Luka Cvetkovic is an artist and researcher at The New Centre, working across video, performance, text, and publishing. His practice challenges dominant subjectivities and power dynamics within and beyond art, engaging aesthetics, philosophy, and politics. He collaborates with artists and theorists exploring non-normative ontologies and critical temporalities beyond human exceptionalism. Luka has exhibited across Europe, received multiple awards, and was a special lecturer at UAL (2021). Based in Belgrade, he co-runs the Identity Crisis Network a research project connecting artistic practices and discourses that de-stabilize fixed notions of identity and subjectivity.
Education
2022 – 2024 Art and Curatorial practice, The New Centre for Research and Practice (US)
2020 – 2022 WORK.MASTER – contemporary artistic practice, HEAD Geneva (CH)
2018 – 2019 MA Faculty of Fine Arts, Sculpture department, Unviersity of Arts, Belgrade (RS)
2014 – 2018 BA Faculty of Fine Arts, Sculpture department, University of Arts in Belgrade (RS)
Solo shows
2025 Non-Perspectives, Tulla Culture + Prag Space, Tirana (AL)
2023 Lamb and Red Lights (Luka Cvetkovic & Kaspar Ludwig), Foyer 42, Basel (CH)
The Perfect Ikea Living Room, Foyer Contemporary, Copenhagen (DK)
LAMB (Not Giving Up on Humans), One Night Stand Gallery, Sofia (BG)
2022 LAMB / the book, Medium Sans Gallery and Galerie Alexander Motier, Geneve (CH)
news! , Lokal-int, Biel (CH)
2021 LAMB ( History always begins with you) , LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (XK)
2020 Honey I’m home!, Belgrade Youth Center (RS)
2019 IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY, Street Gallery, Belgrade (RS)
Group Shows
2026 Brieftopia, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Gabrovo (BL) upcoming
2025 Homeward, ArtHouse Shkodra, Shkoder (AL)
Borderlands II, The Launderette, Bristol (UK)
Discovery and otherness in the age of 5.0, BUNA Varna (BG)
Borderlands, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (UK)
2024 Public, The Shape and Things, West London, (UK)
The unheard sounds, Sigma_Space and Foyer 42, Basel (CH)
P.A.G.E.S, Contemporary Art Book Fair, Geneva (CH)
2023 Utopias Lahti, Biennal of Contemporary Art, Lahti (FL)
Plattform23, Espace Arlaud, Laussane (CH)
2022 Jungkunst, Kunsthalle 53, Winterthur (CH)
The Initial Sign of Good, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice (PL)
When the Museum is Closed, Museum of Art and History (MAH), Geneve (CH)
Sehnerv Medienkunstpreise, Houdini Kino Bar, Zurich (CH)
Sehnerv Medienkunstpreis, PROGR, Cinema REX, Bienzgut Bern/Bümpliz (CH)
Grand Tour, HEAD, Geneva (CH)
rafinerymonestery, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Contamporary Art, Pancevo (RS)
Parazites, Biennial of Young Artists, HDLU Pavillion, Zagreb (CR)
P.A.G.E.S, Contemporary Art Book Fair, Geneva (CH)
2021 Convergent Acts, Bubble n’ Squeak, Bruxelles (BE)
Alterium, 35M Gallery, Prague (CZ),
MANGELOS award (YVAA) , Remont Gallery, Belgrade (RS),
Joseph Beuys – 100 years and art today, U10 Gallery, Belgrade (RS)
2020 Vistula is burning, National Gallery Krakow, (PL)
2019 1999 – The Oracle told me I’d fall in love with the One, Fotopub festival, Novo Mesto (SLO)
Self-upbringing: Scene Work Ahead, Prague Quadrennial (CZ)
Private Value, Swiss residence, Belgrade (RS)
In touch with, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (RS)
Reconnection, The Triennial of Expanded Media, Belgrade (RS)
Phenomena of participation, Remont gallery, Belgrade (RS)
