Radenko Milak Bosnian, b. 1980
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A City Between Light and Surveillance, 2025
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Architecture of Shadows, 2025
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Caribbean Nights, 2025
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Grey_A Landscape Without Time, 2025
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Horizon of Absence, Manhattan Grid, 2025
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Meeting in Glass, 2025
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Shadows on Crosby Street, 2025
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The Accident of Meeting, Soho NY, 2025
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The Algorithm of Silence, 2025
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The City Between Us, 2025
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Transparent Boundaries, 2025
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Tropical Nocturne, 2025
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Vertical Utopia, Labyrinth of Light, 2025
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Fifth Avenue NYC/September 12/16:00, 2024
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MoMA 2022, 2024
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Oculus NYC, 2024
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Oculus NYC, 2024
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Golden Hours Series, 2023
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Golden Hours Series, 1, 2023
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Golden Hours Series, 2, 2023
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Golden Hours Series, 3, 2023
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Golden Hours Series, 4, 2023
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Golden Hours Series, 5, 2023
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Golden Hours Series, 6, 2023
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Golden Hours Series, 7, 2023
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Golden Hours Series, 8, 2023
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Light of Midnight, 2023
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MoMA, 2023
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Neighbour (2), 2023
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Neon Light, 2023
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Noisy Neighbours, 2023
Radenko Milak (b.1980 Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina) uses the mirror of painting to explore the major questions and upheavals of our time. Milak came to international fame in 2017 through ‘University of Disaster’, his artistic submission for the Bosnia and Herzegovina pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Since then, His works have been found in important public collections, most recently the Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb, Croatia), at Marta Herford (Herford, Germany) and the Folkwang Museum (Essen, Germany), the Albertina Museum in Vienna and The Ludwig Museum in Budapest.
Radenko Milak’s focus is on the relationship with reality and history through the transformation of photographs into paintings. He translates press photos from printed media and the internet into meticulously detailed watercolors in soft black-and-white tones creating intimate pictorial references to current events. By consciously translating these images from one medium to another, he reinforces the message of the original image. This process allows him to transfer these messages from the past to the present, stimulating the viewer to re-evaluate forgotten and invisible realities. As such, topics like major world catastrophes, wars, global environmental crises.
His newest body of work primarily addresses the two major crises that the world is dealing with: the environmental crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. The socially and politically committed Milak puts these two crises into perspective, while simultaneously juxtaposing them and connecting them to each other, creating thought-provoking, dynamic watercolors. Milak invites the viewer to think about the issues at hand and sparks debate, for example by questioning the way governments worldwide reacted to the COVID-19 threat compared to the threat of climate change, and in suggesting that there is no longer room for national politics in a globalized world.-
Radenko Milak
Four Seasons Interrupted October 15 - December 15, 2025San Diego, California — Madison Gallery is proud to announce FOUR SEASONS INTERRUPTED – Bosnian artist, Radenko Milak’s second solo exhibition with Madison Gallery - as he delves into the profound and disorienting impact of climate change on the four seasons. Known for his hauntingly precise monochromatic watercolors, Milak turns his focus to the natural rhythms that once governed our understanding of time. This new series of 16-18 paintings, captures the unsettling fragmentation of seasonal cycles, portraying moments when winter lingers into spring or summer bleeds unpredictably into fall - highlighting the instability and anxiety that now define our environmental experience.Read more
Set against the backdrop of New York City, Milak’s work offers a visual narrative of how urban life intersects with—and is increasingly shaped by - climate disruption. Iconic landmarks and everyday street scenes are rendered with a spectral clarity, cloaked in fog, snow, or an eerie, out-of-season sunlight. His imagery reflects not only the city's vulnerability to environmental shifts but also its paradoxical resilience. The familiar becomes uncanny: cherry blossoms bloom in February, summer heatwaves arrive in April, and snow falls in October - each piece a meditation on how time and memory fracture in a warming world.
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Radenko Milak
Angel of History November 4, 2023 - January 4, 2024Radenko Milak contemporary art exhibition Southern California watercolor artRead more
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Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week
March 20 - 23, 2025Madison Gallery will be presenting at the Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week in March 2025. The Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week Fair is a unique event at the historical and cultural crossroads of the great American Southwest.Set in one of the country’s fastest growing cities with an ascendant contemporary Indigenous art culture, the fair will showcase over a hundred leading galleries at the scenic WestWorld alongside cultural performances, sculptural installations, and innovative programming including collaborations with institutions, galleries, artists, and prominent collectors.Read more -
Intersect Aspen 2024
July 30 - August 3, 2024Intersect Aspen Art FairRead more