Siniša Ilić
Siniša Ilić (Belgrade, 1977) is a fine artist who uses different media in addressing social
phenomena and mechanisms, exploring forms of work, tensions in society, violence and
volatile situations. He has collaborated with theatre director Bojan Djordjev on a number of
projects. Ilić is one of the founders of the TkH (Walking Theory, 2001–2017), an art theory
platform in Belgrade. He has exhibited his works in Belgrade at the Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Cultural Center of Belgrade, the Center for Cultural Decontamination,
and at the October Salon; in Zagreb at the Nova and Vladimir Nazor galleries, and the
Museum of Contemporary Art – Richter Collection; at the Kustraum in Innsbruck; at the
Centre Pompidou, Kadist Foundation in Paris; at the Tate Modern and Calvert 22 Foundation
in London; at the Industrial Art Biennial in Rijeka; at the Ural Industrial Biennial of
Contemporary Art in Yekaterinburg; the MAXXI in Rome; at Weltmuseum, WUK, and Open
Space in Vienna; at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana; at the Lofoten International Art
Festival (LIAF) in Norway; at the Nadežda Petrović Gallery in Čačak; and the Biennale of
Contemporary Art in Pančevo. Ilić explores forms of collective and research work and
designs stage and performance spaces (National Theatre Belgrade, Atelje 212, the Duško
Radović Little Theatre, the Slovene National Theatre Ljubljana, the Istrian National Theatre
Pula, the Zagreb Youth Theatre, and the Gavella Drama Theatre Zagreb). He holds a BA
from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Ilić has received a number of awards, including
the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award and the October Salon Prize, and has attended
several arts residencies. Together with Bojan Djordjev and Maja Mikrović he co-curated the
Serbian exhibition Scene Work Ahead at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance
Design and Space. For more about his work, visit sinisailic.blogspot.com.
Role at the 2022 Biennale
Participant in the International Scientific Symposium
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