MIHAEL MILUNOVIC

Mihael Milunović’s body of work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and video to performance and installations—engaging perception, confusion, and objective reality. This multidisciplinary approach feels like experiencing distinctive and fascinating dialects of a familiar language.

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His poetical approach deals with questions of core human identity, the changes and overlays it endures in the post-human era, and the multiverses of our perceptions, conditioned and muted by social environment, education, cast psychological profiles, and visual and cognitive expectations. It finds expression in complex, multilayered artworks that synthesize—in a ludicrous yet often corrosive way—new ways of understanding reality : its structure, texture, meanings, and relationships.

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By decontextualizing everyday objects, symbols, and situations, Milunović defies logic and reason, provoking in the observer a blend of alienation and curiosity to challenge expectations and provoke thought—questioning, commenting, introducing confrontational ideas, while offering moments of hope and resolution.

Born in Belgrade in 1967, Milunović grew up in an artistic family environment. Both his father and grandfather were well-known Serbian artists, and his mother is a renowned Croatian sculptor. Milunović’s early experiences playing in his parents’ studio, his interest in geography and machinery, and his childhood encounters with Renaissance, Modern, and Pop art have all had a lasting effect on his work.

Milunović attended the Belgrade Faculty of Fine Arts and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he studied in the classes of professors Vladimir Veličković, Marina Abramović, and Tony Brown, among others.

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Since the mid-1990s, Milunović has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe. His works are featured in prestigious museum collections, including MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Colección SOLO, Madrid; Deji Museum, Nanjing; Collection Moët & Chandon / LVMH, France; National Gallery of Bulgaria, Sofia; Collection Wiener Städtische, Vienna; Palazzo Forti, Verona; and Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Étienne, among others.

As of September 2025, Mihael Milunović has presented 56 solo exhibitions worldwide, including 5 individual museum shows, and has participated in 84 group exhibitions, among them 23 museum group shows.

His work has been featured in curated exhibitions alongside artists such as Hermann Nitsch, Jan Fabre, Dennis Oppenheim, Ilya Kabakov, Roman Opalka, Park Seo-Bo, Mounir Fatmi, 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, Cy Twombly, Franz West, Tom Wesselmann, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Manuel Ocampo, Tilo Baumgärtel among others.

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Over the past decades, Milunović has realized a distinguished series of public and cross-disciplinary projects, including the five-month wrapping of Vienna’s Ringturm, a 4,000 m² intervention created for Wiener Städtische Insurance Group’s 10-Year Art Jubilee; scenography and drawings for the 250th Beethoven Anniversary with Insula Orchestra and La Fura dels Baus, featuring animated 360° projections premiered at La Seine Musicale and later presented across Europe and in Beijing; Klangwolke PAX in Linz (2019), a collaboration with the City of Linz and La Fura dels Baus, viewed by 200,000 people; and multiple commissioned projects for the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris.

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He lives and works between Paris and Belgrade.