Radenko Milak
-
La Habana, 2023
-
La Habana, 2021 , 2023
-
Moma museum NY, Visitor, 12 September 2022, 2023
-
MOMA New York, 2023
-
Mystery Train, 2023
-
Neighbors, 2023
-
New Delhi, December 2022, 2023
-
Train Station Frankfurt, 2022, 2023
-
Varanasi, India 2022, 2023
-
Visitor, 2023
-
End of Holiday September 25, Quarantine, 2020, 2022
-
International Space station during a spacewalk on Jan 27, 2021, 2022
Radenko Milak (1980, Travnik former Yugoslavia) currently lives and works in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Academy of Art, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2003, and from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Art Belgrade in 2007. He mainly creates paintings, watercolors, drawings and animation films. In 2012 he was awarded with the Premio Combat Prize for Drawing in Italy. His works have been frequently exhibited at prestigious international art events such as the 57th Venice Biennale, where he represented Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Kampala Biennale in Uganda and the 57th edition of the October Salon in Belgrade. His works can be found in several public collections, such as the Folkwang Museum in Germany, the Albertina Museum in Vienna and The Ludwig Museum in Budapest. Radenko Milak’s focus is on the relationship with reality and history through the transformation of photographs into paintings. He translates press photos from printed media and the internet into meticulously detailed watercolors in soft black-and-white tones creating intimate pictorial references to current events. By consciously translating these images from one medium to another, he reinforces the message of the original image. This process allows him to transfer these messages from the past to the present, stimulating the viewer to re-evaluate forgotten and invisible realities. As such, topics like major world catastrophes, wars, global environmental crises.
His newest body of work primarily addresses the two major crises which the world is dealing with: the environmental crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. The socially and politically committed Milak puts these two crises into perspective, while simultaneously juxtaposing them and connecting them to each other, creating a thought-provoking, dynamic watercolors. Milak invites the viewer to think about the issues at hand and sparks debate, for example by questioning the way governments worldwide reacted to the COVID-19 threat compared to the threat of climate change, and in suggesting that there is no longer room for national politics in a globalized world.
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
-
Expo Chicago 2023
Booth #173 13 - 16 Apr 2023EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, features leading international galleries alongside the highest quality platform for contemporary art and culture. In 2023, EXPO CHICAGO will host...Read more -
PAN Amsterdam
14 - 21 Nov 2021Booth 90 PAN Amsterdam is the fair for art, antiques and design. Every year, 45,000 art lovers are inspired and seduced by the many thousands of art objects on offer...Read more -
The Armory Show
New York City, September 9 - 12, 2021 9 - 12 Sep 2021The Armory Show presents the world's leading international galleries showcasing works from both modern masters and cutting-edge contemporary artists, and helps the art market thrive through making buying, selling, and discovering art more accessible.Read more
Rutger Brandt Gallery will showcase a solo presentation of new watercolors by Radenko Milak. We look forward to meeting you in the Javits Convention Center in September! -
Art Rotterdam
1 - 4 Jul 2021BOOTH 72 The 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...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
-
Rutger Brandt Gallery wins "Best Booth" award at The Armory Show!
September 11, 2022Rutger Brandt Gallery is pleased to reflect on a highly successful debut at the iconic The Armory Show in New York City last week. We...Read more -
Radenko Milak in Aesthetica Magazine: 5 to Know at The Armory Show 2022
August 30, 2022Aesthetica Magazine has selected Radenko Milak as one of their top '5 To Know' artists at the upcoming Armory Show in New York City. The...Read more -
The Armory Show
New York City, September 9 - 12, 2021 May 6, 2021We are delighted to announce Rutger Brandt Gallery will be exhibiting at The Armory Show in New York, from 9-12 September 2021! The Armory Show...Read more -
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