Lidija Delić, Marija Šević, Nemanja Nikolić and Nina Ivanović

Lidija Delić (Montenegro, 1986) lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2010), painting department, and completed her doctoral studies in multimedia art at the University of Arts in Belgrade (2015). She is one of the founders of the U10 Art Collective, and from 2012 she is running U10 Art Space with six more colleagues. Since 2021, she has been employed at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade as an assistant professor. Her work is part of numerous private and public collections. She has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in Montenegro and internationally, including the solo exhibition Still, life, ALBA Gallery, Vienna (2023); The Ordinary Things, ICA Sofia, Sofia (2022); With luck, there’ll be no more dreams, Eugster || Belgrade (2021); Too Soon, Too Late, Manifesto Belgrade (2020); The West Island, Belgrade Youth Centre (2018). In 2018 she exhibited her work at the 57th October Salon in Belgrade. In 2017, she represented Serbia at the 18th International Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM) in Tirana, Albania. She was a finalist of the “Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos” Award for 2017. In 2019, Lidija participated in a residency programme in New York organized by the Balkan Project and the Swiss Institute in New York. She was a representative of Montenegro at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.
Lidija Delić’s artistic practice is conceptually and structurally based on intermedia research of the connections and relationships between internal mental processes and the spaces that surround them. The starting point of this approach is the idea that we do not understand the world around us as a system of pre-defined objects and concepts that we then rationally choose, but as a dense network of unfinished processes, in which the stability of things is only a reflection of the stability of their images. Her works open themselves up to multiple perspectives and interpretations, introducing the observer to a permeable, layered world that refuses to be reduced to clear and defined boundaries.

www.lidijadelic.com

Nina Ivanović (Belgrade, Serbia, 1986) graduated from the Painting department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in 2010. She works in media such as drawings, photography, installation and sculpture exploring the subjects and places that surround her. She had an opportunity to show her work on many group exhibitions including 57th October Salon, Belgrade (2018); Shared Meanings, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana (2019); Image Mouvement. Paris–Subotica, Contemporary Gallery Subotica (2021), and 44th Montenegro Art Salon, Cetinje (2022). Some of the solo exhibitions include Crooked signs, Exhibiting in Public, Bans, Belgrade Youth Centre Gallery (2019) and Troubled waters, November Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2020/21). She was awarded the “Vladimir Veličković Fund” Award in 2014, and in 2018 she was awarded the 57th October Salon Award. Her work has been exhibited in public space: Landscapes in Vittorio Veneto as a part of exhibition When Peace Erupts (2018); light installation Window Cleaners (2019) at the Cultural Centre of Belgrade and copper installation Ship (section 1101) on the facade of the Department of Shipbuilding, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade (2023). She is one of the founders of U10 Art Collective, and from 2012 she has been running U10 Art Space with six colleagues. She lives and works in Belgrade.

www.ninaivanovic.com

Nemanja Nikolić (Serbia, 1987) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2010, department of Painting. He finished his PhD studies at the same faculty in 2019. Works as assistant professor on Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He is the initiator of Belgrade-based U10 Art Space, an independent artist-run space dedicated to supporting young contemporary artists. Nemanja’s selected solo exhibitions include ones at the Art Gallery of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade; Galerie Dix9 – Hélène Lacharmoise , Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podrgorica; Galerie ERD, Seoul; Rima Gallery, Belgrade and Kragujevac; B2 Gallery, Belgrade, U10 Art Space, Belgrade, etc. He has participated in many group exhibitions in the country and abroad: Caixa Forum in Madrid and Barcelona, Kunsthal KadE in Amersfoort, Kunstlerhaus in Vienna, 56th and 57th October Salon in Belgrade, 20th Biennial of Art in Pančevo, 45th Traditional Montenegrin Art Salon in Cetinje, Cinémathèque française in Paris etc.
He has won several art awards, such as the Award for drawing by Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (2021), the “Vladimir Veličković Fund” Award for drawing (2011), a special award for mural and wall installation from Raiffeisen Bank and Gallery 12HUB (2013), Award for an exceptional creative innovation from “Miloš Bajić” Fund (2009) etc. His works are featured in many private and public collections including ABN AMRO collection, Amsterdam, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, WAP Foundation, Seoul, Ekard Collection, The Hague, JMS collection, Paris, October Salon Collection, Wiener Art Collection, Telenor Collection in Belgrade etc.

www.nemanjanikolic.com

Marija Šević (Aranđelovac, 1987) lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2011, where she also received an MA in painting. As a scholar of the French government, she resided at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the classes of professors Claude Closky and James Rielly. She is a co-founding member of U10 art space and collective in Belgrade, working on managing exhibitions and events.
She has been awarded residencies at Hafenkombinat in Leipzig (2024), SIM residency in Reykjavik (2021), and Cité Internationale Des Arts in Paris (2019). She exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including Ascending by night, Non Canonico, Belgrade (2022); Encounters, gallery Rima, Kragujevac (2021); Rêverie, French Cultural Centre, Belgrade (2021); Chants d’amour, gallery DIX9, Paris (2019); Shared Meanings, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana (2019); Balkan Party, MAC gallery, Rome (2017); Heterotopia, Serbian House, London (2017); Unsafe Colors, Studio 106 L.A., Los Angeles (2016); Parallel Vienna, Vienna (2015); LISTE – Art Fair Basel, Basel (2015); Giorni Felici, Casa Testori, Milan (2014); Na Cidade Deserta, Alliance Française, Brasilia (2013). Her work is part of numerous private and public collections.

www.marijasevic.com