Mila Panić is a Bosnian-born artist and stand-up comedian, based in Berlin.
Her practice ranges from personalised documentation to highly poetic visual and discursive
elements, from drawings to found footage, photographs and standup comedy - creating a
a cycle that interprets the various inheritances of migration by providing glimpses into the
consequences of the process itself revealing what is not documented, shaping the whole
picture, de-masks the different cultural narratives existing subtly in the very idea of
migration. She is the host of the Broken English podcast, which explores the politics of language
and the question of how is to live between two or more languages. She is the initiator and co-founder of the collective and association Fully Funded Residencies.eV , the platform for a faster and easier overview of art residences, mobility funds, and grants, concentrating on those covering expenses as well as for sharing experiences and critical reflection on AIR programs.
Education
2015-2017
MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany
2010-2014
Academy of Arts, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia
2013
International Summer Academy, class of Tania Bruguera ’Arte Util’, Salzburg, Austria
Solo exhibitions
2024
MADNESS, eastcontemporary Gallery, Milano, Italy
2023
Good Teeth Bite Strong, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, Germany
2020
Tante aus Deutschland, Centrum Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018
Burning Field, Reflektor Gallery, Uzice, Serbia
Südost Paket, Vetrine 01, Berlin, Germany
Burning Field, Helmut Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2017
No pig-No party, Gallery EPEKA, Maribor, Slovenia
We have a wonderful life, U10 Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibitions
2023
Conflictual Distance, The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023; efa Project Space, New York, US
CTRL+0 ; 45th Montenegrin Art Salon ‘13th of November’, Cetinje,Montenegro
Artissima Art Fair with eastcontemporary Gallery, Turin, Italy
Žarista, U10 Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia
"All Images Will Disappear, One Day", Autostrada Bienalle, Prizren, Kosovo OSTRALE Biennale 2023, Robotron Kantine, Dresden, DE
Camera Obscura, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Cleaving The Wind into Fragments, Montagehalle, HbK Braunschweig, DE
2022
No title, Manifesto Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Na vrhu jezika, GALERIJA NOVA, Zagreb, Croatia
Mit ein bisschen Glück gross gewinnen, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, DE
Every food is a landscape, Polo del ‘900, Turin, Italy
59.October Salon (Belgrade Biennale) – The ‘Leap’ Edition, Belgrade, Serbia
De.LIGHT, Screening Event in Magdeburger Alle, Erfurt, Germany
False Clouds, National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BiH
Transition, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain x analogue.now, Berlin, DE
„Kafayı yemek“ / "I'm going to eat my head off“, 48h Neukolln, Berlin, DE
Just between us, Open Forum, Residence Unlimited, NY, US
ZVONO 2020, KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture, BiH
Traumblasen, Goethe-Institut Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BiH
2021
US and THEM, Kapana City Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Language in Common - Youth Biennale 2021, Belgrade, Serbia
Touched Land, Šiluva Art Biennale, Lithuania
Interwoven - twisting your mind of textiles, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin
Dislocations: Online exhibition of video art (catalogue)
School of Waters, Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale, San Marino, Italy
XIII Biennial of Young Artists- MoCA Skopje, North Macedonia
The Smile of the Sphinx – Il Sorriso della Sfinge – Das Lächeln der Sphinx, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2020
be/coming/home: Berlin capital of exiles?, Exhibition in a public space organised by dis: orient e.V., Berlin, Germany
Outer Self-Public Art Practices of artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gallery EASTTOPICS Budapest, Hungary
Dealing with Memory, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2019
Hybrid narratives, hybrid histories, Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin, Serbia
Conscious Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje, North Macedonia
Hybrid narratives, hybrid histories, U10 Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia
Ground Control, R E I T E R Gallery prospect, Berlin, Germany
Hydra-Goldrausch 2019, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
The Future of Time, GEH 8, Dresden, Germany
THE 2019 POLLENÇA ART BIENNIAL (52nd edition) Award from the Museu De Pollença, Spain
Pigeonhole Principle, group show curated by Stefan Klein in the frame of 'Imaginary Bauhaus Museum' exhibition, Schiller Museum, Weimar, Germany
2018
Curatorial Part Uno, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany
Connected - East meets West, TOP - Project Space, Berlin, Germany
Off the road, Gallery 'Perjanicki dom', Centar for Contemporary Art, Podgorica, Montenegro
Abrakadabra, 6.Moskow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
Flashback Displacements, VOODOO55, Berlin, Germany
Immer Ärger mit den Großeltern, Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Dresden, Germany
2017
TRANSLOKAL Ausstellung der Artists in Residence, KulturKontact, Vienna, Austria
Transcultural Emancipation, Billboard exhibition, Fluc, Vienna, AustriaOFF THE ROAD, Pro3or Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
On Drawing, LAGE-EGAL Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Am Fluss, collaboration between MFA program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies-Bauhaus Universität and Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
(UN)SOUNDS OF BUCHENWALD, Project by Bauhaus - Universität, Momentum Gallery, Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2016
25th Slavonski Biennale, Museum of Visual Art, Osijek, Croatia
14x14 Donumenta / Museum of Contemporary Art of RS, Banja Luka, Bosnia
The Creators, Charlama Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Contemporary Refresh, Gallery Brodac, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Contemporary Thesaurus, Cultural Center Belgrade, Gallery Podroom, Belgrade, Serbia
