Ksenia Milicevic (born September 15, 1942) is a French painter, architect and town planner. She is based in Paris, with a studio in Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre and also maintains a base in South West France.

Life Ksenia Milicevic was born in 1942 in Drinić,Diart, Revista de las artes visuales, P.24, by Manuel Ruiz, N°26, julio 1982, Madrid. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her mother was born in Lackawanna, New York and her father in Montenegro. Both were partisans engaged in guerrilla campaigns during the Second World War.Suvremeni pisci Jugoslavije, Budimir Milicevic, p.226, izdavacka kuca Stvarnost, Zagreb 1966. Following the Fourth anti-Partisan Offensive from January to April 1943 and the Fifth, May to June 1943, in south-eastern Bosnia and northern Montenegro, she was left with her grandparents in Montenegro. After the war, her parents joined the diplomatic service and she lived with them in Sofia and Prague.

Ksenia Milicevic discovered architecture, mosaics, frescoes and paintings in old monasteries. Her father, also a painter, gave her the gift of his oil-paints, resulting in her first oil painting at the age of fifteen. After studies in the V° Senior High School and one year in the University of Engineering in Belgrade, she moved to Algiers in 1962. There she studied architecture in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Institute of Urbanism. She graduated from both in 1968. In her spare time Milicevic joined the painting class of the painter M'hamed Issiakhem, in the School of Fine Arts, located in the same building. She worked for a year in ECOTEC with the team of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. Interested in the Italian Renaissance, she traveled to Italy in 1965 to view the great Masters.

Milicevic moved to S.M. de TucumanArtes visuales, Museo de Arte Moderno, p.25, enero 1982, Mexico. in the north of Argentina to work as an architect. Here she joined the art school of the National University and graduated in 1976. Journey of the visual experiences, by Osvaldo Romberg, p.106 to 109, San Miguel de Tucuman, 1972. Her first exhibition took place in Tucuman in 1970."Plural", N°135, diciembre 1982, Mexico.

She has also lived in Spain and Mexico and has settled in FranceL'Officiel des Arts, UNESCO, p.56 et 128, mai 1988, Paris. since 1987. In 1989 she opened a workshop at Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre. Her studio is next to that of Endre Rozsda. Since 1976 she has been exclusively dedicated to painting.Who's who in International Artp.125, Edition 1987-88, Lausanne, Suisse. She has held 120 individual and collective exhibitions throughout the world.

Since 2010 Ksenia Milicevic has been publishing essays alerting to the progressive destruction in art of the three factors on which a work is based: beauty, space and time, the destruction of art signaling and favoring the annihilation of man.<ref>La Dépêche, Qui êtes vous Mr. Duchamp ?28 décembre 2022 </</ref>

In 2011 the Museum of Painting of St. Frajou, Haute Garonne, France, was inauguratedTV news FR3, 23/05/2016 with a selection of thirty paintings by Milicevic in the permanent collection.TV news FR3 12/13, 26 february 2011. In 2012 Ksenia Milicevic created the International Children's Painting Biennial.Peinture enfants : la Biennale Internationale a sa mascotte, la Dépêche, 23 avr. 2015 In 2014, Ksenia Milicevic created the Art Resilience movementLa Dépêche, Art Résilience, un concept actuel, 3 nov. 2015 and in 2015 International Exhibition Art Resilience.Vingt artistes de dix pays au salon «Art Résilience», la Dépêche, 3 août 2015 In May 2016, Ksenia Milicevic participates in the Euro-Mediterranean Congress - Marseilles: Resilience in the World of the Living, under the presidency of Boris Cyrulnik, 19–21 May 2016, Intervention on resilience in art.K. Milicevic, La résilience au congrès Euro-méditerranéen, La Gazette

Gallery

Selected exhibitions

2026 Artexpo Nex York 2026 - World Wide & Artavita, United States 2024 Galerie Séraphine, Mende, France 2023 INEDITOS, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada, Palacio de Carlos V, Espagne 2017 Forum artistique, Aurignac, Haute Garonne 2016 Congrès Euro-Méditerranéen, Archives Départementales des Bouches du Rhône - Marseille - France 2014 Eglise de Montesquieu. Montesquieu - France 2011 Permanent Collection inauguration. Saint-Frajou Paintung Museum - France 2005 Tribute to Alberto Magnelli. Mario Marini Museum Pistoia - Italy Etruscan Museum. Siena - Italy Consiglio Regionae. Firenze - Italy Museum of Cluj. Romania 1998 Mexican Cultural Center. Brasília - Brazil."Beaux Arts Magazine" p.124, N°172, septembre 1998, Paris. 1997 Palais des Expositions. Geneva - Switzerland 1995 Gallery 20 Fine Art. Paris - France."Univers desArts"p.10, by Christian Germak, N°4, février 1995, Paris. French Cultural Center. Oslo - Norway 1986 Institut Français d'Amérique Latine. Mexico - Mexico"L'OEIL" p. N°370, mai 1986, Paris.

