Ljubodrag Andric. Spazi, soglie, luci

Exhibition venues:

Milan – II CHAPTER
from September 10th to October 18th, 2025
BUILDING GALLERY
via Monte di Pietà 23, 20121 Milano
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 – 19
free entryopening: Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 from 5.00PM to 8.30PM

Venice – I CHAPTER
from April 18th to September 8th, 2025 
Palazzo Cini. La Galleria
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Onlus, Venice
Dorsoduro 864, Campo San Vio, 30123 Venice
Wednesday – Monday, 11 – 19
ticketed entrance

From September 10th to October 18th, 2025, BUILDING presents the second chapter of Ljubodrag Andric. Spaces, Thresholds, Lights, an exhibition project curated by Francesco Tedeschi and organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. The project is structured in two distinct chapters, each dedicated to the works of photographer Ljubodrag Andric (Belgrade, 1965).

The exhibition, featuring a new selection of approximately 20 photographic works by the artist, unfolds across two exhibition levels of BUILDING GALLERY and is structured around a thematic division conceived in dialogue with the gallery’s architecture.

The ground floor hosts works that narrate a succession of architectural forms, exploring interior, exterior, and surface spaces through various visual solutions employed by the artist.
The first floor, on the other hand, presents a selection of works articulated around two distinct thematic cores: on one side, the theme of the threshold, with images depicting mysterious openings or blind windows; on the other, glimpses of historic architecture from the Italian landscape, characterized by an aspiration to dematerialize the built environment into a pure luminous essence.

In Andric’s photographs, the theme of the threshold takes on a symbolic value of transition and transformation. The works offer a visual experience that invites the viewer into a state of contemplation and an inner journey of reflection.The exhibition design establishes a coherent dialogue between the two thematic strands and between the two exhibition levels, reinforcing the idea of passage and the spatial transformation of the photographic image into an absolute image. In Milan—the second chapter of Ljubodrag Andric. Spaces, Thresholds, Lights—Andric’s images uncover traces of architecture that reveal organic qualities, unpredictable, labyrinthine trajectories, and a visual path capable of further transforming the architectural object into a metaphor.

Over the years, Ljubodrag Andric has developed a precise photographic inquiry focused on the concept of place—where photography is not limited to representation, but becomes a vehicle for images that verge on abstraction. His works distance themselves from their original subject, generating a balance between sign and archetype, in which the process of editing and post-production is essential to establishing a dialogue between photography, painting, and sculpture. Through architecture—his privileged subject—Andric also explores musical rhythms and inner perceptions, fusing structural rigor with organic vitality.

The exhibition Ljubodrag Andric. Spaces, Thresholds, Lights is currently on view in Venice with the first chapter of the project, hosted at Palazzo Cini. La Galleria, from April 18th through September 8th, 2025. This chapter presents a selection of 17 works that establish a dialogue between the visual experiences the artist gathered during his travels in India between 2021 and 2024, and the lagoon city, shaped also by his residencies at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Through a play of echoes and resonances, the exhibition explores the correspondences between Venetian and Indian architecture, setting up a long-distance dialogue between light and shadow, and weaving together the layered histories of Venice with the intimate, suspended atmospheres of India’s interior landscapes.

The exhibition project Ljubodrag Andric. Spaces, Thresholds, Lights is accompanied by the publication of two catalogs, published by BUILDING editore and realized in collaboration with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. The first volume, dedicated to the Venetian chapter of the exhibition, includes contributions by curator Francesco Tedeschi, architect Renata Codello, and Chiara Casarin, respectively Secretary General and Head of Cultural Development and Communication at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. The second volume, documenting the entire exhibition project, features critical texts by curator Francesco Tedeschi, Professor Marta Braun, photography historian, and Professor Andrea Pinotti, expert in aesthetics and image theory.