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Tomorrow, 6 December, is the final day to visit Parallel Lines and Other Stories by Đorđe Ozbolt at Eugster || Belgrade.
The exhibition was on view from September 19 to December 6, 2025.

Installation views of Parallel Lines and Other Stories, Djordje Ozbolt, at Eugster || Belgrade, 2025
Photo: Tamara Knežević
© Courtesy of Eugster || Belgrade and the artist

The exhibition opens with four colored-paper drawings, each defined by sharp oil pastel lines. While the drawings explore different motifs, they are linked by a recurring theme: the Sisyphean effort to quit smoking, a habit that resurfaces in various imagined scenarios. This exploration of human compulsions and the subconscious continues in the main room, where seven acrylic paintings on wooden panels are displayed. Drawing on art history, literature, pop culture, and motifs from his earlier work, the paintings bring together diverse influences into composed, engaging scenes, whether viewers recognize Goya’s Still Life, Sumerian figurines, or neither.
With Parallel Lines and Other Stories, Ozbolt closes the year by reaffirming a practice that remains playful, inventive, and wonderfully unforced.

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Đorđe Ozbolt‘s (b. 1967) work mixes high art and kitsch, the sacred and the profane, the monstrous and the humorous. Born in Belgrade, then part of Yugoslavia, Ozbolt studied architecture in Belgrade, Serbia. After moving to London in 1991, he received a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2000 and an MA from the Royal Academy of Arts in 2006. His eclectic style draws inspiration from classical art history and his travels around the world, particularly India. He has cited Kasimir Malevich, Francis Picabia, and Giorgio de Chirico as influences. On his frequently reworked canvases, Ozbolt combines folkloric, religious, and Pop imagery in irreverent ways.

His group shows include the Tate Triennial (2006), the Prague Biennale (2007), and the Belgrade Biennale (2018). Ozbolt represented Serbia in the 58th Venice Biennale.
He has held solo exhibitions including Gallery Baton, Seoul (2025); Herald St | Museum St, London (2025), Each Modern, Taipei (2024), the Holburne Museum, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton (2017), The Holburne Museum, Bath (2016), and has participated in group exhibitions at international major museums and art institutions such as Tate Britain, London (2006), Zabludowicz Collection, London (2010); National Museum of Art, Osaka (2012); Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill (2015); New York White Columns (2005) and etc.