Predrag Popara’s artworks proceed from an arbitrary movement which contains at once a hint of the artist’s self and a suggestion of matter in a state of swift and incandescent change. The images he creates display varying degrees of fracture and intensity, and eschew the liberating forms of Late Modernism. The vast, intensive canvas, that is the habitual realm of his painterly work, acts as a paradigm of the notion of post-truth that has struck at both global culture and solitary, individual ways of understanding the anxieties that surround us in the present day.

Predrag Popara’s fluency in the fragmentation of optical and colourful consistencies produces a re-emergence of hidden structures. It comprises traces of brush-stroke, and the drip and density of colour areas, as well as performative acts transmitting gestural lines and textural inventories.

The paintings in the series entitled The Burning Island represent an intense personal attempt to attune to and express an aesthetic and thematic disjuncture.

Date of birth:  07/11/1973

EDUCATION

Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade – Graduated in 1999, Department of Contemporary Painting

University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Department of Painting, the class of Professor Adolf Frohner

 Institute of Fine Arts & Media Art, Vienna 2004        

 AWARDS

- 2009 - 2013 Finalist of the “Vladimir Veličković Fund“ award, Belgrade, Serbia

- 1998 - First award for paintings University of Braca Stamenkovic, Belgrade, Serbia 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

- 2019. The “Intact Space” Center, in preparation for October 2019, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

- 2018. 'In Another Place', Independent project in Cultural Center Sombor, Serbia

- 2018. Új Kriterion Galéria “New Works” Romanian private foundation, Miercurea – Ciuc, Romania

- 2018. Új Kriterion Galéria “AD-HOC” Miercurea – Ciuc, Romania

- 2017. 'The Burning Island', Belgrade City Museum, solo project with guest artists from Italy and Romania

- 2016. 'Solo Show', Funnel Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania

- 2016.  International Art Fair Warsaw, 'New Works“ Warsaw, Poland 

- 2015. 'Genesis' solo project in ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

- 2015. International Contemporary Art Fair Budapest, 'The New View' Budapest, Hungary

- 2014. 'La Reflexion' Cultural Center of Serbia, Paris, France 

- 2014. ’In Conversation' Cite International des Arts, Paris, France 

- 2014. New Works – Private View' Funnel Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania

- 2013. ‘Inside/Out - Black and White, Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, Romania 

- 2012. ’Black and White' solo project with Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, Serbia 

- 2011. 'Dar Mar Gallery' Predrag Popara Works, Belgrade, Serbia 

- 2011. ‘O3ONE’ Gallery ’The Light’ drawings, Belgrade, Serbia

- 2009. ‘Unusual Landscapes’ Visconti Fine Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 

- 2008. 'The Final Destination' National Gallery of Belgrade, Serbia 

- 2006. 'New Works' 107x107 Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

- 2002. 'The New Paintings' ABSTRACTION Gallery, Paris-Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

- 1999. 'The Paths' Gallery ARTMEDIA, Belgrad, Serbia.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 

-   “Cvieta Zuzoric” Art Pavilion, 'Initiation', Belgrade, Serbia  

-  'Ad-Hoc' UJ Kriterion Gallery, Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania

 2017  

 Face to Face, The Bosnian Cultural Centre, Sarajevo, BIH

 2016 

SEE ART GATES, 17.International Biennal Of Art Pancevo, Serbia. 

2015 

-  Art Markt Budapest, International Contemporary Art Fair Budapest, Hungary   

-   Annual exhibition of Paintings, “Cvieta Zuzoric” Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia  

-   'The First 20 Years of Haos Gallery', collection exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia  

-   “Imago Mundi – Praestigium Italia”,  Sandretto Rebaudengo foundation, Rome, Italy

2014

 - 'Transformation' The Heritage House Museum, project organized together with Funnel Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia   

-   'La Reflexion', the Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris, France   

-   'Annual exhibition, Cvieta Zuzoric Art Pavilion, Belgrade,Serbia   

-  'The Lost Future', 'The Night of the Galleries in Bucharest', Funnel Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania   

-   The International Contemporary Art Fair Bucharest 'SAFARI', Galateca Gallery, Romania