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Hana Miletić

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Born 1982, Zagreb, Croatia
Lives and works in Brussels and Zagreb

Education

2009
MFA in Photography, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp

2006
Photography, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

2005
MA in Art History and Archaeology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels

2004
Gender Studies, Universiteit Utrecht (UU), Utrecht

Solo Exhibitions

Forthcoming
Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz

2022
Soft Ties, Cura HQ / Basement, Roma, Italy
Pieces, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2021
Patchy, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Patterns of Thrift, The Approach, London, UK Mistik, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium
XX, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo

2019
Incompatibilities, The Annexe, London, UK
Retour au travail, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels, Belgium
Materiale, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Serbia
Softver, Apoteka, Space for Contemporary Art, Vodnjan, Croatia
In the Wind, CC Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium

2018
Dependencies, WIELS, Brussels

2017
Care Taking, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam

2016
Materials, Beursschouwburg, Brussels

2015
Street Photography, RIOT, Ghent

Selected Group Exhibitions

Forthcoming
KADIST, Paris, France
Intertwingled. The role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design., Ufficio mostre, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome

2022
Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo
JAIMES, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, France
Afterimage, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila

2021
Letters from a foreign mind, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, Estonia
Little did they know, 39th EVA International, Ireland Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Merve Elveren, Limerick, Ireland
58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale, The Dreamers, curated by Andrea Baccin and Ilaria Marotta, Belgrade, Serbia
Active Threads, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Constant Glitch, Contemporary Art Acquisitions M & Cera Collection, M-Museum, Leuven, Belgium

2020
As Above, So Below, David Nolan Gallery, New York, USA
Lines of Inquiry: Wacław Szpakowski in context, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
Ride Into the Sun, Industrial Art Biennial 3, Pula, Croatia
Stichting Egress Foundation Salon, Tilde, Amsterdam
… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
23 Quai du Commerce, 1080/1000 Bruxelles, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
An unfinished symphony. Polyphony in the collection, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
wir blumen: The lightness of the fragile. Works From the Schürmann Collection, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Haus Wien, curated by Tom Engels, Vienna, Austria
In Stitches, Larsen Warner, Stockholm, Sweden

2019
Feast of Fools, Bruegel rediscovered. Gaasbeek Castle, Gaasbeek, Belgium
Life to come, curated by Asad Raza, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Presentation of the Collection, M-Museum, Leuven, Belgium
Circulation, curated by Ami Barak, Galerie Charim, Vienna, Austria
BODY WORKS, State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland
Playground Festival, M-Museum, Leuven, Belgium
A Casual Loop, curated by Ami Barak, Gallery Charim, Vienna, Austria

2018
Cultural Threads, TextielMuseum, Tilburg
Signal or Noise, The Photographic II. S.M.A.K., Ghent
A conversation between collections from Kinshasa and Ostend, Mu.ZEE, Ostend
B-Sides, Saloon at Komplot, Brussels

2017
Art Paper Editions (APE) at M HKA, Performing the Book, M HKA, Antwerp
Sharjah Biennial 13 Tamawuj, Sharjah
Performing the Border, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
Legitimate Rehearsals, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig
The Multiple versus the Series versus the Unique, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam

2016
Circluding and other fluid exchanges, Van Eyck, Maastricht
Soft Structures – Textile Turns, CIAP, Hasselt

2015
Forme e Anti Forme, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan
The Young Belgian Art Prize, BOZAR, Brussels
The Sea – Salut d’honneur Jan Hoet, Mu.ZEE, Hotel Bero, Ostend
Open Studios, Van Eyck, Maastricht

2014
Corpus Lingua, Van Eyck, Maastricht
The Word Presents The Belgian Six, BOZAR, Brussels
A specter from the land of If #2, Stilll Gallery, Antwerp
Ecological Fallacy, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki

2013
Art’Contest, De Markten, Brussels
48th Salon Zagreb: Identity, HDLU, Zagreb
Radoslav Putar Emerging Artist Award, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica

2012
Artist’s Books (HR), Institute of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
31st Youth Salon: Where To Elect There Is but One, HDLU, Zagreb

