David Maljkovic
Razstava
Cukrarna, Ljubljana
Through October 26, 2025

In his project David Maljkovic shows how painting opens a discursive field, reflecting and articulating the manifold relations between image, space, and time. On view at Cukrarna are works produced since 2017 in which Maljkovic has created image constellations linking two worlds, as Gilles Deleuze argued in his lectures on painting that deal with the defined and the undefined, chaos and order, figure and ground. As in earlier projects, Maljkovic relates to the heritage of the (South-) Eastern European avant-garde and its relevance for today. According to the artist himself he gauges “the idea of painting as a guardian of time and the painter’s position as its witness” on several levels by interweaving the past and the present. This reveals an “open malleability of time folding in upon itself, a sort of ontological multitemporal existence.”

David Maljkovic
Overpaint with Shadows
February 23–March 28, 2024
London

David Maljkovic is known for a multifaceted practice that, through a collagist approach referencing both the works of other artists and his own earlier works and exhibitions, considers individual and collective attitudes toward the complexity of time, whilst also playing with the nature of the gaze. His exhibition Overpaint with Shadows on the third floor of Sprüth Magers, London, presents a series of new paintings and architectural interventions that take the process of overpainting as both their subject and source. For Maljkovic, the act of overpainting is both literal and metaphorical, pertaining not only to the act of painting or to painting itself, but also addressing the content, or rather, the starting point.

David Maljkovic
April 10–May 9, 2015
London

David Maljkovic is known for multifaceted exhibitions that investigate the erosion of memory and the corruption of information, revealing how ideas can be worn down by the effects of time and technology. For his second show at Sprüth Magers, London, Maljkovic will present a group of inkjet photo collages titled New Reproduction (2013), as well as Afterform (2013), a single slide projection, and a new version of the HD video Out of Projection (2009-2014), a title that the artist has used for a number of previous, related works. The formal principle of collage is key to Maljkovic’s oeuvre: the artist has adopted this method as a way to respond to our defective memories, recombining photographs, films and projected images from his own personal archive. 

David Maljkovic
A Long Day for the Form
June 28–August 25, 2012
Berlin

A Long Day for the Form showcases David Maljković´s current body of work, in which he gives his own artistic practise a radical restaging, an approach recently explored in shows at Kunsthalle, Basel, Sculpture Centre, New York and Seccession, Vienna. Objects developed as presentation structures for other contexts and contents have been cleared out, emptied and arranged in the gallery as isolated sculptural objects and architectural structures, while small interventions by the artist such as sound and light serve to recall the presence of missing works. By concentrating on these various forms of display, Maljković focuses attention on his own artistic strategies and experiences as well as addressing the act of exhibiting itself.

David Maljkovic
Recalling Frames
November 5–December 23, 2010
London

The title of David Maljkovic’s solo exhibition can be understood in relation to his current body of work but also indicates a recurring theme in his artistic practice: recalling ideas from the past and analysing their impact on the present. He introduces places, their architectural structures and their underlying concepts in modified pictorial arrangements as a means of determining their current potential. Maljkovic creates these reconstructions by applying the technique of collage to the media of photography and film: by crossfading between different time levels, he also gives them a fictional dimension that transforms them into sites for an alternative future.

Rethinking Location
Rosa Barba, Cyprien Gaillard, Andreas Hofer, David Maljkovic, Trevor Paglen, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Sterling Ruby, Paul Sietsema, Taryn Simon, Armando Andrade Tudela, Andro Wekua
May 1–June 21, 2010
Berlin

Evolving from the work of twelve conceptual artists, filmmakers and photographers presenting alternate interpretations of fictional geographies, imaginary sites and "mash-up" destinations, the exhibition Rethinking Location reconsiders the notion of location. In an era characterized by a rapidly changing perception of time and space due to ever increasing mobility, migration and globalization, our understanding of what a location is has significantly transformed.

David Maljkovic
November 20, 2009–January 16, 2010
Berlin

The artist’s practice engages with the heritage of modern utopias, both in its theoretical and practical manifestations. His films, drawings, sculptures and installations often evolve around the potential of monuments and pavilions built during a period of optimism in former Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s that have now been neglected or forgotten. Maljkovic resuscitates such former memorials by turning them into sites for alternative activities, often carried out by members of his own generation. Evolving around two films and a series of collages the exhibition focuses on two architectural installations, confronting the viewer with a seemingly forgotten or invisible ‘heritage’- one that is not presently perceived as valuable or legitimate.