Biography

Ivana Milev

Was born in 1987.

Lives and works in Belgrade.

She has a bachelor’s (2009) and master’s (2011) degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Sculpture Department in the class of Mrđan Bajić. She completed her PhD (2017) at the same faculty, under the mentorship of Olivera Parlić Karajanković.

During her bachelor and master studies she had a scholarship from the Young Talent Fund of the Republic of Serbia. She was an exchange student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2010).

Since 2017 she is employed as a professor in the Art High School “Tehnoart Beograd” at the course Jeweler of Art Objects.

In 2013 she was a Kulturamt Dusseldorf art residency scholar (Germany), and in 2019 Cité internationale des arts scholar in Paris.

She is a member of the Association of Serbian Visual Artists (ULUS) and The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia (ULUPUDS). During 2022 and 2023, she was in the Art Council of ULUS, and in 2023 in the Art Council of SULUJ.

Her works of art is in the collection of the Zepter Museum; in the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Belgrade; in the Philip Morris collection; in Belgrade Cooperative, at the public space in Stuttgart and in numerous private collections (Serbia, Monaco, France, Italy, Germany, the USA, Greece).

 

Solo exhibitions:
2009 ‘Complex’, a sculpture in public space, Graz, Austria
2010 The exhibition of drawings and sculptures, ALT Gallery, Belgrade
2011 ‘Infinity’, Magacin Gallery, Belgrade
2011 ’No2’, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade
2011 The exhibition of drawings and sculptures, Belgrade Fortress Gallery
2012 ’Inner Layers’, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade
2013 ‘Rhythm of Elements’, Modern gallery Lazarevac
2013 ‘Inside the Limits’, Studio Kunstpunkte, Dusseldorf, Germany
2015 ‘Un/Limited’, Belgrade Youth Center
2015 ‘Un/Limited’, Goethe institute gallery, Belgrade
2016 ‘The Unity of Multitude’ (PhD art project), Zepter Museum, Belgrade
2016 ‘Graeae’, Cultural Centre of Belgrade
2019 ‘In/Variable’ Chaos Gallery, Belgrade
2020 ‘Metàelement’, Sales art gallery ‘Beograd’
2021 ‘Infinite strings’, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade
2023 ’Cosmic Connections’, Salon of the Terra Museum, Kikinda
2024 ‘MICROsystems’, Student cultural center – Arte gallery, Belgrade                                                                                                                                                                     

