Nikola Milekic

Artist statement:

Painting is a dialogue in silence. It’s a way of communicating with people, with help of which I can get to know things in them that cannot be expressed with words. People are a reflection of a world they created in themselves and in which they live. That world is the object of my paintings.
We create that inner space, inhabit it, but it shapes us as well. Living in that invisible place affects and changes a preson. By painting the faces and bodies of people their word becomes visible. That is why I have taken an interest in human body, and the things it says about the person who inhabits it.
When I start working, I don’t think rationally right away about the idea. I let the motif itself lead and mesmerize me, and allow that impulse to do wathever it pleases on the paiting. That initiall giving over is a path to sincerity towards ones true nature. Instead of setting myself a clear goal, I let my painting instinct drag me where it wants to go. After that I rationally perceive what is going on in the world of the painting. I think about why a certain motif or a formal element drew me towards it, why was it important to me, and what was behind that painter’s excitement. At that moment I am almost just an or...

Bachelor and Master studies at Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, 2017, department of painting

2018 - present, Phd. studies at Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade

Solo exhibitions:

“Looking at you”, Gallery ULUS. Belgrade, 2020
“Inflaming”, Gallery “Catch 22”, Belgrade 2019

Selected group exhibitions:

“Painting of Serbia”, Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”, Belgrade, 2020
“The autumn exhibition”, Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”, Belgrade, 2019
“Painting exhibition”, Gallery “Royall“, Belgrade, 2019
“Art today”,Gallery of National bank of Serbia, Belgrade,2019
“Exhibition of the painting section”, Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”, Belgrade, 2019
“The spring exhibition”, Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”, Belgrade, 2019
“Exhibiton of the new members”. Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”, Belgrade, 2019
“City and the border”, Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, 2017
“Drawing exhibition”, The Youth centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2017
“Awarded students exhibition”, Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, 2016
“FESTUM”, Gallery “SKC”, Belgrade, 2016
“Drawing exhibition”, The Youth centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2015
“Awarded students exhibition”, Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, 2014

Awards:
Award of Faculty of Fine Arts, 2014
Portrait painting award ’’Đorđe Bošan, painter and proffesro of ALU’’ 2016