Throughout my creative journey — across years, cities, and disciplines — I have been shaping traces in metal, color, and light. In addition to my exhibition work, I have been commissioned to create unique, handcrafted sculptures as official awards for prominent cultural festivals in Serbia. These projects allow me to combine artistic vision with ceremonial purpose — crafting objects that carry symbolic and emotional weight, while honoring exceptional individuals and achievements. These traces connect the heritage of craftsmanship with the pulse of contemporary art.
At the National Salon of Contemporary Art in Bucharest (2025), I presented the aluminum sculpture “Temporal Trace,” a work conceived as a meditation on impermanence and the way time inscribes itself into matter. In the same year, I designed and crafted ten distinguished awards for the AFA – Adriatic Film Award festival in Porto Montenegro, celebrating outstanding regional achievements in film.
My long-standing collaboration with the Festival of Auteur Film (FAF) in Belgrade has resulted in numerous unique awards, handed to filmmakers such as Fabrice du Welz (for Maldoror, 2025), Gints Zilbalodis (Flow, 2024), Cristèle Alves Meira (Alma Viva, 2022), Antonio Lukich (Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2023), and Ferit Karahan (Brother’s Keeper, 2021). Each sculpture served as a small bridge between the act of creation and the recognition of creativity.
As part of the residency program at Atelje 61 in Novi Sad (2025), I painted large-format cartoons measuring 3 × 5 meters, which will, over the coming years, be transformed into authentic tapestries by the skilled hands of master weavers — an intimate dialogue between my stroke and their thread.
For the Belgrade Spring Festival, I have shaped several special awards over the years: recipients include iconic figures of our musical heritage — Bisera Veletanlić (2024), Lado Leskovar (2022), Bora Đorđević (2023), and Beti Đorđević, laureate of the Lifetime Achievement Award (2025). Each piece carries a sense of gratitude toward the artists who have shaped our cultural landscape. In film culture, my sculptural work has also been presented at Zemun Fest (2022), awarded to the celebrated writer and director Dušan Kovačević and Želimir Žilnik.
Within the world of music, my studio and paintings became part of the visual setting for the music video “Fališ mi” by Nenad Knežević Knez (2025), created as a collaborative artistic contribution.
My solo exhibition “Solar Convergence” (2025) traveled across Europe — from Graz and Brunnen to Heilbronn, Pula, and Banja Luka — serving as a map of inner transformations made visible through form and color. Participation in the international Natural Art platforms, in Osečina (2021) and within Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture (2022), opened new chapters dedicated to large-scale works. There, I created the monumental aluminum sculpture “River,” my homage to the strength, fluidity, and quiet perseverance of nature.
This is my path carved through material, space, and time — through festivals, galleries, and residencies.
Each project has been a meeting: with the audience, with the city, with the artist receiving the award, and ultimately, with myself.
In metal, pigment, and line, I leave my contribution to a cultural landscape that constantly evolves, yet always remembers those who shape it.