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Radenko Milak 1980
Woont in Banja Luka, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Werkt in Banja Luka, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Vertegenwoordigd door:
Rutger Brandt Gallery
Radenko on his current work: ‘The first part of my production is watercolors, which I implemented mainly on paper Arches, 300 grams, 100% cotton. My approach to painting is based on black pigment and white paper, watercolors based on documentary photos, photojournalism, old newspapers, postcards, posters, documentary movies and other propaganda archives. My practice as an artist has always been heavily influenced by the idea that our relationship to the world and its history is largely determined by the uninterrupted and continuous flow of images that documents the world.
In 2013, I completed a project called “365”. “365, Image of Time” is large-scale series of watercolors that create historical panoramas depicting geo-political themes, ideologies and disasters from the 20th century until today. The project consisted to paint each day during one year a black and white watercolor image of an event that occurred the same day, related to modern and contemporary history. The event could be political, tied to conflicts, to the life of ideas and the arts, to scientific or technological progress. The result symbolized the landscape, through the image, of the short but intense history of the 20th century, as I see it, as I understand it. During the exhibition of this series at the Kusnthalle of Darmstadt, I was able to see just how this landscape, through the image, met with that of others. Everyone could identify with this fresco. For me, the role, the nature of the Image today is crucial, especially in the era of digital revolution, also I am very interested to understand the status of image today as a political fact. To use them and to construct them as new versions of stories. This Relationship has become even more important with the expansion of social networks and new information technologies. I’ve placed at the heart of my activity as a painter the question of what a painting could be at the age of the digital time and continuous accessibility to images. This global corpus of images, impossible to mentally embrace in its entirety, vast as it has become, is one of the fundamental elements of our imagination, be it individual or collective.
The second part of my work is based on the post-war trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project deals with the media, photojournalism, and presentation of war crimes. Twenty-four part series of black-and-white painted representation of this image takes its title from the photographer Ron Haviv. When asked by a journalist, “And what else did you see?”, Haviv replied, “I couldn’t see everything!”. This photograph depicting one of Arkan’s soldiers brutally hitting with his foot a wounded and dying woman, on the pavement in Bjeljina in 1992, at the very beginning of war, circled the globe and became one of the most recognizable media icons of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This project was presented at the exhibition Bild Gegen Bild, in the Haus der Kunst in Munich 2012.
Last part of my work can be called an obsession, research date as events, and historical events. That was the starting point of my collaboration with the artist Roman Uranjek (Slowenische Neue Kunst, NSK) for a joint project titled Dates’
In 2013, I completed a project called “365”. “365, Image of Time” is large-scale series of watercolors that create historical panoramas depicting geo-political themes, ideologies and disasters from the 20th century until today. The project consisted to paint each day during one year a black and white watercolor image of an event that occurred the same day, related to modern and contemporary history. The event could be political, tied to conflicts, to the life of ideas and the arts, to scientific or technological progress. The result symbolized the landscape, through the image, of the short but intense history of the 20th century, as I see it, as I understand it. During the exhibition of this series at the Kusnthalle of Darmstadt, I was able to see just how this landscape, through the image, met with that of others. Everyone could identify with this fresco. For me, the role, the nature of the Image today is crucial, especially in the era of digital revolution, also I am very interested to understand the status of image today as a political fact. To use them and to construct them as new versions of stories. This Relationship has become even more important with the expansion of social networks and new information technologies. I’ve placed at the heart of my activity as a painter the question of what a painting could be at the age of the digital time and continuous accessibility to images. This global corpus of images, impossible to mentally embrace in its entirety, vast as it has become, is one of the fundamental elements of our imagination, be it individual or collective.
The second part of my work is based on the post-war trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project deals with the media, photojournalism, and presentation of war crimes. Twenty-four part series of black-and-white painted representation of this image takes its title from the photographer Ron Haviv. When asked by a journalist, “And what else did you see?”, Haviv replied, “I couldn’t see everything!”. This photograph depicting one of Arkan’s soldiers brutally hitting with his foot a wounded and dying woman, on the pavement in Bjeljina in 1992, at the very beginning of war, circled the globe and became one of the most recognizable media icons of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This project was presented at the exhibition Bild Gegen Bild, in the Haus der Kunst in Munich 2012.
