum's building was awarded a prestigious international award, "Green Apple" (London, 2005), for the preservation and development of the authentic world architectural heritage. While she was a director, a Library was awarded the November Prize of the Town of Budva in 2004. She initiated and organized a manifestation, "Days of Ljubiša", during which she organized first, second and third international symposia (1998, 2002 and 2018) regarding the life and work of Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša and edited Collections of scientific papers from the symposia. Since 2004 she has been a member of the Committee for Ethnology in the Montenegrin Academy for Science and Art. She organized numerous international projects and exhibitions and participated in several scientific gatherings and tribunes from the area of art history and literature, initiated various exhibitions in the "Museum", and she is also, author of a large number of critical reviews and introductions for the exhibitions of the renowned artists. In 2015 she was a selector for the prestige XXXVII Art salon "November 13" in Cetinje. She is an author of several monographic publications regarding Budva's cultural heritage, and she wrote scripts for shorts film in the production of RTV Budva: "Budva – myth, history and reality" and "Monastery Podostrog", as well as part of the serial scientificeducational program RTVCG "Treasury": "Monastery Praskvica", "Monastery Savina", "Monastery Gradište" and "Monastery Reževići". She was an editor for more than fifty shows titled "On the Path of Budva's Cultural History" on Radio Budva and author of more than two hundred texts published in various scientific journals and magazines ("CANU Herald", "Montenegro Historian Association Herald", "Montenegro's National Museum Herald", "Art Life", the cultural section in "Pobjeda" etc.). She is editor-in-chief of the monographic trilogy: "Budva – City of King Cadmus" (2009), "Villages of Budva – Pearls of Ethno Tourism" (2009) and "Museum of Budva – Treasure of the City of Cadmus" (2013). In 2015 she received her Master's degree from the Faculty for the Tourism University of Montenegro in Kotor with the thesis "Monasteries in Paštrovići Region and Possibilities for their Tourist Valorization". She was appointed as a director of PI Museums and Galleries of Budva in 2017, for the second time. She was a selector for the Montenegrin artists in the exhibition of the Salon Reallites Nouvelles in Paris (November 2019), as well as a selector in the International Biennial of the Visual Arts in Čačak (December 2020). 23

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Bojana Popović “Untitled I”, oil and graphite on paper /42 x 59/ 2019 24

Bojana Popović

Bojana Popović was born in 1990, in Cetinje. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cetinje in 2013, where she completed specialization studies in 2014. She attended master's studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2017. During her master's studies, she spent an academic year at the Faculty of Belas Artes in Lisbon (Portugal), through the Erasmus exchange program. She has exhibited independently in Budva, Petrovac and Lisbon, and participated in collective exhibitions in Montenegro and abroad. She rec eived the award for the best student at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje in 2014. She participated in the project "Lullaby for Nobody's Wolf" at the Santa Maria Gallery (2012) and the ETSU Bolands Symposium for Postgraduate Studies in Tennessee (USA).

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Bojana Popović “Untitled II”, oil and graphite on paper /42 x 59/ 2019 26

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Dijana Lazović Touch Cycle – “Feeling of Warmth”, mixed media /70 x 100/ 2020 28

Dijana Lazović

Born in 1984, in Cetinje. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan (Italy) in the class of Prof. Italo Bressan. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro since 2015. She has exhibited independently in Budva, Petrovac, Kotor, Tivat, Herceg Novi, Sarajevo, Podgorica and Berane. She participated in collective exhibitions: "Small format art, paintings / drawings / objects" (selection from the contemporary Montenegrin art scene) in the PI Museums and Galleries of Budva, "Kotor Visual Artists" in the City Gallery of Kotor, Montenegrin Art Salon “November 13” in Cetinje, at the National Museum in Labin and the Flora Dubrovnik Gallery. She is a winner of the drawing award of the Kotor City Gallery (2016).

