Milijana Babić (1974) is a multimedia visual artist based in Rijeka, Croatia. Her artistic work has a performative basis and develops as an exploration of her own position as a woman and an artist within her immediate living environment. She received her art education at the Durban Institute of Technology in Durban, South Africa (BFA, 2001), and at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia (MFA, 2007). She is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists Association.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Afterparty, curated by Petra Dolanjski Harni, Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers, Lipa, Croatia
Afterparty, curated by Petra Dolanjski Harni, Rijeka City Library, Rijeka, Croatia
2025
Afterparty, curated by Petra Dolanjski Harni, Prozori Gallery – Zagreb City Libraries, Zagreb, Croatia
Greetings from Costabella, curated by Ksenija Orelj and Marijana Stanić, 90-60-90 Gallery, Pogon Jedinstvo Cultural Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
2024
Greetings from Costabella, curated by Ksenija Orelj, OK Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2023
Till Death Do Us Part, in collaboration with Nada Žgank, Museum Lapidarium – Rigo Gallery, Novigrad, Croatia
2020
3rd Shift, with Centre for Women’s Studies of the University of Rijeka, intervention in public space, Drugo more / European Capital of Culture – Rijeka 2020, Rijeka, Croatia
2018
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2017
It’s Her Own Fault, curated by Alenka Gregorič, Cultural Centre Tobačna 001, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, Gdansk, Poland
2016
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, Drugo more, Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, Ernest Lluch Cultural Centre, San Sebastian, Spain
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, Zagreb, Croatia
2015
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, Syster Gallery, Lulea, Sweden
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, Haninge, Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, Poola Gallery, Pula, Croatia
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
Put yourself in my place, with Ida Hansson, Drugo more, CORNERS, European Capital of Culture – Umea 2014, Umea, Sweden
2013
Looking for Work, Vox Feminae Festival, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Looking for Work, City of Women Festival, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Looking for Work, Multimedia Cultural Centre Split, Split, Croatia
2012
Looking for Work, curated by Ksenija Orelj, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – Mali Salon Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
Our Beautiful Homeland / Working Day, Studio Golo Brdo, Rovinjsko Selo, Croatia
2011
Our Beautiful Homeland / Working Day, SIZ Gallery, Molekula, Rijeka, Croatia
2008
Thank you for coming! Please visit again, Juraj Klović Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
Flame, curated by Eugen Borkovsky, Fonitcus Gallery, Grožnjan, Croatia
2007
From this Side, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
F_EE, curated by Mara Vujić, Isola Cinema Festival, Alga Gallery, Isola, Slovenia
2006
In the name of the father, Multimedia Centre Rijeka, OK Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2005
From this Side – Double Self, curated by Ksenija Orelj, Salon Filodrammatica, Rijeka, Croatia
2004
Nonsense, Multimedia Centre Rijeka, OK Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2003
Nonsense, City of Women Festival, Alkatraz Gallery, AKC Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002
Flame, The Cupboard Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Nonsense, curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg, Young Artists’ Project, NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
AiR Kuberton: 10 Years, Museum Lapidarium, Novigrad, Croatia
New Energy – Applied Arts and Design in Dialogue with Time, with Ana Tomić and Marino Krstačić-Furić, 61st Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design, Zagreb, Croatia
Archival Chain Reactions: Between and Beyond Archivo Pinto mi Raya, re.act.feminism, City of Women, curated by Bettina Knaup, Iva Kovač and Mónica Mayer, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2025
5 to 12, Night of Performances, Ritam X, Galerija AŽ, Zagreb, Croatia
Witches, Festival of Menstruation, Association PaRiter, Rijeka City Library, Rijeka, Croatia
Journeys, Association 90-60-90, Association PUNKT and Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding, Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding, Betina, Croatia
It’s Too Late to Give Up, curated by Suzana Marjanić, Maja Pavlinić and Zvonimir Dobrović, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2024
Institute of the Invisible, 29th Slavonian Biennial, Waldinger Gallery, Osijek, Croatia
2023
At Your Pleasure: Feminist Positions in Visual Art in Slovenia, curated by Martina Vovk, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Visible Ones, inter-institutional project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2022
Art at Work. At the Crossroads Between Utopianism and (In)Dependence, curated by Bojana Piškur, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Instructions for Watching – What the Body Wants?, curated by Ksenija Orelj and Vilma Bartolić, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Everyone Has the Right to Seek Protection, curated by Ivana Meštrov, Festival of Tolerance – JFF Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Artist in Residence 2020-2021, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria
