Geometrija 2025
Two international exhibitions of the Geometrija project in Belgrade
Geometrija 2025, 2nd Iteration >> November 2025 >> new website of the Geometrija project >> opening of two international exhibitions of geometric abstraction art in renowned Belgrade galleries: Prodajna galerija “Beograd”, Kosančićev venac 19 (6. November), Galerija 73, Požeška 83a (20. November).
Aleksander Jozef Olszewski (Poland)
Aleksander Józef Olszewski, born in 1944 in Radom, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź in Professor Lech Kunka’s painting studio and Professor Aleksandra Pukaczewska’s design studio. Full professor. Founder and first Dean of the Faculty of Art at the University of Radom. Founder of the Pentagon and Rogatka Galleries, which has organised over 200 exhibitions by artists from Poland and abroad. Founder of the yearly magazine of the Faculty of Art Arteria and its first editor-in-chief. Member of ZPAP. Creates based on his own system called Morphoism . Works in cycles relating to various plastic issues. He has participated in 500 national and international exhibitions and 50 individual ones. Currently, he runs the Laboratory Gallery ‘System’ in Radom. By order of the President of the Republic of Poland of 29 September 2011, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland for outstanding merits in scientific and artistic work and for achievements in teaching and social activity.
Beti Bricelj (Slovenia)
Beti Bricelj is Slovenian artist born in 1974 in Postojna. In 2000 she graduated from Fine Arts on Arthouse – College of Visual Arts in Ljubljana. After completing her studies, she continued her education in Australia where she lived for a year. Bricelj participated in a research study of the Aboriginal culture organized by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Adelaide, South Australia. Beti Bricelj has been invited to numerous Art Symposium, and has presented work for independent and joint exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad Vienna, Cologne, Paris, Ostrava, Bratislava - exhibition Contemporary European Geometrical Tendencias, Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition the largest and longest running exhibition of contemporary art and architecture in Scotland, including well known Vasarely Museum in Budapest and the renowned Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas - Texas, USA and elsewhere. Her work has been published in various international catalogues/books of contemporary art as well having work in public and private collections around the world. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work. As an artist she also took up an architectural challenge and designed the front of the Epicenter B2 Trade and Business Center in Postojna using her expertise in art. Beti Bricelj’s artwork is based on a grid that offers her an infinite number of possibilities. Within this framework, she explores the options of new serial paths, whereby deviating solutions, in particular, open up the most exciting perspectives for her. Bricelj is a member of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies, since 2002 and a member of international group The Drawing Collective, since 2020. She lives and works in Postojna.
Duša Jesih (Slovenia)
Dusa Jesih was born on 1977 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She lives and works in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. In 1996 she finished high school of Art, Design and Photography in Ljubljana and in 2003 graduated from Fine Arts on Art house - College for Visual Art, Ljubljana. In 2006 she post graduated in painting. For the present she lives and works little here, little there, in Ljubljana and in village Kal near Pivka, in capital and in the countryside, engaged in painting and printmaking; from classic painting to new media (as a technical support to her work). She participated in numerous exhibitions, colonies, residence programs and projects at home and abroad. Since 2004 she is a member of Community association of Slovenian artists ZDSLU. Since 2006 she is a mentor of art classes on Slovenian university for third life period. From 2006 to 2007 she was twice on expert and research advanced studies in Paris, living in Cite Internationale des arts. From 2008 she has a status of self-employed artist.
Jovan Dostanić (Serbia)
Jovan Dostanić is a sculptor, born in 1992 in Belgrade. He completed his undergraduate studies in 2014 at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Sculpture, and his master’s studies in 2016 at the same faculty and department. He then enrolled in doctoral art studies at the same faculty, in the class of Professor Zdravko Joksimović, where in 2022 he defended his thesis titled “Order and Work in Metal – Exhibition of Sculptures and Reliefs.” During the 2016/2017 academic year, Jovan Dostanić was engaged at the Faculty of Fine Arts as an associate on the subjects Sculpture Technologies and Metal Sculpture. In 2018, he participated in an art residency in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he took part in exhibition programs held in Cologne and Düsseldorf – Kunstpunkte 2018. Jovan Dostanić’s artistic work has received multiple awards. His sculptures are part of the Zepter Museum collection (acquired in 2016 and 2021), as well as private collections in Switzerland and France. He is a member of ULUS and has presented his work to the public in nine solo exhibitions in Serbia and Germany, as well as in twenty-five group exhibitions.
