Marina Milanović and Vitomirka Trebovac | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Marina Milanović and Vitomirka Trebovac

Radna Sveska is an art collective founded in 2021 by illustrator Marina Milanović and poet Vitomirka Trebovac, after several years of working together. The collective emerged from a need to jointly question certain themes and to respond to them artistically.

The collective’s work focuses on marginalized topics and personal acts of rebellion. They are interested in liminal phenomena, remnants, and the invisible. What brings them together as a collective is a shared way of sensing the world they build—both in art and in life.

Marina Milanović

She graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2012, from the Department of Graphic Communications. At the same department, she defended her master’s degree in illustration in 2014. As an illustrator, she has collaborated with leading national publishing houses in the field of children’s illustration, including Kreativni centar and Zavod za udžbenike. Particularly notable are her illustrations for Izokrenute priče (Upside-down Stories) based on texts by Branko Ćopić (published by Zavod za udžbenike), for which she received the Neven Award for Best Illustrated Book in the Republic of Serbia for the 2015/16 publishing year.

She collaborates on projects as an illustrator and graphic designer, designs various graphic materials and publications, and conducts workshops and lectures.

To date, she has had six solo exhibitions and over 35 juried group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, including HDD, Zlatno pero, Grifon, Laserski Samit, Galerija Novembar, Paleta mladih, MSUV, Museum of Vojvodina, and the 36 Mountains Festival, among others. For the authorial illustration series Priče o Crvenokosi (Stories of the Redhead), she received an Honorable Diploma of the Zlatno pero of Belgrade. For Karte za periferne vizije (Maps for Peripheral Visions), she won the Grifon Award for Best Graphic Design in Serbia, the Republic of Srpska, and Montenegro in 2023 and 2024.

Since 2020, she has been an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade.

Vitomirka Trebovac

She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Department of Literature, in 2004. She worked briefly in education, after which she was engaged at the bookstore and publishing center Bulevar Books in Novi Sad. She is the co-editor of the poetry collection This Is Not a Home: Women Poets on Migration and the editor of the book The Novi Sad Neo-Avant-Garde: A Selection of Poetry. She also developed a new children’s book series, which has been the central focus of her work in recent years.

She has published four poetry books: Plavo u boji (Blue in Color, Škart, Belgrade, 2011), Sve drveće, sva deca i svi bicikli u meni (All the Trees, All the Children, and All the Bicycles Inside Me; LOM, Belgrade, 2017), Dani punog meseca (Days of the Full Moon, LOM, Belgrade, 2020), and Dovoljno je malo sunca (A Little Sun Is Enough, LOM, Belgrade, 2023).

Her poetry has been translated into several European languages.

She is active on the local art scene and participates in various international projects and international artist residencies in Albania, Hungary, Croatia, North Macedonia, Netherlands, and Finland, among others.

My City, the Run-Over Dog

16.02.-02.03.2026.

The project My City, the Run-Over Dog is realized by the collective Radna sveska—comprising artists Marina Milanović and Vitomirka Trebovac—in collaboration with the initiative Riso i prijateljice and the Rijeka-based association Delta 5.

The book Moj grad pregaženi pas (My City, the Run-Over Dog) emerges from several months of artistic exchange between the authors, whose individual poetics merge into a shared narrative. The starting point is the collapse of a canopy at the railway station in Novi Sad, a tragic event that exposed the deep entanglement of corruption and political mechanisms with the pervasive sense of insecurity and helplessness experienced by citizens. The artists have translated this theme into a poetic-visual form that interrogates the relationship between individuals and public space, authority and citizens, as well as the intimate vulnerability of the individual within devastated urban landscapes. During the residency, the artists will print and present the graphic novel.

The central motif, the “run-over dog,” functions as a powerful metaphor—a depiction of a society in which there is no accountability for violence or for the destruction of cities, communities, and the natural environment. The publication brings together poetic text and rapidograph drawings in a form that oscillates between a graphic novel, a personal diary, and visual poetry.

Delta 5 and Riso and Friends

Artists-run space Delta 5, gathers a group of artists on the location of an ex industrial complex in Rijeka. The space of Delta 5 is divided into a number of ateliers/studios and one project room which is used for presentation, production and social purposes of the members and associates of the organisation. The artists of Delta 5 share their interest in the field of production and promotion of contemporary art, design, their critical reflection and reception in public. 

Riso and Friends is one of the initiatives operating within that collective and space; it was launched in 2019 by designer Ana Labudović as a sustainable, specialized print studio for the cultural and independent scene. Over six years of activity, a network of collaborations has been built on local, regional, and international levels. The residency program, established in 2024, serves as an interdisciplinary platform for both local and international artists.