RADENKO MILAK – Navigating the Unknown – PRISKA PASQUER PARIS
June 30, 2022
Opening 6 pm – 9 pm
July 1 – July 5, 2022
from 11 am – 8 pm
Daily Reception from 6 pm to 8 pm
RADENKO MILAK
Radenko Milak (*1980 in Travnik, Bosnien und Herzegowina, lebt in Banja Luka, Bosnien und Herzegowina) studierte an der Kunstakademie in Banja Luka und an der Kunsthochschule in Belgrad, Serbien. 2014 präsentierte die Kunsthalle Darmstadt seine erste große Einzelausstellung in Deutschland. 2017 entwickelte MILAK für seine Einzelausstellung im Pavillon von Bosnien und Herzegowina auf der 57. Biennale Venedig das multidisziplinäre Projekt „University of Disaster“. Im Zentrum standen vier großformatige, komplex komponierte Aquarelle zu verschiedenen, von Menschen herbeigeführten Desastern. Sie befinden sich heute in der Sammlung des Museum Folkwang, Essen. 2019 waren Milaks Werke in der großen Schau „HYPER! A JOURNEY INTO ART AND MUSIC“ in den Deichtorhallen Hamburg zu sehen. 2020 hatte Radenko Milak die Einzelausstellung „Desaster of the Unseen“ (15.10.2020 – 29. November 2020) im Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, im selben Jahr zeigte das Marta Herford eine Auswahl seiner Werke in der Ausstellung „Trügerische Bilder – Ein Spiel mit Malerei und Fotografie“ (30.10.2020 – 15.8.2021).
In seinen Gemälden und Animationsfilmen, meist in Aquarelltechnik mit schwarzem Pigment realisiert, analysiert RADENKO MILAK die Rolle der zeitgenössischen Bildproduktion bei der Herausbildung unseres historischen und kulturellen Gedächtnisses. Das malerische Werk des bosnischen Künstlers kreist um Fragen der Fixierung und Speicherung des Visuellen sowohl in der persönlichen Erinnerung als auch in der medialen Präsentation durch Film und Foto.
Studium
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Art Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 2007
Academy of Art, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2020 Radenko Milak – Disaster of the Unseen, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
2020 Radenko Milak – 2020 All Over The World. Watercolors, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2019 Fields of Emotional Habits II, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2019 Fields of Emotional Habits, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2019 Radenko Milak, University of Disaster, National University of Colombia, Bogota
2018 Escenarios para utopias fallidas (with Pablo Mora), curated by Melissa Aguilar, La Balsa Arte, Medellin
2017 Radenko Milak, 14/09/XX, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2017 Radenko Milak, From the far side of the moon, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2017 Radenko Milak, University of Disaster, Radenko Milak with international guests, curated by Christopher Yggdre, Sinziana Ravini, Fredrik Svensk, Anna van der Vliet, Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2016 Radenko Milak, curated by León Krempel, Rutger Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam
2016 Radenko Milak,Promise of an Image, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
2015 Radenko Milak, University of Disaster & Endless Movie, Galeria La Balsa Arte, Bogota
2014 Radenko Milak, 365 – Image of Time, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt
2014 Radenko Milak, Big Time, curated by León Krempel, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2014 Radenko Milak, Unfinished Story, Patricia Dorfmann Gallery, Paris
2012 Radenko Milak, I Have Said Too Much I Have Not Said Enough, Duplex/100m2, Sarajevo
2012 Radenko Milak, And What Else Did You See? – I Couldn’t See Everything!, curated by Branislav Dimitrijević, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Belgrade
2006 Radenko Milak,Intimacy of Planetary Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Banja Luka
Einzelausstellungen “Dates”, joint project mit Roman Uranjek
2019 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 9, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 7, curated by Ani Molnár, Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 6 (Historical Encounters), Krank Art Gallery, Istanbul
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 5, curated by Tevž Logar, Eastwards Prospectus Gallery, Bucharest
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 4, Duplex/100m2, Sarajevo
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 3, curated by Zoran Đaković Minniti , The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade
2015 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 2, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2015 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 1, curated by Dr. Sc. Sarita Vujković, Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad
Biennalen
2018 Kochi Muziris Biennale, curated by Anita Dube, Kochi
2018 57th October Salon – The Marvellous Cacophony, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran and Danielle Kvaran, Belgrade
2018 Kampala Art Biennale, The Studio, curated by Simon Njami, Kampala
2017 University of Disaster, Radenko Milak with international guests, curated by Christopher Yggdre, Sinziana Ravini, Fredrik Svensk, Anna van der Vliet, Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2014 4th International Canakkale Biennial, curated by Deniz Erbas, Canakkale
