BOARD

Organizer:

Kulturni centar Beograda/The Cultural Centre of Belgrade

Knez Mihailova 6/I, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

www.kcb.org.rs

 

Board of the October Salon (2023-2025):

Born in Belgrade, Serbia (Yugoslavia), 1965. Graduated form the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris and Belgrade.
From 2011 to 2013 he was director of the Serbian Cultural Center in Paris.
Other visual works include:
•Directing commercials and music videos in Serbia and France and designing
records covers for prominent Yugoslav bands in the 80’s and 90’s.
•Scenography and set designs for exhibitions and theater plays in Paris.
•Art director of the campaign and ceremony of the reopening of the National
Museum in Belgrade in 2018 featuring audio visual campaigns, events
throughout the city and the country, 3D and mapping animations on the
museum and a film with Russian ballet dancer Sergei Polunin.
•Founder and curator of the “Under Realism” group made of several European
figurative painters. The group has had 8 exhibitions so far in galleries and art
centers in France, Switzerland, Serbia. Each exhibitions presented the works
from 10 to 15 artists.

Exhibitions:

2023
“IMMORTELLE”, MOCO Montpellier Contemporain
“FOUR PLAY”, 4 simultaneous solo shows on 4 locations in Belgrade:
Belgrade City Museum’s Salon, X Vitamin Gallery, Arte Gallery, SKC Gallery.

2019
“20.000 Days On Earth”, Belgrade City Museum. (Solo Retrospective)

2018
“Collection David H. Brolliet”, Fondation Fernet Branca, St Louis, France
“Limited” (Vuk Vidor, Mihael Milunović, Uroš Djurić), Galerija Nadežda Petrović, Čačak
“Everybody left the room and I’m alone with an empty glass in my hand”, Novembar Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2017
“Sculptures”, Gallery Louise Alexander, Porto Cervo, Italy
“French Touch”, Mazel Gallery, Singapore
“Igledalo je Intimno iz Prvog” (Vuk Vidor, Mihael Milunovic, Slavimir Futro), Navigator Gallery, Beograd, Serbia

2016
“200:200”, Le Depot,Paris, France
“Gentrafrikation””, Gallery Louise Alexander, Porto Cervo, Italy

2015
“The Newton Initiative”, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
“Under Realism “, Galerie Da-End, Paris, France
“Noir”, Galerie Mazel, Brussels, Belgium
“The Self Drawing Hand”, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France

2014
“UnderRealism 5″, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
“2D/3D”, with Stéphane Pencréac’h & Quentin Garel, Galerie Mazel, Brussels, Belgium

2013
“Newton”, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
“7(SINS)”, Galerie Mazel, Brussels, Belgium
“Under Realism 3”, La Lune dans le Parachute, Epinal, France
“Under Realism 4”, A cent mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan, France

2012
“Quelques Instants Plus Tard..”Art & Bande Dessinée, Réfectoire des Cordeliers, Paris, France.
“Tensions”, Galerie Mazel, Brussels, Belgium.
“Une Histoire Vraie”-Leopold Rabus & Guests , Gallery Aeroplastics, Bruxelles, Belgium
“Under Realism 1″, Centre Culturel de Serbie, Paris, France
“Under Realism 2”, Galerija Progres, Belgrade, Serbia

2010
“Words and Dreams”, Gallery Magda Danysz, Shanghai, China
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
“Vidor & Friends”, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Speed Painting” (with Axel Pahlavi, Stephane Pencréach, Kosta Kulundzic, Geal Davrinche,
P. Nicolas Ledoux, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France

2009
“That’s All Folks!”, Stadshallen Bruges, Belgium, curated by Jerôme Jacobs
“Elusive Dreams 2”, Irish Museum of Contemporay Art, Dublin, curated by Blandine Gwizdala
“Vraoum!”, La Maison Rouge, Paris,France, curated by Pierre Staerckx & David Rosenberg

2008
“Micro Narratives”curated by Lorand Hegyi, Musée d’Art Moderne de StEtienne, France
“The Flowers Of Evil”, Cueto Project, New York, USA
“Even Superheroes can’t save us now!”, Poulsen Gallery, Copenhagen , Denmark

