Biography
Born in Serbia in 1974, Brankica Žilović lives and works in Paris.
After an academic career at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Belgrade then at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Paris, she taught for many years at the Parsons School in Paris, at the Ecole Supérieure de Beaux-arts of Angers TALM and at LISAA (Higher Institute of Applied Art, Animation).
Brankica Žilović is known for her textile wall installations. In a true cosmogony featuring atlases, celestial maps and other drifting territories, it tells us all the complexity, fragility and precariousness of the contemporary world.
Deeply marked by her Yugoslav origins, she creates a work whose most salient aspect is the systematic use of cartography in its political, imaginary and poetic dimensions. Deeply humanist, the artist confronts insular logics and a return to forgotten values in utopian lands while inviting everyone to undertake an inner journey.
In a work restoring its place to the imagination, Brankica Žilović exorcises the finitude of existence in a creative act which celebrates life and resilience, while exploring the possibility of an elsewhere, of a new and a renewal.
Her work has been the subject of multiple exhibitions at the Departmental Domain of Chamarande, at the LAccolade Foundation (Institut de France), at the François Schneider Foundation in Wattwiller, at the Shanghai Museum of Modern Art, at the Royal Monastery of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse at the National Automobile Museum in Turin, at the Caudry Lace Museum, at the French Playing Card Museum, at the China Art Museum in Shanghai and in numerous art centers in France and abroad.


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Works
  • Brankica Zilovic, Mundus Subterraneus VIII, 2024
    Mundus Subterraneus VIII, 2024
  • Brankica Zilovic, Mundus Subterraneus V, 2024
    Mundus Subterraneus V, 2024
  • Brankica Zilovic, Mundus Subterraneus VII, 2024
    Mundus Subterraneus VII, 2024
  • Brankica Zilovic, Mundus Subterraneus IV, 2024
    Mundus Subterraneus IV, 2024
  • Brankica Zilovic, Mundus Subterraneus I, 2023
    Mundus Subterraneus I, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Mundus Subterraneus II, 2023
    Mundus Subterraneus II, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Mundus Subterraneus III, 2023
    Mundus Subterraneus III, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Là où naissent les montagnes, 2023
    Là où naissent les montagnes, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Nos cimes, Antarctique & Brésil, 2023
    Nos cimes, Antarctique & Brésil, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Nos cimes, Antarctique & Pérou, 2023
    Nos cimes, Antarctique & Pérou, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Nos cimes, Antarctique & USA, 2023
    Nos cimes, Antarctique & USA, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Nos cimes, Antarctique & Inde, 2023
    Nos cimes, Antarctique & Inde, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Variations of the worlds_02, 2021
    Variations of the worlds_02, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, Variations of the worlds_05, 2021
    Variations of the worlds_05, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, Variations of the worlds_01, 2021
    Variations of the worlds_01, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, Variations of the Worlds_06, 2021
    Variations of the Worlds_06, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, Variations of the worlds_now, 2021
    Variations of the worlds_now, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, A la dérive de nos lendemains, 2023
    A la dérive de nos lendemains, 2023
  • Brankica Zilovic, Golden I, 2021
    Golden I, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, Beautiful Driftings I & II, 2019
    Beautiful Driftings I & II, 2019
  • Brankica Zilovic, Golden IV, 2021
    Golden IV, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, The Glaciers 14, 2021
    The Glaciers 14, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, The Glaciers 12, 2021
    The Glaciers 12, 2021
  • Brankica Zilovic, The Glaciers 07, 2021
    The Glaciers 07, 2021
Exhibition Views
Video
Dans l'atelier de Brankica Zilovic @maisoncharlot © Bruno Bijaksic Created by Maud Ntonga, Corinne Szteinsznaider and Juliette Pokorny © Michael Culture Association
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