​​Author

Miloš Kostić

Type

photo essay of 10 analog images + video
location

Belgrade, Serbia

Year

2024-25

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exhibited:

Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

01.Apr. - 30.Arp. 2025

group exhibition 47. Salon of Architecture: Under Pressure

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Through analog photography as a medium, the photo essay explores the disappearance of architectural heritage, capturing moments of the defragmentation of symbols and the rapid transformation of the urban and natural landscape.

Group show  “Aquatectorium – Habitats of the future” Curated by Miloš Stojković. KC Silosi, Belgrade 15. Aug-1. Sep 2023.

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Author

Miloš Kostić

Curator 

Miloš Stojković

Type

"Materiality of the Landscape" 

2 photographs, print on transparent foil,
location

Silosi, Belgrade, Serbia

Year

2023

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The diptych consists of two black-and-white photographs made using analogue technique and printed on transparent foil. A beach pebble, used as the basic façade cladding material on buildings designed in the Mediterranean by architect Nikola Dobrović, becomes the central subject of the work, which focuses on an authorial narrative built through communication between two scales – the micro and the macro.

By superimposing landscape, light, and material texture through double exposure, new spatial parallels emerge between the tactility of the façade, the grain of the film, and the found elements in the surroundings of the Children’s Ward building in Igalo. The diptych blurs the boundaries between built and unbuilt, natural and artificial, planned and spontaneous, opening up new possibilities for understanding the architectural context and the poetics of its emergence, endurance, and disappearance over time.

​​Author

Miloš Kostić

Type

Digital and analog photography | A5 booklet

Award:
HONORARY MENTION | category: architectural photography

45. Salon of Architecture: Salon of Dialogue

exhibited:
Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
25. Jan. - 25. Feb. 2023
group exhibition 45. Salon of Architecture: Salon of Dialogue

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Gallery of Science and Technology and Rectorate of the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
05. Dec. - 15. Dec. 2023
group exhibition STRAND Annual Conference and Exhibition “On Architecture – Challenges in Design”
 

Year

2022-23

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The photo essay “DOBROVIĆ IN DETAIL” documents the architectural details of the building of the Children’s Department of the Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation “Dr. Simo Milošević” (1964), designed by the architect and professor Nikola Dobrović in Igalo, Montenegro. The photo essay presents a series of architectural sequences that search for the design poetics of the architect Dobrović. The subject of photography are spatial situations on the scale of architectural details in which properties, textures, tactile and visual characteristics are developed at specific positions in the Children’s Department project. Architectural detail in the context of Nikola Dobrović’s work becomes poetic through the applied materials, initiated and profiled forms, but also through finding and overcoming conflicting situations of the set plastic form of architectural objects. The selected fragments recognize the details that build, direct and refine the spatial experience by their presence, but also witness, document and underline the conflicts and anomalies of an unbroken series of formal states. These are the poetic spots through which Dobrović draws us into the new enriched artistic order of the world of his design themes.

​​Author

Miloš Kostić

Type

analog photography | triptych 

exhibited:
Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
28. Mar. - 28. Apr. 2024
group exhibition 46. Salon of Architecture: Salon of Dialogue

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Gallery of Science and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia
04.Dec.-12.Dec.2024
group exhibition: On Architecture 2024: Shaping the City through Architecture
 

Year

2024

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The photo triptych "Eyes that Do not See" serves as a provocative title, alluding to a chapter in Le Corbusier's book "Vers une architecture" published in 1923. Exactly a century after the release of this influential work, in 2023, plans for the demolition and redevelopment of the Belgrade Fair were unveiled in Serbia. This urban complex stands as a significant example of modern heritage in Belgrade, showcasing exemplary engineering from the postwar era in the region. Despite its cultural and historical importance, it now faces imminent risk due to the rapid urbanization associated with the Belgrade riverside development project. The future of this project remains uncertain. The "eyes that do not see" represent stakeholders primarily motivated by investment potential and the economic value of the riverside plot. Encouragingly, those "eyes that have begun to see" belong to architects and urban planners who have mobilized and voiced their concerns professionally, highlighting the swift and potentially irreversible changes threatening the city's urban identity and aesthetic. With that in mind, this triptych aims to mobilize those who have yet to grasp the gravity of the situation, contributing to the collective effort to protect and critically reconsider the legacy of modern architecture.

​​Author

Miloš Kostić

Type

analog photography | 841 × 1189

Award:
FIRST PRIZE
Photography competition: Modernization and globalization. Challenges and Opportunities in Architecture, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage.
IFAU19/3rd International Forum for Architecture and Urbanism

exhibited:
IFAU19/3rd International Forum for Architecture and Urbanism
Tirana, Albania
21-23. Nov. 2019
 

Year

2019

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