SPARK ART FAIR 2025

We are thrilled to present the drawings and watercolors of Dragoljub Raša Todosijević at The SPARK Art Fair Vienna 2025. SPARK Art Fair Vienna is globally unique concept of focusing exclusively on individual presentations in uniformly sized booths and being curated from start to finish. We were showcasing a carefully curated selection of Raša`s works that reflect his enduring impact on contemporary art. After years dedicated to radical experimentation, performances, and different conceptualist practices, the late 1980s and 1990s saw a departure in the work of Raša Todosijević and an unexpected turn to “classical” artistic media. The drawings and watercolours he produced during the crisis-ridden 1990s became the main means of expression with which Todosijević provided his commentary on society, drew certain relations, historicised and demythologised public, popular, and political discourses.
Our presentation is supported by Serbian Ministry of Culture.

Dragoljub Raša Todosijević, (Belgrade, September 2, 1945 – Belgrade, December 3, 2024) was a key figure in Serbian and Yugoslav art, is renowned for his politically charged work that emerged in the 1970s among Belgrade’s conceptual artists. Todosijević contributed to the affirmation of new artistic practices in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. During the 1970s, he was part of an informal group of six artists gathered around the Student Cultural Center. Together with Marina Abramović, Era Milivojević, Zoran Popović, Neša Paripović, and Gera Urkom, he redefined the function, need, and purpose of art, as well as its form and materiality. He showed in many important exhibitions and prominent institutions around the world including Moderna Museet Stockholm, Centre George Pompidou Paris, Salzburger Kunstverein, MoMA Warsaw, Museum Ludwig Vienna, State Russian Museum St.Petersburg, Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, MoCA Barcelona and many others. He represented Serbia at the 54th Venice Biennale, where he received Unicredit Venice Award.

His works are in numerous domestic and international collections, including the Kontakt Collection Vienna, Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Wiener Art Collection Belgrade and others. He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the October Salon, the Politika Award, the City of Belgrade Award, the Sava Šumanović Award, the Ivan Tabaković Serbian Academy of Art and Sience Award, and others.

Todosijević was one of the most internationally active, exhibited, and respected artists from Serbia. The Museum of Contemporary Art organized a retrospective for the artist in 2002 titled Thank You Raša Todosijević (curator D. Sretenović). Todosijević represented Serbia at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. His works are in numerous domestic and international collections, including the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Kontakt Collection Vienna, and others. He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the October Salon, the Politika Award, the City of Belgrade Award, the Sava Šumanović Award, the Ivan Tabaković Award, and others.