2007
“The Theatre of Cruelty”, curated by Raul Zamudio, White Box, New York, USA
“Zeitgeist”, Cueto Project, New York, USA
“French Touche”, Villa Tamaris, La Seyne sur Mer, France
“48th Oktobarski Salon”, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Lorand Hegyi
“Even Superheroes can’t save us now!”, Cueto Project, New York , USA
“Superego”, CZKD, Pavilion Veljkovic, Belgrade, Serbia

2006
“The Blood Value of the Banana”, wall painting, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
“Faites de Beaux Rêves” in “Nuit Blanche”, Paris, France, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud & Jérôme Sans

2005
“Artists & Arms” Maars Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“My Private Heroes” Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany, curated by Jan Hoët
“My favourite things”, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, curated by Richard Leydier
“If you’re looking for trouble you came to the right place”, Art Basel Miami, USA
“Eldorado” Arco Madrid, Galerie Valerie Cueto

2004
“COSMOPOLIS”,curated by Magda Carneci, Thessaloniki, Greece
“If you’re looking for trouble you came to the right place”, CZKD, Belgrade
“Eldorado”, Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris
“ART HISTORY (PART ONE)” wall painting -Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2003
“Central:New Art from Central Europe” organised by the Ernst Hilger Gallery-Vienna. Museum of Contemporary Art,Dubrovnik, Croatia; Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
Art Chicago, Chicago, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris, France
“Scope Art Fair”, New York
“Comic Release:Negotiating Identity for a New Generation”, curated by Barbara Bloeminck (Guggenheim Las Vegas) and Vicky A. Clark.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; University of North Texas, Denton; Western Washington University; the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; The Naples Museum of Art; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Austin Museum of Art; Samuel P. Harn Museum (University of Florida) “New Adventures of the Skin Trade” Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, France

2002
“Supercellular!”, Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris (with Dzine, Peter Barrett, Tim White Sobieski)
Scope 2002, Miami, USA
Artissima, Torino, Galerie Valerie Cueto
ARCO, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris
Art Chicago 2002, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Chicago
October Salon 2002, Belgrade

2000
” Rouge “, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris, France
“L’Autre Europe /2 “, Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

Was born on 6 September 1963 in Niš. She finished primary school and 5th Belgrade Grammar School in Belgrade. In 1988, she graduated dramaturgy from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Since 1994, she has worked as the in-house dramaturge of the Theatre Atelje 212.
From 2017 to 2019, she was the Acting Director of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade.
Since 2019, she has been Vice-Secretary in the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade.
Plays: “Anitina čarobna soba” (Anita’s Magic Room; directed by Alisa Stojanović, independent project, 1993); “Spusti se na zemlju” (Down to Earth; directed by Jug Radivojević, The Terazije Theatre, 2006)
Dramatizations: “The Lady of the Camellias”, А. Dumas fils (directed by Svetislav Goncić, Belgrade Drama Theatre, 1993); “Dungeon”, Svetlana Velmar Janković (directed by Alisa Stojanović, Atelje 212, 1995).
She was the dramaturge in more than 60 theatre shows and cooperated with the following directors: Ljubomir Muci Draškić, Dejan Mijač, Soja Jovanović, Kokan Mladenović, Nikita Milivojević, Alisa Stojanović, Radmila Vojvodić, Zoran Ratković, Oliver Frljić, Milica Kralj, Rahim Burhan, Stevan Bodroža…
Since 1999, she has worked as a copywriter in the S Team Saatchi&Saatchi Balkans and Communis Bates agencies.

