MIHAEL MILUNOVIC

Mihael Milunović’s work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, performance and installation, with each medium used as a different way of testing how we see and understand reality. His pieces feel like distinct dialects of a familiar language: they return again and again to questions of perception, confusion and what we take for granted in everyday images and situations.

In recent years, his focus has been on core questions of human identity and how it is reshaped in a post‑human, hyper‑mediated world. He is interested in the way our perceptions are conditioned by social environment, education and psychological habits, and in how this produces parallel versions of reality. These concerns find form in complex, layered works that bring together familiar objects, symbols and settings in unexpected ways. By decontextualising everyday things, Milunović creates images that unsettle logic, provoke a mix of alienation and curiosity, and open space for reflection rather than offering easy solutions.

Born in Belgrade in 1967, Milunović grew up in an artistic family. Both his father and grandfather were well‑known Serbian artists, and his mother is a Croatian sculptor. Early experiences in his parents’ studio, a strong interest in geography and machinery, and encounters with Renaissance, modern and Pop art have all left a lasting mark on his imagination. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux‑Arts in Paris, working in the classes of Vladimir Veličković, Marina Abramović and Tony Brown, among others.

Since the mid‑1990s, Milunović has exhibited widely across Europe and beyond. His works are held in museum collections including MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; macLYON – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Colección SOLO, Madrid; Deji Museum, Nanjing; the Moët & Chandon / LVMH collection, France; the National Gallery of Bulgaria, Sofia; the Wiener Städtische collection, Vienna; Palazzo Forti, Verona; and Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint‑Étienne, among others.

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As of June 2026, he has presented 58 solo exhibitions worldwide, including five museum solo shows, and participated in 88 group exhibitions, 26 of them in museums.

His work has appeared in curated contexts alongside artists such as Hermann Nitsch, Jan Fabre, Dennis Oppenheim, Ilya Kabakov, Roman Opalka, Park Seo‑Bo, Barthélémy Toguo, Tony Cragg, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Wim Delvoye, Shigeru Ban, Neo Rauch, Gérard Garouste, Marina Abramović, Pedro Cabrita Reis, William Kentridge, Sean Scully, Kiki Smith, Sophie Calle, Jasper Johns, Morris Louis, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Franz West, Tom Wesselmann, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Manuel Ocampo and Tilo Baumgärtel, among others.

Over the past decades, Milunović has also realised a number of large‑scale public and cross‑disciplinary projects, including a five‑month wrapping of Vienna’s Ringturm for the Wiener Städtische Insurance Group’s 10‑Year Art Jubilee, scenography and drawings for the 250th Beethoven anniversary, kinetic sculptures for the Klangwolke in Linz, and several commissions from the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris.

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He lives and works between Paris and Belgrade.