Biography
Born in Nikšić, Montenegro in 1986. Lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. She earned her PhD at the Multimedia Art Department, University of Arts in Belgrade, in 2015. Graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting, in 2010. She is a co-founding member of U10 art space in Belgrade, working on managing exhibitions and events.
In 2019, Lidija was at Artist-in-Residence program organized by Balkan Projects and Swiss Institute in New York.
Representative of Montenegro at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2022.
Currently works at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade as an assistant professor.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Still, life, ALBA Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Tu si. Zauvek., together with Boris Lukić, Navigator gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2022
The Ordinary Things, ICA – Sofia, Bulgaria
2021
Titan Arum, Kulturni Centar Šabac, Šabac, Serbia
With luck, there’ll be no more dreams, Eugster || Belgrade, Serbia
2020
Too Soon, Too Late, Manifesto Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
The West Island, Belgrade Youth Center, Belgrade, Serbia
2017
Tu sam gde bi trebalo da želim da budem, with Marija Dragojlović, Navigator Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia; Curated by Mia David
SUNSET Journeys, Circoloquadro, Milan, Italy; Curated by Marta Cereda
2016
One second per second, with Nemanja Ladjic, U10 Art space, Belgrade, Serbia
Interspace, Gallery 212, Belgrade, Serbia
2015
Seascapes/Into the Wave, U10 Art space, Belgrade, Serbia
2013
Into the Wave, U10 Art space, Belgrade, Serbia
2012
Into the great white open, Gallery “Center”, Podgorica, Montenegro
2010
Making new poetics, An exhibition with Sava Knezevic, Happy Gallery, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia
2007
Exhibition of small scale, Faculty of Fine art, Novi Sad, Serbia
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2022
Montenegro Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale – The Art of Holding Hands / as we break through the sedimentary cloud
2021
The Price/ze is Right, Ostavinska, collaboration with Radostin Sedevchev, organization by Doma Art Foundation and Kulturforum, curators Voin de Voin and Martina Stefanova, Belgrade, Serbia
2020
Summer vibes: Holiday, November gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Spring exhibition 2020, Where the future begins, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
Harald Szeemann | Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us, Poster Series,Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, New York, US
Odkuda/Form From, UVUU, Gallery Reflektor, Užice, Serbia
Next Balkan, Vaska Emanuilova Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Shared meanings, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Anatomy of Flight, Museum of Aviation, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
U10 @ aqb Project Space, aqb Project Space, Budapest, Hungary
The 57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony,Curated by: Gunnar B. Kvaran and Danielle Kvaran
Off the Road, Center of Contemporary Arts Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
On porosion III, Aperto Lieu d’art, Montpellier, France
Outside the Lines, New Moment Gallery and Logic Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia
2017
XIII Solos, Reykjavik, Iceland
Biennale of Aquarel, Contemporary gallery of Zrenjanin, Zrenjanin, Serbia
Art colony Ečka,Contemporary gallery of Art Colony Ečka, Zrenjanin, Serbia
Outside the lines, Gallery New Moment, Belgrade, Serbia
On porosity,gallery Aperto Lieu d’art, U10 art collective, Montpelier, France
Exhibition of the finale of the D.B. Mangelos Award, Remont, Belgrade, Serbia
INTERRUPTION– CONTEMPORARY BALKAN ART (COBA), LIBRARY, London, UK
Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale, Tirana and Durrës, Albania
2016
(Para)Matters of Perception, U10 Art collective, Project Space Festival 2016 – Gallery Kronenboden, Berlin, Germany
(Para)Matters of Perception, U10 Art collective, Vodnikova domacije, Ljubljana, Slovenia
(Para)Matters of Perception, U10 Art collective,Funnel Contemporary, Bucharest, Romania
2015
Art Market Budapest 2015, Millenaris, Budapest, Hungary
PARALLEL VIENNA 2015, Alte Post, U10 group exhibition, Vienna, Austria
LISTE, Art Fair, U10 group exhibition, Basel, Switzerland
2014
Art wrapping paper, Screen print workshop / Graphic art colony of Youth, U10 Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia
About reality / Galerija Štab, Belgrade, Serbia
2013
Hard to be… within the time, side program / 47 BITEF 13, Judicial Academy, Belgrade, Serbia
2012
10+1, Art Space U10, Belgrade, Serbia
Without Delay, Gallery of Grad Culture Center, Belgrade, Serbia
Foire Internationael du Dessin, Cite internationale des arts, Paris, France
Mikser Festival, Henkel art award, Belgrade, Serbia
2010
Foire Internationael du Dessin, Gallery Nikki Marquardt, Paris, France
Real Presence 10, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
C2, Gallery DKSG, Belgrade, Serbia
2009
Ecology nature empathy, Contemporary Art Gallery, Pančevo, Serbia
Mermer i zvuci Artist intervention in public space, BELEF, Belgrade, Serbia
2008
Real Presence 8, Castello di Rivoli-Museo di Arte di Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
2007
Progressive Hopes 2, Magacin Gallery Space, Belgrade, Serbia
Professional Workshops
2009
Real Presence 9, Belgrade
Progressive Hopes 4, Belgrade
2008
Real Presence 8, Floating Site, Castello di Rivoli – Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Torino
Real Presence 8, Belgrade
Progressive Hopes 3, Belgrade
2007
Real Presence 7, Floating Sites, Garajistanbul, Istanbul
Real Presence 7, Belgrade
Progressive Hopes 2, Belgrade
2006
Real Presence 6, Belgrade
AWARDS
2010
A prize for drawing by Gioielli di Carta auction house from Rome
COLLECTIONS
2015
ING Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014
Drawing collection, Faculty of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010
Gioielli di Carta collection, auction house, Rome, Italy
RESIDENCIES
2019
Balkan Projects and Swiss Institute, New York, US
2017
SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015
Glo’ Art, Global Art Center, Lanaken, Belgium
2015
Intercambiador Acart Madrid, Madrid, Spain