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Dijana Lazović Touch Cycle, mixed media /50 x 70/ 2020 30

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Zoran Petrušić “Digital Cloud”, drawing, ink on paper /52 x 34/ 2018 32

Zoran Petrušić

Zoran Petrušić was born in 1966, in Podgorica. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje in 1993, the Department of Painting in the class of Prof. Dragan Karadžić. He received several significant awards in the country and abroad, out of which the following stand out: Podgorica Art Salon (1998), Montenegrin Art Salon (2004), "November 13" (2009), "Kotor Visual Artists" (2014), Caravaggio Award – Art Expo Rome (2017), Special Award in Rome (2017) and Art Expo Venezia Award (2018). He had a number of solo and group exhibitions home and abroad (New York, Mantua, Rome, Barcelona, Venice, Lisbon, Zagreb, Pula, Salerno).

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Zoran Petrušić “Rotation, Revolution”, drawing, ink on paper /59 x 29/ 2018 34

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Zoran Petrušić “W.N.Y.M.F”, drawing, ink on paper /60 x 29/ 2018 35

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Milijana Istijanović, 33. series All I Am or I’ve Thought I Was. All I Am or Pretended to Be, pencil on paper /60 x 42/ 2012 36

Milijana Istijanović

Born 1982 in Sombor. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, University of Montenegro, the Department of Sculpture, where she also earned h er MA degree. She had nine solo exhibitions in the country and abroad. Her work has been exhibited at international art festivals and projects (Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Italy, USA, and Croatia). In her art practice, she deals with the themes moving in the area of identity, gender, body, space and time. Individual exhibitions are grouped around specific themes and concepts, using different mediums, materials and languages. Her research subjects are personal and universal issues: female body and the corporeal, transience and belonging, the phenomenon of one’s own experience and perception of the outside and the inner world. She rec eived the Annual Award for Sculpture of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cetinje, as well as the First Prize of the H erceg Novi Winter Art Salon, and participated in several artist residency programs.

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Milijana Istijanović, 11a. series All I Am or I’ve Thought I Was. All I Am or Pretended to Be, acrylic and pencil on paper /80 x 60/ 2012 38

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Milijana Istijanović, 22a. series All I Am or I’ve Thought I Was. All I Am or Pretended to Be, pencil on paper /70 x 60/ 2012 39

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Romana Pehar “Suboptimal V”, giclee print /100 x 43/ 2020 40

Romana Pehar

Romana Pehar was born in 1992, in Kotor. She completed her graduate and specialization studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. She is currently a master's student of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She studied in the USA, at Humboldt State University and at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic. She is a participant in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad.

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Romana Pehar “Suboptimal VI”, digital print /100 x 43/ 2020 42

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Selector Zoran Petrušić, – Academic Painter Zoran Petrušić was born in 1966, in Podgorica. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje in 1993, the Department of Painting in the class of Prof. Dragan Karadžić. He received several significant awards in the country and abroad, out of which the following stand out: Podgorica Art Salon (1998), Montenegrin Art Salon (2004), "November 13" (2009), "Kotor Visual Artists" (2014), Caravaggio Award – Art Expo Rome (2017), Special Award in Rome (2017) and Art Expo Venezia Award (2018). He had a number of solo and group exhibitions home and abroad (New York, Mantua, Rome, Barcelona, Venice, Lisbon, Zagreb, Pula, Salerno).

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Gordana Kuč “I Am Someone Else I”, fishnet stockings on canvas /30 x 40/ 2017 46

Gordana Kuč

Gordana Kuč (1970) graduated and obtained her master's degree in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. So far, she has had eight solo and over fifty collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has participated in all important exhibitions of Montenegrin contemporary art in the country and abroad. She has exhibited in London, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, Geneva, Utrecht, Cairo, Beijing, as well as Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, Skopje, Belgrade. Winner of the aw ards: H erceg Novi Winter Art Salon (2008); Grand Prix at the XXXII Montenegrin Art Salon November 13 (2010); Milunović-Stijović-Lubarda Award (2017), Award of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro. In addition to paintings and drawings, she works on installations, objects and collages. Her works can be found in significant museum and gallery collections as well as in many private collections.