This is not my world, curated by Karla Pudar, Domino, Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia
2021
Me and the Place, curated by Anamarija Batista, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, Fluc, Vienna, Austria
2020
Night of Performances, Ganz New Perforations Festival, Domino, Zagreb, Croatia
Corneous Stories, curated by Katja Kobolt, City of Women Festival, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marginal Practice of Feminist Art: Example – Local Scene, curated by Suzana Marjanić and Irena Bekić, Prozori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (virtual)
And the Year Started So Well, Art Camp Empeduja, Rijeka, Croatia
Economies of Living, curated by Adriana Rispoli and Karla Pudar, Domino, Morra Foundation of Naples, Naples, Italy
Deuje Babe Festival, Cerkno, Slovenia
C:\Salon_Galic\Izlozba\Vol.1, Croatian Association of Visual Artists Split, Galić Salon, Split, Croatia (virtual)
Home Performances, Domino, Croatia (virtual)
Art – War – Transition, curated by Slaven Tolj, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2019
Looking Back to Look Forward, curated by osborn&møller, Web Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Naked and Barefoot, Art Camp Empeduja, Rijeka, Croatia
2018
Transfer / Circuits, City of Women Festival, Old Power Plant, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Night of Performances, Perforations, Zadar Snova Festival, Zadar, Croatia
Woman on the Beach, Art Camp Empeduja, Rijeka, Croatia
SIZ Association at Waldinger Gallery, Waldinger Gallery, Osijek, Croatia
2017
Woman – Pregnant Woman – Mother: Green Spheres and Necropolitics, curated by Anita Zlomislić and Suzana Marjanić, Vladimir Bužančić Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Feed Monuments While They Are Alive, Art Camp Empeduja, Rijeka, Croatia
Rijeka – City of Contemporary Art, curated by son:DA, GT22, Lent Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
Looking for a Citizen, 20 years of GONG, Student Centre Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Your Country Does Not Exist, curated by WHW, Mali Salon Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2016
ArtMetaMedia Festival, Željezara Festival, Sisak, Croatia
Extravagant Bodies: Crime and Punishment, Kontejner, Pogon – Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, Zagreb, Croatia
ArtMetaMedia Festival, Kreutzberg Pavillion, Berlin, Croatia
Multimeridian 16: Witnesses – Bodies in Dialogue and Processes of Reflection, curated by Mara Vujić, Multimedia Centre Luka, Pula, Croatia
ArtMetaMedia Festival, Student Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
Almissa Open Air Festival, curated by Vedran Perkov, Omiš, Croatia
Varaždin Performance Days, Varaždin Gallery Centre, Varaždin, Croatia
Challenges to Humanism, curated by Suzana Marjanić and Marijana Stanić, 52. Zagreb Salon, Croatian Society of Visual Artists, Zagreb, Croatia
May Day Choir, SIZ Association, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2015
SIZ Association at Cultural Centre Belgrade, Podroom Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
City at a Second Glance, PUNKT Association, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Vrbnik May Day Choir – Transactions, curated by Alenka Gregorič and Nemanja Cvijanović, SIZ Association, Vrbnik, Croatia
Summer Screenings, So Weit, die Zukunft, Vienna, Austria
Duchamp’s Slap, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2014
Electronic Relationships, curated by Ivica Capan, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2013
No One Belongs Here More Than You, 54th October Salon, curated by Red Min(e)d, Belgrade, Serbia
50th Anniversary – Academy of Applied Arts Rijeka, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
How Much Fascism, curated by WHW, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Night of Performances, Perforations, Stojan Janković Castle, Islam Grčki, Croatia
2012
Poetrying, ŠKART, Cultural Centre REX, Belgrade, Serbia
Limit Festival, Perforations, Belgrade, Serbia
We Are Here 3, curated by Mladen Lučić, Museum of Contemporary Art Istria, Pula, Croatia
XI Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Glyptotheque HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
Interakcje Festival, City of Women, Pyotrkov Trybunalski, Poland
Pier Shear, Mussagetes Foundation, Rijeka, Croatia
Inner Ear, curated by Sabina Salamon and Ksenija Orelj, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2011
Penser la Yougoslavie 20 ans après, ULB, Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium
Out of Left Field, curated by Jovana Stokić and Ksenija Orelj, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Cross Border Experience, curated by Katja Kobolt, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Work, My Your Ours Festival, Drugo more, Rijeka, Croatia
Night of Performances, Perforations Festival, Student Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
Bring In Take Out – Living Archive, curated by Red Min(e)d, Glyptotheque HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
Spellbound, City of Women Festival, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Art In the Name of…, SIZ Association, Croatian Society of Visual Artists, PM Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Art Stays Festival, Ptuj, Slovenia
My Land, Štaglinec Festival, Štaglinec, Croatia
Decentralization, DOPUST Festival, Rijeka, Croatia
