Nikita Živanović
Artist
Nikita Živanović was born in 1995 in Belgrade. She completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2024 in the class of Prof. Radoš Antonijević. Currently works as a professor at Quanzhou Arts and Crafts Vocational College, Dehua, China. She was a participant at the Stone Symposium in Oronsk, Poland. She spent one semester in China on an exchange program with the Academy of Fine Arts in Xi'an. She is the winner of the "Garden of Good Hope" award as well as the FLU award for stone sculpture. At the exhibition "Sculptors of Serbia" in 2020, she received praise for the works "Gone" and "Spirit". She has been a scholarship recipient of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development for many years, and she was also a scholarship recipient of the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia for two years.
In her work so far, she has mostly dealt with environmental problems. She relies on traditional sculpting media, like stone and terracotta sculptures, as well as ambiental and other installations, narration, digital works, etc.
Portfolio
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CV
Works at:
Quanzhou Arts and Crafts Vocational College, Dehua, China
Education:
Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Scholarships:
2021/2022/2023/2024
Scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development for doctoral studies, Serbia
2018/2019, 2019/2020 Scholarship of the Fund for Young Talents, Serbia
2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019 Scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Serbia
Awards:
2020 Honorary mention at exhibition "Sculptors of Serbia"
2019 FLU Award for Sculpture in Material, Award for Sculpture in Stone
2019 "Vrt dobre nade" award for work on the topic of animals for undergraduate and master studies
Symposiums:
2019 Stone Symposium at the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, Orońsko, Poland
Exchange programs:
2019 Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'an, China
Latest Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions:
2024
"Trap", Club "Academy", Belgrade, Serbia
2022
"The last journey - Hope for the future", Gallery of Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Selected group exhibitions
2024
"Fruits of time - Changchun in Belgrade", China Culture Center, Belgrade, Serbia
2023
„Coexistence and Boundaries“ - Global Healing Art Competition and Online Exhibition, The International Art Education & Therapy Development Academic Association
2023
"Blue exhibition", Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2022
"Sculptors of Serbia", UP Cvijeta Zuzurić, Belgrade, Serbia
2022
"Stone in architecture and art", Gallery Josip Bepo Benkovic, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
2022
"Mladi '22", Art gallery Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia
2021
Exhibition of New Members of ULUS, UP Cvijeta Zuzurić, Belgrade, Serbia
2020
"Kaleidoscope", House of King Peter, Belgrade, Serbia
2020
"Mastered out", New Gallery of Visual Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2020
"Sculptors of Serbia", UP Cvijeta Zuzurić, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
Extended Media Triennial - "Reconnection", Impact Hub, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
XX Biennial of Student Drawing of Serbia, "Student City" Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
"In touch with", Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
“Exhibition of students of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade”, Kornjača Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
Exhibition of student works awarded by FFA, FFA Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
“Perspectives XXXV”, National Gallery of Art, Belgrade, Serbia, and National Museum Veliko Gradište, Veliko Gradište, Serbia
2019
The Final Show of Course “Space Composition”, Yun Yu building XAFA, Xi’an, China
2018
"Art in the Age of Class War", Legacy Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia