Ljubodrag Andric between Venice and Milan: photography that goes beyond reality

A dialogue between places, architectures and images that do not just record reality, but go beyond it, revealing its hidden thresholds and suspended atmospheres. This is the heart of the project Ljubodrag Andric. Spaces, Thresholds, Lights, the new exhibition curated by Francesco Tedeschi and promoted by BUILDING in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation. An exhibition in two distinct chapters, which will run between Venice and Milan over the course of 2025, offering the public the photographic work of one of the most interesting authors of the contemporary scene. The first chapter will be hosted in Venice, from April 18 to September 8, 2025, in the rooms on the second floor of Palazzo Cini. The second will start a few days later, from September 9 to October 11, 2025, in Milan, in the exhibition spaces of BUILDING GALLERY. Two events that complement each other, offering a broad and articulated look at the work of Ljubodrag Andric (Belgrade, 1965), a Serbian artist born in Belgrade in 1965 and active internationally.

The exhibition investigates Andric’s photographic practice as a form of representation that goes beyond the simple objective datum. Although each image originates in a specific place, often evoked even in the title of the work, the photograph is not limited to the faithful rendering of that context. Through skillful use of light, reflections, color, and architectural materials, Andric constructs images that seem to be detached from reality, suspended in an enigmatic yet contemplative dimension.

His is a language that, while grounded in photographic technique and its materials, approaches painting and sculpture. The wall surfaces, the marks left on the walls, the geometries of the structures emerge as silent traces of a space that has lost its human presence but retains a profound visual and sensory memory. A poetics of space that Andric has been exploring for years and that in Spaces, Thresholds, Lights finds a new maturity.

The first stage of the exhibition, hosted in Venice will be set up in the rooms on the second floor of Palazzo Cini, one of the city’s exhibition venues. Here will be presented a selection of about fifteen photographs that relate two distinct visual universes: on the one hand, Andric’s experiences in India between 2021 and 2024, and on the other, the Venetian environment and the artistic residencies held at the Giorgio Cini Foundation. The dialogue between the millenary architecture of India and the atmospheres of the Venetian lagoon emerges powerfully in the artist’s images, in which geometries, chromatics and light contrasts become constituent elements of an inner narrative.

The second chapter of the project will open in Milan on September 9, 2025, in the exhibition spaces of BUILDING GALLERY. Here the public will find a selection of about twenty-five works, different from those exhibited in Venice, organized according to a thematic structure designed in close relation to the three-level architecture of the gallery. Here, too, the artist’s distinctive mark emerges clearly: the ability to construct static and profound visions, in which space becomes essence, and light becomes immaterial architecture. The absence of the human figure accentuates the silence of the images, which are populated with minimal details, mute surfaces and uninhabited interiors, as if time had suddenly stopped.

Ljubodrag Andric between Venice and Milan: photography that goes beyond reality

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