Vladimir Velickovic

Born in 1935 in Belgrade, Serbia, the artist graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade. From 1983 to 2000, they taught Painting and Drawing at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Having lived and worked in Paris since 1966, the artist was a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1984.
They were honored with the highest French decoration in the field of culture and art, Commandeur dans l ‘Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Having exhibited extensively worldwide, Velickovic demonstrated in their recent works a sharp relationship with the human condition and the global reality. As they themselves stated, “I have always painted what man was capable of doing to man.”
Expressiveness in their work is achieved through the representation of dramatic situations, bodies in tension with quick and spontaneous drawings where color – or its absence – plays a significant role.
They won the first painting prize at the Paris Biennale in 1965 and represented Yugoslavia at the Venice Biennale in 1972.
Their work is represented at the George Pompidou Center in France, the Museum of Modern Art in the USA, among other important collections.
They passed away on August 29, 2019, in Croatia.