2011 No Network – 1st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-O ARK Underground, Konjic
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2020 Deceptive Images. Playing with Painting and Photography, Marta Herford
2020 Black Album / White Cube – A Journey into Art and Music, Kunsthal Rotterdam
2020 On Equal Terms II, PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany
2019 Listen to Us – Artistic Intelligence, Deutsche Telekom Art Collection, curated by Rainald Schumacher and Nathalie Hoyos, Plovdiv
2019 Now Is The Time, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
2019 Hyper! A Journey Into Art And Sound, curated by Max Dax, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2018 FACING GAÏA, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2018 Sans Tambour ni Trompette, cent ans de guerre, Faux Mouvement, Metz, France
2018 Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018, Kerala, India
2018 Homo Interior, Cultural Italian Center, Belgrade
2018 57th October Salon, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade
2018 The Studio, Kampala Art Biennale 2018, Kampala, Uganda
2018 CUT / REZ – Examples of collage in artistic practices in Central and Eastern Europe from the Avantgarde until today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2017 Vojna, War, Krieg, Koroška galerija, Slovenj Gradec
2017 Issues of Uncertainity, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
2017 On aime l’art…!!, agnès b. collection, curated by Eric Mézil, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2017 Planet 9, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2017 Symptoms of Society curated by Alenka Gregoric, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guanzhou, Guangdong, China
2017 Les Femmes s’en mêlent Revisited : Facts & Fantaisies, curated by Stéphane Amiel and Marie
2017 Magnier, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
2017 Formes cinématographiques, Patricia Dorfmann Gallery, Paris
2016 Alineamientos, La Balsa Arte, Bogotá
2016 Vivre! – La collection agnès b., curated by Sam Stourdzé, Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris
2016 Schnittschnitt, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2016 The Pleasure of Love, curated by David Elliott, The 56th October Salon, Belgrade
2016 Aquaréelles, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern, Switzerland
2016 Contemporary Thesaurus, Žana Vukičević, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2016 Who Are Your #femaleheroes?, curated by Jeanette Zwingenberger and Priska Pasquer, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2016 Répétition, curated by Nicola Lees and Asad Raza, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
2016 Malerei als Film, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2016 Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
2015 Fluctuat Nec Mergitur, Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris
2015 Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem
2015 Hommage à Malevich: Black Square Continued, curated by Mateja Podlesnik, City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana
2015 Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century, curated by Andrea Domesle and Frank Eckhardt, Quartier21, Vienna
2015 New Space/Accrochage, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2015 Les Témoins, Centre d’art de Colomiers, Colomiers
2014 Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future 1914-18 / 2014, curated by Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2014 Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century, Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden
2014 4th International Canakkale Biennial, curated by Deniz Erbas, Canakkale
2014 Il s’en est fallu de peu, curated by Sandrine Wymann, La Fonderie, Mulhouse
2014 Sans tambour ni trompette, Cent ans de guerres, curated by Julie Crenn and Maud Cosson, La Graineterie, Houilles
2014 (Hi)Stories, Bernhard Bischoff & Partner Gallery, Bern
2014 Memory Lane, curated by Pierre Courtin, Galerie du Jour – agnès b., Paris et la Peinture…?, Galerie du Jour – agnès b., Paris
2013 En-Lighted, Bernhard Bischoff & Partner Gallery, Bern
2013 Show Room One, Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo
2012 Bild-Gegen-Bild, Haus der Kunst München, Munich
2012 Subjektive Empfindlichkeiten/5 Positionen, curated by Elio Krivdi, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna
2011 No Network – 1st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-O ARK Underground, Konjic
2008 Salon of the Revolution, HDLU – Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb
2006 Eastern Neighbours, curated by Dunja Blazevic, Cultural Center Babel, Utrecht
2006 Memory (W)hole, Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Banja Luka
Sammlungen
City of Lyon
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
Jewish Museum, Frankfurt
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka
National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Privatsammlungen
agnès b.
