Date: 22.01.2026 18:00

Place: Art and design gallery «A&A Interior»

Address: RPCR Aqua Residence, Porto Montenegro

Free entry, RSVPoffice@aainterior.me

A&A Interior Gallery invites you to the opening of the exhibition "Reflection. Painting by Marija Knežević" (18+)

"Reflection" is an exhibition featuring a series of paintings dedicated to the act of self-observation. The artist's gaze is directed toward the canvas, where, as if in a mirror, she paints her own image.

Maria describes these works as "an act of self-observation, but also of self-overcoming—an autoact (from the word "autoportret" - self-portrait). Autoact is neither narcissistic nor voyeuristic—it is an attempt at a sincere, often cruel, yet tender dialogue with oneself. These are faces and bodies offered to the viewer not as an ideal, but as the truth of the process. In an era when body images proliferate daily through social media, aestheticized representations, and filtered versions of reality, autoact attempts to restore meaning and complexity to what it means "to be in the body." A space of vulnerability, but also of presence."

Curator - Anastasia Degtiareva.

The official opening ceremony will take place on January 22nd at 6.00 pm

The exhibition will be open to March 20, 2026.

A&A Interior Gallery, Porto Montenegro, Tivat

Marija Knežević was born in 1967 in Belgrade. She graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts (FLU), Department of Painting, in the class of Professor Momčilo Antonović, in 1991. She obtained her master’s degree in the same professor’s class (in the field of painting, with a focus on colour) in 1994.

Since 1991, she has been a member of ULUS (The Association of Serbian Visual Artists) with the status of a freelance artist.

She has participated in numerous art festivals in her home country and abroad (Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Tunisia and Malta).

Her works are held in numerous collections in Serbia and abroad (Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Malta and Canada).

EXHIBITIONS

From 1988 to 2023, she participated in over 100 collective exhibitions in Serbia and abroad.

Individual exhibitions:

2025 Gallery of the Museum of Tivat, Montenegro
2023 Nikola Radošević Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2018 Milan Tucović Gallery, Požega, Serbia
2017 Cvijeta Zuzorić Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2013 Gallery of the Institute for Cultural Development Research, Belgrade, Serbia
2013 ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2009 Mladenovac Cultural Centre Gallery, Serbia
2008 Smederevska Palanka Cultural Centre Gallery, Serbia
2005 Rakovica Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2001 ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
1994 FLU Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
1994 Kolarac People’s University Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
1991 Kruševac City Museum Gallery, Kruševac, Serbia
1991 Studentski Grad Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

AWARDS

2024 Fourth Prize for Painting, First Salon Pean Sindik, Tivat, Montenegro
2020 First Prize for Painting, International Exhibition AkT Marko Gregović, Montenegro
2017 Grand Prize, October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 Golden Brush Award, ULUK ART, Kostolac, Serbia
2015 Special Recognition, VOVA Biennale of Miniature, Hungary
2012 Grand Prize, Zemun Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2012 First Prize for Painting, Small Format Exhibition, Šabac, Serbia
2012 First Prize for Painting, XI International Biennale of Miniature, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
2011 First Prize for Painting, Eighth Belgrade Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2010 First Prize for Painting, Belgrade Mini Art Scene
1992 Award of Painting Colony Protić, Gornja Dobrinja, Serbia
1991 Award for Best Student Drawing, Belgrade, Serbia
1991 Perspective IXI Award, Belgrade, Serbia

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