Vladimir Veličković

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Vladimir Veličković graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade 1960. He spent a year as an assistant in Krsto Hegedušić’s Master workshop in Zagreb (1962-1963). He began exhibiting his artworks in 1951 and held his first solo exhibition in Belgrade in 1963. After winning the Award for painting at Biennale de Paris (1965), he moved to the capital of France in 1966, and held his first Paris solo exhibition in 1967 at Galerie du Dragon. He was a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1983-2000). Veličković was a member of the French Academy (Académie des Beaux-Arts - Institut de France), the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was awarded the highest French recognition in the domain of culture and art, the Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Order of the Legion d’Honneur. He exhibited in Serbia and abroad at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), at Gallery of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rijeka), at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, at Galleria d'Arte Viniciana (Milan), at Galerie Hervé Odermatt (Paris), at Kunsthalle (Dusseldorf), at Konsthall (Goteborg), at Kulturhuset (Stockholm), at Galeria Centro (Barcelona), at Museum Hedendaagse Kunst (Utrecht), at the Gallery of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Meyer-Schwarz Gallery (Los Angeles), at Galerie Patrice Trigano (Paris), at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki), at Marlborough Fine Art (London), at Galerie Anna Tschopp (Marseille), and at Pinacothèque nationale (Athens) etc. His works can be found in the most important museum collections in Serbia and worldwide: Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), National Museum (Belgrade), Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts (Bruxelles), Institute of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Royal Museum of Fine Art (Copenhagen), Tate Gallery (London), Konsthall (Malmö), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Galerie Nationale (Oslo), Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre (Paris), Pompidou Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville (Paris), Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), Fondation Pfizer (Pariz), École des Beaux Arts, cabinet de dessin (Paris) etc. Also, his paintings can be found in influential private galleries and collections around the world. He passed away in Split (Croatia) on August 29, 2019.