Künstler*innengespräch: Miloš Trakilović im Gespräch mit Nataša Ilić

Taking Miloš Trakilović's installation 564 Tracks (Not a Love Song Is Usually a Love Song) as a starting point, the artist and curator Nataša Ilić will explore artistic practice in relation to diasporic experiences, intergenerational memory culture and borderlines. Rooted in the specific experience of Yugoslavia - a country that no longer exists - their exchange will connect historical defeats with examples of refusal, resistance and liberation in art and beyond that might question the political dilemma of our present.

Nataša Ilić is a curator and member of What, How & for Whom (WHW), a curatorial collective founded in 1999 and based in Zagreb and Berlin. WHW organizes production, exhibition, education and publication projects in Zagreb and elsewhere. Together with WHW members Ivet Ćurlin and Sabina Sabolović, she served as Artistic Director of Kunsthalle Wien from 2019 to 2024. In August 2024, the two were announced as artistic directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027.

Miloš Trakilović is a Bosnian-Dutch artist (born 1989, BA). He received a BFA and MFA from the Berlin University of the Arts, where he graduated in Experimental Film and New Media Art. His work revolves around the politics of perception and explores questions of decay, fragmentation, memory and loss. He is currently investigating the extent to which meaning is constructed through the gaze and power is produced in times of a digital turn. Trakilović's work is primarily concerned with digital and time-based media, with film, video and installation as central elements.