Jovana Čajović (Serbia)
Jovana Čajović is a visual artist and graphic designer, born in 1994 in Kraljevo. She graduated from the Secondary School of Art in her hometown in 2013, after which she enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Painting. She completed her master’s studies in 2019 at the Department of Drawing, in the class of Professor Višnja Petrović. During her studies, she received several scholarships, awards, and commendations for her work, among which the “Boško Petrović” Award for the most successful work in the professional-artistic discipline of painting stands out. Since 2014, Jovana Čajović has been actively exhibiting, and to date, she has participated in more than fifty group exhibitions. She has presented her work to the public in solo exhibitions at the Fine Art Gallery of the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade, at the Student Cultural Center Fabrika in Novi Sad, and at the Laza Kostić Cultural Center in Sombor.
Jozef Klaćik (Serbia)
Jozef Klaćik is a multimedia artist of Slovak origin, born in 1949 in Stara Pazova. He graduated from the Bogdan Šuput Secondary School of Applied Arts in Novi Sad in 1969. Two years later, in 1971, he enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bratislava (Slovakia), where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1976. After his studies, he worked as an art and graphic editor at the editorial offices of Obzor and Hlas Ľudu in Novi Sad, and later served as a professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. In addition to painting, Jozef Klaćik is also involved in sculpture, printmaking, photography, visual arts, and poetry. He is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina and Serbia, the Association of Slovak Printmakers, as well as the Association of Writers of Vojvodina. He has exhibited in around a thousand group exhibitions and about thirty solo exhibitions both in Serbia and abroad. He has taken part in study trips to Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Austria, and the Czech Republic. He has received twenty prestigious awards in Serbia and abroad, and his artworks are housed in about ten museums and galleries, as well as numerous private collections.
Lorenzo Bocca (Italy)
Architect, teach and painter. In 1976 he began an apprenticeship under Alberto Sartoris, a master of twentieth-century Rationalist architecture; in 1987 he organised and exhibition dedicated to Sartoris in the Pietro da Cemmo room of Sant’Agostino di Crema Cultural Center in Cremona. Bocca wrote the book “Alberto Sartoris, opere 1920/2985”, published by Turris, Cremona. In the same year, in conjunction with other artists and architects, he founded the CASMIPAC (Circle of Alberto Sartoris, International Movement for a humanistic Presence in Constructed Art). With MADI artist Angelo Giuseppe Bertolio, Bocca worked on a series of architectural projects which were the fruit of collaboration between artist and architect, such as the building in Soresina used for bowling and the extension to the Genivolta Cemetery in Cremona. Bocca subsequently carried out in-depth research on geometry in the works of Francesco Borromini. Following this, and white the starting point of research conducted by French priest Father Sébastien Truchet, he explored the infinite compositional possibilities generated by the division of a square by its diagonal. This led him to the work of Giorgio Scarpa and o models of rotational geometry and observations on bionics, in particular the structure of the mouth of a sea urchin, and to a collaboration with Giuseppe Trogu (lecturer in design at San Francisco State University) for a reinterpretation of Scarpa’s Aristotle’s Lantern for the 2014 international “Living Machine” conference in Milan. He has given talks at national conferences “Giorgio Scarpa’s transformable objects: geometry as Art, Science and Play” in Castel Bolognese (Ravenna, 2015), “The legacy of the great masters” at the Alberto Manzi Centre in Bologna (2016) and “Encounters with Mathematics” at Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna, 2017). He took part in the conference of SMIT, the International Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, in Self (2016). He is author of the book “Soresinateatro”, the fruit of his historical research and concrete involvement following the decline of the nineteenth century Teatro Sociale in Soresina. Bocca explores the expressive potential of paper, creating sculptures achieved by folding sheets on the diagonal.He is a member of the Astractura artistic movement, adhering to the fundamental principle that line is the