Group exhibitions, selected:
2008 -The exhibition-event ‘Progressive Hopes 3’, HAOS Gallery
-37th exhibition of drawings and small sculptures of Faculty of Fine Arts’ students, Belgrade
Youth Center
2009 – The exhibition of sculptures, SKC Gallery, Obrenovac (Event ‘Days of Belgrade’)
– 38th exhibition of drawings and small sculptures of Faculty of Fine Arts’ students, Belgrade
Youth Center
– The exhibition of artwork of awarded students in 2008/2009, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery,
Belgrade
2010 – 39th exhibition of drawings and small sculptures of Faculty of Fine Arts’ students,
Magacin Gallery, Belgrade
– ‘HIGH NOON Europaplatz’, Stuttgart, Germany
2011 – The international exhibition ‘Transform’, The National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
– XVI Biennial of Student Drawing of Serbia, Students’ City Cultural Center, Belgrade
– 40th exhibition of drawings and small sculptures of Faculty of Fine Arts’ students, Belgrade
Youth Center
– The exhibition of artwork of awarded students in 2010/2011, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery,
Belgrade
– ’Creative or Cloned’, O3ONE, Belgrade
– ’The New Acquisitions I’, Zepter Museum, Belgrade
2012 – ’The Richness of Visual Reality’, Koroška Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
– ‘The Red Room’, Zepter Museum, Belgrade
– ‘ŠUND’, Students’ Cultural Center, Belgrade
– ’25th Art Exhibition of Čukarica’, Gallery ‘73, Belgrade
2013 – International exhibition of drawings, Maclaren Art Center, Barrie Ontario, Canada
– ‘City Lab’, Glass Bank, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
– ‘Youth 2013’, Gallery Philip Morris, Niš
– ‘What Can I not Know About You’, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
2014 – ‘Contact’, Exhibition of female creativity, Cultural Center ‘Parobrod’, Belgrade
2015 – ‘Youth 2015’, ‘Serbia’ Gallery, Niš
– ‘Youth 2015’, Heritage House, Belgrade
– ‘The Black Room’, Zepter Museum, Belgrade
2016 – ‘The Acquisitions 2015’, Zepter Museum, Belgrade
– Artists from the region exhibition, CEI (Central European Initiative), Trieste, Italy
– ‘Youth 2016’, ‘Serbia’ Gallery, Niš
– ‘Youth 2016’, Heritage house, Belgrade
2017 – ‘Views 2017’, Gallery ’73, Belgrade
– ‘Art on Paper’, National Library of Serbia, Belgrade
– Night of the museums- ‘The World Belongs to the Young’, Zepter Museum, Belgrade
-‘Art to Science, Science to Art’, Progress Gallery, Belgrade
– ‘Comparisons’, Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade
2018 – ‘Youth 2018’, Tobacco Factory, Niš
– ‘Youth 2018’, Heritage House, Belgrade
– ‘The end and the beginning’, Cultural center of Serbia, Paris
– ‘Nature and Art as a Radical Art Practice Opportunity’, Transformat gallery, Belgrade
– ‘20 /20’, Cinema Balkan, Belgrade
2019 – ‘10/9’, Open studio, Port of Belgrade
– ‘The exhibition of Serbian sculptors’, Art Pavilion ‘Cvijeta Zuzorić’ Belgrade
2020 – 15th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Cultural Center Gornji Milanovac
– ‘Public Hobby’, artwork from Nenad Kostić’s collection, X VITAMIN Gallery, Belgrade
– ‘Entangled’, fall exhibition, Art Pavilion ‘Cvijeta Zuzorić’, Belgrade
2021 – ‘Public Hobby 2’, artwork from Nenad Kostić’s collection, X VITAMIN Gallery,
Belgrade
2022 – ‘Artist in residence’, Cultural Center GRAD, Belgrade
– ‘Art and Society’, spring exhibition, Art Pavilion ‘Cvijeta Zuzorić’ Belgrade
– 16th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Cultural Center Gornji Milanovac
– ‘Biophilia’, Institute for Cultural Development Research
– ‘Biophilia’, Štrand Novi Sad
– ‘Public Hobby 3’, artwork from Nenad Kostić’s collection, X VITAMIN Gallery, Belgrade
2023 – ‘Encounters’, Art Pavilion ‘Cvijeta Zuzorić’, Belgrade
– ‘UNTITELED: sculpture after sculpture’, Cazarma U, Timisoara
– ‘Sculptor’s Dimension’, Cultural Center in Trebinje
– ‘Tradition as a criterion’, Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade

Awards:
2004 Silver Medal in Shankar’s International Children’s Competition, New Delhi
2004 ‘Belgrade Angels’ award
2009 Award of Municipality ‘Savski Venac’ for sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade
2010 ‘The New Alternatives’, ALT Gallery award
2011 The first award of the Faculty of Fine Arts for mosaic
2011 Special award – Bookshop ’TALENT’
2011 The great award Rista i Beta Vukanović’, Faculty of Fine Arts
2011 Award for sculpture, exhibition ’Creative or Cloned’, O3ONE, Belgrade
2012 Award for installation, ’ŠUND’, Belgrade
2013 The main award in the category ‘Arts’, Club ‘SUPERSTE’
2015 Niš Art Foundation, third prize
2020 ‘Golden Chisel’, ULUS
2023 ‘Aleksandar Deroko’, municipality ‘Stari grad’, Belgrade

Art colonies and residencies:
2008-12 Student workshops ‘Terra’, Kikinda
2010 Art workshop, Stuttgart, Germany
2011 ‘The East is West of the West’, Niš
2012 ‘Blow, Ye Wind, from Banat’, Novi Bečej
2012 1st Belgrade Art Colony, Belgrade
2012 Workshop for making wood mosaic, Mokrin
2013 ‘Bauhaus Goes South – East Europe’, DAAD foundation, Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
2013 ‘City Lab’, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2013 Kulturamt, Artist exchange, Dusseldorf, Germany
2014 ’The whirls of the Lim’, Prijepolje
2018 Nature &Art, Osečina
2019 Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2019 Workshop ‘Pigmalion’, Tamnjanica
2020 ‘Kruparart’, Subotica
2021 ‘Kruparart’, Subotica
2021 ‘Sergej’s dream’, Bukulja
2022 Artist in residence, Cultural Center GRAD
2022 42nd Jalovik art colony