Pavle Mijuca

Pavle Mijuca (b. 1999, Belgrade) is an artist whose practice examines the power structures embedded in urban planning and architecture. Grounded in mediated research and role-based performance, Mijuca constructs site-specific personas, ranging from tour guides and architects to real estate agents, that operate as critical vessels for storytelling, critique, and embodiment of competing stakeholder narratives. These personas, often based on method acting and self-referential play, unfold across formats, including lecture-performances, guided tours, and staged media presentations.

Objects form an integral component of his practice, functioning simultaneously as sculptural props and rhetorical instruments. Drawing on the visual and linguistic registers of real estate, state bureaucracy, and the construction industry, he fabricates speculative maps, promotional hoardings, textiles, and 3D models that mimic and contest conventional readings of urban space. His work blurs the boundary between reality and fiction, employing confabulation, myth-making, and satire to expose the anomalies underlying contemporary urban development. Through this methodology, Mijuca materializes the fantasies, contradictions, and doublespeak that permeate the language of urban growth and progress.

He holds a BFA from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is a graduate of the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut. In 2025, he was awarded the Golden Watermelon 9.0 Young Artist Award by the Metamedia Association in Pula, Croatia. He lives and works in Amsterdam.

Pavle Mijuca is a participant of the Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies program for 2025/26.