Stefan Milosavljevic
"I'm drawn to the moment before an ending, when the gaze shifts from seeing to feeling.”
Stefan Milosavljevic is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, video, installation, photography and performance. Drawing from autobiographical experience, his practice explores identity, intimacy, memory, desire, masculinity and spirituality, examining the relationship between private emotion and broader social and cultural structures.
His paintings occupy the space between the visible and invisible, combining his Serbian origins and traditions of divination, folk magic, tarot and religious symbolism with his experience of Italian culture and art history. Influenced by archetypal mythology, his imagery emerges from a collective archive of myths, symbols and inherited memories.
Icarus recurs as a metaphor for the desire to transcend the known and approach the unknowable, where aspiration, vulnerability, revelation and falling coexist. Through ambiguity, the artist invites viewers to perceive rather than decipher.
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Lives and works in Perth, WA
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
FEVER DREAM, Culturfolger, Zurich, Switzerland
2022
GUILTY PLEASURE, Daniele Agostini Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2021
HEY HEAVEN, Daniele Agostini Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
DULCE DE LECHE MUY AMARGO, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2020
AH, Daniele Agostini Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2017
EROE DEL MONDO / HERO OF THE WORLD, curated by Lisa Andreani, NAM Project Gallery, Milan, Italy
WANNA FIGHT?, curated by Matteo Galbiati, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
WAKING UP IN A WORLD, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS, curated by Rosa Ana Musumeci and Philippe Terrier-Hermann, Ex Caserma Cassonello, Noto, Italy
LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2021
PREMIO LISSONE 20/21, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone, Italy
LET’S MEET ON THE CLOUD OF FREEDOM, curated by Caterina De Pietri, Choisi – Artphilein Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland
PREMIO FRANCESCO FABBRI FINALISTS, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Italy
AN ENDLESS FLOW, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2020
BLING BLING, Galleria Daniele Agostini, Lugano, Switzerland
LIFE ON TRALFAMADORE, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
COMBAT PRIZE FINALISTS, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno, Italy
NON-GASOLINE STATIONS, curated by Caterina De Pietri, Choisi – Artphilein Foundation, Switzerland
2019
FRANCESCO FABBRI FOUNDATION, curated by Carlo Sala, Pieve di Soligo, Italy
CENERE, Galleria Daniele Agostini, Lugano, Switzerland
APPOCUNDRIA, curated by Marta Cereda, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Italy
HO SEMPRE CERCATO IL PARADISO MA ORA PUNTO SULL’ARTE, with Alessandro Costanzo, Galleria Punto sull’Arte, Varese, Italy
2018
COMBAT PRIZE, finalists exhibition curated by BlobArt, Giovanni Fattori Museum, Livorno, Italy
ARTEAM CUP, curated by Matteo Galbiati and Livia Savorelli, Fondazione Dino Zoli, Forlì, Italy
I LIED IN A VISA CENTER, curated by Kateryna Filyuk, Galleria Più, Bologna, Italy
TRA LUCE E TENEBRE, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy
2017
A HOUSE, HALFWAY, curated by Andrew de Brún, Inês Geraldes Cardoso and Kateryna Filyuk, coordinator Lorenzo Balbi, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
E LA LUCE FU, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy
MUTATIS MUTANDIS, curated by Lisa Andreani and Arianna Bertolotti, Palazzo Michiel – European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy
2016
100MA COLLETTIVA GIOVANI ARTISTI, curated by Stefano Coletto, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, curated by Amalia Nangeroni, S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice, Italy
ARTEAM CUP, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy
PREMIERE HERODIADE, Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy, in collaboration with Letizia Michielon
THE LIVING ART, curated by Damiano, Fina Space Shed, Schio, Italy
TO THE WONDER / FRASE CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE, 1st Prize Winner
ENTROPIA, curated by Collettivo Barnum, Cantiere Toffolo & Corte Barlomeni, Giudecca Art Festival, Venice, Italy
RISERVE URBANE: LA VERA NATURA, ARTE PUBBLICA E VEGETAZIONI, curated by Silvia Petronici, partner Fabio Ranzolin, Marostica, Italy
HOPE, curated by Mirella Brugnerotto and Cristina Treppo, Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, Venice, Italy
ENTROPIA, curated by Collettivo Barnum Exworks, Vicenza, Italy
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Awards and Distinctions
Contemporary Art Museum of Lissone, Milan
Combat Prize, Drawing Section, Livorno
Arteam Cup – Special Prize, Galleria Punto sull’Arte, Varese
Premio Rigamonti – Special Prize, San Fedele
Arteam Cup – Special Prize, MAC
1st Prize, Frase Contemporary Art
Collections
Carmelo Graci Collection
Gerardo Bonetti Collection
Contemporary Art Museum of Lissone Collection
Frase Contemporary Art
De Pietri Artphilein Foundation Collection
Oil in canvas
50 × 40cm