(Belgrade, 1976.) graduated French language and literature in Belgrade, where she also simultaneously studied art history at the Faculty of Philosophy. She finished postgraduate studies in culture and cultural policy management at the University of Art in Belgrade. From 2002 to 2004, she worked in the International Cooperation Department of the University of Art. Since late 2020, she has been working as the Programme Director Assistant in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade. In this institution, she has worked for the last 15 years on coordinating international cooperation, foundation of the Podroom Gallery and development of the October Salon Collection. Since 2004, as the October Salon became an international exhibition, she has collaborated closely with curators and artists that participated in these exhibitions, as she coordinated programmes, production and presentation of art works. Together with artist Siniša Ilić, she initiated curatorial-artistic research the Decades’ Collection, concerning the collection of the October Salon. She was the Art Director of the 59th October Salon that she realised together with the programme collective of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade. She is a member of the AICA Association of Art Critics.

Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade. From 1991 to 1995, she worked at the Institute of Architecture and Urban and Spatial Planning of Serbia (IAUS), followed by her engagement in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade (KCB) from 1995 to 2009, where she was the Director 1997-2009, while 2009-2014 she was the Director of the Museum of the City of Belgrade. She has been working in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade since 2014 as a Programme Editor. She has been a founder of the Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA). She was awarded French Order of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres), the grade of Knight (Chevalier). She is a member of the Association of Belgrade Architects and the Do.co.mo.mo Serbia.

Born in Belgrade in1967, Milunović grew up in an artistic family. Both his father and his grandfather were famous Serbian artists, while his mother is a famous Serbian and Croatian sculptor. Milunović’s early experiences of playing in his parents’ studio, his interest in geography and machines, or paintings by Titian, Valasquez and De Chirico would have a lasting impact on his work.
Milunović graduated from the Department of Painting of the Faculty of Visual Arts in Belgrade. He attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he studies under Professor Vladimir Veličković, as well as under Marina Abramović and Tony Brown. He was a laureate of the RENOIR Foundation. (He lived and worked in Pierre-August Renoir’s atelier.)
His work encompasses a wide range of disciplines, from painting, drawing and photography, to large-scale sculpture and installations. By decontextualizing everyday objects, symbols and situations, Milunović evokes unease in the observer, a mixture of alienation and curiosity.
Since the mid-90s, he has participated in numerous exhibitions all over Europe.
His works can be found in prestigious museum collections, including MUMOK, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Coleccion Solo, Madrid; Deji Museum, Nanjing;
Moet & Chandon LVMH Collection, France; Wiener Städtische Collection, Austria; Palazzo Forti, Verona; Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France, etc.
He lives and works between Paris and Belgrade.

Founder and partner:

The City of Belgrade

Supported by the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia

Cultural Centre of Belgrade was founded in 1957, as a multidisciplinary cultural institution. In its rich history it never strayed from its initial idea – to promote the highest artistic, cultural and social values and to support high creative reaches, explorations and experimentation in both domestic and international scenes.

In a unique complex of multipurpose spaces, a combined area of over 2,000 square meters, in a trilaterally oriented building of Press House, a typical representative of Serbian mid-twentieth century architecture (arch. Ratomir Bogojević), and often in areas around it, various exhibitions of contemporary art, film projections, concerts, literary programs, lectures, workshops, round tables, conferences and happenings are intertwined on a daily basis.

Center is initiator, organizer and partner in various domestic and international projects and institutions, which all leave an important mark to contemporary scene of Belgrade and Serbia: October Salon, Festival of a Writer, World’s Poetry Day, Belgrade’s International Week of Architecture, (Graphic) Designer: Author or Universal Soldier, Days of Organ, Harpsichord, Live Art; Author’s Film Festival, Free Zone, FEST, Festival of Documentary, Short and Animated Film; Night of the Museums; and other.

www.kcb.org.rs

Cultural Centre of Belgrade
Knez Mihailova 6/I
11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Members of the Board of October Salon:

Vuk Vidor, president
Gordana Goncić
Zorana Đaković Minniti
Danica Jovović Prodanović
Mihael Milinović

The official address of the October Salon

oktobarskisalon@kcb.rs

 

Ninela Gojković, Assistant Director and Financial Manager, Acting Director of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade

ninela.gojkovic@kcb.org.rs

 

Jasmina Petković, Producer

jasmina.petkovic@kcb.org.rs

 

Ljiljana Ilić, Communication and Media Coordinator

ljiljana.ilic@kcb.org.rs