Exhibition Mili Đukić

Announcement: Mili Đukić's exhibition "Ferdy & Durke in palanquin hell" will be held on Wednesday, 28
May 2025 in the Queen Katarina Kosača Gallery in the Croatian House of Herceg Stjepan
Mowers starting at 8 p.m.

The Queen Katarina Gallery continues a series of impressive exhibitions with a display of paintings
the achievements of a talented, multi-talented creator, creative person, poet, director,
co-producer, journalist, painter, Milij Đukić.
The significance of the exhibition of paintings "Ferdy & Durke in the Hell of Palanka" is multi-layered. Dualism and
dialectics are actually the very basis of the idea of the exhibition, which the author articulates in the title as
a kind of polarity, opposition...
At first glance, the works of Milij Đukić catch your attention? Painting canvas of Milij Đukić
is a testing ground for a new series of interesting events, a new sign, a new relationship, a new background,
a new figure, a new word, a new texture, a new color, a new gesture…etc. By observing
Furthermore, we expect something new...because that is the weft of the construction of Mili's work.
The title of the exhibition is a variation of the title of Witold Gombrowicz's 1937 novel "Ferdydurke". In
The description of the title actually reflects the impossibility of an adequate translation, of interpreting the title itself.
title of a literary work. Certain links with Dadaism, mute children's speech, the word
without meaning they are more than obvious. Infantility and inability to grow up
The "maturation" that Mili talks about through her works are also references to
Gombrowicz's novel. Mili's paintings are relieved of the "aestheticization" of depiction and
reflect a successive commitment to the creative process. A deeper look at the work
refers to "informedness", more than to performance skill. Performance skill
has been replaced by an extremely simple and ingenious, pragmatic way of presenting
a single motif, a detail of the painting.
The works of Milij Đukić presented at the Fredy & Durka exhibition are the carriers of sensations that in
They can evoke an aesthetic experience in the observer. This aesthetic is expressed through truth.
The works of Milij Đukić, viewed again in this sense, offer us the possibility of an aesthetic
in the truth of the present moment. (Dalibor Nikolić)

Mili Đukić is a Bosnian poet and documentary filmmaker. He grew up,
He was educated and worked in Adapazari, Mostar, Sarajevo, Kristiansand, Istria and Dalmatia.
He also worked as a journalist, waiter, DJ, construction worker, driver, cafe owner, painter
model, caregiver, technician at the open-air cinema... Published poetry books Collected Works from
of a seized body (2014), Winter will be hard again (2015), Run over hedgehogs (2018),
Summer cinema (2021), Spare lighter (2023). He is the author of the documentaries Gutač nula

(2023) and Andrej meets a flower (2025). Ferdy & Durke in the palanquin hell is his first
solo exhibition of drawings and paintings.
The exhibition remains open until June 11, 2025.