Artist Name: Aleksandar Ostojic
Residency Dates: September – October 2025
Born: 1991
Hometown: Pljevlja, Montenegro
Lives & Works: Pljevlja, Montenegro
URL: Instagram @aleksandar_ostojic_art_page
Education:
2021 – MA in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro
Bio/Statement:
Aleksandar Ostojic is the recipient of the 2024 Milčik Award for young visual artists in Montenegro.
Aleksandar Ostojić is a visual artist exploring material transformation, space, and memory. His interdisciplinary practice merges installation, video, and sound. A key project, Extractivism of Memory (2024), examines resource exploitation and displacement. Using pulverized lignite dust from the Pljevlja coal mine, he creates a temporary landscape on the floor, evoking loss and conversion into energy elsewhere. The installation includes photographs, documentary video projections, and industrial soundscapes. Conceptually, it questions extraction as a phenomenon, linking resource depletion to cultural and artistic labor. Ostojić investigates how extraction shapes collective memory and local identity through material collection, spatial reorganization, and installation. His evolving practice creates a dialogue between material, space, and meaning, balancing permanence and transience.
Aleksandar Ostojić has exhibited widely in Montenegro and abroad. His practice spans painting, installation, and public art interventions. In 2024, he held a solo exhibition, Horizontal & Vertical, at A&A Interior Gallery in Tivat, Montenegro. His previous exhibitions include Magic Garden, RUBIX Festival, Tivat (2024), Montenegro Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Podgorica (2024), No(rth) Problem, Mojkovac, Montenegro (2023), ArtAction – ReLOaD2, NGO Lastavica, Pljevlja (2023), and Mural Fest, Pljevlja, Montenegro (2021, 2022), Street Art Fest, Pljevlja, Montenegro (2020), Luštica Bay, Exhibition of FLU Cetinje Students, Tivat, Montenegro (2018).
Support: Aleksandar Ostojic’s residency is made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