Art Collection Telekom
Collections Karmitz
Veröffentlichungen
Milak, Radenko. University of Disaster. La Biennale di Venezia : MSURS, 2017. Print.
Milak, Radenko. 365. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014. Print.
Dander, Patrizia and Lorz, Julienne. Bild Gegen Bild/Image Counter Image. Munich : Haus der Kunst, in association with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012. Print.
Auszeichnungen
2019 L’Accolade, Paris
2012 Premio Combat
RADENKO MILAK
Radenko Milak (born in 1980 in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina) studied at University of Banja Luka Academy of Arts as well as Belgrade University of Art in Serbia. His first major solo exhibition in Germany was hosted in 2014 by Kunsthalle Darmstadt. In 2017, Milak developed the multidisciplinary project University of Disaster for his solo exhibition at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. The centerpiece comprised four large-format, complex watercolors depicting various disasters caused by humans; they are now in the collection of Museum Folkwang in Essen. In 2019, works by Milak were included in the large show HYPER! A Journey into Art and Music at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. In 2020, Radenko Milak held a solo exhibition entitled Disaster of the Unseen (October 15 – November 29, 2020) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. A selection of his works was also included in the exhibition Deceptive Images – Playing with Painting and Photography at Marta Herford (October 30, 2020 – August 15, 2021).
In his paintings and animated films – mostly watercolours with black pigment – RADENKO MILAK analyses the role of contemporary image production in the formation of our historical and cultural memory. The Bosnian artist’s painting work centres on questions relating to how visual elements are fixed and stored – both in personal memories and as presented in the media of film and photography.
Education
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Art Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 2007
Academy of Art, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2020 Radenko Milak – Disaster of the Unseen, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
2020 Radenko Milak – 2020 All Over The World. Watercolors, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2019 Fields of Emotional Habits II, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2019 Fields of Emotional Habits, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2019 University of Disaster, National University of Colombia, Bogota
2018 Escenarios para utopias fallidas (with Pablo Mora), curated by Melissa Aguilar, La Balsa Arte, Medellin
2017 Radenko Milak, 14/09/XX, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2017 Radenko Milak, From the far side of the moon, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2017 Radenko Milak, University of Disaster, Radenko Milak with international guests, curated by Christopher Yggdre, Sinziana Ravini, Fredrik Svensk, Anna van der Vliet, Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2016 Radenko Milak, curated by León Krempel, Rutger Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam
2016 Radenko Milak,Promise of an Image, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
2015 Radenko Milak, University of Disaster & Endless Movie, Galeria La Balsa Arte, Bogota
2014 Radenko Milak, 365 – Image of Time, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2014 Radenko Milak, Big Time, curated by León Krempel, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2014 Radenko Milak, Unfinished Story, Patricia Dorfmann Gallery, Paris
2012 Radenko Milak, I Have Said Too Much I Have Not Said Enough, Duplex/100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2012 Radenko Milak, And What Else Did You See? – I Couldn’t See Everything!, curated by Branislav Dimitrijević, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Belgrade
2006 Radenko Milak,Intimacy of Planetary Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Solo Exhibitions of Dates, a joint project with Roman Uranjek
2019 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 9, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
2018 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek, FACING GAÏA, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 7, curated by Ani Molnár, Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 6 (Historical Encounters), Krank Art Gallery, Istanbul
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 5, curated by Tevž Logar, Eastwards Prospectus Gallery, Bucharest
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 4, Duplex/100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2016 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 3, curated by Zoran Đaković Minniti , The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade
2015 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 2, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2015 Radenko Milak & Roman Uranjek – Dates 1, curated by Dr. Sc. Sarita Vujković, Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad
Biennals
2018 Kochi Muziris Biennale, curated by Anita Dube, Kochi
2018 57th October Salon – The Marvellous Cacophony, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran and Danielle Kvaran, Belgrade
2018 Kampala Art Biennale, The Studio, curated by Simon Njami, Kampala
2017 University of Disaster, Radenko Milak with international guests, curated by Christopher Yggdre, Sinziana Ravini, Fredrik Svensk, Anna van der Vliet, Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2014 4th International Canakkale Biennial, curated by Deniz Erbas, Canakkale