2010
45th Salon Zagreb: The Market, HDLU, Zagreb

2009
XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM), Skopje

2008
Various Photographs, New York Photo Festival, New York City, NY

Projects

2019
The Shadows Assembly, De Appel, Amsterdam

2018
Felt workshop, with Globe Aroma, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, WIELS, Brussels

2017
Two evenings of poetry, cocktails and a workshop on the construction of the WE, with Aleppo,
Poppositions, Dexia Art Center, Brussels

2016
Workshop Reading Public Sculpture from A Feminist Perspective, with [BLOK], Beursschouwburg,
Brussels
DJ Workshop for Women, with Side Room. RIOT, Ghent

2014
(ongoing) Knowledge is a Does, Co-initiator and member of the reading group

Selected Press

2021
“Hana Miletić: Patterns of Thrift”, Ocula Magazine
“London Gallery Weekend revitalizies a lost spirit in the capital”, Art Basel Stories (online) by Melissa Gronlund
“Armchair Traveler: From Berlin to New York and Back Again”, Interview Magazine (online) by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte
“Hana Miletic at La Loge”, Contemporary Art Daily

2020
“Hana Miletic” This is Badland Magazine, by Nina Vukelic
“Openings: Hanna Miletic”, Artforum, by Kate Sutton
“January 2020 in Artforum”, Artforum

2019
“From Automation to Households, and Back. Hana Miletic in Conversation”, Block, by Romuald Demidenko
“Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now”, The New York Times, by Jillian Steinhauer
“39th EVA International” e-flux
“Your guide to Brussels Gallery Weekend”, Frieze, by Fabian Schöneich
“Hana Miletic ‘Retour au travail’ at La Maison de Rendez-vous, Brussels”, Mousse Magazine, by Caroline Dumalin
“From Paul Thek’s Accidental Etchings to Gabriel Kuri’s Cigarette Butts, Here are 5 Must-See shows”, artnet news, by Kate Brown
“ ‘Life to come’ at Metro Pictures”, New York, ARTnews,
“Hana Miletić’s Materiale”, Art Agenda, by Vincent van Velsen

2018
“Photography as Support System”, Camera Austria International, by E.C. Feiss
“Portret van een Helende Praktijk”, Metropolis M, by Door Valerie Verhack
“Hana Miletic: Weaving, Stitching, Pulling At Threads”, Frieze, by Ellen Mara De Wachter
“Hana Miletić Dependencies at WIELS, Brussels, Hana Miletić in conversation with Vincent van Velsen”, Mousse Magazine

2017
“A Poetic Sharjah Biennial for a World in Turmoil”, Hyperallergic, by Nat Muller
“The Sharjah Biennial”, Artforum, by Murtaza Vali

Bibliography

2019
William Kherbek ‘Hana Miletić’ in Jenelle Porter (ed.), “Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art”, Phaidon, London, 2019.
Martin Germann, Tanja Boon (eds.), “The Photographic ll: Signal or Noise”, Roma Publication 348, Amsterdam, 2019.

2016
Little Blues Booklet, APE #068

2015
Mister Zeff fka La Frénétick, APE #059, (single)
Your Facades Are Peeling off like Red Onions, Mark Pezinger Verlag 2014 Tenir paroles, APE #046

2014
Coif Mode, APE #038

2013
The Molem Collective, APE #026, (LP)

2012
Class of 2008, APE #019

2011
EURO Cars, APE #013

Awards and Residencies

2019
Thread, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian

2015
BOZAR, The Young Belgian Art Prize, Brussels
Residency at Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht

2013
Finalist Radoslav Putar award, Young Visual Artists Awards (YVAA), Zagreb

2011
Winner BNP Fortis Paribas young artistic talent award for photography, Brussels

Collections

BNP Paribas Fortis
Flemish Community (M-Museum, Leuven)
Flemish Parliament
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Mu.ZEE, Ostend
Frac Grand Large, Dunkirk
Kadist
M HKA Museum, Antwerp
Various private collections

    Hana Miletić

    Patchy
    Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

    27th May 2021 - 15th August 2021

    Hana Miletić

    Patterns of Thrift

    7th May 2021 - 26th June 2021

    Hana Miletić

    Mistik

    23rd January 2021 - 27th February 2021

    Hana Miletić

    Incompatibilities
    The Annexe

    30th October 2019 - 20th December 2019

    Hana Miletić

    Dependencies
    WIELS

    10th May 2018 - 12th August 2018

    Hana Miletić

    Materials
    Beursschouwburg, Belgium

    16th September 2016 - 20th October 2016