Operation Hungary

April 23 – June 4, 2015

In the painting named “Operation Hungary”, Miljanovic uses strategy of simulation in mapping a potential route of “art occupation” towards Hungary with military iconography. He frames the work as “top secret operation”, making plans how to achieve infiltration in Hungarian cultural system intersecting it at the same time. According to this, part of the work is Miljanovic’s own description of discourse:
”Operation Hungary is possible modus operandi of a Bosnian Serb artist who gains exhibition and occupyies cultural systems of attacked areas. This work is consisted of consists of a multi-media strategy used in simulating Art attacks with virtual invasion in an institutional gallery. My military education experience (infantry sergeant) is turned/applied in the field of culture where artistic projects are at the same time aware of strategic projects well.”

Exhibiting artist: Mladen Miljanović

Curators: Check Your Head! project of the curatorial team of the OFF-Biennale Budapest (Nikolett Erőss, Anna Juhász, Hajnalka Somogyi, Tijana Stepanovic, Borbála Szalai, Katalin Székely, János Szoboszlai)

Venue: acb Attachment (1068 Budapest, Eötvös u. 2.)

Related event

Mladen Miljanović: A Sweet Simphony of Absurdity (performance), May 2, 2015

Venue: Károlyi Park (1054 Budapest, Károlyi u. 16.)