Miloš Trakilović in conversation with Nataša Ilić

Taking Miloš Trakilović’s installation 564 Tracks (Not a Love Song Is Usually a Love Song) as point of departure, the artist together with curator Nataša Ilić will explore artistic practice in relation to diasporic experience, transgenerational memory, and border figurations. Rooted in the specific experience of Yugoslavia—a country that no longer exists—their exchange will invoke historical defeats alongside instances of rejection, resistance, and liberation, in art and beyond, that could challenge the political predicament of our present.

Nataša Ilić is a curator and a member of What, How & for Whom (WHW), a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb and Berlin. WHW organizes production, exhibition, education, and publishing projects in Zagreb and elsewhere. Together with WHW members Ivet Ćurlin and Sabina Sabolović, she served as artistic director of Kunsthalle Wien from 2019 to 2024. In August 2024, they were announced as the artistic directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027.

Miloš Trakilović is a Bosnian-Dutch artist (b. 1989, BA). He received a BFA and MFA from the University of the Arts in Berlin, where he graduated in Experimental Film and New Media Art. His practice revolves around the politics of perceptibility, exploring issues of dissolution, fragmentation, memory and loss. His topical interest is in the role of vision in the construction of meaning and the production of power after the digital turn. Trakilović’s work is primarily concerned with digital and time-based media, with film, video and installation as central elements.