The Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro is pleased to announce the solo exhibition “Waste Land” by internationally acclaimed Montenegrin sculptor Ivana Radovanović, opening on Thursday, September 18, at 7 PM in Kolektor (the former Titex space) in Podgorica. The exhibition is curated by Milica Bezmarević.
Ivana Radovanović’s works explore the boundaries of contemporary sculpture—from the stable, closed object of modernist tradition to an ephemeral, process-based form in which material, space, and time equally participate in shaping meaning. Through processes of decay and transformation of materials such as jute, earth, sugar, and terracotta, the artist approaches sculpture as an event and a testament to transience, rather than as a permanent form.
Curator Milica Bezmarević notes that Radovanović extends the tradition of post-minimalism and the expanded field of sculpture, deepening it with a focus on the ephemerality of materials and their dependence on the environment. Installations such as “Composition” and the central piece “Waste Land,” after which the exhibition is named, show how materials, through disintegration and transformation, become active carriers of meaning, memory, and remembrance. “Here, sculpture does not appear as a closed object of contemplation, but as a space for confronting entropy, impermanence, and the fragility of the world,” the curator emphasizes.
Ivana Radovanović (Podgorica, 1983) earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Montenegro in Cetinje and received her doctorate from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She is a Fulbright Fellowship recipient for postdoctoral research in New York and the first artist from the region to participate in the Silvermine Fulbright Art Residency program in the United States. Radovanović represented Montenegro at the 57th Venice Biennale and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the Montenegrin Art Salon “13 November” and an Honorary Award from the International Sculpture Center in the U.S.
The exhibition “Waste Land” will be on view at Kolektor until September 29, 2025.