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Gordana Kuč “I Am Someone Else II”, fishnet stockings on canvas /30 x 40/ 2017 48

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Gordana Kuč “I Am Someone Else III”, fishnet stockings on canvas /30 x 40/ 2017 49

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Ivana Stanić “Femine”, mixed media /20 x 29 / 2013 50

Ivana Stanić

Ivana Stanić was born in 1982, in Kotor. She graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad – Department of Printmaking, in the class of Prof. Zoran Todorović in 2005. In cooperation with the Austrian Embassy in Podgorica, she prepared and translated the catalogue and set up the exhibition "25 works of contemporary Austrian fine art" in 2012. Until 2016, she was an active m ember of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro. Sh e is the initiator and coordinator of the "Kunst Cultural Base". At the Acad emy of Arts Dusseldorf (Germany), she specialized in painting and drawing in the class of Prof. Herbert Brandl 2005/2006. She won the award at the solo exhibition for the best drawing in the final year of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad – "Shock Gallery, Art Clinic" Novi Sad, 2005. She has exhibited independently in Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. She has participated in group exhibitions in Montenegro and abroad.

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Ivana Stanić "Ablation, Recession”, mixed media /29 x 20/ 2019 52

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Ivana Stanić “The Day the Cypresses Fell Down”, mixed media /29 x 20/ 2019 53

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Jelena Đurašković “In a Perfect Circle/the Mother is Sealed I”, acrylic on hardboard /50 x 35/ 2019

Jelena Đurašković

Jelena Đurašković was born in 1990 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje in the class of Prof. Dragan Karadžić, MA. She has had several solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. She lives and works in Budva. She undertook study trips in Turkey in 2013/14 and Bulgaria in 2019 within the IMAGO International Artist Residency project. She has exhibited independently in Budva, Tivat and Kotor. She has participated in collective exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Italy and Montenegro. Currently, she is attending master's studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje.

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Jelena Đurašković “In a Perfect Circle/the Mother is Sealed II”, acrylic on hardboard /50 x 35/ 2019

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Jelena Đurašković “In a Perfect Circle/the Mother is Sealed III”, acrylic on hardboard /50 x 35/ 2019

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Siniša Radulović “Dead Whales Can’t Wave Back”, digital print /11 x 15/ 2015 58

Siniša Radulović

Siniša Radulović was born in 1983, in Podgorica, Montenegro. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, where he received his master's degr ee in 2008. He is the winner of the "Milčik" Award YVAA (2017), the Grand Prix of the Herceg Novi Winter Art Salon (2016), the Painting Award at the 33rd Montenegrin Art Salon "November 13", C etinje and the Award for video work at the 38th Montenegrin Art Salon "November 13", Cetinje. He lives and works in Podgorica. His works can be found in many private and public collections, including: October Salon Collection (Belgrade Cultural Center), Deutsche Telekom Collection, National Museum of Montenegro Collection, University of Montenegro Collection, Luciano Benetton Collection, Federculture Rome Collection, Collection of the Center for Contemporary Art of Montenegro Above, Collection of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has exhibited in collective exhibitions and independently in Serbia, Austria, Denmark, the USA, Germany, Albania, Switzerland, Spain, Russia and Montenegro.

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Jelena Tomašević “Life interest I”, mixed media /52 x 32/ 2020-21 60

Jelena Tomašević

Jelena Tomašević was born in 1974, in Podgorica, Montenegro. She lives and works in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She rec eived her master's degr ee from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cetinje in 2004. She has had solo exhibitions in Italy, Germany, the USA and Montenegro. She has participated in the Venice Biennale (2003) and the Istanbul Biennale (2005), as w ell as in group exhibitions in Serbia, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Albania and Montenegro.

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Jelena Tomašević “Life interest II”, mixed media /52 x 32/ 2020-21 62

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Jelena Tomašević “Life interest III”, mixed media /52 x 32/ 2020-21 63