Lidija Delić (1986, Nikšić, Montenegro) is a contemporary artist based in Belgrade. She holds a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2010) and earned her DA in Multimedia Art from the University of Arts in Belgrade (2015). In 2012, Lidija co-founded the U10 Art Space in Belgrade. Since 2021, she has been working at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she currently serves as an assistant professor. Her artistic practice spans various media, and her work is included in numerous public and private collections. Lidija has exhibited widely both in Serbia and internationally, with notable solo exhibitions including Still, Life at ALBA Gallery in Vienna (2022), The Ordinary Things at ICA – Sofia Gallery, Bulgaria (2022), and With Luck, There’ll Be No More Dreams at Eugster II, Belgrade (2021). Other significant exhibitions include Too Soon, Too Late at Manifesto, Belgrade (2020), The West Island at Belgrade Youth Centre (2018), and participation in the 57th (2018) and 60th (2024) October Salon in Belgrade. In 2017, Lidija represented Serbia at the 18th International Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM) in Tirana, Albania. That same year, she was a finalist for the Dimitrije Bašicevic Mangelos Award. She also participated in a residency program in New York organized by the Balkan Project and the Swiss Institute in 2019. Most notably, Lidija represented Montenegro at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2022.
www.lidijadelic.com

Nina Ivanović (1986, Belgrade) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Painting department (2010). She had an opportunity to participate in summer schools, international workshops (Real Presence, Belgrade, 2006–10) and exhibit her work in Serbia and abroad on solo and many group shows since 2006. In her work, she is dealing with everyday situations through urban surroundings, people and landscape in different media such as drawing, photography and sculpture. She is the recipient of several awards, such as Drawing Award by the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2009), Drawing Award by Vladimir Veličković Fund (2014), 57th October Salon Award (2018), Art Autumn Award, Sombor (2024) and special award at the 60th October Salon in Belgrade for the joint project Working Spaces (2024). Her work has been exhibited in public space, work Landscapes in Italian city Vittorio Veneto (2018), light installation Window Cleaners (2019) at the Culture Centre of Belgrade and copper installation on the facade of the Department of Naval Architecture, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade (2023). During three months in 2013 and 2014 she was artist-in-residence at Glo’Art Centre in Belgium and in 2017 she took part in Kuckucks-Nest residency program in Basel, Switzerland. She is one of the founders of U10 Art Collective, and from 2012 she is running U10 Art Space in Belgrade along with the collective. She lives and works in Belgrade.
www.ninaivanovic.com

Sava Knežević (1985, Belgrade) graduated from the Painting Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2011, where he is currently a DA student. He is working at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade as a teaching assistant. He has exhibited extensively both in Serbia and abroad. He has contributed as an associate and author to the production of murals at various locations across Serbia. He also actively participates in charitable programs supporting children without parental care and children with special needs. Sava is one of the founders of the U10 Art Space. He has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 2012.

Isidora Krstić (1987, Belgrade) is a mixed media artist based in Vienna, since 2012. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, from the Painting department (2011) and from the Art&Science Master Program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2016). In addition to an extensive exhibition practice, she also works on curatorial and publication projects and translates artistic texts. She is a founding member of U10 Art Space and she has worked in artist estate management, most recently the Kurt Kocherscheidt Estate in Vienna.
www.isidorakrstic.com

Iva Kuzmanović (1984, Belgrade) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department (2011), where she is currently enrolled in the DA course. Since 2024, she has been working at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade as a teaching assistant. Since 2007, she has been a member of NKA / ICA, within which she had been exhibiting as an artist and participating as a cultural mediator in four editions of Real Presence, international platform for young artists and art students, under mentorship of Biljana Tomić. Since 2012, as a co-founder of the U10 Art Space, and a regular member of the U10 Collective, she has participated as an organizer, curator or artist in over one hundred and fifty group and solo exhibitions and other projects in culture and art. In her practice, she is working in different media ranging from painting (usually oil on canvas) to spatial installations made of neon lights, sand, sound, and other elements. She is mostly dealing with the notions of anxiety, fatalism and temporality, frequently devising them through depictions of vast artificial neon-desert landscapes, atomic bomb testing or tropical scenery airplane crashes. She lives and works in Belgrade.

Nemanja Nikolić  (1987, Valjevo) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting (2010), where he also completed his DA (2019). He works as Assistant Professor at the same Faculty and is the initiator of U10 Art Space, an independent artist-run platform supporting young contemporary artists. Since 2010, he has held solo exhibitions at the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Gallery Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica, ERD Gallery in Seoul, Rima Gallery in Belgrade and Kragujevac, B2 Gallery in Belgrade, U10 Art Space, among others. He has also taken part in numerous group shows, including Caixa Forum in Madrid and Barcelona, Kunsthal KadE in Amersfoort, Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the 56th, 57th, 60th October Salon in Belgrade, the 20th Biennial of Art in Pančevo, Cinémathèque Française in Paris, among others. He has received several awards, including the Special Award of the 60th October Salon for the group project Working Spaces (2024), the Drawing Award from the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (2021), and the Vladimir Veličković Foundation Drawing Award (2011). Nikolić’s works are part of private and public collections such as the ABN AMRO Collection (Amsterdam), The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (Los Angeles), WAP Foundation (Seoul), Ekard Collection (The Hague), JMS Collection (Paris), the October Salon Collection (Belgrade), Wiener Städtische Collection, and the Telenor Collection (Belgrade). He lives and works in Belgrade.
www.nemanjanikolic.com

