Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan

Damnjan spent his childhood in Belgrade and eventually graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1957 and completed his postgraduate studies there in 1959.^[3]

In 1971 until 1972, he went to America studying as a Fulbright scholar.^[1]

Throughout his career, Damnjan experimented with different mediums or art such as paintings, drawings, graphics, photography, and film.^[2] In the early years of his career, he worked on art which focused on minimalism, abstract art and symbolic art with series including Sandy Shores (1961) and Elements in Space (1963–64).^[4]

From 1990s, he worked on paintings more focused on portraits and self-portraits which he describes as "new pointillism".^[4][5][6]

Damnjan died in Milan, Italy, on 10 July 2025, at the age of 89.^[7]

The list includes:^[6]

• 1973 – The Man from the Newspaper or the Ability to Communicate, 12 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade
• 1975 – Identity: The Destruction of Books, Marx, Hegel and the Bible, 25 min, Trigon '75, Graz
• 1976 – Dinner with Terry Doxey from London, 30 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade
• 1978 – From Labor to Creative Work, 25 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade; From Labor to Creative Work, 30 min, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
• 1979 – From Labor to Creativity (Version II), 30 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade; Dal Lavoro alla Creatività, 25 min, Studio 16/e, Turin
• 1982 – Grande Natura Morta, 25 min, Il Festival Internazionale d'Arte Video, Locarno; From Work to Creativeness, 4th Biennial, Sydney; Vision in Disbelief, Sydney
• 1986 – Large Still Life, April Meetings, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade
• 1996 – Chattanooga Choo Choo and the United Belgrade Still Life, Die Weise Stadt, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
• 1997 – Record of a Portrait – Ješa Denegri, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade

The list includes:^[6]

• 1973 – The Man from the Newspaper, 8 mm, black-and-white, 3 min
• 1974 – Bandiera, Super 8 mm, colour, sound, 11 min; Per il Futuro, Super 8 mm, colour, 10 min

The list includes:^[6]

• 1975 – Identity: The Destruction of the Books of Marx, Hegel and the Bible, black-and-white, 20 min, PAL, sound; Trigon '75, Graz
• 1976 – Daily Ritual of Coffee Drinking, 30 min, black-and-white, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Reading the Same Text, black-and-white, 20 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Reading Marx, Hegel and the Bible in the Light of Matches, black-and-white, 30 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Spot in Space or Position of Individuals in Society, black-and-white, 30 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Tübingen
• 1977 – Movement as a General Need, 26 min, black-and-white, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Revolution as a Game of Minorities, 17 min, black-and-white, PAL, sound; Tübingen
• 1982 – Great Still Life, 25 min, colour, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Locarno
• 1983 – Metaphysical Duchamp, Video D.C. 83; Ljubljana

• Gillo Dorfles, Ultime Tendenze nell'Arte d'Oggi, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1973, p. 149
• Achille Bonito Oliva, Europe – America: The Different Avant-Gardes, Decco Press, Milan, 1976, p. 126
• Gillo Dorfles, La Body Art, l'Arte Moderna, Fratelli Fabbri, Milan, 1977, p. 225
• Ješa Denegri, 10 Years Autumn Styring, Paul Kaufman, Graz, 1978, p. 171
• Radomir Damnjan, Niente di Superfluo nello Spirito, Edition Dacić, Tübingen, 1978
• Rafel Tous and Giner, Metronome, Libres d'Artista / Artist's Books, Berlin and Barcelona, 1981, p. 194

The awards include:^[4]

• 1963 – Award "Vanda Svevo", 7th São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo
• 1968 – Award, International Biennial "Danubius '68", Bratislava
• 1981 – Award, Il Festival di Arte Video, Arte Video in Europa, Locarno
• 1986 – First Award, Nadežda Petrović Memorial
• 2011 – Sava Šumanović Award, Novi Sad

• List of painters from Serbia