Dante Buu
Dante Buu is the winner of the 2021 Milcik Award. Dante Buu is an artist, storyteller and performer who intertwines the autobiographical with the lives of others. Dante’s artistic practice, fluid and playful across mediums, is intimately rooted in the untold stories of love and resistance. Buu represented Montenegro at the 59th Venice Biennale Arte […]
Èv van Hettmer
Èv van Hettmer is the winner of the Oskár Čepan Award 2021 with her painting installation All blessed (2021), where she dives into the cultural topics of her feministic experience and exposes her “erotically-political” attitude. Van Hettmer primarily works within the field of painting which she confronts with objects, sculpture, technology and typography (language). She […]
Elena Chemerska
Elena Chemerska is the winner of 2021 DENES Award for Young Visual Artists in North Macedonia. Her artistic research is focused on relationships between aesthetics, materiality, and politics. Her interests lie in thinking about the ways in which we create a basis for the future in relation to memory and the way we attempt to […]
Žarko Aleksić
Žarko Aleksić is the winner of the 2020 Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award. Aleksić works across several mediums integrating experience, photography, video, installation and performativity – all of which relate to his interest in experience as a synthesis of the modernistic techniques of collage and montage. This thematic research is also the subject of a PhD […]
Marta Djourina
Marta Djourina is the recipient of the 2021 BAZA Award for Contemporary Art. “In my work I use analogue color and black and white photo paper to explore the nature of light. I study the cause and effect of various light phenomena. Light becomes a topic of investigation, a tool and an object of investigation. […]
Lana Stojićević
Lana Stojićević is the winner of the 2021 Radoslav Putar Award. Lana Stojićević has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Croatian and abroad, including the 2021 Ostrale Biennale in Dresden, the New East Photo Prize in London and the OFF Biennale in Budapest. She has won numerous professional awards, including the Radoslav Putar Award (Institute of […]
Sead Kazanxhiu
Sead Kazanxhiu is the winner of Ardhje award 2022 for young Albanian artists, organized by TICA Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art and Zeta Contemporary Art Center. Kazanxhiu’s practice as an multidisciplinary artist and more generally as a cultural producer, reflects his position as an Albanian Roma citizen. Through his profound awareness of the ways that […]
Krasimira Butseva
Krasimira Butseva is the recipient of the 2022 BAZA/Young Visual Artist Award for emerging visual artists in Bulgaria. Krasimira is a visual artist, writer and educator based between London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria. In her practice and research, the artist explores human rights, social injustice, political violence, traumatic memory, official and unofficial history in relation […]
Pavle Banović
Pavle Banović was nominated finalist for the 2022 Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos award. “In my work, I try to examine different ways of existing and doing today and rethink them. Also, how to discover relationships between individuals and ideologies and how can these two destabilize each other. How do authentic life experiences and narrations oppose dominant […]
Agrina Vllasaliu
Agrina Vllasaliu is the recipient of the 2022 Artists of Tomorrow Awards. Agrina left Kosovo for Germany with her parents in 1992 due to Kosovo’s unstable political situation. As a child she was raised bilingually between the Albanian and German cultures. In her practice, Agrina combines various materials and media such as painting, photography, video, […]