Mladen Miljanović's 'At the Edge' Exhibition at acb Gallery, Budapest, 2014

Bosnian artist Mladen Miljanović presented his solo exhibition 'At the Edge' at acb Gallery in Budapest from June 6 to July 17, 2014, curated by Tijana Stepanović. The show featured works exploring geopolitical and existential boundaries, including the performance series 'At the Edge' (2008- ), where Miljanović suspends himself from gallery buildings, and 'I Serve Art' (2006-2007), documenting a nine-month confinement in a former military barracks in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Miljanović, a former military trainee, uses ironic, militant aesthetics to critique art institutions and cultural politics. The exhibition highlighted his engagement with post-communist contexts, notably in Hungary, where state funding cuts have marginalized politically critical art. Key works included 'Do You Intend to Lie to Me?' (2011), a film hybridizing reality and fiction, and 'We Love Freedom of Form' (2010), an activist manifesto engraved on granite. Miljanović's 'The Garden of Delights' (2013), shown at the 2013 Venice Biennale, deconstructs Balkan stereotypes through a triptych engraved on black granite. The artist's work addresses themes of heroism, autonomy, and the intersection of art and life, reflecting on the Bosnian Serb Republic's nationalist climate and global capital.