Marija Šević (1987, Aranđelovac) is a visual artist based in Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2011). During her studies, she took part in two international academic exchanges: at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2010–11), where she studied with Claude Closky and James Rielly, and at the Fine Art Special School in Montpellier (2008–09). She has exhibited widely both in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and beyond. Her solo exhibitions include Ascending by Night (Non Canonico, Belgrade, 2023), Encounters (Gallery Rima, Kragujevac, 2021), IN THE NIGHT, WILL YOU FOLLOW ME? (SAAS London, 2019), PARTY (U10 Art Space, 2017), Synthèse (French Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 2015), and Na Cidade Deserta (Alliance Française, Brasília, 2013). Notable group exhibitions include the 60th October Salon (2024), I’m Bored (Navigator Art Gallery, 2023), The Subterraneans (Belgrade Youth Centre, 2022), INTERRUPTION – Contemporary Balkan Art (Serbian House, London, 2017), Parallel Vienna (2015), and Liste Art Fair in Basel (2015), among many others. Her work has been recognized with several awards and grants, including the Special Award at the 60th October Salon (2024), the Special Painting Award at the 49th Winter Salon in Herceg Novi (2015), and a French Government Scholarship (2010). She has participated in numerous international residencies such as the Hafenkombinat Residency in Leipzig (2024), SIM Residency in Reykjavik (2021), Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2019), and the Dukley European Art Community in Kotor (2016). Šević’s works are included in several public collections, including the Contemporary Art Gallery Niš, the National Museums in Kraljevo and Aranđelovac, Casa Testori in Milan, and Šumatovačka Center for Art Education in Belgrade. Since 2012, Šević has been a co-founder of U10 Art Space in Belgrade, dedicated to supporting emerging contemporary art practices.
www.marijasevic.com

Sanda Kalebić (1992, Belgrade) graduated in Art History from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 2015, receiving the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award for the best graduation thesis in art history the following year. Since 2015, she has been part of U10 Art Space, a self-organized artist collective in Belgrade. As gallery manager, she contributes to curatorial planning, programming, artist collaboration, and exhibition production, having helped organize over one hundred exhibitions and numerous accompanying events. Alongside her work at U10, she curates and coordinates independent projects with artists, collectives, and institutions locally and internationally. Recent projects include the trinational exhibition Your Water Our Water (2024) with DELPHI_space (Freiburg) and aqb Project Space (Budapest); curating local exhibitions; and coordinating the Creative Europe–supported performance art platform Import/Export (since 2022). She also served as project manager for How to Become an Island (European Capital of Culture – Novi Sad 2022) and assistant curator at the 20th Biennial of Art in Pančevo (2022). In addition to her curatorial work, she writes on contemporary art and exhibitions, with texts published in Supervizuelna, City Magazine, and various exhibition catalogues. She continues to collaborate closely with younger-generation artists.

Jana Jovašević (1995, Ivanjica) completed her BA (2022) and MA (2024) at the Department of Sculpture of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she is currently pursuing her DA studies. In 2023–2024, she studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris through the Erasmus+ program. She was awarded the “Vladeta Petrić Sculptor” award in early 2025. Her recent exhibitions include Palimpsests (Gallery 73, Belgrade, 2024), Sex and Politics (BL Art Festival, Banja Luka, 2024), Pseudoshadows (U10, Belgrade, 2024), and Attitudes and Forms (Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, 2023). In 2023, she also presented solo exhibitions Zadovoljština (Gallery Kornjača, Belgrade) and Pleasure is All Mine (Šok Gallery, Novi Sad), and participated in Playground (Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore), Blue Exhibition (Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade), and Masterpieces V (U10, Belgrade). She has taken part in several student exhibitions at the Belgrade Youth Centre and exhibited in major shows such as Sculptors of Serbia (Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, 2022). Her early exhibitions include Festum21 (SKC, Belgrade, 2021) and I Exhibit for the First Time (House of Jevrem Grujić, 2021). She participated in the international residency Tropical Lab 17 at the LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore in 2023, and in the international multimedia art colony in Tršić in 2022. Since 2024, she is a member of U10 Art Space in Belgrade. As of 2025, she is employed as a Junior Researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture.

Maša Obradović (2001, Belgrade) completed her BA (2024) and MA (2025) at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, where she is currently pursuing her PhD studies. At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, she served as coordinator of the student internship program for Erwin Wurm’s exhibition One Minute Forever (2022) and collaborated on the visitor programs for the exhibition Aktivitet: 100 Years of Surrealism (2024/25). Since 2024, she is a member of U10 Art Space in Belgrade. She has participated in several national and international academic conferences, contributed to the realization of multiple exhibitions and projects, written texts for exhibitions, and actively engaged in research work. At the academic conference 10th ICARUS Days Croatia – Networks and Routes of Cultural Heritage: Archives as Places of Stories and History (Opatija, 2025), she presented the paper Danube – the River that Connects, which reflected the ideas and messages of the exhibition Your Water Our Water, held at U10 (2024). She has also participated in various workshops, including the Art Writing Workshop led by Ignacio Szmulewicz, and the Writing about Art workshop (2025), from which her authorial text Malick Sidibé’s Portraits Capture the Exuberant Spirit of Post-Independence Mali was published in the independent magazine Loophole Magazine. She is the author of the exhibition text for When I Grow Up I Will Be in Bronze by the artist Zorana Stevanović, held at U10 (2025). Additionally, she participated in the IMPORT/EXPORT project (2025), a nomadic performance art platform supported by the Creative Europe program, as one of the partners and a member of the team responsible for public relations management.