Lav Mrenović

Independent art writer and curator
Based in Belgrade, Serbia

My main interests revolve around non-traditional forms of art writing and relationship between contemporary art and politics.

I hold BA degree, and I am about to get a MA, from the History of Art department at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. My BA thesis dealt with the political potential of contemporary painting, while my MA thesis researched the influence of the globalized contemporary art world on Belgrade’s scene.

I am a member of AICA.

I was a resident of Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2024.

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Zine
I Feel Like Contemporary Art Is Over
Self-published, 2025 (to be published)

Editor
MANEK (Magazine of Independent Culture), Issue 11
Co-edited with Vida Knežević, 2022
MANEK (Magazine of Independent Culture), Issue 10
Co-edited with Vida Knežević, 2021

Criticism
Youth Biennale 2023: Exhibition in Whirlwind of Sociality
Mašina, 2023
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: 20th Biennale of Pančevo
Mašina, 2022
October Salon: Overslept Reality of Dreamers
Mašina, 2021
Monument to Stefan Nemanja:  Basing Inequality in History
Mašina, 2018
Where Are We Going?
SEEcult, 2017

Exhibition Introductions
Igor Ripak, (...)
To be published
Nebojša Yamasaki Vukelić, Walk Within a Slow Future
Belgrade Youth Center, 2022
Uroš Krčadinac, All-Aligned
Gallery of Students’ City Cultural Center
Milica Ružičić, Angst
The Cultural Center of Belgrade, 2021
Autumn Exhibition of ULUS: The Entangled
Art Pavillion “Cvijeta Zuzorić”, 2020

Cultural Policy
Trade Union Win at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Is a Big Success in Organizing Museum Workers in the US
Mašina, 2022
Who Has a Problem With Artists?
Mašina, 2020
Culture Budget For 2020: Minimal Expenditure, Maximal Expectations
Mašina, 2020
Strategy For Culture: List of Right-Wing Wishes
Mašina, 2018
What We Talk About When We Talk About Cultural Policy
Liceulice, 2017

Interviews
Nebojša Yamasaki Vukelić: I Think About the End of the World As Something We Long For
Mašina, 2022
Interview With ULUS Collective
MANEK 10, 2021
Interview With Curatorial Collective of Youth Biennale
MANEK 10, 2021
Interview With Giulia Casalini: Curating is Not Just a Profession But Also a Matter of Political Practice
Mašina, 2021

Select Curating

Nebojša Yamasaki Vukelić, Walk Within a Slow Future
Belgrade Youth Center, 2022

Autumn Exhibition of ULUS: The Entangled
Assistant Curator to Maja Ćirić
Art Pavillion “Cvijeta Zuzorić”, 2020

Art in the Age of Class War
Ostavinska Gallery, 2018