Milenko Prvacki



Singapore Infopedia

by Koh, Angeline

Milenko Prvacki (b. 1951, Yugoslavia–) began his artistic career in his native country, the former Yugoslavia, and had established himself as an artist in Europe before moving to Singapore in 1991. The prolific artist has deeply enriched the local visual arts scene and has been widely consulted on various issues related to the arts in Singapore. Milenko is also one of Singapore’s foremost art educators.1 For his contributions to the local art scene, Prvacki was conferred the Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in 2012.2

Early years
Prvacki was born in a village in Ferdin in the former Yugoslavia, the only child of an accountant and a housewife. He received his art education at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania. It was at the institute that Prvacki met his Romanian-born wife Delia, who was also a student there.3

Migration to Singapore4
Prvacki moved to Singapore in 1991 on the invitation of a German design company to build up the now-defunct Singapore Maritime Museum. There were only two commercial galleries and one museum when he first arrived. In 1993, a little over a year after his arrival, Prvacki held a joint exhibition with his wife Delia at the Lasalle College of the Arts.5 Soon after holding the exhibition, Prvacki was invited by Lasalle’s founder, the late Brother Joseph McNally, to teach full-time as a senior lecturer at the college.

It was an invitation Prvacki received with enthusiasm for several reasons. He looked forward to the possibility of working with McNally and the College. Moreover, he found Singapore a hospitable country, a welcome relief from his life in Serbia where a terrible civil war was beginning to break out. It was to be a prolonged war with devastating loss of human lives.

Prvacki was subsequently appointed the Dean of Fine Arts at Lasalle. His initial two-month contract became a two-year contract and, eventually, a permanent move of more than 20 years for him and his family. Prvacki and his wife became Singapore citizens in 2002.

Artistic development

Before his move to Singapore, Prvacki had already established himself as a postmodern painter and sculptor in his native country, the former Yugoslavia. Since 1971, he had won many awards and exhibited his works extensively across Europe.6

After he arrived in Singapore, Prvacki continued to hold numerous solo and group showcases in public spaces and galleries in Singapore and across Asia.7 His paintings, which explore ideas of dislocation and displacement, reflect his flight from his native country, the former Yugoslavia, as a result of war.8

Prvacki has also participated in numerous symposiums, art workshops, talks and discussions worldwide. His works can be found in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia; the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; and the Museum of Contemporary Drawing, Nuremberg, Germany.9

Arts educator10
Prvacki is one of Singapore’s foremost art educators. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Lasalle from 1994 to 2010 and has served as Senior Fellow in the Office of the President at Lasalle since 2011.

When Prvacki started teaching at Lasalle, he was shocked at the low standard of art education at the college. The curriculum consisted of teaching art without much thought on how to prepare students to be independent. To rectify this situation, he introduced individual tutorials and group critiques to his classes. The group critique sessions in particular proved challenging to local students as it was seen as a loss of face to have one’s work criticised. Prvacki also received complaints from some parents when he reduced teaching time to 14 hours a week in order to allow students more time to practise their art. Despite the complaints, Prvacki stood by in his educational approach as he believed that the arts programme was about giving students the room to explore, experiment and take risks with their work without the fear of failure.11


In 2005, Prvacki introduced the Tropical Lab programme to provide opportunities for Lasalle students to interact with student artists from around the world.

Prvacki’s forward-thinking teaching approaches have proven effective in influencing and nurturing many young Singaporean artists such as Jane Lee, Ruben Pang, Ye Shufang and Tan Wee Lit.12


Besides his teaching stints at Lasalle, Prvacki has also taught as a visiting professor at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan and Sabanchi University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has also participated in various art symposiums and workshops worldwide.

Contributions13

Prvacki has been consulted on various issues related to the arts in Singapore. He was engaged by the former Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) [now the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI)] to serve on the Renaissance City Strategic Plan Strategic Planning panel, and by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to serve on the Marina Bay Advisory Committee. He also played an active role in creating an arts rehabilitation project for the Singapore Prisons.

Prvacki’s artistic output since his arrival in Singapore has deeply enriched the local visual arts scene. For example, Prvacki and his wife drew upon the rich cultural diversity and history of Singapore to create the mosaic murals at the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station as part of the Art in Transit programme.14



Family15
Wife: Delia Iliesiu.
Daughter: Ana Prvacki.

Education16

Master of Fine Arts (Painting), Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania.

Teaching appointments

1994–2010: Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
2011: Senior Fellow in the Office of the President, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.