Last part of my work can be called an obsession, research date as events, and historical events. That was the starting point of my collaboration with the artist Roman Uranjek (Slowenische Neue Kunst, NSK) for a joint project titled Dates’
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Radenko Milak (1980, Travnik, Yugoslavia)
Education:
1999-2003: Academy of Art, University of Banja Luka;
2003-2007: University of Art Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts;
Solo Shows (Selection):
2017
14/09/XX, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
University of Disaster, Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
From the far side of the moon, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2016
This is a story of dreams, mixed with reality, Curated by Leon Krempel, Rutger Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam
Promise of an image, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
2015
University of Disaster & Endless Movie – Galería La Balsa Arte, Bogota
2014
Radenko Milak – 365 – Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Radenko Milak – Big Time – Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
Radenko Milak – Unfinished Story – Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris
2012
Radenko Milak – I Have Said Too Much I Have Not Said Enough – Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo
Radenko Milak: And What Else Did You See? – I Couldn´t See Everything! – Muzej savremene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrade
2006
Radenko Milak, Intimacy of planetary experience – Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka,Banja Luka
Group Shows (Selection):
2016
Répétition, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
Malerei als Film – Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Dates 5: Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucarest
Dates 4: Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo
Dates 3 : Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade
2015
Hommage à Malevich – Black Square Continued – group exhibition – Mestna Galerija / City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century – Quartier21, Vienna
Accrochage – Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
Les Temoins – Radenko Milak, Qingmei Yao, Mazaccio & Drowilal, Enrique Ramirez – Centre d’art de Colomiers, Colomiers
2014
Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future 1914-18 / 2014 – Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
Anmerkungen zum Beginn des kurzen 20. Jahrhunderts Gegenwartskunst zum 1. Weltkrieg -Motorenhalle – riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden
4th International Canakkale Biennial – International Canakkale Biennial, Canakkale
Il s’en est fallu de peu – La Fonderie, Mulhouse
Sans tambour ni trompette, Cent ans de guerres – La Graineterie, Houilles
(Hi)Stories – Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern
et la Peinture … ? – Galerie du Jour agnès b, Paris
2013
En-Lighted – Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern
Show Room One – Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo
2012
Bild-Gegen-Bild – Haus der Kunst München, Munich
Subjektive Empindlichkeiten / 5 Positionen – KunstHaus Wien, Vienna
Subjektive Empfindlichkeiten / 5 Positionen – Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
2011
1st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art. D-O ARK Underground – Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art, Konjic
2008
Salon of the Revolution – HDLU – Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb
2006
Eastern Neighbours – Cultural Center Babel, Utrecht
Memory (W)hole – Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Banja Luka
Awards:
2012: Premio Combat Prize for Drawing , Livorno, Italy
Selection books:
RADENKO MILAK: 365. Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2014. Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne
http://www.worldwide-artbooks.com/wwb_title.php?titleno=81199
BILD GEGEN BILD/IMAGE COUNTER IMAGE. Ed. by Patrizia Dander and Julienne Lorz. Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2012. Published in association with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
http://www.worldwide-artbooks.com/wwb_title.php?titleno=77072
Art Fairs:
2013 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2013 YIA, Art Fair, Paris
2014 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2014 Drawing Now, Paris
2015 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2015 Cologne Art Fair, Cologne
2016 Cologne Art Fair, Cologne
Public Collections:
Art Collection Telekom, Germany;
http://art-collection-telekom.com/de/artist/radenko-milak
Collection Agnès B., Paris, France;
National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Priska Pasquer, Cologne
Radenko Milak (1980, Travnik, Yugoslavia)
Education:
1999-2003: Academy of Art, University of Banja Luka;
2003-2007: University of Art Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts;
Solo Shows (Selection):
2017
14/09/XX, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
University of Disaster, Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
From the far side of the moon, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2016
This is a story of dreams, mixed with reality, Curated by Leon Krempel, Rutger Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam
Promise of an image, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
2015
University of Disaster & Endless Movie – Galería La Balsa Arte, Bogota
2014
Radenko Milak – 365 – Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Radenko Milak – Big Time – Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
Radenko Milak – Unfinished Story – Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris
2012
Radenko Milak – I Have Said Too Much I Have Not Said Enough – Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo
Radenko Milak: And What Else Did You See? – I Couldn´t See Everything! – Muzej savremene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrade
2006
Radenko Milak, Intimacy of planetary experience – Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka,Banja Luka
Group Shows (Selection):
2016
Répétition, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
Malerei als Film – Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Dates 5: Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucarest
Dates 4: Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo
Dates 3 : Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade
2015
Hommage à Malevich – Black Square Continued – group exhibition – Mestna Galerija / City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century – Quartier21, Vienna
Accrochage – Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
Les Temoins – Radenko Milak, Qingmei Yao, Mazaccio & Drowilal, Enrique Ramirez – Centre d’art de Colomiers, Colomiers
2014
Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future 1914-18 / 2014 – Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
Anmerkungen zum Beginn des kurzen 20. Jahrhunderts Gegenwartskunst zum 1. Weltkrieg -Motorenhalle – riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden
4th International Canakkale Biennial – International Canakkale Biennial, Canakkale
Il s’en est fallu de peu – La Fonderie, Mulhouse
Sans tambour ni trompette, Cent ans de guerres – La Graineterie, Houilles
(Hi)Stories – Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern
et la Peinture … ? – Galerie du Jour agnès b, Paris
2013
En-Lighted – Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern
Show Room One – Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo
2012
Bild-Gegen-Bild – Haus der Kunst München, Munich
Subjektive Empindlichkeiten / 5 Positionen – KunstHaus Wien, Vienna
Subjektive Empfindlichkeiten / 5 Positionen – Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
2011
1st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art. D-O ARK Underground – Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art, Konjic
2008
Salon of the Revolution – HDLU – Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb
2006
Eastern Neighbours – Cultural Center Babel, Utrecht
Memory (W)hole – Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Banja Luka
Awards:
2012: Premio Combat Prize for Drawing , Livorno, Italy
Selection books:
RADENKO MILAK: 365. Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2014. Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne
http://www.worldwide-artbooks.com/wwb_title.php?titleno=81199
BILD GEGEN BILD/IMAGE COUNTER IMAGE. Ed. by Patrizia Dander and Julienne Lorz. Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2012. Published in association with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
http://www.worldwide-artbooks.com/wwb_title.php?titleno=77072
Art Fairs:
2013 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2013 YIA, Art Fair, Paris
2014 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2014 Drawing Now, Paris
2015 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2015 Cologne Art Fair, Cologne
2016 Cologne Art Fair, Cologne
Public Collections:
Art Collection Telekom, Germany;
http://art-collection-telekom.com/de/artist/radenko-milak
Collection Agnès B., Paris, France;
National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Priska Pasquer, Cologne
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