Djordje Aralica

Usually, the place where I live at any given moment, with its daily routines, dictates the choice of my subject matter. As a rule, I am interested in the objects of everyday life, which appear to be surprisingly uniform wherever you go.
In my work, they unite collective and personal experience. I never recycle real objects in a manner of an assemblage, but rather present my own associative, monumentalized interpretation of their form.
I choose medium, mode of craftsmanship, both of which suggest underlying narrative context, but also provide monumental quality of architecture.
My objects are reduced to a gallery format, but I see them as large-scale urban sculptures evocative of common human activities.

DA, Interdisciplinary Studies - Polymedia Art, University of Arts, Belgrade.
BFA, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade.

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 The Weight of Chains, The House of Army, Belgrade
2024 Sculpture Theatre, 'Ras' Musem, Novi Pazar
2023 1-in-3, Cultural Centar, Sombor
2023 The Image of the City, Heritage House, Belgrade (with Željka Paic)
2023 Off-Limits, Block Gallery, Belgrade
2023 Out of Sync, Gradac Gallery, Raska
2022 Sculpture Wagon, Gallery Sreten Stojanovic, Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2021 #djordje_aralica 2, The House of King Peter I, Belgrade
2021 Sound and Image Behind the Curtain, The Center of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica
2020 Tower Hat, Golubac Fortress, Golubac
2020 Chain Linking, Mostovi Balkana, Kragujevac
2020 Space, Time, Motion, City Gallery, Požega
2019 From the Inside and the Outside, Gallery Atrium, Belgrade
2019 Metal Mode, Contemporary Gallery, Vršac
2018 3D, Modern Gallery of Lazarevac, Belgrade.
2018 Chain Loop, Gallery 73, Belgrade
2017 Chain Effect, SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade.
2017 Sculpture-O-Rama, Cultural Center of Šabac, Šabac.
2017 No Comment, National Museum Smederevska Palanka, Gallery of Modern Art.
2017 DNK [DNA], Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts, Salon 77, Niš.
2016 #djordje_aralica, King Peter I House, Belgrade
2016 VodaVazduhVreme [WaterAirTime], Art Gallery 'Stara Kapetanij...