09/08/2026
Nikola Pešić - Dissimilar Images
🗓️ 13.08.2026
🕣 20:30
📍 Kult Kulturen Centar, Sv Kliment Ohridski 43, Ohrid
Dissimilar Images, a solo exhibition by Serbian artist Nikola Pešić, is the fourth exhibition of Summer Art Residency 2026 at Kult Gallery in Ohrid, curated by Krug Community Spaces. Recognized as one of the most significant Serbian contemporary artists of his generation, Pešić has developed a distinctive artistic language over nearly three decades, from the mid-1990s to the present day. The exhibition comprises twenty selected artworks, chosen by the artist and presented as prints, offering an overview of his artistic journey.
In his work, Pešić brings together philosophy, science, and spirituality through a visual language of reduced forms and symbolic imagery. The works Morula and Mandorla offer just one example of this broader artistic inquiry. Morula (soft pastel), inspired by the earliest stage of embryonic development, reflects his fascination with the origins of life and science in general. Mandorla (painting and sculpture) draw on the ancient symbol of the meeting point between the human and the divine, expressing his interest in the connections between the visible and invisible worlds. As art historian Miroslav Karić has observed, Pešić's work can be defined as "his personal search for spirituality through synthetizing various forms of knowledge, teachings, traditions, philosophies, spiritual practices with sources in religion, mysticism and esotericism, where processes are aimed at understanding the dimensions of inner worlds, our potential for stepping of the real, discovering the other side and the hierarchies of the sensorily tangible, the material, and the phenomenal."
Moving between sculpture and painting, Pešić´s work unfolds as a quiet meditation on the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm, the material and the spiritual. Through distilled forms, luminous surfaces, and organic geometries, Pešić's works present themselves as an invitation to reflect on creation, transformation, and the deeper layers of existence. In doing so, he creates works that transcend representation, encouraging viewers to move beyond the visible world toward a deeper experience of introspection and spiritual awareness.