Born 1970 in Šabac (Serbia). Graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad (Serbia) in 1996. He received postgraduate degrees from the Dutch Art Institute, Enschede (the Netherlands) in 2001 and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad (Serbia) in 2002. Lives and works in Belgrade (Serbia). Being an avid lover of nature and projects that deal with our natural surroundings, since 2002 he is selector at Jalovik Art Colony, a creative think-tank and workshop for artists in Serbia’s natural landscape. He works in sculpture, painting, design and as a curator.

“Branislav Nikolić, the author dealing for many years with a social dimension of the sculpture as a medium in public space … has acted as an archeologist of the contemporary society. The objects of his interest are wainscot, door frames and windows, abandoned by the garbage containers, which have lost their purpose: natural one (as a tree) and utilitarian (as woodwork). The artist uses the found waste as indexed location of social circumstances in order to create his own processuality, i.e., his own artistic gesture intervening in the social body. The process preceding most of his works entails searching the streets and collecting materials, joinery thrown out of the houses, business premises and institutions… Branislav Nikolić’s intervention entails introduction of socially discarded facts into the institutions of art where they obtain new function: the status of the work of art. City vibrations become resonant in a way that optimizes the society and institution in artistic and socially engaged terms. Branislav Nikolić is not interested in passive appropriation of social facts, but in their interpretation, thus creating the work of art whose function is productive social critique grounded in recombination, recomposition and reconstruction of existing facts. Productivity is revealed in tendency to improve or change function of what has been unjustifiably abandoned by the society. The history of the town transformed and ennobled by this artistic gesture is inscribed into what one day will be institutional history of the specific gallery space. “ - Excerpt from Maja Ćirić's text

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