Emir Šehanović

We are back at Vienna Contemporary this year (September 7th – 10th), with new works by Emir Šehanović and Marko Obradović, whom Eugster || Belgrade is happy to announce to be newly representing.

With a style that’s unique and yet emblematic of his generation, Marko Obradović creates a haunted atmosphere in the viewer of his paintings, yet somehow, the feeling is similar to finding oneself in a mass of others. The general uncertainty that is produced seems to be the one we all share and recognise in the semi-familiar motifs from horror films, myths, popular culture, and perhaps even the nightmares that we sometimes dream together. Emir Šehanović elicits a similar reaction, the uncanny presence of the unknown, an ‘encounter of the third kind’, through his alien-like sculptures and digital images. Emir is concerned with the post-human and the afterparty of the anthropocene, this time connecting his once- signature ritualistic and the more recent pseudo- scientific aesthetic language. While they share the genuine interest in the abject and the fearful in humans, the main difference between the two artists lies in the way their works are ‘gentle’ toward the audience. Emir’s works are, oftentimes, too abstract to materialise as one clear message, while Marko’s paintings walk the line between horror and humour, so as to, eventually, embrace you with their quirk.

Marko Obradović (b.1998, Utrecht) is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Belgrade, Serbia working mostly in painting, printmaking and installation. His work explores identity and pop culture through his lens of abjection and trans-humanism. In his practice he approaches each work as a character study which he places in various liminal spaces, objects and
situations. He also works as a video director and writer.

Emir Šehanović (*1981, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina) lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Outside of the region, he has shown his work in the context of solo and group shows at Kunstraum Riehen (2021), Jeune Création, Les Beaux-Arts de Paris (2018), AQB Project Space Budapest (2018), Ultrastudio Los Angeles (2018), Gallery Weekend Berlin (2015), Athens Video Art Festival (2013) among others, and took part in Liste Art Fair (2015, 2020, 2021), Vienna Contemporary (2019), Parallel Vienna (2018), ArtGeneve (2018, 2019). Šehanović has recently been selected as part of 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, published by Thames and Hudson.