1984 Palais des Congrès. Brussels - Belgium 1983 Graphic Art Festival. Osaka - Japan 18 French painters, Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum. Mexico - Mexico, 1982 Gallery Misrachi. Mexico - Mexico 1981 Museum of Contemporary Art. Madrid - Spain 1980 18° International Exhibition Joan Miró. Barcelona - Spain 1976 Theater of the eighth. Lyon - France 1972 Gallery Lirolay. Buenos Aires - Argentina 1970 University Gallery. Tucuman - Argentina

Museums

Fine Art Museum. Granada - SpainMinisterio de Cultura, Servicio de Museos. DONA 86/80. Madrid. 6 de junio 1980. Museum de la Casa de los Tiros. Granada - SpainMuseo de la Casa de los Tiros. Granada. 16 de octubre 1980. Museum of Contemporary Art. Salamanca - Spain Museo de CuencaDireccion General de Bellas Artes. Museo de Cuenca, Cuenca. 17 de febrer 1982. Museum of Art Actual. Ayllon - Spain Museum Municipal. Segobre - SpainMuseo Municipal, Segobre. Libro de Registro n°84. Segobre. 12 de marzo 1982. Museum of Contemporary Art. Malabo - GuineaConsulado de la Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial. 14 de enero 1983. Museum Pinacoteca Municipal de Deifontes. SpainAyuntamiento de Deifontes. Deifontes. 11 de abril 1983. Museum of Armilla. Granada - Spain.Ayuntamiento de Armilla Ficha n°7. Armilla. 20 de junio 1983. Municipal Museum. Long - FranceLe Syndicat d'Initiative de Long. Long. 8 août 1983. Polytechnic Institute. Mexico - MexicoOtras areas de interes French Institute of Latin America. Mexico - Mexico Museum Zarsuela del Monte, SpainAyuntamiento de Zarzuela del Monte Zarzuela del Monte. 3 October 1997. Museum Civico. Spilimbergo - ItalyComitato promotore Istituzione Museo Civico. Spilimbergo. 8/2/1988. Foundation Paul Ricard. Paris - France Cultural Center of the Embassy of Mexico. Brasília - BrazilEmbajada de Mexico. Brasilia. 13 March 1998. Paintings Museum of Saint-Frajou. Haute Garonne - France.Musée de Peinture de Saint Frajou Art Collection, French Alliance, Quito, Ecuador

Books by Ksenia Milicevic

Ksenia Milicevic, Art-confusion.com - De l'image d'art à l'oeuvre d'art, éd. Edilivre, Paris, 2013 Ksenia Milicevic, What art therapy for resilience ? Communications from the 4th World Congress on Resilience, p. 229 Ksenia Milicevic, Résilience en art et art-thérapie pour la résilience, éd. Edilivre, Paris, 2020 Ksenia Milicevic, Resilience, drawings, Amazon, 2021 Ksenia Milicevic, Ange du jour - Jeu de divination, drawings, Amazon, 2021 * Ksenia Milicevic, Collection Livres participatifs, Apprentissage du dessin 1. Randonnées sous les arbres, 2. Herbarium, 3. Maison au bord de la mer, 4. Lundi au marché, 5. Maître Corbeau, autoédition, Amazon, 2022 Ksenia Milicevic, Collection Résilience en Art : 1. Soulage, un trait noir sur la peinture, autoédition, Amazon, 2022, 2. Qui êtes-vous Mr. Duchamp ? autoédition, Amazon, 2022 Ksenia Milicevic, 60 Artistes du mouvement Art Résilience, autoédition, Amazon, 2024 Ksenia Milicevic, Musée de peinture de Saint-Frajou, dans le village de la fontaine miraculeuse, autoédition, Amazon, 2025

Conferences Between November 2015 and March 2016 Ksenia Milicevic gave a series of five lectures on Resilience in art, in the Painting Museum of Sain-Frajou, France : Resilience - a current concept, What is art ?, Beauty - subjective or objective ?, Contemporary art, The responsibility of the artist. Participation in the Euro-Mediterranean Conference - Marseille: Resilience in the World of the Alive, chaired by Boris Cyrulnik, 19–21 May 2016, Departmental Archives of Bouches du Rhône. Intervention on Resilience in art. 2017, lecture in the Paintung Museum of Saint-Frajou : "1917-2017 un siècle d'iconoclasme". Between November 2017 and March 2018 Ksenia Milicevic gave Cycle of four lectures on Images in painting : 1. What does the night tell us? , 2. Tales of light, 3. The murmur of water, 4. The voice of trees, in the Painting Museum of Sain-Frajou, France March 2018 - Conference at Domaine des Tilleuls in Huos (Haute Garonne), France : Painting, 19th - 20th centuries: from the golden rule to the absence of rules 2018 - Participation in the 4° Resilience World Congress organized by Resilio - International Association for the Promotion and Dissemination of Resilience Research in partnership with the University Aix-Marseille in Marseille (France), from 27 to 30 June 2018. Intervention on Resilience in Art: What Art Therapy for Resilience? 2020 december - Design, applied art and plastic art in the age of resilience, The 6th International Conference of the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. 2021 5° Congres on Resilience (Online), Sustainability factors and sustainability of art - Yaoundé, Camerun.

Further reading

Espaces ambigus, by Christelle Larson.Maîtrise d'Arts Plastiques by Christelle Larson-Espaces ambigus, p.108, Université de Paris I, Sorbonne, 1997/98, Paris. Haikou: Ksenia's paintings by James A. Emanuel.Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989 (Detroit: Lotus Press), Illustration. Book Donde Sayago termina...Fermoselle by Luis Cortés Vazques. Salamanca 1980 Illustration. Book Arpéges, Pratique des langues étrangères, 1990 Poem for Bakoua - Ksenia Milicevic's painting by Juan Carlos Plà.Que no vuelven las palabras, Edition Practica mortal, p.166, 1999, Mexico. Naing Swann - Interview with Ksenia Milicevic. Mudita Magazine, Myanmar. September 2010. L'iconographie de l'Arbre sec au Moyen Age by Marlène Tchertalian-DelsouillerL'iconographie de l'Arbre sec au Moyen Age by Marlène Tchertafian-Delsouiller, ill. 147, Ph. D. University Lille 3 1, 2012, Lille, France.

References

External links Ksenia Milicevic - cerulean blue (in French) Ksenia Milicevic in Saint-Frajou Painting Museum Site Art Resilience