Radenko Milak
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01 - 01 - 2021 Train Station, 2021
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Disinfecting a Church ahead of Christmas Mass Indonesia, 2021
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Neighbors, 2021
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Neighbors during the Holidays, 2021
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Neighbors during the Holidays, 2021
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Dog walkers on Perranporth beach, 2020
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Entrance, 2020
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Italian singer Andrea Bocelli performs outside the Duomo cathedral, on Easter Sunday, in Milan, Italy on April 12, 2020, 2020
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Lorries queue to enter the port of Dover as the clock ticks down towards the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December, 2020
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Neighbors during the Holidays, 2020
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Quarantine August 2020, New Delhi, India, 2020
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Quarantine, Local musician plays a marching mellophone under the highway in New Orleans, U.S., April 6, 2020, 2020
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Quarantine, Mulhouse, France. March 21, 2020, 2020
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Railway Platform at Kamolapur railway station amid spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, In Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 24, 2020, 2020
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We are still open for business as usual, 2020
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Feb. 10 1961. Ham the chimpanzee in the space, 2019
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Hublle in the space, 2019
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Lunar Surface, 1969, 2019
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Nasa Secret Program, 2019
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Neil Armstrong testing the lunar landing research vehicle in 1968, 2019
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Progressive stages in ascent of unsucessful junipiter C rocket carrying explorer II in its nose, 2019
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Sunset - Mars, 2019
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The horn reflector antenna at bell telephone laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey was built in 1959 for pioneering work in communication satellites for the Nasa Echo I, 2019
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Nasa secret space program #4 Series dark matter, 2018
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Nasa secret space program #5 Series dark matter, 2018
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Rover on the mars, 2018
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Secret Space program I, 2018
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Secret Space program IIII, 2018
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Secret Space program V, 2018
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Secret Space program VI, 2018
Radenko on his current work: ‘The first part of my production is watercolors, which I implemented mainly on paper Arches, 300 grams, 100% cotton. My approach to painting is based on black pigment and white paper, watercolors based on documentary photos, photojournalism, old newspapers, postcards, posters, documentary movies and other propaganda archives. My practice as an artist has always been heavily influenced by the idea that our relationship to the world and its history is largely determined by the uninterrupted and continuous flow of images that documents the world.
In 2013, I completed a project called “365”. “365, Image of Time” is large-scale series of watercolors that create historical panoramas depicting geo-political themes, ideologies and disasters from the 20th century until today. The project consisted to paint each day during one year a black and white watercolor image of an event that occurred the same day, related to modern and contemporary history. The event could be political, tied to conflicts, to the life of ideas and the arts, to scientific or technological progress. The result symbolized the landscape, through the image, of the short but intense history of the 20th century, as I see it, as I understand it. During the exhibition of this series at the Kusnthalle of Darmstadt, I was able to see just how this landscape, through the image, met with that of others. Everyone could identify with this fresco. For me, the role, the nature of the Image today is crucial, especially in the era of digital revolution, also I am very interested to understand the status of image today as a political fact. To use them and to construct them as new versions of stories. This Relationship has become even more important with the expansion of social networks and new information technologies. I’ve placed at the heart of my activity as a painter the question of what a painting could be at the age of the digital time and continuous accessibility to images. This global corpus of images, impossible to mentally embrace in its entirety, vast as it has become, is one of the fundamental elements of our imagination, be it individual or collective.
The second part of my work is based on the post-war trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project deals with the media, photojournalism, and presentation of war crimes. Twenty-four part series of black-and-white painted representation of this image takes its title from the photographer Ron Haviv. When asked by a journalist, “And what else did you see?”, Haviv replied, “I couldn’t see everything!”. This photograph depicting one of Arkan’s soldiers brutally hitting with his foot a wounded and dying woman, on the pavement in Bjeljina in 1992, at the very beginning of war, circled the globe and became one of the most recognizable media icons of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This project was presented at the exhibition Bild Gegen Bild, in the Haus der Kunst in Munich 2012.
Last part of my work can be called an obsession, research date as events, and historical events. That was the starting point of my collaboration with the artist Roman Uranjek (Slowenische Neue Kunst, NSK) for a joint project titled Dates’
Public Collections:
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
Jewish Museum, Frankfurt
National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka
City of Lyon
Private Collections:
agnès b.
Art Collection Telekom
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Art Rotterdam
1 - 4 Jul 2021The 22nd edition of Art Rotterdam will take place from July 1st - 4th, 2021. Located in the iconic Van Nelle-factory, the art fair will once again form a dynamic...Read more -
EXPO Chicago
Radenko Milak - solo 19 - 22 Sep 2019Radenko Milak (Bosnia, 1980) investigates the notion of private and public memory through the medium of painting. His watercolors and paintings are based on documentary photo, photojournalism, old newspaper, postcards,...Read more -
Art Rotterdam
8 - 11 Feb 2018We’re delighted to announce our participation at the upcoming edition of Art Rotterdam! Here we’ll show new monumental chromatic works by Radenko Milak. Milak was the main artist to represent...Read more -
Art Paris
30 Mar - 2 Apr 2017 -
PAN
20 - 27 Nov 2016PAN 2016 AMSTERDAM - Booth 88 20 NOVEMBER - 27 NOVEMBER / 2016 THE ART, ANTIQUES AND DESIGN FAIR OF TODAY 20-27 November 2015 Daily 11AM - 7PM 22 November...Read more -
Amsterdam Drawing
Contemporary Art On Paper 22 - 25 Sep 2016From Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 September 2016, Amsterdam will experience the fifth edition of the annual art fair for gouaches, collages, watercolors, charcoal and pen, oil and ink works...Read more -
Rundgang der Spinnerei Galerien
16 - 18 Sep 201615 international galleries are invited by the Spinnerei Galleries for this year´s traditional autumn gallery tour (Rundgang) at the former cotton spinning mill in Leipzig. Please visit us at the...Read more -
Radenko Milak
curated by Leon Krempel 2 - 30 Jul 2016This show will be curated by art historian Leon Krempel, director of the Kunsthalle in Darmstadt, Germany Opening Saturday, July 2 from 4 – 6pm Radenko on his current work:...Read more
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Radenko Milak at Marta Herford Museum
January 29, 2021Radenko Milak's work is on view right now at the Marta Herford Museum in Germany! The exhibition 'Deceptive Images: Playing with Painting and Photography' features...Read more -
Radenko Milak at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
October 29, 2020A new exhibition by Radenko Milak has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (MSU)! Having already intrigued the international museum and gallery scene...Read more -
Radenko Milak in Kunsthal Rotterdam
June 20 to January 10, 2021 June 11, 2020We are proud to annouce that Kunsthal Rotterdam will be showing the exhibititon 'BLACK ALBUM / WHITE CUBE, A Journey into Art and Music' with...Read more -
Radenko Milak on Venice Biennale Giardini Arsenale
May 3, 2017Bosnia and Herzegovina will present itself at the forthcoming 57th La Bienalle di Venezia, with the project ‘’University of Disaster’’ by Radenko Milak and guests....Read more