Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan (Serbian Cyrillic: Радомир Дамњановић Дамњан, Mostar, 10 December 1935) is a Serbian painter and conceptual artist. He lives and works in Milan and Belgrade.
He graduated on the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1957, a post-graduate studies 1959. First time he exhibiting in Belgrade in 1958, and in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad take part from 1959. He exhibited in The Documents in Kassel (1964), biennials in São Paulo (1963), Venice (1966, 1976), Tokyo (1967) and Bratislava (1968). As a Fulbright scholar was in Los Angeles and New York in 1971-1972. From 1974 he had lived in Milan.
Damnjan deals with painting, drawing, graphics, photography, film, video and performance. During the sixties, early in his career, Damnjan the painter symbolic, abstract and minimal features. Since the seventies he used to the new media - video, photography and performance, while the painting closer to its analytical stream. At the turn of the ninth decade of the last century, the theme turns Damnjan 'still life' and '(self)portraits' which implements a floor or wall installations painted in the spirit of postmodern citation as 'new pointillism'.
1958 Graphic Collective Gallery, Belgrade1962 Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Studio G, Salon Wider, Zagreb1966 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb1967 Obere Zaun Galerie, Zurich1968 Galerie im Zimmertheater, Tübingen1969 Small Gallery, Ljubljana1970 Salon at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb1973 Gallery of Student Cultural Center, Belgrade1974 Student Centre Gallery, Zagreb, Studio Carla Ortelli, Milan1975 Multhipla Galleria, Milano, Museum of Contemporary umetnosi, Belgrade1976 Galleria Stefanon, Lecco1977 Studio 16/e, Turin, Galleria Civica, Modena, Galleria Performing Arts Center, Genova, Gallery Nova, Zagreb1978 Pilot Galleria, Milan1979 Gastaldello Galleria, Milan, Kunsthalle, Tübingen1981 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb1982 Art Gallery, Milan1985 Galerie Ingrid Dacić, Tübingen1986 Museum of Contemporary Art, Retrospective Exhibition, Belgrade1987 Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje1992 Gallery kulurnog Student Center, Belgrade1996 Fondanzione balls, Milan1997 Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade, Center for Visual Culture, Novi Sad1999 Galerie Peter Lindner, Vienna2006 Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Lecco1965 Overflowing of the river Sava, Belgrade1974 Free artwork, The Gallery of Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Disinformation, Cinema Balkans, Zagreb1989 Flame Pyramid, Stazione di Lambro, Milan, Pyramid of cabbage, Esplanade Hotel, room 321, Zagreb1993 Natura morta, Fondazione Mudima, Milan1995 The Great Pyramid of cabbage, Anker House Gallery, Belgrade1973 The man from the newspaper or the ability to communicate, 12 min. Gallery of Student Cultural Center, Belgrade1975 Identity - the destruction of books, Marx, Hegel and the Bible, 25 min. Trigon '75, Graz1976 Dinner with Terry Doxey from London, 30 min. Gallery of Student Cultural Center, Belgrade1978 From labor to creative work, 25 min, Gallery of Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, from labor to creative work, 30 min. Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb1979 From labor to creativity (version II), 30 min. Gallery of Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Dal Lavoro allacreatività, 25 min. Studio 16/e, Torino1982 Grande natura morta, 25 min. Il Festival Internazionale d'Arte Video, Locarno, From Work to creativeness, The 4th Biennial of Sydney, Vision in Disbelief, Sydney1986 Large Still Life, April meetings, Gallery of Student Cultural Center, Belgrade1996 Chattanooga Choo Choo and the United Belgrade Still Life, Die Weise stadt, Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna1997 Record of a portrait - Ješa Denegri, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade1973 The man from the newspaper, 8 mm, b/w, 3 min.1974 Bandiera, super 8 mm, color, sound, 11 min., Per il Futuro, Super 8 mm, color, 10 min.1975 Identity - the destruction of the books of Marx, Hegel and the Bible, b/w, 20 min. PAL, sound, Trigon '75, Graz1976 Daily ritual of coffee drinking, 30 min, b/w, 3/4 inches, PAL, sound, Reading the same text, b/w, 20 min, 3/4 inches, PAL, sound, Reading Marx, Hegel and the Bible in the light of a matches, b/w, 30 min, 3/4 inches, PAL, sound, Spot in space or position of individuals in society, b/w, 30 min, 3/4 inches, PAL, sound, Tübingen1977 Movement as a general need, 26 min, b/w, 3/4 inches, PAL, sound, Revolution as a game of minorities, 17 min, b/w, PAL, sound, Tübingen1982 Great still life, 25 min, color, 3/4 inches, PAL, sound, Locarno1983 Metaphysical Duchamp, Video D.C. 83, LjubljanaGillo Dorfles, Ultima Tendenze nell'arte d'oggi, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1973, p. 149Achille Bonito Oliva, Europe - America, The different Avantgardes, Decco Press, Milan, 1976, p. 126Gillo Dorfles, La body art, l'arte moderna, Fratelli Fabbri, Milan, 1977, p. 225Ješa Denegri, 10 Years Autumn Styring, Paul Kaufman, Graz, 1978, p. 171Radomir Damnjan, Niente di nello spirito superfluo, Edition Dacić, Tübingen, 1978Rafel Tous and Giner, Metronome, Libres d'Artista/Artist's Books, Berlin, Barcelona, 1981, p. 1941963 Award 'Wanda Svevo', 7th Biennial in São Paulo, São Paulo1968 Awards on International Biennial 'Danubius '68', Bratislava1981 Award Il Festival di arte video, Arte Video in Europa, Locarno