minimum and irreducible element for the construction of a work of art. Bocca has recently exhibited his works in the town of Nocera Inferiore as part of the collective show “Astrattismo Ecumenico”, in the Latina Biennial of Contemporary Art, in the collective show “Experimenta, dialoghi astrattisti” in Orta de Atella (Caserta) and in solo shows in the cloisters of the San Domenico complex in Crema, in Cremona’s Art Gallery and Town Hall, and in the Priamar Fortress in Savona.He collaborated with the sculptor Paolo Mezzadri in experiments on the expressive potential of iron and paper in the exhibition “Dialoghi” (Cremona, 2016). He produced thirty pencil and ink drawings for the Pulcinoelefante publishing house to illustrate the thirteenth-century text the “Three Character Classic”. He has a work on display at the European Community’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra (Varese) as part of the exhibition “Art Spaces. Nuclear Decommissioning: the science at the service of the future generation”. He has a triptych on permanent display in the Museum of Geometric and Madi Art in Dallas (Texas). He has published the book “Lorenzo Bocca”, sperimentare geometrie”, edited by Francesco pagliati, with Milanese gallery Scoglio di Quarto. He collaborates with the ICAS company for the 2018 calendar, creating thirteen new compositions.
Maja Vukmanov (Serbia)
Maja Vukmanov is a visual artist, born in 1990 in Sombor. From 2009 to 2013, she studied painting at the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, where she graduated in 2013. She completed her master’s studies in 2023 at the same faculty, under the mentorship of Professor Vidoje Tucović, presenting the work Reversed Image Space at the Gallery of the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad. To date, she has participated in four group exhibitions, among which the project Differences, held in 2023 at the Gallery of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, stands out.
Marko Vukša (Serbia)
Marko Vukša, a sculptor by vocation, was born in 1977 in Belgrade. He graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Sculpture. Since 2016, he has been engaged as a professor of Applied Sculpture at the same faculty. To date, he has held twenty-three solo exhibitions, both in Serbia and abroad (Japan, Israel). In addition, he has participated in two hundred and sixty group exhibitions in Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, Albania, Spain, France, Austria, the USA, China, Germany, and Japan. He has also been a participant and organizer of numerous art colonies, symposiums, and workshops in Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Romania, China, and Japan. Marko Vukša’s sculptures—thirty-seven works in total—are found in public spaces, as well as in museum and cultural center collections in Serbia, China, Romania, and Japan. One of his more recognizable works is Place for Two, a granite sculpture installed in Changchun, China. Marko Vukša’s artistic work has received multiple awards—he is the recipient of 19 awards and recognitions for sculpture in Serbia, France, and China.
Mice Poptsis (Serbia)
Mice Poptsis is a sculptor, born in 1950 in Belgrade. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Sculpture, in the class of Professor Nikola Koka Janković, where he graduated in 1974. He completed his postgraduate studies in 1976 at the same faculty, in the class of Professor Jovan Kratohvil. He has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1975, as well as of the Association of Abstract Artists Salon Réalités Nouvelles in Paris since 2015. From 1971 to 1985, he studied classical stonemasonry at the stonemasonry school in Pučišća on the island of Brač, Croatia. From 1982 to 1992, he worked as a professor at the Technical School in Smederevo, and from 1985 to 1988, he was an associate of the stonemasonry workshop at the International Symposium “Marble and Sounds” in Aranđelovac. From 1992 until his retirement in 2016, he was employed at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Sculpture, as a professor of sculpture in the Stone Department. He has participated in numerous international symposiums in Pučišća, Ljubljana, Bihać, Orońsko (Poland), Aranđelovac, Bor, and Ripanj. He has held several solo exhibitions and taken part in a large number of group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad—in Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Greece, and France. His artistic work has received multiple awards, and his pieces are found in museums, public institutions, and private collections both in Serbia and internationally.
