Lidija Delić
BIOGRAPHY
Biography
*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.
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.
CV
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 | 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
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