Vladimir Miladinović

The artist, who lives and works in Belgrade, studied at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, where he completed his doctoral studies in the Department of Art and Media Theory at the University of Arts. He was a member of the Working Group »Four Faces of Omarska«, an art and theory group which questions strategies of creating memorials . Miladinović’s main interests are the politics of remembering, media manipulation, and the creation and reinterpretation of history. His work engages with war and postwar trauma. It addresses media, forensics, political and ethical identification, and the representation of war crimes, as well as with current transitional ideologies of denial and erasure. He is interested in how media and institutions in postwar societies shape public space, thus also shaping collective memory. He uses art as a forum to create a counter-public sphere where questions about war, media propaganda, manipulation of narratives, historical responsibility, and intellectual commitment are raised. He has exhibited widely in Europe, including at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Artium / Basque Museum Centre of Contemporary Art (Vitoria, Spain), Münchner Stadtmuseum (Munich, Germany), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg, Austria), Freiraum Q21 (Vienna), CACT-Thessaloniki Center Of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, Greece), and Exchange (London).