The project “The Garden of Delights”, organised and produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, presented Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 55^th Venice Biennale between 30 May and 24 November 2013.

The idea was that the last event to be staged at the MSURS in the year of 2013 should highlight its greatest international project, which was a great success at the world’s most prestigious exhibition of contemporary art. Apart from the works actually shown in Venice, the exhibition in Banja Luka included the extensive documentation that illustrated all the aspects of the organisation of the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of the exhibition production.

Sаritа Vujković, the exhibition curator, states the following in the catalogue: “In his work Mladen Miljanović practically ‘vivisects’ human life in the manner of an anthropologist; he is engrossed in what people have in common and what sets them apart, how they live, what they think, and how they relate to the things they indulge in as individuals. Culture is the key term of his anthropological outlook as he screens his local community, that where he also lives and makes art, for similarities and differences. His alegorical substitution, within which he locates and distinguishes between the different instruments of people’s private pleasures, is a premeditated effort to create an encyclopaedia that will contain the total sum of human knowledge, and in this particular case also personal desires and unfulfilled potentials. The personal truths the artist identifies and differentiates between are collective absurdities, perceived as instruments of a collective paradox, the current peculiarity of all of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the adjacent countries.”

Exhibition curator: Dr.Sc. Sаritа Vujković

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