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01/11/2024
Selected participants of the 44th International Terracotta Sculpture Symposium Terra 2025
CLPU Terra selection board consisting of: Suzana Vuksanović, Serbia (Mr. Sc. Museum Advisor, Collection of Sculptures, Objects and Installations, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina), Marko Lađušić, Serbia (MA, visual artist, full professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, participant of the Terra Symposium in 2007), Branislav Nikolić, Serbia (MA, visual artist, selector of the Jalovik Art Colony until 2002, participant of the Terra Symposium in 2020), Igor Smiljanić, Serbia (Ph.D. Visual artist, sculptor, senior expert associate at Academy of Arts in Novi Sad – Department of Sculpture, participant of the Terra Symposium 2017) and Bernhard Rüdiger, France/Italy (PhD, visual artist, professor at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon, participant of the Terra Symposium 2022) published on November 1st, 2024, a list artists participating in the 44th Terracotta Terracotta International Symposium 2025.
The selected participans are:
Petar Barišić – Croatia
Petar Barišić was born in 1954. In 1978, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the sculpture class of Prof. Ivan Sabolić. From 1978 to 1981, he was an associate of the Master Workshop of prof. Fran Kršinić. He exhibited at more than seventy solo and more than 150 group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Peč, Fulda, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Aachen, Moscow, Paris, Osaka, Prague, New York, Melbourne, Vienna, Šibenik , Budapest ..).
He has been a member of HDLU since 1978, and since 2022 he has been a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU).
https://www.info.hazu.hr/en/clanovi/barisic-petar/
Michala Julínyová – Slovakia
Michala Julínyová studied painting in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, and then at The Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts de Lyon – ENSBA Lyon – National School of Fine Arts De Lyon, in France. He is a member of the Contemporary Art and Historical Temporality research group at ENSBA Lyon. He lives and works in Paris.
Uroš Ušćebrka – Serbia
Uroš Ušćebrka was born in Belgrade, Serbia on August 3, 1971. He entered the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1990, where he graduated in 1995. From 1996, he is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS). Lived and worked in Brescia, Italy, where he specialized in large-format stone sculpture. Between 1997 and 1998, he studied and worked at the school of restoration and conservation in the “Karataš” center of the National Museum, Serbia, under the patronage of UNESCO. He was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico for a master’s degree in architectural restoration at the University of Veracruz, where he received his master’s degree with honors. From 1999 until now, he has been a full professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Veracruz. For 30 years, he has been working continuously on the problems of sculpture, visual and applied art.
https://www.instagram.com/urosuscebrka/
Anssi Taulu – Finland
Anssi Taulu grew up in Jyväskylä on the border between the built environment and nature in the middle of rural restructuring which has had a great impact on his works and how he views the world. Mainly working with sculptures, Taulu’s artistic practice includes environmental art projects, graphics, drawings, videos and collaboration with artists. He graduated as a sculptor from Kankaanpää Art School and completed his MFA degree from the University of the Arts in Helsinki. His major solo shows have been at Galleria Sculptor in Helsinki, GalleriaKONE in Hämeenlinna, and Galerie Toolbox in Berlin, Germany. He was invited to participate Changwon Sculpture Biennale, in South Korea, the Art Realm-biennale in Hämeenlinna, and Turku Biennial in Finland.
His environmental art project Wasp Factories was built in numerous places in Finland, Edinburgh, and London. His work has been exhibited internationally in New York, Boston, and various places in Germany, Sweden, Scotland, Norway, and Estonia. He has been awarded residencies at Jalovik Art Colony, Serbia
Art Omi, Ghent, NY, USA, Sculpture Space residence, Utica, NY, USA, NordArt Symposium, Büdelsdorf, Germany, Taike Edinburgh residence, Scotland, Cast iron Symposium, Tallinn, Estonia. He has produced several public projects. Taulu lives and works in Hämeenlinna.
Milena Milosavljević – Serbia
Milena Milosavljević was born in 1986 in Novi Pazar, Serbia. She finished her studies at the Belgrade Academy of Arts, and then continued her education in Dusseldorf (under the mentorship of Richard Deacon and Franka Hernschemeyer), where she currently lives and
works. She is the author of numerous dialogues, collective and individual projects in Europe, America, Asia. By invitation, she is a participant in the META conference and presentation, NRW Forum museum, Virtual reality (2017, Dusseldorf), as well as the Interdisciplinary Art Research of German Art Schools in Montepulciano in 2018.
Portfolio – Milena Milosavljevic
https://www.instagram.com/milena_milo333/
Desmond Brett – UK
Desmond Brett is a senior lecturer in BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture). He previously worked as a lecturer in fine arts at York St University. John, and before that he was Head of the Fine Art Program at Hull School of Art & Design. Desmond graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, with a BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture) and an MFA in Sculpture. Currently a PhD student in sculpture at the Royal College of Art, he is interested in how the tradition and currency of sculpture can be extended, examined and re-imagined through material-led inquiry.
https://www.desmondjbrett.com/
https://www.instagram.com/desmondbrett/
Desmond Brett – Portfolio Terra
On August 15, 2024, the Terra Center for Fine and Applied Arts announced a call for applications for participation in the 44th International Terracotta Terracotta Sculpture Symposium, which will be held from July 1 to July 31, 2025.
The International Terracotta Sculpture Symposium in Kikinda includes the conception and execution of a terracotta artwork, which will be permanently installed in the Terra Sculpture Park. The artworks of the Terra collection are exclusively from the field of contemporary art and may include: sculptures, spatial installations or other works of art created from clay.
The total number of registered candidates was 88. We thank all interested candidates and invite them to follow the future competitions that we will publish on our website and social networks.