Milan Manić (Serbia)
Milan Manić is an artist, digital author, and multimedia content creator, born in 1979 in Pirot. He is engaged in visual art, writing, and the production of educational and aesthetic video materials, primarily in the field of chess. After graduating from the Technical School in Pirot, he enrolled at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš in 1998. He left his studies in 2000 due to health reasons and then dedicated himself to art. Milan Manić is a member of several art associations: ULUS, the Association of Fine Artists of Pančevo (ULUP), and the Association of Fine and Applied Artists “Nova Art Scena” from Pirot. Since 2017, he has held the status of an independent artist. To date, he has held six solo exhibitions in Serbia and participated in more than one hundred and twenty group exhibitions in the country and abroad, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Cyprus, Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary, Brazil, Poland, Turkey, China, and Lithuania. His artistic work has received multiple awards. In addition to visual art, Milan Manić also writes short stories and poetry; he has published the short story collection Sve te prevrtalice (Pirot: Pi-press, 2008) and the poetry collection Sumpor (Pirot Public Library, 2022), and his work has been included in numerous collections and two anthologies. He collaborates with domestic and international magazines and has published in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia. Milan Manić lives and works in Pančevo.
Milija Belić (Serbia/France)
Milija Belić is a visual artist, art theorist, and founder of cultural events. He was born in 1954 in Rudovci, near Lazarevac. He graduated in painting in 1978 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting. From 1990 to 1991, he completed master’s studies in visual arts and art sciences (U.F.R. d’Art Plastiques et Sciences de l’Art) at the University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne. The following year (1991–1992), he earned a diploma in Advanced Studies in Aesthetics from the same institution. He defended his doctoral dissertation titled Le rythme plastique. Prolégomènes à un Méta-Art in 1994, also at Panthéon Sorbonne. He has been a member of ULUS since 1979. In addition, he is a member of numerous international art associations: AICA (International Association of Art Critics); Maison des Artistes, Paris; Taylor Foundation, Paris; Carrément Art Construit, Paris; the Committee of the Salon Réalités Nouvelles, Paris; and ACI – Art Construit International, Paris. Since 1978, he has actively exhibited solo in Serbia, France, Germany, and Italy. He has participated in more than two hundred and thirty group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. His artistic work has earned him several recognitions, notably: the Drawing Award of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (1974); a French government scholarship for professional development in Paris (1983–1984, under the mentorship of Vladimir Veličković); and the Vidovdan Award of the City of Lazarevac for outstanding contribution to culture (2004). In addition to his artistic practice, Milija Belić was the founder and long-time artistic director of the Modern Gallery in Lazarevac, as well as the initiator of the “Days of French-Serbian Friendship” and “Year of Japan in Serbia” events. He is the author of several theoretical books on art, most notably Meta Art, SKC, Belgrade, 1997, and Apologie du rythme, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2002.
Olivera Savić Popović (Serbia/Sweden)
Olivera Savić Popović was born in 1950 in Belgrade. She graduated in 1977 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting, in the class of Professor Stojan Ćelić. From 1977 to 1979, she attended postgraduate studies at the same faculty and earned her master’s degree in 1982. She continued her professional development in 1997/1998 through the “Lighting the City” program at Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1977, and of the Swedish Artists’ Association (KRO) since 1996. She has received several domestic and international scholarships: in 1981, the “Moša Pijade” scholarship for a study stay in the Netherlands; also in 1981, support from the Fund for the Advancement of Young Artists in the Field of Fine and Applied Arts; in 1987, a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France; and in 2008, a cultural scholarship from the Municipality of Nynäshamn, Sweden. Olivera Savić Popović has held twenty-two solo exhibitions in Serbia, Sweden, and Croatia, and has participated in over one hundred group exhibitions. Her artistic work has been awarded multiple times, including the Award of the Yugoslav Youth Colony in Ivanjica and the City of Nynäshamn Award for contributions to the arts. Her works are held in public and private collections in Serbia and abroad. Olivera Savić Popović lives and works in Sweden.