Volume Collection, curated by Nemanja Cvijanović, Multimedia Cultural Centre Split, Split, Croatia
Volume Collection, curated by Nemanja Cvijanović, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
FEM Festival, City of Women, Girona, Spain
T-ht award@msu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2010
Exhibition of Small Works, SIZ Association, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
We Are Here 2, curated by Mladen Lučić, Museum of Contemporary Art Istria, Pula, Croatia
Annex 6. The Policy of the Invisible Hand, Festival Art ist kuku nu ut, Y-Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
Zoom Festival, Drugo more, Rijeka, Croatia
Zadar Snova Festival, Zadar, Croatia
Volume Collection, curated by Nemanja Cvijanović, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice
DOPUST Festival, Split, Croatia
T-ht award@msu, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Statuarity, curated by Branko Cerovac, Croatian Society of Visual Artist Rijeka, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2009
Dogma, curated by Predrag Pajdić, Croatian Society of Visual Artists, Barrel Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Perforations Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
Studio Visit, curated by Andrea Bruciati and Eva Comuzzi, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy
Crises, curated by Mladen Lučić, Museum of Contemporary Art Istria and Croatian Society of Visual Artists, Pula, Croatia
Planet Earth Day, K.U.N.S. Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
Crime and Punishment, curated by Predrag Pajdić, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2008
Proximite Monde, City of Women, Trouble Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Stand up!, Udruga Plus, Rijeka, Croatia
2007
Critics Choice, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
10 years of Multimedia Cultural Centre Rijeka, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2006
New Rijeka Scene, curated by Branko Cerovac, Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia
OP.ART-QUISISANA Festival, Opatija-Volosko, Croatia
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out, Kultural Incubator, IFCA, Maribor, Slovenia
1, 2, 3, with Senka Baruška, MMC Rijeka, Croatia
Games, and Rules?, curated by Ksenija Orelj, Croatian Society of Visual Artists Rijeka, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2005
New Members – Croatian Society of Visual Artist Rijeka, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
New Rijeka Scene, curated by Branko Cerovac, Dubrovnik Art Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Passion, curated by Branko Cerovac, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Child’s Play, Rohkunstbau Castle, Berlin, Germany
Real Presence – Floating Sites, students’ interventions around the 51 Venice Biennial, Academy of Fine Arts Ljubljana, Venice, Italy
Karolina of Rijeka, curated by Ksenija Orelj, Student Centre Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2004
Showgirls, Ladyfest, Copenhagen, Denmark
6+1in a Search of Audience, curated by Ksenija Orelj, Juraj Šporer Art Pavilion, Opatija, Croatia
Grasduinen 01- Seduction and Loss of Innocence, curated by Cis Bierinckx, SMAK, Bredene, Belgium
FONA – Festival of Contemporary Art, Multimedia Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
2003
Ignite, curated by Jay Pather, Red Eye members, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
SMS – Sanctuary Mental Space, curated by Dick Tuinder and Aryan Kaganof, The Illuseum Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SMS – Sanctuary Mental Space, curated by Dick Tuinder and Aryan Kaganof, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Homing In, Grahamstown Art Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
NBS House and Garden Show, Natal Society of Arts, Durban ICC, Durban, South Africa
Miniatures, NSA members, Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2002
ND-ID, Red Eye members, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
Not for Sale, Natal Society of Arts, Bat Centre, South Africa
Doodles, Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Red Wine, NSA members, Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2001
Students’ Exhibition, Technikon Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Black and White Copies, Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Red Eye, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2000
Heritage, Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban, South Africa
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMS
2024
Queering the Myth, Domino and Collettivo Zero, Naples, Italy
2021
AiR Kuberton, Ursula Krinzinger and Museum Lapidarium Novigrad, Kuberton, Croatia
2020
Polygon – Beyond the Endless Border, Polygon, Lika, Croatia
2017
Tobačna 001 Residency, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016
Free Home University, Musagetes Foundation, Lecce, Italy
2012
CORNERS of Europe, Drugo more and Intercult, East Expedition
2011
CORNERS of Europe, Drugo more and Intercult, North Expedition
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2025
Croatian Beautiful Book, selected among the 12 Best Designed Croatian Books, with Ana Tomić and Marino Krstačić-Furić, National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia
2015
Ivo Kalina Visual Art Prize, with Ida Hansson, biennial award for best contemporary art exhibition, City of Rijeka, Croatia
2003
New Media Prize, Miniatures, NSA members’ exhibition, Natal Society of Arts, Durban, South Africa