Mikser Festival Presents the Winners of the International Art Competition BLACK BOX 2026

More than 100 artists from Serbia, the region, and around the world responded to the theme “Everything We Didn’t Say” through video works, performances, spatial installations, and digital platforms. A selection of 57 works will be presented in public spaces across Novi Pazar as part of the exhibition “Black Box 2026,” within the accompanying program of the Mikser Festival.

Mikser Festival and the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade have selected the winners of the Black Box art competition, whose authors responded to this year’s theme, “Everything We Didn’t Say,” through original conceptual solutions. The competition brought together young artists and authors, inviting them to explore spaces of the unspoken, the silenced, and the suppressed through contemporary artistic practices, opening a dialogue on personal and social issues shaping our time.

This year’s competition received more than 100 submissions from various parts of the world, confirming the international relevance and recognition of the Black Box platform, with entries arriving from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Germany, and Russia. The submitted works included multimedia projects in a variety of formats — from video and performance to spatial installations and digital interactive platforms — all responding to the theme “Everything We Didn’t Say” through contemporary artistic expression. The diversity of approaches further confirmed the competition’s openness to experimental and interdisciplinary artistic practices.

The works were evaluated by an international expert jury composed of renowned artists, educators, and activists: Holger Lang and Martina Tritthart, artists and curators / members of the Mutual Loop collective – Vienna; Dejan Atanacković, visual artist, writer, activist, and university lecturer – Florence; Aida Ćorović, art historian and peace and human rights activist – Novi Pazar / Belgrade; Marko Lađušić, visual artist and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts – Belgrade; and Maja Lalić, architect and Creative Director of the Mikser Festival – Belgrade.

The jury selected 57 winning works created by 61 artists from six countries, including six artists from Novi Pazar. The selected works are dominated by multimedia forms, including video, performance, spatial installations, and digital interactive platforms.

Through a collective process of developing the competition concepts, with mentorship by the project curator, Prof. Marko Lađušić, and coordination by executive producer Manja Lekić, these individual interventions will be interconnected into a unified system of interventions, forming a single artistic whole.

See you at the Mikser Festival in Novi Pazar and the exhibition “Black Box: Everything We Didn’t Say.”

Congratulations to the selected artists:

100 LICA, Jovana Janković (Niš, Serbia)

Arhiva besmislenih rečenica, Dunja Mihajlović (Belgrade, Serbia)

BEHIND CLOSED WINDOWS, Endji Nikoloska i Bojan Lazorov (Skopje, North Macedonia)

Break in at Slavka Radića 37, Mustafa Mlinarević (Donji Vakuf, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

DANGA, Omer Nicević (Novi Pazar, Serbia)

Diptih, Anđelina Jevtić (Valjevo, Serbia)

Doma je najbolše, Dimitra Jezdimirović (Niš, Serbia)

Dostojanstvo, Ivana Jurić (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

DREAMS WISHES HOPES: A DECONSTRUCTION, ADA Studio / Stefan Radošević i Luka Višnjić (Ivanjica, Serbia)

F(r)aze oporavka, Jelena Barbulj (Belgrade, Serbia)

Fragments of the Divine, Merjem Jasavić (Plav, Montenegro)

Galebovi, Tarik Hazirović (Novi Pazar, Serbia)

Jedan svijet, jedna borba, Anđela Radojičić (Belgrade, Serbia)

K69, Aleksandar Marić (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Kada grad nestaje, Ksenija Bogdanović (Pančevo, Serbia)

Kap koja je prelila čašu, Maja Šarenac (Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Ko je__?, Dušan Đorđević (Niš, Serbia)

KRAJ TIŠINE U PESKU, Filip Teletin (Belgrade, Serbia)

Landscapes of Memory, Šćepan Popović (Nikšić, Montenegro)

Lenonovi hrastovi, Daniel Kuzman (Belgrade, Serbia)

Luto, Lazar Kulundžić (Novi Pazar, Serbia)

Mondo Cane, Stefan Ikonić (Belgrade, Serbia)

Nature within us, Emina Murtezić (Novi Pazar, Serbia)

Nekad se zakuha, Spona / Adrijana Janjić (Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Objects of Meaning, Mustafa Mlinarević (Donji Vakuf, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Osmijeh stida, Ana-Marija Tomić (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Polygon, Olga Stanojević (Belgrade, Serbia)

Pre pucanja, Uroš Vukosavljević (Belgrade, Serbia)

Protest protiv ravnodušnosti, Jelena Đerković (Belgrade, Serbia)

Public Media Service (photography with intervention), Milica Đorđević (Požega, Serbia)

Raskol, Ksenija Petranović (Belgrade, Serbia)

Rooted, Lamija Halilagić (Belgrade, Serbia)

Senka za stolom, Maša Nada Vještica (Belgrade, Serbia)

Slovarica, Boris Lesnoy (Belgrade, Serbia / Russia)

Soft Wounds, Celestial Bodies / Helena Jovanović, Anja Jovičić i Dimitrije Čpajak (Belgrade, Serbia)

Sopstvena prepreka, Jovana Radović Ivanović (Belgrade, Serbia)

Sound-poetry instalacija OSTATI BEZ DAHA, Ana Matić (Belgrade, Serbia)

šta smo prećutali?, Andrea Đorđević (Belgrade, Serbia)

Stiropor više nije stiropor, Draga Mrvoš Mott (Belgrade, Serbia)

Tahliye / Evacuation, Ergin Soyal (Edirne, Turkey)

Tamo gde se čujemo, Neformalni kolektiv TRI / Jana Baljak i Lora Džolić (Belgrade, Serbia)

Temelji, Sara Apostolović i Jana Milenković (Belgrade, Serbia)

Tenderness, Milo Masoničić (Podgorica, Montenegro)

The Futures That Could’ve Been, Tijana Kostić (Belgrade, Serbia)

The Importance of First, Ivona Despotović (Belgrade, Serbia)

The rRoom, Sara Petrović (Podgorica, Montenegro)

Tišina koja posmatra, Sofija Jecina (Belgrade, Serbia / Russia)

Tragovi mekong pisma, Ivana Ranisavljević (Lazarevac, Serbia)

TRI, Nikola Lukić (Belgrade, Serbia)

U tišini susreta II, Ivana Ranisavljević (Lazarevac, Serbia)

Virtual Shell, Galina Bakinova (Podgorica, Montenegro / Russia)

Vortex, Emina Murtezić (Novi Pazar, Serbia)

Vulkan: Erupcija tišine, Nađa Maćešić (Niš, Serbia)

Water Column, Joas Nebe (Germany, Staufen)

What size is your ***?, Marina Zhukova (Belgrade, Serbia / Russia)

Where I end and I begin, Zerina Bogućanin (Novi Pazar, Serbia)

Zvučna tišina, Ajtena Kačar (Novi Pazar, Serbia)