Other appointments

Founder and organiser of Tropical Lab, an international postgraduate art Camp.
Editor of Tropical Lab press.
Founder and editor of Praxis Press, a fine arts newspaper.
Founder and editor of art journal Issue.
Editor of first Lasalle research book.
MA in Fine Arts supervisor.
Fine Arts group critique leader.

Accomplishments and awards

Selected solo exhibitions
1971:
Paintings & Drawings, Youth Gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1974: Drawings, Yugoslav Embassy, Bucharest, Romania.
1976: New Paintings (with Rada Cupic), ULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1978: Dialog – Paintings, Modern Gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1979: Dialog – Drawings, Youth Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1980: Paintings, Kolarceva Zaduzbina Gallery, Beograd, Yugoslavia.
1981: Fur-Trophy – Paintings, Apatin Gallery, Apatin, Yugoslavia.
1982: Islands –  Drawings, Mali Iikovni Salon, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1983: Islands – Paintings, Visual Autumn Gallery, Sombor, Yugoslavia.
1983: Islands – Paintings, Visual Meeting Gallery, Subotica, Yugoslavia.
1984: Avignon – Drawings, Barbantan Gallery, France.
1984: Islands – Paintings, Gallery of Contemporary Art Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1984: Islands – Paintings, Modern Gallery, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.
1985: Paintings, Meduza Gallery, Koper, Slovenia.
1985: Volcano – Drawings, Collective Graphic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1986: Trophy Paintings, ULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1988: Collage, Mala Gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1989: Paintings, Franzer Gallery, Subotica, Yugoslavia.
1989: Trophy Paintings, The Coast Gallery, Piran, Slovenia.
1990: Paintings, Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1990: Paintings, Youth Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1993: Paintings (with Delia Prvacki), Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1993: Paintings & Drawings, Substation Gallery, Singapore, organised by ART-2 Gallery, Singapore.
1994: Nobel House (with Delia Prvacki), Singapore.
1995: Drawings, Golden Eye Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1996: Painting in spite of… Paintings, Takashimaya Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Fire in Kakadu – Paintings (with Delia Prvacki), Art Forum Gallery, Singapore.
1997: The Ultimate Visual Dictionary – Paintings (with Delia Prvacki), Caldwell House Gallery, Singapore.
1998:
Caldwell House, Chijmes (with Delia Prvacki).
1999: Collection, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2001: Collection, Sentosa Artist Village Gallery, Singapore.
2002: Methods & Materials, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2002: Construction Site, Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
2003:
Construction Site, City Art Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2003: Construction Site, Contemporary Gallery, Pancevo, Serbia and Montenegro.
2003: Construction Site, KC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
2003: Construction Site, Obalne Gallery, Piran, Slovenia.
2004:
The New Paintings, Taksu, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2004: Trophy Paintings, TAKSU, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2004: Trophy Painting, TAKSU Gallery, Singapore.
2005: Framing and Positioning of the Elements, PKW Gallery, Singapore.
2006: Construction Site, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia.
2006: Recollection, TAKSU Gallery, Singapore.
2007: Recollection, TAKSU Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2008: Now You See It, Now You Don’t, Combinart, Singapore (with Delia Prvacki).
2009: Trajectory (with Delia Prvacki), Combinart Studio, Singapore.
2012: Remembrance of Things Past, iPreciation Gallery, Hong Kong Review, ICAS, Singapore.

