Nikola Markovic

Born in 1979 in Koper, Slovenia. Lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.


A few terms and phenomena are of key importance for explanation of my artistic work: fragment, overlapping, remix and absurdity. These phenomena are translated from their multiple referential fields into a purely visual space where they bring along the layers of their embedded memory into a new environment, painting.

To split up the space, pictorial, musical, sculptural or architectural means to create a conflict in a system that was previously linear and continuous. To provoke a rhythmic interruption. This rhythmic interruption has, against all odds, an aim to establish the narrative, the speech. The speech of the image establishes itself from all the possible combinations created by accident, forming a new identity derived through absurdity.

My individual works are preceded with a wish to continue and elaborate what has already been commenced. I look at paintings and visual information that, in my view, have potential to generate new pictorial ideas. Therefore a remix - a mix of old works, motives and fragments appears as the result of my investigation. This way of working has an inconsistent model of research. I choose elements and fragments fro...

BFA and MFA from the University of arts in Belgrade.