Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan

• Name — Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan • Native Name — Радомир Дамњановић Дамњан • Birth Name — Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan • Born — 10 December 1935 • Birthplace — Mostar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia • Died — 10 July 2025 • Place of death — Milan, Italy • Known for — Conceptual art • Website — radomirdamnjan.com

Damnjan spent his childhood in Belgrade and eventually graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1957 and completed his postgraduate studies there in 1959. In 1971 until 1972, he went to America studying as a Fulbright scholar.

• Illustration — Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan in front of his work, 1962 Throughout his career, Damnjan experimented with different mediums or art such as paintings, drawings, graphics, photography, and film. In the early years of his career, he worked on art which focused on minimalism, abstract art and symbolic art with series including Sandy Shores (1961) and Elements in Space (1963–64). • Illustration — Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan, In Honor of Soviet Avant-garde, 1973, b/w photograph, 295 × 397 mm From 1990s, he worked on paintings more focused on portraits and self-portraits which he describes as "new pointillism".

Damnjan died in Milan, Italy, on 10 July 2025, at the age of 89.

The list includes: • 1973 – The Man from the Newspaper or the Ability to Communicate, 12 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade • 1975 – Identity: The Destruction of Books, Marx, Hegel and the Bible, 25 min, Trigon '75, Graz • 1976 – Dinner with Terry Doxey from London, 30 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade • 1978 – From Labor to Creative Work, 25 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade; From Labor to Creative Work, 30 min, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb • 1979 – From Labor to Creativity (Version II), 30 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade; Dal Lavoro alla Creatività, 25 min, Studio 16/e, Turin • 1982 – Grande Natura Morta, 25 min, Il Festival Internazionale d'Arte Video, Locarno; From Work to Creativeness, 4th Biennial, Sydney; Vision in Disbelief, Sydney • 1986 – Large Still Life, April Meetings, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade • 1996 – Chattanooga Choo Choo and the United Belgrade Still Life, Die Weise Stadt, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna • 1997 – Record of a Portrait – Ješa Denegri, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade

The list includes: • 1975 – Identity: The Destruction of the Books of Marx, Hegel and the Bible, black-and-white, 20 min, PAL, sound; Trigon '75, Graz • 1976 – Daily Ritual of Coffee Drinking, 30 min, black-and-white, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Reading the Same Text, black-and-white, 20 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Reading Marx, Hegel and the Bible in the Light of Matches, black-and-white, 30 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Spot in Space or Position of Individuals in Society, black-and-white, 30 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Tübingen • 1977 – Movement as a General Need, 26 min, black-and-white, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Revolution as a Game of Minorities, 17 min, black-and-white, PAL, sound; Tübingen • 1982 – Great Still Life, 25 min, colour, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Locarno • 1983 – Metaphysical Duchamp, Video D.C. 83; Ljubljana