Selected group exhibitions
1976:
Theatre Festival Art Exhibition, Avignon, France.
1977: Landscape from Vojvodina, City Gallery, Sremski Karlovci, Yugoslavia.
1977: S. Mitrovica Salon, Lazar Vozarevic Gallery, S. Mitrovica, Yugoslavia.
1977: SULUJ Exhibition, ULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1978: Becej Art Symposium, National Museum, Becej, Yugoslavia.
1978: Bidgousch Art Symposium, Bidgousch, Poland.
1978: Contemporary Art from Vojvodina, Rosencheim, Passau, Germany.
1978: SULUJ Exhibition, Cvijeta Zuzoric Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1979: Contemporary Art in Vojvodina, Art Museum, Kechkemet, Hungary.
1979: Drawing & Printmaking from Vojvodina, Art Gallery, Galti, Romania.
1980: 1st Watercolour Biennale, National Museum, Karlovac, Yugoslavia.
1980: Annual Exhibitors, Kolarceva Zaduzbina Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1980: International Portrait Exhibition-Drawing, Portrait Gallery, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1980: Young Artists from Vojvodina, Matica Srpska Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1981: Contemporary Art in Vojvodina, City Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
1981: Ecka Symposium, Modern Gallery, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.
1981: Visual Moment of Art in Pancevo, Obalne Gallery, Piran, Slovenia.
1981: Yugoslavian Drawing Biennial, Academy of Science and Art Gallery, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
1982:
2nd International Drawing Trienalle, International Museum of Drawing.
1982: 12th Memorial Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, Yugoslavia.
1982: 30 Years of Symposiums in Vojvodina, Nurnberg, Germany.
1982: Art & Animalia, Gallery 73, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1982: Ex Tempore, Obalne Gallery, Piran, Slovenia.
1982: Fine Art Meeting, Subotica, Yugoslavia.
1982: International Exhibition of Original Drawing, Modern Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.
1983: 2nd Watercolour Biennale, National Museum, Karlovac, Croatia.
1983: Art & Animalia, Nadezda Petrovic Gallery, Cacak, Yugoslavia.
1983: Dubrovnik Salon, City Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
1983: Ecka Symposium, Modern Gallery, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.
1983: Fine Art Outom, Sombor, Yugoslavia.
1983: M.P. Barili 1st Biennale, M.P. Gallery, Pozarevac, Yugoslavia.
1983: Retrospective, Modern Gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1983: Winter Symposium, Bela Crkva, Yugoslavia.
1983: Youth Biennale, Modern Gallery, Rijeka, Zagreb, Croatia.
1983: Yugoslavian Drawing Biennale, Academy of Science & Art Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.
1984: Biennale of Yugoslavian Drawings, Visual Uotam Gallery, Sombor, Yugoslavia.
1984: International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Modern Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.
1984: Memorial Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, Yugoslavia.
1984: New Image of Drawing, Modern Gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1984: New Yugoslav Painting, City Gallery, Pristina, Yugoslavia.
1984: Selected Yugoslavian Artists, City Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
1984: Selection 84, Cvijeta Zuzoric Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1984: Selection from International Exhibition of Original drawings in Rijeka, London, England.
1984:
Spring Salon, ULUV Gallery, Novi Sad.
1985:
Art Diary International Art, City Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
1985: Contemporary Drawing from Yugoslavia, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1985: Labirint Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
1985: View on 80th, City Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosbia and Herzegovina.
1985: Yugoslavian Biennale of Portrait, National Museum, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1985: Yugoslavian Drawing Biennale, Academy of Science & Art, Zagreb, Croatia.
1986–1976:
Pesak Symposium, Modern Gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1986:
Art from Vojvodina, City Gallery, Split, Croatia.
1986: Critics Selection, AZ Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1986: Ex Tempora, Obalne Gallery, Piran, Slovenia.
1986: International Academy of Art, Lutece, Paris, France.
1986: Niksic Symposium, City Gallery, Niksic, Yugoslavia.
1987–1977: October Salon, Modern Gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1987: 4 Artists from Pancevo, Stara Kapetania, Zemun, Yugoslavia.
1987: 5th Watercolour Biennial, National Museum, Karlovac, Croatia.
1987: Adventure of Landscape, Modern Gallery, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.
1987: Contemporary Art in Pancevo, Art Gallery, Bulogne Bilancourt, France.
1987: International Painting Exhibition, Castel, Cagnes sur Mer, France.
1987: Yugoslavia Drawing Biennale, Academy of Science & Art Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.
1987: Yugoslav Drawing Biennale, Modern Gallery, Pristina, Yugoslavia.
1988: 6th Yugoslavian Triennial of Art, Sajmiste Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1988: Contemporary Art in Pancevo, National Museum, La Valletta, Malta.
1988: Contemporary Art in Pancevo, Centar Gallery, Zandam, Holland.
1988: Art Today, Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
1988: Cetinja, Cetinja Salon, Yugoslavia.
1988: S.M. Salon, S. Mitrovica, Laza Vozarevic Gallery, Yugoslavia.