Contemporary Thesaurus , Museum of Contemporary art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Tomorrow we will explain, Bauhaus University in collaboration with Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
Contemporary Thesaurus, Museum of Contemporary art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia
2015
2. Berliner Herbstsalon, Imaginary Bauhaus Museum, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
5th World Biennale of student photography, Novi Sad, Serbia
Paraflows. X DIGITAL MIGRATION, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
How we quit the forest, Sala LaMetro, during INCUBARTE festival, Valencia, Spain
XI Biennale for Young artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Skoplje, Macedonia
ZVONO Award final exhibition, Gallery Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Share Too Much History More Future, Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia
2014
6th namaTRE.ba biennale, Video Art Award final exhibition, Trebinje, Bosnia
Apartman #1, private apartment, Banja Luka, Bosnia
I can be outragiosly patient, House of Legacy, Belgrade; Museum of contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Serbia, Bosnia
Residencies
2024
Echoes of Leaving and Returning, AiR Binaural Nodar, Portugal, (Upcoming Jun-2024)
2022
Braunschweig Projects artist grant 2022/23, Braunschweig University, Germany
IVA.lab, Požega, Serbia
Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2021
Koganecho Baazar A-i-R Manager Internship in Residence
2020
Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop, Germany
2019
ADATA AiR part II, Plovdiv - Capital of Culture, Bulgaria
2018
ADATA AiR - Research residency, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2017
Kultur Kontact Residency, Vienna, Austria
Roja Art Lab, Roja, Latvia
Awards
2021
Winner of ZVONO Art Award for Young Visual Artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019
The finalist of THE 2019 POLLENÇA ART BIENNIAL (52nd edition) Award from the Museu De Pollença, Spain
2018
The Jury Award for the best video work, Video Park, Uzice, Serbia
Nominated for BLOOM AWARD BY WARSTEINER 2018
The Jury Award for the best short film at 60seconds Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Nominated for BLOOOM AWARD BY WARSTEINER 2017
2015
3rd Award from ReFoto contest on the theme ‘Self-portrait’, Belgrade, Serbia
2014
6th namaTRE.ba biennale contest for the best young video artist in Bosnia and Hercegovina (shortlisted)
Award of the Museum of Contemporary Art of RS for the best works at the annual final exhibition of the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka
ZVONO Art Award for Young Visual Artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina (shortlisted)
Scholarships, Grants
2024
Travel grant for your project abroad / international cultural exchange from Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2023
Research Grant for Visual Arts 2023 from Senate Department for Culture and Europe
NEUSTARTplus Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2021
Research Grant for Visual Arts 2021 from Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2019
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin, Germany
2016,2017
Supported by Kreativfonds der Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar
2015
STEP Beyond Travel grants - European Cultural Foundation
2015-17
DAAD Studienstipendien für ausländische Bewerber im Fachbereich Bildende Kunst, Design/ visuelle Kommunikation und Film
2011-14
Scholarship from Ministry of Culture of Republic of Srpska
2013
Grant from International Summer School in Salzburg
Projects, talks, participation
2019
Discussion Kollektiv Fördern I Collective Support: Mila Panic (artist), Melanie Roumiguière (Head of the Visual Arts Department of the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme), Andrzej Raszyk (Founder of the Berlin Sessions Residency Program); Moderation: Hannah Kruse (Project manager of Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt )
2018-ongoing
www.fullyfunded-residencies.weebly.com (project)
2014-2015
APARTMAN, project-exhibition for popularisation of contemporary art and new media in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2017
Open studio, within the frame of KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria (participant)
Open Screen in Ruzica, Bihac, Bosnia (participant)
2016
Collaborative project between <rotor> association for contemporary art and Apartman art project on organising residency program and exhibition in Banja Luka, "Kulturelle Freundschaft: Österreich - Bosnien und Herzegowina", Banja Luka, Bosnia (project)
Kultursymposium Weimar organized by Goethe Institute , Audio installation / Weimar, Germany, (participant)
New acters, new horizons, panel discussion , UNESCO project, Dialog for the future, Sarajevo, Bosnia (talk)
2014
Project BAUHAUS goes south east Europe-Sarajevo 1914/2014, Sarajevo, Bosnia (participant)
Multimedia art project, 1st video edition, Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia (participant)
VIDEONOMAD, video screening project, CentiArt, Benin (participant)
2013
FORMER WEST International Congress of contemporary art and theory, Berlin, Germany (participant)
Festivals
2019
10th Seoul Metro International Subway Film Festival, 60Seconds award-winning videos, Seoul, South Corea
2019
Fotopub Festival, Novo Mesto, Slovenia
2019
Bosnian Videoart Café, Moskou Festival #2 , Brussels, Belgium
2018
Video Park, Uzice, Serbia
2017
60seconds Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
SIMULTAN Festival, Timisoara, Romania
Facade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
LUMEN festival, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
2014
Medrar, Cairo Video Festival, Egypt
International festival of performing arts ‘My country, Štaglinec’, Croatia
Miden, International Video Art festival, Kalamatas, Greece
Now and after, International video art festival, GULAG museum, Moscow, Russia
Works in collections
Contemporary Artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection
Video installation ‘’We have a wonderful life’’, Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska
Video work ‘’Our neighbour died’’, Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska
Drawings, mixed media, Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska
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