Vukašin Nedeljković

Vukašin Nedeljković is an artist, activist and independent scholar. He attended the Academy of Arts in Belgrade between 1999 and 2003 and gained his BA from IADT, Dublin. He is currently a PhD student at the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice at Dublin Institute of Technology.

Over the last two decades, Vukašin has initiated the multidisciplinary platforms Asylum Archive and Fortress EU. In his own words, ‘Asylum Archive is a platform open for dialogue and discussion inclusive to individuals who have experienced a sense of sociological/geographical ‘displacement’, social trauma and violence. It is an act of solidarity to bring a different perspective on the life of people who came to Ireland to seek protection’. For Vukašin, Asylum Archive is a political platform and an artefact of Direct Provision as the continuation of the history of Carceral Institutions in Ireland, considering we have very little visual information about previous incarcerations of the poor, the marginalised and the undesired in institutions including Magdalene Laundries, Borstals, Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial Schools and psychiatric hospitals. Thus, he places his images in a wider context to dig deep into broader questions about memory, loss, trauma, displacement, immigration, migration, confinement and incarceration.

Vukašin’s work has been included in group and solo exhibitions in Ireland and abroad. Some examples include, The Narrow Gate of the Here - and - Now: Queer Embodiment, IMMA (2021); Uncertain State, Gallery of Photography (2013); 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, Glebe House and Gallery, Donegal, Ireland (2019); and Asylum Archive, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (2019). His work will be included in a solo show at the RHA from 26 November – 19 December 2021. His work forms part of both private and public collections, such as that of the Arts Council and the Catalyst Arts Gallery.