1989–1978: October Salon, Cvijeta Zuzoric Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1989: 6th Watercolour Biennale, National Museum Karlovac, Croatia.
1989: Balcanian Triennial, Bucharest, Romania.
1989: Documenta – Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1989: Ecka Symposium Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.
1989: Fine Art Autumn, Gallery of Modern Art, Sombor, Yugoslavia.
1989: Mileseva Symposium, Milesevo, Yugoslavia.
1989: Postwar Landscape in Serbia, Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1990: Time of Synthesis, Salon of Yugoslavian Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1994:
Rhythm & Vitality, Empress Place, Singapore.
1996: 25 Years of Pesak Symposium, Modern Gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1996: New Acquisitions, National Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1997: 9 Artists in Bali, Fort Canning Gallery, Singapore, organised by Art Forum Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Look, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
1997: The Moon & The Stars, Utopia Gallery, Singapore.
1998: 500 Below, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
1998: Painting Now, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
1998: Semiosis, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
1999: Alliance Francaise, Singapore.
1999:
Ambulations, Earl Lu Gallery, in conjunction with Nokia 99, Singapore.
1999: Carte Blanche, Galerie Societe Generale.
1999: PRAXIS, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
2000:
Art Fear 2000, Melbourne, Australia.
2000: Box, 26 X 26, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2000: Buntus 2000, International Artists Collective Exhibition, organised by Emma Johnston, Dublin, Ireland.
2000:
Feast, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2000: Parallel World, Bangkok, Singapore.
2000: Project 1, Between, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
2000: Strokes, Drawing Exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2001:
ASEAN Art Today, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
2001: Cluster, solo exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2001: Drawing Matters, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2001: Members of Art Village Studios, Paintings and Drawings, Sentosa Island, Singapore.
2001: Plastic, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2001: Plastic works, Plastique Kinetic Worms Gallery, Singapore.
2002:
Art Fear, Suntec City, Singapore.
2002:
Flag Art Festival, Seoul, Korea.
2002: Auction – Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2002: Gallery of Contemporary Art, October Visual Art Salon, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
2002: Flag Project, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea.
2002: FLAG, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2003:
1st Exhibition, TAKSU Gallery, , Jakarta, Indonesia.
2003: Bilateral Bonds, Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2003: Grand Opening, TAKSU Gallery, Singapore.
2004: 10 Years of TAKSU, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2004: Annual Member's exhibition, PKW Gallery, Singapore.
2004: The Lasalle School, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
2005:
Anthology of the Arts, Stadische Gallery, ZKM Medienmuseum, ZKM-Foyer, Stadische Hochschule fur Gestaltung, ZKM-Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2005: Biennale of Miniature's, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia and Montenegro.
2005: International Festival of Art Flags, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro.
2005: Landscape and Beyond, Amelia Jonsthon Contemporary, Hong Kong.
2005: Nasi Campur, TAKSU Gallery, Singapore.
2005: Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Pocheon, Korea.
2005: The Singapore Art Show, SMU, Singapore.
2006:
50 Years of Ecka Collection, National Museum, Zrenjanin, Serbia.
2006: Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
2006: PGW Gallery, Prêt-à-Porter – Plastique Kinetic Worms Annual Show, Singapore.
2007: Art in Vojvodina from 60-is to 2000, Sava Stepanov Collection, Museum of Contemporary Arts Novi Sad, Serbia.
2007: Black is Not the Darkest Colour, La Libreria, Singapore.
2007: Croped, SLOT Gallery. Sydney, Australia.
2007: Ex-Tempore, Obalne Gallery Piran, Slovenia.
2007: Permanent Collection, Gallery of New South Wells, Sydney, Australia.
2008: Constructed Landscapes, curated by Karen Lim, NUS Museum, Singapore.
2008: Permanent Collection, Gallery of New South Wells, Sydney, Australia.
2009: Curating Lab, 100 Objects (Remixed), NUS Museum, Singapore.
2009: Combinart, Open Studio, Singapore.
2009: OH (Open House), Singapore.
2009:
The Next Chapter, ICAS, Singapore.
2010: Love Letter to a Surrogate, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, US.
2010: The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today, curated by Eugene Tan, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, Shanghai.
2011: Love Letter to Surrogate, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium.
2012: Panaroma, Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, Singapore Art Museum.
2012:
The Same Rain, The Same Wind, Chiang Mai University Art Center, Thailand.
2012: Decode/Recode, Media City, University of Salford, Manchester, UK.
2012: “9+1”, Sabanchi University Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.

