Lidija Delić

Lidija Delić’s artistic practice is conceptually and structurally based on an intermedia research of the connections and relationships between internal mental processes and the spaces that surround them. The starting point of this approach is the idea that we cannot understand the world around us as a system of pre-defined objects and concepts that we then rationally choose, but as a dense network of unfinished processes, in which the stability of things is only a reflection of the stability of their images. Her works open to multiple perspectives and interpretations, introducing the observer to a permeable, layered world that does not accept to be reduced to clear and defined boundaries.
*1986, Montenegro

Lidija Delić lives and works in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2010), painting department, and completed her doctoral studies in multimedia art at the University of Arts in Belgrade (2015). She is one of the founders of the U10 Art Space from Belgrade (2012). Since 2021, she has been employed at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade as an assistant professor. Her work is part of numerous private and public collections. She has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in country and internationally, including solo exhibition The Ordinary Things, ICA – Sofia Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (2022), With luck, there’ll be no more dreams, Eugster II Belgrade (2021), Too Soon, Too Late, Manifesto Belgrade (2020), The West Island, Belgrade Youth Center (2018), in 2018 she exhibited her work at the 57th October Salon in Belgrade. In 2017, she represented Serbia at the 18th International Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM), in Tirana, Albania. She is a finalist of the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award for 2017. In 2019, she participated in a residency program in New York organized by the Balkan Project and the Swiss Institute in New York. 

Lidija Delić was a representative of Montenegro at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2022.  



Education

2011 – 2015

PhD at the Multimedia Art Department, University of Arts Belgrad

2005 – 2010

Faculty of Fine Arts Belgrade, Department of Painting

Selected Duo and Solo Shows

2023

Still, life | ALBA Gallery, Vienna

Tu Si. Zauvek. | Navigator Art Gallery, Belgrade (duo with Boris Lukić)

2021

Titan Arum | Kulturni Centar Šabac, Šabac, Serbia

With luck, they’ll be no more dreams | Eugster II, Belgrade, Serbia

2020

Too Soon, Too Late and the Drowned World | non canonico, Belgrade, Serbia

Too Soon, Too Late | Manifesto Belgrade, Serbia

2018

The West Island | Belgrade Youth Center, Belgrade, Serbia

2017

Tu sam gde trebalo da želim da budem | with Marija Dragojlović, Navigator Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia; Curated by Mia David

SUNSET Journeys | Ciroloquadro, Milan, Italy; curated by Marta Cereda

2016

One second per second | with Nemanja Ladijc, 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 | with Sava Knezevic, Happy Gallery, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia

2007

Exhibition of small scale | Faculty of Fine Art, Novi Sad, Serbia

Selected Group Shows

2023

Summer Vibes: Summertimes Sadness | November Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2022

Montenegro Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale – The Art of Holding Hands / as we break through the sedimentary cloud

Back to normal | Trixie x U10, The Hague, Netherlands

Boutique Art Fair Nesvrstani | Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia

Identities, Large Format, Collector as a curator and selector (IV) | Gallery Arte, Belgrade, Serbia

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, USA

Odkuda/Form From | UVUU, Gallery Reflector, 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, 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, Montpellier, France

Exhibition of the finale of the D.B. Mangels Award | Remont, Belgrade, Serbia

INTERRUPTION-CONTEMPORARY BALKAN ART (COBA) | LIBRARY, London, UK

Mediaterranea 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, Ljublijana, Slovenia

(Para)Matters of Perception | U10 Art collective, Funnel Contemporary, Bucharest, Romania

2015

Art Market Budapest | Millenaris, Budapest, Hungary

PARALLEL VIENNA | 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, Juridical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia

2012

10+1 | Art Space U10, Belgrade, Serbia

Without Delay | Gallery of Grand 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 | Remount 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

Collections

2022

Faculty of Music, Belgrade, Serbia

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

2017

SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland

2015

Glo’ Art, Global Art Center, Lanaken, Belgium

Intercambiador Acart Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Enquiry