Mihaela Vujnović (b. 1989, Croatia) is a visual artist based in Leipzig, Germany. She holds an MFA in Painting from ENSAN in France, as well as a BFA and a second MFA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.
Vujnović’s art practice unfolds as a visual experiment envisioning a post–climate change landscape. Her work positions art as a critical site for rethinking the ontological and ethical foundations of the future. Vujnović’s practice emerges from a constant engagement with objects and materials marked by decay, transformation, and renewal. In her studio, conceived as both archive and laboratory, she gathers and reconfigures organic fragments, discarded remnants, and photographic observations of natural and architectural forms. These elements evolve into hybrid compositions traversing sculpture, painting, ceramics, printmaking, photography, and drawing. Guided by the agency of matter itself, she often incorporates traces from past works into new formations, allowing each piece to become a tangible record of time and memory while articulating the subtle interplay between materiality and process-based practice.
Education
- 2015 MA at École Nationale Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Nancy, class of Professor Etienne Pressager, Nancy, FR
- 2013 MA at the Faculty of Fine Arts Belgrade, Painting department, class of Professor Gordan Nikolic, Belgrade, SRB
- 2011 BA at the Faculty of Fine Arts Belgrade, Painting department, class of Professor Cedomir Vasic, Belgrade, SRB
Scholarships
- 2024 The Names, project grant, Liebelt Stiftung, Hamburg, DE
- 2023 Individual mobility grant, Culture Moves Europe, Brussels, BE
- 2022 Art practice grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, NEUSTART KULTUR Programme, Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, Bonn, DE
- 2021 Art practice grant, VG Bild-Kunst, NEUSTART KULTUR Programme, Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, Bonn, Berlin, DE
- 2020 Art practice grant, Denkzeit, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Leipzig, DE
- 2013 – 2014 Scholarship, Dositeja, Fund for Young Talents, The Ministry of Youth and Sport, Belgrade, SRB
- 2010 – 2013 Scholarship of the Fund for Young Talents of the Municipality of Savski Venac, Belgrade, SRB
Art Residencies
- 2025 Artistic Research Center and Residency, Cultural Organization BABEL, Alcobaça, PT
- 2024 Atelierhaus Salzamt, the KUNSTSAMMLUNG of the State of Upper Austria, Linz, AU
- Central-periférica, Artistic Research Center and Residency, Cultural Organization BABEL, Alcobaça, PT
- 2023 and 2018 Editions Bucciali – Printmaking Workshop and Gallery, Colmar, FR
- 2021 Kruparart Art Residency, Subotica, SRB
- 2018 Art Residency at Gallery Hinten, Chemnitz, DE
- 2017 The Art Colony of Jalovik, Sabac, SRB
- 2013 Experimental Art Centre, art residency, Florence, IT
Selected Exhibitions
- 2025 Switch Lab, Casa Scânteii, Bucharest, RO
- XVII Aveiro Ceramics Biennale, Aveiro, PT
- 2024 Fumerolles, Gallery Editions Bucciali, Colmar, FR
- 2022 Tandem #4, Gallery 4D Projektort, BBK Leipzig, DE
- VII International Art Symposium Gedankensplitter, GEDOK – Association of German and Austrian Women Artists, Leipzig, DE
- frisch, Galerie 4D, BBK Leipzig, DE
- Ortsgespräche, Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann in cooperation with Staatlichen Kunstsamlungen Dresden, Leipzig, DE
- 2018 Freedom is Reached!, Gallery HINTEN, Chemnitz, DE
- RAUSCH, Begehungen Festival, Chemnitz, DE
- 2017 All in place, SKUC, Pula, CRO
- 2016 Come Closer to See Nothing, Belgrade Youth Centre, SRB
- Hits 40, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, SRB
- 2015 Action ou Vérité?, Gallery NaMiMa, Nancy, FR
- 2013 Zeichnen, zeichnen, toujours, toujours, Regionale 13, Mulhouse, FR
Membership of Art Societies
- BBK, Bund Bildender Künstler Leipzig, DE
- VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Berlin, DE