2011 No Network – 1st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-O ARK Underground, Konjic
Group exhibitions (selection)
2020 Deceptive Images. Playing with Painting and Photography, Marta Herford
2020 Black Album / White Cube – A Journey into Art and Music, Kunsthal Rotterdam
2020 On Equal Terms II, PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany
2019 Listen to Us – Artistic Intelligence, Deutsche Telekom Art Collection, curated by Rainald Schumacher and Nathalie Hoyos, Plovdiv
2019 Now Is The Time, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
2019 Hyper! A Journey Into Art And Sound, curated by Max Dax, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2018 FACING GAÏA, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2018 Sans Tambour ni Trompette, cent ans de guerre, Faux Mouvement, Metz, France
2018 Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018, Kerala, India
2018 Homo Interior, Cultural Italian Center, Belgrade
2018 57th October Salon, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade
2018 The Studio, Kampala Art Biennale 2018, Kampala, Uganda
2018 CUT / REZ – Examples of collage in artistic practices in Central and Eastern Europe from the Avantgarde until today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2017 Vojna, War, Krieg, Koroška galerija, Slovenj Gradec
2017 Issues of Uncertainity, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
2017 On aime l’art…!!, agnès b. collection, curated by Eric Mézil, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2017 Planet 9, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2017 Symptoms of Society curated by Alenka Gregoric, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guanzhou, Guangdong, China
2017 Les Femmes s’en mêlent Revisited : Facts & Fantaisies, curated by Stéphane Amiel and Marie
2017 Magnier, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
2017 Formes cinématographiques, Patricia Dorfmann Gallery, Paris
2016 Alineamientos, La Balsa Arte, Bogotá
2016 Vivre! – La collection agnès b., curated by Sam Stourdzé, Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris
2016 Schnittschnitt, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2016 The Pleasure of Love, curated by David Elliott, The 56th October Salon, Belgrade
2016 Aquaréelles, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern, Switzerland
2016 Contemporary Thesaurus, Žana Vukičević, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Servia
2016 Who Are Your #femaleheroes?, curated by Jeanette Zwingenberger and Priska Pasquer, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2016 Répétition, curated by Nicola Lees and Asad Raza, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
2016 Malerei als Film, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2016 Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
2015 Fluctuat Nec Mergitur, Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris
2015 Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem
2015 Hommage à Malevich: Black Square Continued, curated by Mateja Podlesnik, City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana
2015 Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century, curated by Andrea Domesle and Frank Eckhardt, Quartier21, Vienna
2015 New Space/Accrochage, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2015 Les Témoins, Centre d’art de Colomiers, Colomiers
2014 Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future 1914-18 / 2014, curated by Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2014 Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century, Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden
2014 4th International Canakkale Biennial, curated by Deniz Erbas, Canakkale
2014 Il s’en est fallu de peu, curated by Sandrine Wymann, La Fonderie, Mulhouse
2014 Sans tambour ni trompette, Cent ans de guerres, curated by Julie Crenn and Maud Cosson, La Graineterie, Houilles
2014 (Hi)Stories, Bernhard Bischoff & Partner Gallery, Bern
2014 Memory Lane, curated by Pierre Courtin, Galerie du Jour – agnès b., Paris et la Peinture…?, Galerie du Jour – agnès b., Paris
2013 En-Lighted, Bernhard Bischoff & Partner Gallery, Bern
2013 Show Room One, Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo
2012 Bild-Gegen-Bild, Haus der Kunst München, Munich
2012 Subjektive Empfindlichkeiten/5 Positionen, curated by Elio Krivdi, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna
2011 No Network – 1st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-O ARK Underground, Konjic
2008 Salon of the Revolution, HDLU – Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb
2006 Eastern Neighbours, curated by Dunja Blazevic, Cultural Center Babel, Utrecht
2006 Memory (W)hole, Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Banja Luka
Collections
City of Lyon
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
Jewish Museum, Frankfurt
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka
National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Private Collections
agnès b.
Art Collection Telekom
Collections Karmitz
Publications
Milak, Radenko. University of Disaster. La Biennale di Venezia : MSURS, 2017. Print.
Milak, Radenko. 365. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014. Print.
Dander, Patrizia and Lorz, Julienne. Bild Gegen Bild/Image Counter Image. Munich : Haus der Kunst, in association with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012. Print.
Awards
2019 L’Accolade, Paris
2012 Premio Combat
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