25/09/2026
Се гледаме вечер 😊✨
We warmly invite you to join us for the fifth Summer Art Residency exhibition, curated by Krug Community Spaces, opening on Friday, September 25th at 8pm at Kult Kulturen Center in Ohrid. This multimedia exhibition brings together five artists who take on the challenge of deconstructing the award-winning short story Grief Tree by Iranian-Australian writer Melody Marshall, approaching it through five distinct media: painting, soundscape, performance, photography, and installation. Rather than remaining autonomous, these artistic languages are invited to permeate and enter into dialogue with one another, opening up new ways of reading, experiencing, and reimagining the story.
At the heart of the exhibition is the transformation of grief. The story offers a dystopian vision of what might happen to humanity when grief is refused, repressed, or ultimately surrendered to, raising a fundamental question: what can we do differently? Rather than trying to overcome grief, the artists explore how we might acknowledge it, live with loss, and transform our relationship to it.
The exhibition is also an invitation to return to literature, whose influence on the arts has been profound - from painting and theatre to opera, music and film. Literature activates our imagination, allowing us to imagine what lies beyond what we already know, question what we take for granted, and consider different ways of being and relating. By translating Grief Tree into five distinct forms, the artists celebrate the creative power of the written word and invite us into that imaginative space - to ponder, feel, question and rethink ourselves, our relationships, and the ways we see the world. In this sense, the exhibition becomes not only a response to a story, but a reminder of what stories can set in motion.
Poster Oto Matic 🙏
Ana Đurić is an artist whose practice spans photography, painting, and printmaking. She graduated from an art photography school in Belgrade and is currently studying Printmaking at the University of Arts in Kragujevac. At the core of her work is an interest in the experience of time and the ways moments can be preserved through personal perception and artistic interpretation. A melancholic sensibility permeates her work, functioning not simply as an atmosphere but as a way of perceiving the world. Her motifs emerge from a desire to recognize and preserve particular states, scenes, or feelings. Light, texture, organic forms, and layered colour structures play an important role in her visual language, creating a dialogue between material presence and memory. Photography, painting, and printmaking offer different approaches to exploring this experience, transforming rather than literally reproducing what she observes. Her practice begins with the everyday and concrete, moving towards memory, emotion, and personal perceptions of time.
Igor Stangliczky is a Belgrade-based artist working across ceramics, handcrafted design, digital graphics, and sound. Trained in ceramics and glass at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, his practice explores the intersections of material, function, image, and sound.
His work includes collaborative and interdisciplinary projects spanning public furniture, film, sonic research, and audiovisual performance, including Art2SitOn, European Sound Delta, and Displacements at the Prague Quadrennial (PQ2011). He has also led workshops and taught in artistic and educational contexts in Serbia, Norway, and the United States.
A member of the improvE music collective, Stangliczky is currently focused on handcrafted ceramic design and is the founder of Gallery1250, an independent space in Belgrade dedicated to contemporary art, design, and experimental practices.
He lives and works in Belgrade.
https://stang.rs/
Kristina Zimbakova is a painter, creating symbolic and figurative mixed-media paintings, mostly on her handmade paper from fungi. Her art practice is interdisciplinary: fungi and lichens as media and poetry references are distinctive features of her work. She ‘draws’ with lichens, crafts mosaic with fungi, and she also applies embroidery on fibre. The fungi originate from habitats from all over the world, obtained from dry collections or during her forays as a mountaineer, in collaboration with bio-scientists. Her work has been subject of an MA thesis entitled Weaving Connections through Mycelium and Lace: Ecofeminist Reflections in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry and Kristina Zimbakova’s Visual Art, defended by V. Vuchkova at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2026). She has been a recipient of the City of Strumica Annual Medal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts (2025). Prestigious grants: the UNDP (Macedonia), the International Mushroom Dye Institute (USA). Major solo exhibits: Kult Cultural Centre, Ohrid, Macedonia (2026); Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2022); Belasica Mt peak (1,740 m), Macedonia (2019); Belfast School of Art, N. Ireland (2017); Meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi, Macedonia (2017). She has participated in high-level group shows across Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia.
https://kriszimb.weebly.com/
Nataša Milojević is a performer, dancer, choreographer, and dance and theatre pedagogue based in Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated from the School of Ballet and the Faculty of Biology, and completed specialized studies in Theatre Pedagogy and Physical and Expressive Theatre. She is a member of UBUS, BAZAART, Nektan Art, and STATION – Service for Contemporary Dance. Her artistic work spans Europe, primarily through physical theatre and performance, and includes work as a performer, choreographer, and educator with adults, children, and young people. She has collaborated with numerous independent and cultural organizations, including BAZAART, Mimart Theatre, STATION, CEDEUM, and Nektan Art. She is a co-founder of ArteQ, Dolarium Project, and the International Performance Art Salon. Her work transforms moments from everyday life into artistic expression, drawing on memory, personal records, and literature. She explores freedom, womanhood, love, and honesty, with a particular focus on the body in space and its ability to communicate beyond words. Her practice is open to interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches.
https://streifen-performanceart.de/natasa-milojevic/
Smilja Janković (Olea Solaris) is a Sarajevo-born artist-researcher, political scientist, educator, and creator working across art, peace research, spirituality, and social transformation. Her practice explores collective memory, identity, belonging, inherited conflict, and the human capacity to imagine forms of life beyond separation. Her long-term research in Bosnia and Herzegovina examines what it means to be Bosnian within a political system organized around ethnic identity. She works through writing, photography, ritual, embodied practice, field research, and participatory social experiments, often treating landscape and collective memory as active elements of the work. She is the founder of Balkantida, Balkan Healers, and WORLD PEACE ONE, interconnected projects exploring the Balkans as a space for remembrance, healing, and new political imagination. Her practice moves between academic research and symbolic knowledge, exploring what each can reveal that the other cannot. Having lived and worked across several continents, she remains deeply rooted in Sarajevo and the Balkans. In Ohrid, she continues her inquiry into what must be remembered, mourned, and released for another future to become possible.