Awards

1974: Pesak Summer Painting Symposium Award, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1980: Annual Art Society Award, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1980: Award for Best Annual Solo Exhibition, Kolarceva Zaduzbina, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1980:
IM Award for Drawing, International Portrait, Drawing Exhibition, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1981: MP Award, 1st Watercolour Bienale, Karlovac, Croatia.
1982: Museum of Contemporary Drawing Award and Faber Castel Award Nurnberg, 2nd International Drawing Triennial, Germany.
1982: Ex Tempore Art Symposium Award, Piran, Slovenia.
1982: Faber Castel Award Nurnberg, Germany.
1984: Visual Outam Award for Drawing, Yugoslavian Drawing Biennale, Sombor, Yugoslavia.
1985: Exhibition, Cagnes sur Mer, France.
1985: Special Jury Award, 17th International Painting.
1986: Ex Tempore Art Symposium Award, Piran, Slovenia.
1986: Special Jury Award, Academie Internationale De Lutece, France.
1988: October Salon Award, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1988: S.M. Salon Award, Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia.
1989: 6th Watercolour Biennale, Karlovac, Croatia.
1989: Ecka Art Symposium, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.

Symposiums and art workshops

1978: Bidgousch International Art Symposium, Bidgousch, Poland.
1980: Herculane Art Symposium, Herculane, Romania.
1981: Teslic Summer Workshop, Teslic, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1982: Becej Art Symposium, Becej, Yugoslavia.
1983: Pocitelj, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1983:
Pocitelj International Art Symposium.
1985: Ex Tempore Art Symposium, Piran, Slovenia.
1987: Ecka International Visual Art Symposium, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.
1990–1972: St. Andreja Symposium, St. Andreja, Hungary.
1990–1972: Summer Painting Symposium ‘Pesak’, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
1990: Mileseva Symposium, Milesevo, Yugoslavia.
1996–1999: Artists from Singapore, Bali, Indonesia, organised by Art Forum Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Northern Territory, Australia, organised by Art Forum Gallery, Singapore.
1999: Community and Modes of Practice, Singapore Art Museum, Nokia Symposium.
2000: Slide Talk, Singapore Art Museum.
2001: “South-East Asian Art”, artist talk, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
2004: Visiting professor at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan.
2004: With-gray-black, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan Lasalle-SIA, young artists from Singapore, artist talk, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
2007: Artist Talk, Istanbul Modern, real presence at Istanbul Biennale 07
2009: Workshop, SOTA, Singapore.
2010: Visiting Professor at Sabanchi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
2011: “Contemporary South East Asian Painting”, panel discussion, Singapore Arts Museum, Singapore.
2012: Panel discussion, Singapore Art Museum.

Curated exhibitions
1996: BAOBAB!, The 3rd RMIT Degree Show, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1996: Ferment, diploma show, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1996: Reconstruction, mixed media exhibition, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1996: Similarity and Difference, The 2nd RMIT Degree Show, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1996: Tangents, Diploma Show, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Anthology, Diploma Show, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1997:
BA Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1997: DRENCH, The 4th RMIT Degree Show, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Ericsson Scholarship Exhibition, W&T Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Look, faculty show, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Painting New, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
1997:
PUP, diploma show, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Tudor Court Drawing Project Exhibition, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1997: Work In Progress, MFA, Lasalle Gallery, SIngapore.
1998: Ao Tu, 5th Degree Show, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
1998: Ericsson Scholarship Exhibition, W&T Gallery, Singapore.
1998: GAZE, Diploma Show, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1998: MFA Degree Exhibition, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
1998:
Work In Progress, Master of Fine Art, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1998: Work In Progress, MFA, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1999: Ericsson Scholarship Exhibition, W&T Gallery, Singapore.
1999: Work in Progress, Master of Fine Art, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1999: Master Degree Exhibition, Lasalle-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
1999: Play, 6th Degree Show, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
2000: Project 1, BETWEEN, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
2000: Ericsson Scholarship Exhibition, W&T Gallery, Singapore.
2000: Scratch, 7th Degree Exhibition, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
2000: Philip Morris Competition, MITA Building, Singapore.
2000: Renewal Painting, PKW Gallery, Singapore.
2001: Two2, Lasalle-SIA Faculty Exhibition, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore.
2001: Young Artists, selection of young artists from Singapore, PKW Gallery, Singapore.
2008: No Wonder, Lasalle Campus, Singapore.
2010: That’s Another Story, Praxis Space, ICAS, Singapore.
2012: The Same Rain, The Same Wind, Chiang Mai University Art Center, Thailand.

Permanent collections

Ecka Symposium Gallery, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.
Deliblatski Pesak Collection, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
GALLERY 61, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
Gallery of New South Wells, Sydney, Australia.
ICI, Singapore.
Museum of Contemporary Drawing, Nurnberg, Germany.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Museum of World Portrait's, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
National Library, Singapore.
National Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
National Museum, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.
NUS Museum, Singapore.
Obalne Gallery Collection, Piran, Slovenia.
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
SMU, Singapore.
UOB Bank, Singapore.



Author

Angeline Koh


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Further resources
Prvacki, A. Retrieved from http://www.anaprvacki.com/

iPreciation.com. (2014). Milenko Prvacki. Retrieved from
http://www.ipreciation.com/milenko-prvacki-%E7%B1%B3%E9%80%A3%E6%9F%AF-%C2%B7-%E6%99%AE%E7%88%BE%E7%93%A6%E5%A5%87%E5%9F%BA/



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