In April 2014, Open Studio in Times Museum is pleasant to present Vladimir Nikolić, proposed by Maja Ćirić as the first artist in the Gift Exchange network. Vladimir Nikolić lives and works in Belgrade, in his body of works, there exists a complex of escaping the defining context of the art system as well as responding to its intrinsic question of what art is. By shifting perspectives in between representation, subjective narratives and spectatorship, he makes us aware of “those voices surrounding an artwork”. During Nikolic’s one-month residency in Times Museum, a transitional solo featuring some of his previous works is presented in the East Hall gallery. A workshop titled “Compose in the Painting Space” will be conducted twice with participants from different groups to enact and perform the multiple meanings of painting space. By activating every individual as an agency of interpretation, and by blurring the tipping point between individual and collective experience, the constructive moments of art and art history are thus to be unfolded.

Vladimir Nikolić (1974) lives and works in Belgrade. Selected solo shows include: Voice-over, NT Gallery, Bologna, 2009; Voice-over, Salon of Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 2009; Autoportraits, HO Gallery, Marseille, 2008; Rhythm, Gallery 2META, Bucarest 2002. Selected group shows include: 4th Athens Biennale, Athens, 2013; How to Tell a Story, Depo art gallery, Istanbul, 2013; The Power to host, ISCP, New York, 2011; Plug in II, Musée de l’île d’Oléron, Saint-Pierre d’Oléron, France, 2011; Mediations Biennale/Erased Walls, Poznan, 2010; Okolnosti, 50th Octobar Salon, Belgrade, 2009; Beyond Theory, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, 2008, New Europe, The Kitchen, New York, 2006; New Past, Maronnier Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, 2004; In the Gorges of the Balkans - A Report, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2003,etc.

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Vladimir Nikolic
Painting #6, 2009
photography 
courtesy of the artist