Dragan Zdravković

Dragan Zdravković, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2025

1st edition
Edition of 350 copies
Hardcover, 23.5 x 29 cm, 192 pages
English edition
ISBN: 978-2-491901-99-8

Dragan Zdravković is the first monograph on the Serbian painter. The book covers the artist’s last twenty years of creation and includes an introduction by Ksenija Samardžija, director of the Saša Marčeta Foundation, as well as texts by Danijela Purešević, Ksenija Samardžija, Christer Glein, Sverre Wyller, Stevan Vuković, Nikola Šuica, Mišela Blanuša, Lucas Gehrmann, Ljuba Gligorijević, and Christen Sveaas.

Dragan Zdravković is a Serbian painter, born in Belgrade in 1969. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade, earning a BFA in 1994 followed by an MFA in 1999. In 2018, he completed his doctoral thesis in Fine Arts (PhD) at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade, under the supervision of Academician Prof. Vladimir Veličković.
Since the beginning of his career, he has presented his works in twenty-five solo exhibitions and over seventy group exhibitions, in addition to participating in numerous international art workshops. From 2000 to 2014, he taught painting as a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He has been a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1996. He served as the international curator of the 3rd Douro International Printmaking Biennale in Portugal and is a founding member and lecturer of CMUS (Centre for International Art Studies), an NGO dedicated to international student artistic exchange (www.outsideproject.org). He has also taught as a visiting professor at SACI – Studio Art Centers International – in New York and Florence.
As the founder of the event “The Night of Open Studios” in Belgrade, he was a member of the artistic council of “Gallery 73” in Belgrade from 2007 to 2013. He led a painting workshop entitled “Cultural Heritage: Byzantine Icon” at the Fresco Gallery in Belgrade, aimed at SACI students. In 2019, he was appointed as a jury member by the Serbian Ministry of Culture for the selection of the artist representing the Republic of Serbia at the 58th Venice Biennale. Since the same year, he has served on the artistic council of the contemporary art space “Bioskop Balkan” in Belgrade.
Dragan Zdravković’s works are part of numerous institutional museum and private collections, including those of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (MoCAB), the Belgrade City Museum, the Christen Sveaas Foundation in Oslo, the Zepter Museum in Belgrade, the Grieg Art Collection and Grieg Foundation in Bergen, the Museu do Douro in Portugal, Advanzia Bank in Luxembourg, the Saša Marčeta Foundation in Belgrade, as well as the LIA – Leipzig International Art Programme in Germany. His works are also held in several private collections in Berlin, Leipzig, Zurich, Vienna, Vaduz, and Belgrade.
Dragan Zdravković currently lives in Belgrade, where he teaches painting and drawing as an associate professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade.

Mišela Blanuša (1972) is an art historian and Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.

Lucas Gehrmann (1955) is a curator at Kunsthalle Wien and an independent art critic.

Christer Glein (1984) is a Norwegian artist. He lives and works in Oslo.

Ljuba Gligorijević is a Serbian academic. He teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade.

Danijela Purešević is a Serbian art historian and critic. She is the editor-in-chief of the Culture program at RTS Television in Belgrade.

Ksenija Samardžija directs the Bioskop Balkan – Space for Contemporary Art gallery and the Saša Marčeta Foundation in Belgrade.

Nikola Šuica is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade, where he teaches art history.

Christen Sveaas (1956) is a Norwegian businessman and art collector. He is the chairman of the Anders Sveaas Foundation.

Stevan Vuković (1968) is a Serbian art theorist and philosopher. He is also an independent exhibition curator.

Sverre Wyller (1953) is a Norwegian placian artist. He lives and works in Oslo.