Nemanja Nikolić (1987) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting (2010), where he also completed his PhD (2019). He works as Assistant Professor at the same faculty and is the initiator of U10 Art Space, an independent artist-run platform supporting young contemporary artists.
Since 2010, he has held solo exhibitions at the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Gallery Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica, ERD Gallery in Seoul, Rima Gallery in Belgrade and Kragujevac, B2 Gallery in Belgrade, U10 Art Space, among others. He has also taken part in numerous group shows, including Caixa Forum in Madrid and Barcelona, Kunsthal KadE in Amersfoort, Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the 56th, 57th, 60th October Salon in Belgrade, the 20th Biennial of Art in Pančevo, Cinémathèque Française in Paris, among others.
He has received several awards, including the Special Award of the 60th October Salon for the group project Working Spaces (2024), the Drawing Award from the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (2021), and the Vladimir Veličković Foundation Drawing Award (2011).
Nikolić’s works are part of private and public collections such as the ABN AMRO Collection (Amsterdam), The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (Los Angeles), WAP Foundation (Seoul), Ekard Collection (The Hague), JMS Collection (Paris), the October Salon Collection (Belgrade), Wiener Städtische Collection, and the Telenor Collection (Belgrade).
He lives and works in Belgrade.
Selected solo shows:
2025 – Artissima, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Turin
2024 – Noise Art Fair, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Vienna
2024 – Noise Art Fair, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Istanbul
2023 – The Future, from the Beginning, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade
2023 – Psychopolitics, Rima Gallery, Belgrade
2023 – Ten Pictures, B2 Gallery, Belgrade
2023 – Drawing Now Art Fair, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2023 – Around video Lille, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Lille
2023 – Noise Media Art, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Istanbul
2022 – Psychopolitics, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2022 – LOOP Art Fair, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Barcelona
2021 – Rhythm Variations, Rima Gallery, Belgrade
2020 – Shoot to Sequence, ERD Gallery, Seoul
2019 – Sketch for One Erasable Plot, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2019 – The Palace of Time and Memory, Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica
2019 – Vanishing Fiction, Galerie ERD, Seoul
2018 – Vanishing Fiction, U10 Art Space, Belgrade
2018 – Field of Teleportation, Belgrade Youth Center, Belgrade
2018 – It’s ok. Go, Navigator Art Gallery, Belgrade
2018 – New Paintings, Rima Gallery, Kragujevac (Serbia)
2017 – Samples of the Liquid Book, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2017 – Volta New York, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, New York
2017 – Art Paris, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2017 – Code Art Fair, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Copenhagen
2017 – Contemporary Istanbul, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Istanbul
2017 – Trains Planes Waves Hands, MKM4, Belgrade
2016 – UNTITLED Art Fair, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Miami Beach
2015 – Instead of the Ending, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade
2015 – Samples of the Liquid Book, U10 Art Space, Belgrade
Selected group shows:
2025 – Top Secret: cinema and espionage (curated by Alexandra Midal i Matthieu Orléan), CaixaForum, Valencia
2025 – Art Rotterdam, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Rotterdam
2025 – Critics Have Chosen: Who’s (Still) Afraid of Big Bad Fear… curated by Gordana Stanisic, Cultural Center of Belgrade
2024 – 60th October Salon (Belgrade Biennale), curated by Lorenzo Balbi and Dobrila Denegri, Belgrade
2023 – Art Paris, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2023 – Top Secret: Cinema and Spying (curated by Alexandra Midal and Matthieu Orléan), CaixaForum Madrid and Barcelona
2023 – 45th Traditional Montenegrin Art Salon Cetinje (curated by Anja Marković), Cetinje (Montenegro)
2022 – 20th Biennial of Art in Pančevo (curator Maja Ćirić, assisted by Sanda Kalebić), Pančevo (Serbia)
2022 – Top Secret: Cinema and Spying (curated by Alexandra Midal and Matthieu Orléan), Cinémathèque française, Paris
2021 – Triennale of Drawings and Small Sculpture (curator Kristina Sedlarević), Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade
2021 – Image Mouvement (curator Julie Dalouche), Contemporary Art Gallery, Subotica (Serbia)
2019 – Shared Meanings (curator Miloš Zec), Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
2018 – Chalk (curator Judith Van Meeuwen), Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (Nederlands)
2018 – 57th October Salon (Belgrade Biennale), curated by Gunnar & Danielle Kvaran, Belgrade
2018 – First Biennale of Young Artists ART EX-YU (curated by Sava Stepanov), The Center for Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica (Montenegro)
2018 – Viennacontemporary, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Vienna
2018 – Art Rotterdam, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Rotterdam
2018 – U10 in aqb, aqb Project Space, Budapest (Hungary)
2018 – Anatomy of the Flight (curated by Milica Lapčević), Aeronautical Museum, Belgrade
2017 – Art and Film, 120 years of Exchange (curator Dominique Paini), CaixaForum Madrid
2017 – Drawing Now Paris (11), Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2016 – romANTIsch (curators Stella Bach and Claudia Maria), Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2016 – Art and Film, 120 years of Exchange (curator Dominique Paini), Caixa Forum Barcelona
2016 – 56th October Salon (Belgrade Biennale), The Pleasure of Love (curator David Elliott), Belgrade
2016 – Drawing Now Paris (10), Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2016 – Book Memories, Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2016 – Liber Numericus, Stereolux / Platforme Intermedia, Nantes
2016 – (Para)matters of Perception, / U10 art Collective, Project Space (Projektraum), Uqbar, Berlin
2016 – (Para)matters of Perception, / U10 art Collective, Galllery of Valentin Vodnik, Ljubljana
2015 – Liste Art Fair, U10 Art Space, Basel
2015 – Parallel, U10 Art Space, Vienna
2015 – Constellation (Curated by Svetlana Montua), Serbian Cultural Center in Paris
2015 – Art Market, U10 Art Space, Budapest
2013/2014 – Ex-ordinary, No Borders No Nation, City gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo; U10 Art Space, Belgrade; Center for Contemporary Art Montenegro, Podgorica
2013 – Mixer Festival, Thrill in Movement, About and Around Curating, Belgrade
2013 – Hard to be… Within the Time (curator Biljana Tomić), Geozavod, Belgrade
2012 – Bound (curated by Sofia Touboura, Maria Lianou, Nana Sachini), OpenShowstudio, Athens
2012 – Mixer Festival, The Most Beautiful Building (curated by Milica Pekić and Ana Adamović), Belgrade
2010 – Through drawing (curated by Miroslav Karić), MKM4, Belgrade
Selection of Awards:
2024 – Special Award of the 60th October Salon for group project Working Spaces
2021 – Award for drawing at the Triennial of Drawings and Small Sculpture by Association of Fine Artists of Serbia
2013 – Special Award for mural and wall installation, New Wall contest, Raiffeisen Bank and Gallery 12HUB
2011 – Award for drawing, Vladimir Veličković Fund
2009 – Award for a creative innovation, Miloš Bajić Fund
Public collections:
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles
ABN AMRO collection, Amsterdam
WAP Foundation, Seoul
The Ekard Collection, Hague
Telenor Collection, Belgrade
Collection of October Salon, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade
Wiener Städtische collection, Belgrade
JMS collection, Paris