Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan (1935)
Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan, born in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1935, graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1957, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in 1959.
He exhibited in Kassel in 1964 at the Documenta III exhibition and the seventh Sao Paolo Biennale, where he received the Vanda Svevo award. He was awarded the October award of the city of Belgrade for his individual exhibition at the gallery of the Kolarac People’s University in 1964. He exhibited twice at the Venice Biennale in 1966 and 1976, and he participated at the Tokyo Biennale in 1967.
During 1971 and 1972 he stayed in America as a Fulbright Scholar. From 1974 he lives in Milan. Since then he has been present even on the Italian cultural scene. He realized many individual exhibitions in Italy. In 1979 he had a solo exhibition in the Artist’s pavilion in Tubingen, and just for that occasion his book “Nothing surplus in the human spirit” was published. He paints, performs, and does video, film and photography. He is the winner of numerous accolades and awards, including the Sava Šumanovic award from 2011 for a retrospective exhibition held in Belgrade’s Gallery 37, when a monograph of his work was also published with Jerko Denegri and Tomazo Trini as authors. His works are found in many museums, public and private collections at home and abroad.