Funnel Contemporary Art

06/04/2026

07/02/2026

Dobrodošli na vodjenje izložbe "Unraveling of the Fall"
u utorak 10.Februara u 18 časova




contemporaryart
artsculpture

18/12/2025

1970 Rođen u Šapcu, Srbija.
1991–1995 Studirao na Akademiji likovnih umetnosti u Novom Sadu, Srbija.
1997–2002 Master studije na Akademiji likovnih umetnosti u Novom Sadu, Srbija.
1998–2001 Master studije na Holandskom umetničkom institutu, Enshede, Holandija.
1997–1998 Predaje u Školi za umetničke zanate u Šapcu, Srbija.
Član Udruženja likovnih umetnika Srbije (ULUS) od 1995. godine.
Zajedno sa Kostom Bogdanovićem i Rajkom Boškovićem napisao je udžbenike za vizuelne umetnosti 1, 2, 3 i 4 za prva četiri razreda osnovne škole.
Od 2002. do 2019. godine bio je selektor Jalovičke umetničke kolonije.
Bavi se vajarstvom, slikarstvom, dizajnom i kustoskim radom.
Branislav Nikolić je izlagao svoje radove samostalno i zajedno sa drugim umetnicima, kako u zemlji tako i u inostranstvu.
Živi i radi u Beogradu, Srbija.

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Born in 1970 in Šabac, Serbia.
From 1991 to 1995, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia.
From 1997 to 2002, he completed his Master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia.
From 1998 to 2001, he pursued Master’s studies at the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede, the Netherlands.
From 1997 to 1998, he taught at the School of Artistic Crafts in Šabac, Serbia.
He has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1995.
Together with Kosta Bogdanović and Rajko Bošković, he co-authored textbooks for Visual Arts 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the first four grades of primary school.
From 2002 to 2019, he served as the selector of the Jalovik Art Colony.
He works in sculpture, painting, design, and curatorial practice.
Branislav Nikolić has exhibited his works both individually and collectively, in Serbia and abroad.
He lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.






designart
mixedmedia

15/12/2025

Join us on Thursday, December 18th, at 7:30 PM for the exhibition titled "Unraveling of the Fall " at our gallery, Funnel Contemporary, located at Dunavska 21, Dorćol, Belgrade.








Unraveling of the Fall

Through the prism of symbolic fragments of architectural forms domes, chimneys, and industrial towers Branislav Nikolić explores elements that in his work are never merely objects representing the contemporary world. They simultaneously act as bearers of the fragility of systems, ideologies, and values.

At the center of the gallery space lies a monumental black dome, burned and collapsed, severed from its original function. Once the apex of a church structure, shaped to rise above and protect, it is here transformed into an object without support
a body that has lost its verticality. Within this loss of height, in its physical fall, lies the key to interpreting the exhibition. The dome becomes a metaphor for the collapse of authority and values that for decades, even centuries, were considered stable, essential, and almost untouchable. What remains visible here is only its echo: an architectural form reduced to a monumental drawing. The burned structure stands as a testament to former beauty and elevation almost always perceived from below, unreachable to touch leaving an impression of sanctity, patronage, and protection.

Nikolić’s work has always been in dialogue with the urban landscape, industrial remnants, and the logic of consumption. His earlier works, inspired by factory chimneys those vertical pillars of modernity already carried an internal tension between growth and decay, between the idea of progress and its ecological, social, or economic consequences. In his installations, the chimney functioned as a sign of production but also of extremity, combustion, exhaustion, and cycles approaching their breaking point...

(excerpt from the curatorial text by Predrag Popara )