Milica Živković

Milica Živković (born in Belgrade in 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist. She completed her undergraduate studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje (2017) and obtained her master's degree from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague in 2020.

Her artistic practice is significantly influenced by her experiences as a child and young woman in the Balkans during the postwar years, her family's migrations within the former Yugoslav states, and a critical examination of memory politics and the specific struggles of women in the region.

Živković has had solo exhibitions in Budapest, Prague, Belgrade, Bratislava, and Ljubljana, among other cities, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Europe and the US. In 2021, she was featured at the Bienvenue Art Fair in Paris. Her work has appeared in international art magazines such as ArtTribune, Kuba Paris, Easttopics, Nonfiction, and AQNB.

She currently lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2023, she received the Milčik Prize for young contemporary artists, and in 2025, she was awarded the Mentorship Award by the UNIQA SEE Future Foundation.

During her residency at MQ Vienna, the artist is developing a new series of works for an upcoming exhibition at MQ Freiraum in collaboration with Šejla Kamerić as part of the UNIQA SEE FUTURE Foundation's mentoring program. In the exhibition "The Roots of Small Fires," she continues her exploration of processes of transformation and shows how symbols emerging from intimate memories of postwar reality are transformed into forms of light and resistance. Through painting and sculptural installations, the artist examines the tension between divinity and violence, memory and denial, fragility and resistance.