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RU artist-in-residence Milena Ivić in the RU Voices interview series 🎤
Milena Ivić is an artist, designer and activist based in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She works across various media, such as public intervention, installation, objects, performance, and video. Her practice examines the paradox of freedom in a post-war divided country, within political, economic, religious, ethno-national, and cultural contexts. Experiences of institutional censorship in her city of residence have influenced her practice to occupy public space. Employing conceptual, performative, and feminist strategies through a provocative and socially engaged approach, she continuously explores whether art can disrupt dominant paradigms and intervene in reality, going beyond institutional confines.
✨Milena was recently featured in the group exhibtion Living Room Portfolio: Enchanted House.
The exhibition also featured “Letters to Irena”, an ongoing participatory and activist project by Ivić, where she invites audiences to send letters to Irena Karić – a woman incarcerated for killing her husband as a response to prolonged domestic violence against her and their four children, despite being reported to the authorities. The artist critically examines gender-based power imbalance, placing the burden on women who survive abuse, and the perpetuation and normalization of patriarchal violence as opposed to structural prevention.