Slobodan Knežević Abi (Serbia)
Slobodan Knežević Abi was born in 1948 in Bačko Dobro Polje. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Printmaking, in 1977, and completed his master’s studies in 1979 in the class of Professor Marko Krsmanović. He is a member of ULUS and ULUV. Since 1980, he has been employed at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and since 1996 he held the position of full professor for the subjects Printmaking with Technology and Drawing with Technology. He has been retired since 2016. Over the course of his long artistic career, he has exhibited prints, drawings, “cartons,” sculptures, collages, and paintings in more than thirty solo exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, including Hungary and Switzerland. He has participated in over three hundred group exhibitions. Since 1982, he has taken part in major biennials and international exhibitions in Zagreb, Berlin, Kraków, Katowice, Catania, Belgrade, Varna, Sofia, Tokyo, Gornji Milanovac, Užice, Łódź, Miskolc, and other cities. He has received seventeen awards for printmaking and painting, among the most notable: the “Golden Needle,” 67th Spring Exhibition of ULUS, Belgrade, 1995; the “Grand Seal” of the Graphic Collective, Belgrade, 1996; the “Silver Needle” at the International Drypoint Exhibition, Užice, 2005; the “First Prize” at the 6th EX-YU Printmaking Exhibition, Belgrade, 2012; and the “Medal for Lifetime Achievement” from the Vojvodina Institute for Culture, 2013. Slobodan Knežević Abi’s works are held in numerous museums throughout Serbia, as well as in private collections both in the country and abroad.
Snežana Vujović Nikolić (Serbia)
Snežana Vujović Nikolić, a painter by vocation, was born in 1959 in Belgrade. She graduated in 1984 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting, and earned her master’s degree in 1987 from the same faculty and department. She is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS). Her artistic practice includes paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Since the mid-1980s, she has been actively exhibiting and has held twenty-eight solo exhibitions across Serbia and abroad, as well as participated in around forty group shows. Her paintings are part of numerous public and private collections in Serbia and internationally, including Montenegro, Austria, France, Russia, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and Croatia. Through the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, she has had eight of her works acquired.
Teodora Nikolić (Serbia)
Teodora Nikolić is a visual artist, born in 1998 in Belgrade. She completed her undergraduate and master academic studies in 2020–2021 at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of Applied Painting, under the mentorship of Full Professor Miroslav Lazović, MFA. She was awarded the “Dositeja” scholarship from the Fund for Young Talents for both undergraduate and master studies. Since 2023, she has been a doctoral student at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, in the Department of Applied Arts and Design, under the mentorship of Dr. Tijana Kojić. As of 2024, she has been engaged as a research assistant at the same faculty, teaching Drawing and Painting within the departments of Textiles, Contemporary Clothing, Stage Costume, and Applied Sculpture. She is a member of ULUS and ULUPUDS. Actively engaged in visual art, she has held eight solo exhibitions and participated in over thirty group exhibitions in Serbia and the region.
Vesko Gagović (Montenegro)
Vesko Gagović is a Montenegrin visual artist, born in 1963 in Nikšić. He graduated in 1988 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, where he also completed his master’s studies in 1991. Sarajevo was the city where, in 1990, he held his first solo exhibition. He has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro (ULUCG) since 1991. Gagović has received multiple awards for his artistic work, including: the “Zlatno oko” Gallery Award at the First Yugoslav Youth Biennial in 1994 in Vršac; the Critics’ Award at the ULUCG exhibition in 1995 in Podgorica; an award at the 15th International Drawing Exhibition in 2001 in Rijeka; the first UNESCO prize at the 4th International Biennial in 2002 in Cetinje; and the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro Award in the Montenegrin Souvenir Competition in 2004 in Podgorica. He has held several solo exhibitions in Montenegro, Serbia, and Italy, and has participated in around one hundred group exhibitions. In 2019, he represented Montenegro at the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with the project Odyssey (Floating Object).
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Impressum
Dr Miona Marta Marković, Author
Dr Goran S. Milovanović, Production
Dr Mila Gvardiol, Design
Belgrade, Serbia, 2025.