Mladen Stilinović

Galerie Martin Janda is pleased to present Mladen Stilinović's fourth solo exhibition, The Language of Politics, curated by Branka Stipančić from 25th October to 30th November 2024.

For Mladen Stilinović, language is, in the words of Mikhail Bahtin, “an ideological phenomenon par excellence”. The function of words as signs, their expressive and representative nature, make language the purest and most subtle medium of social communication, thereby granting it a special place in any ideology. And it is here that Stilinović opens up his “discussion” about the “dual nature” (truth / falsehood) of any linguistic utterance, any ideological sign. It was not only words that were questioned, but also the colour red, symbols, various myths of our civilization such as money, bread, pain, etc.

The solo exhibition The Language of Politics at Galerie Martin Janda consists of four installations and smaller individual works from different periods of his artistic practice.

Mladen Stilinović, *1947 in Belgrade (RS), died 2016 in Pula (HR)