Exhibition 'Figuration in Contemporary Context' by Ana Delić, Jana Delić, and Ivana Marinković

Exhibition 'FIGURATION IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT' by Ana Delić, Jana Delić, and Ivana Marinković

• From 3rd to 20th February 2026.
• DOB//Gallery

The exhibition 'Figuration in contemporary context' emerged from the shared experience, conversations, and closeness that the artists built during their studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. Their collaborative exploration and observation of their artistic practices led to the realization of this exhibition.

Even though each artist nurtures a different approach and poetics in artistic expression, figuration represents a common point of interest for them. Through it, they question the concepts of identity, memory, tradition, and contemporary life, applying different visual strategies.
Within the exhibition, each artist develops their own relationship with the figure, using it as a means of personal and conceptual expression. The focus on figuration allows these different approaches to be read as part of the same visual and conceptual dialogue of the authors.
In Ana Delić's works, the motif of a cow occupies a central place and functions as a self-portrait. Through this symbol, Ana explores questions of identity, origin, and belonging, placing the cow in contemporary and intimate situations, often in relationships with close people. The substitution of the human figure with an animal opens up space for various interpretations, but also for a strong personal identification, in which tradition and modernity intertwine.

Ana Delić – Encounter, oil on canvas, 120x90cm, 2025

Jana Delić starts from family photographs and motifs of traditional customs, especially wedding rituals. Through fragments of memory and everyday scenes, she translates documentary records into a painterly language, exploring the boundary between the intimate and the universal. In her works, the figure becomes a bearer of cultural memory, but also a space for personal interpretation and transformation.

Jana Delić, -Memory, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 100x120cm, 2025

In Ivana Marinković's works, the figure is most often taken from photographs and presented through snippets, details, and fragments of body parts, clothing, or objects from everyday surroundings. With this approach, the focus shifts from the whole to the peripheral, and the figure gains a new, intimate meaning. Fragmentation becomes a way to only hint at the whole, leaving room for personal reading and experience.

Ivana Marinković -With Anči 3, acrylic and oil on canvas, 150x120cm, 2024-25

Despite being different in motifs and visual language, these three poetics meet in a common interest in the figure as a bearer of meaning and as a means of reflecting on the contemporary moment.
Through the exhibition 'Figuration in Contemporary Context,' the authors aim to present figuration as a lively, flexible, and current artistic language. For them, it is not a return to traditional forms, but a space for constant reflection between the past and present, personal experience and broader social context, whole and fragment...

Ana Delić, Jana Delić, and Ivana Marinković