2018 Likovna Jesen, Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Sombor (RS)
Perspectives, National Gallery, Belgrade (RS)
Open studio day, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (RS)
New Acquisitions, Zepter Museum, Belgrade (RS)
2017 Youth, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do (ROK)
Awards / Scholarships
2022 – 2024 The New Centre for Research and Practice scholarship
2021 Dositeja Fund scholarship(RS)
2020-2022 Hans Wilsdorf Foundation scholarship (CH)
2019 First prize, Fotopub festival, Novo Mesto (SLO)
2018 Award for creative innovation, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (RS)
2017 First prize for metal sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (RS)
2015 – 2019 State scholarship (RS)
Projects / Residencies
2024 – Identity Crisis Network, co-founder, research project (CEE)
2024 Shkodra ArtHouse residency, Tirana (AL)
2023 The Eastern Balkan Institute residency, Sofia (BL)
2022 – Researcher at The New Centre, Michigan (USA)
2021 Special Lecturer, student-led programe, University of Arts London, (UK)
2020 – 2021 MAGMA magazine, co-founder and editor, HEAD Geneve (CH)
2018 – 2020 The Applause Institute, co – founder, Belgrade (RS)
2019 Crowd in the city, curatorial project, City Gallery, Belgrade (RS)
2018 – 2019 Open Studio Day, co – founder, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (RS)
Public Collections
2017 Gift, Zepter Museum, Belgrade (RS)
Bibliography and published articles
2025 Two Futures, TripleAmpersand Journal, The New Centre
Light Technician, Scenographer, Audience Member, Fora Magazine, Tirana (AL)
Homeward, letteralmente verso casa – Exibart (IT)
Whose game? — Impressions from Identity Crisis Network Conference, Natalija Paunić, Loophole (RS)
Identity Crisis Network, Kultupunkt (CRO)
Identity Crisis Network Conference, KUĆĆA & Luka, HRT4 (CRO)
Identity has become a tool in political struggles, Vera Zalutskaya, Michalina Sablik, Culture.pl (PL)
The necessity of knowing and the task of non-knowing, ArtHouse Shkodra Publishing (AL)
2024 Kisses lost in contingency, Mårten Spångberg, OB/scene festival, South Korea (ROK)
Good times, TripleAmpersand Journal, The New Centre
Balkan Baroque e l’Arte di Sopravvivere, Daniela Crnogorac, Universita di Bologna (IT)
2023 Dangerous and with small steps, KUĆĆA, KUNSTFORUM vol.293 Parasitic Paradoxes (DE) ,
Not Giving Up On Humans, TripleAmpersand Journal, The New Centre
A Found Lamb, Maja Ćirić , LITERARY MAGAZINE THREE ISSUE 231-232-233, Belgrade (RS)
2022 LAMB, history always begins with you, VIDEOKUNST CH, Bern (CH)
On Luka Cvetkovic’s LAMB, Mårten Spångberg, Medium Sans, Geneve (CH)
rafinerymonestery, fuel prayer, Maja Ćirić, the 20th Biennial of Art Panchevo (RS)
Alterum, Kajet Journal (EE)
2021 Between Powerlesness and Potentiality, Lecture at UAL, London (UK)
MANGELOS Award, Miroslav Karić, Remont, Beograd (RS)
Porosity of critique – Embodying the institution: from non-other to subject, Maja Ćirić, Kulturpunkt publishing, Zagreb (CRO)
Joseph Beuys and Mangelos – 100 years and art today , U10 Belgrade, (RS)
2020 The Undercurrents of Anxiety, Marta Lisok, Krakow (PL)
The Vistula is burning. How do artists see the future on Earth? , Contemporary Lynx (PL)
2019 Guzva u Gradu, SeeCult (RS) Guzva u Gradu, RadioAparat (RS)
Druzbeno-Politicni rituali, Mladina, Ljubljana (SLO)
Giovane arte in Slovenia. Reportage da Fotopub, Niccolò Lucarelli, Art Tribune, (IT)
1999-The Oracle Told Me I’d Fall in Love with the One, East Topics (EE)
Scene Work Ahead, pg. 421, Serbian Pavilion at Prague Quadrennial (CZ)