Djordje Zivic

The art of painting by Djordje Zivic has been developing as a harmonious and logical continuity
started in the 1980’s, in the prevailing post-modern atmosphere in our art. At that very time Zivic
established the main principles of his (neo)-expressionistic painting in which he always held onto
the content, onto the anecdotal line which he was explaining in his authentic pictorial gesture-like
interpretation. His gesture-like statement was originally manifested in his “new-painting” scenes of
a fgure in the manner of the “Neuen Wilden” and Salome; then, in a series of dramatic landscape
paintings and well composed still lives in vivid colours; and, fnally, it dominated also the paintings
dedicated to the visions of the suspected and wished new urban appearance of Novi Sad. In all that,
Zivic’s gesture-like painting is not only the result of the common way of exploring the inner mood,
but also a technique to become convincing in expressing his own pictorial thinking. Because of that,
one should keep in mind that Zivic controls and defnes his gesture fully conscious of the potential
consequences regarding the comprehension of his painting. All these eruptively drawn lines contain
a great deal of precision, defnition and conviction the...

1958 – Born in Novi Sad
1976 – Completed the “Bogdan Suput” School of Art,
Department of Architecture, Novi Sad
1977 – Advanced training at the private school “Sergej Jovanovic” in Belgrade
1977 – Advanced training at the studio of the sculptor Matija Vukovic, Belgrade
1978 – Enrolled in the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade
1980 – Lef for Paris where he specialised at the Centre Georges Pompidou.
During the same period he also specialised individually.
1982 – Returned to Novi Sad and worked as an independent artist.
1984 – Becomes a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina
1986 – Again goes to Paris, and then to Munich, for specialisation.
1990 – Te beginning of the NEW URBAN ENTITIES series.
1991 – Stayed in Munich and Novi Sad where he has a number of important
exhibitions
2005 – Te beginning of the DANUBIAN CONCEPT series

1984 - GALLERY – SPORTS AND BUSINESS CENTRE, NOVI SAD
1985 - GALLERY OF THE TRIBUNE OF THE YOUNG
1986 - GALLERY OF THE MILOCER HOTEL, MONTENEGRO,
SVETI STEFAN
1987 - ANA GALLERY, MUNICH
1988 - GALLERY OF THE SULUV (FAFAV) NOVI SAD
1991 - GALLERY OF THE CULTURAL CENTRE OF NOVI SAD
1998 - LARGE GALLERY OF THE CULTURAL CENTRE,
THE NOVI SAD OPEN UNIVERSITY
2000 - RENATA GALLERY NOVI SAD
2003 - THE VOJVODINA MUSEUM NOVI SAD
2004 - GALLERY OF THE SERBIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND
SCIENCES, NOVI SAD BRANCH
2005 - ART-EXPO NOVI SAD
2006 – ZLATNO OKO CENTRE FOR VISUAL CULTURE, NOVI SAD