DNLM - Higher Standards (03:30)
Production: DNLM, 2019
Higher Standards is the title of a functional, civic intervention in public space, with the aim of improving living conditions. At the corners of bike lanes with limited visibility, where collisions or close encounters between cyclists often occurred, the...
Name: DNLM
No. of works: 25
Countries: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Born: 1992
DNLM (Danilo Milovanović, 1992, Banja Luka) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ljubljana. He holds a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Ljubljana. He also studied at the UMPRUM Academy in Prague, where he was on a student exchange. Milovanović has been nominated for the OHO Award several times, and in 2020 he received the Prešeren Student Award from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In 2025, he received the Rihard Jakopič Award. He creates within the AKC Metelkova mesto.
DNLM uses simple means in his interventions in public spaces to create new meanings and eloquent situations. He is known for his socially engaged expression directly in public spaces, where ideas ranging from reflections on urban space to the examination of everyday social dynamics determine the medium and approach. DNLM most often uses public performative actions, gestural, ephemeral urban interventions, photography, and video to express himself.
(Photos: Manca Vertačnik and personal archive)
DNLM - Ślimak (16:03)
Production: Katowice Miasto Ogrodów, 2018
Ślimak (Snail in polish) is a project based on the life story of 88-year-old (in 2018) Miroslaw Cegielski from Katowice, Poland. The artist compiled the videos taken during two months of staying with Miroslaw into a short film. (Source: DNLM)
Production: Katowice Miasto Ogrodów, 2018
Ślimak (Snail in polish) is a project based on the life story of 88-year-old (in 2018) Miroslaw Cegielski from Katowice, Poland. The artist compiled the videos taken during two months of staying with Miroslaw into a short film. (Source: DNLM)
DNLM - Postposter (05:32)
Production: DNLM, 2018
Postposter is a documentation of an intervention in public space that deals with walls covered with promotional posters. The artist uses existing posters and reworks them in a way that strips them of their key function – information. The interventio...
Production: DNLM, 2018
Postposter is a documentation of an intervention in public space that deals with walls covered with promotional posters. The artist uses existing posters and reworks them in a way that strips them of their key function – information. The interventio...
DNLM - Bitumenography (02:16)
Production: 2018
Video documentation of an intervention in a public space. The artist made a large-scale graphic print from a bitumen-coated street surface. He selected the surface from bitumen as an illustration of the presence of a heavy industry on which the city of Ka...
Production: 2018
Video documentation of an intervention in a public space. The artist made a large-scale graphic print from a bitumen-coated street surface. He selected the surface from bitumen as an illustration of the presence of a heavy industry on which the city of Ka...
DNLM - Cultivated Plants II (03:17)
Production: Vstop Prost, 2018
Documentation of an intervention in public space is the second action in the series titled Cultivated Plants. The work responds to culturally established, aesthetically conditioned patterns of treating plants in landscaped, urban spaces. The intervention...
Production: Vstop Prost, 2018
Documentation of an intervention in public space is the second action in the series titled Cultivated Plants. The work responds to culturally established, aesthetically conditioned patterns of treating plants in landscaped, urban spaces. The intervention...
DNLM - Rescheduled Fall (03:43)
Production: DNLM, 2017/2018
The video documents a processual work, the idea of which was to preserve a piece of the atmosphere of one season in another. The artist selects locations where he collected dry leaves from two selected trees in the fall. He stored the dry leaves for half...
Production: DNLM, 2017/2018
The video documents a processual work, the idea of which was to preserve a piece of the atmosphere of one season in another. The artist selects locations where he collected dry leaves from two selected trees in the fall. He stored the dry leaves for half...
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DNLM - Cultivated Plants I (03:43)
Production: DNLM, 2017
The intervention in public space is the first action in a series entitled Cultivated Plants. The work responds to culturally established, aesthetically conditioned patterns of treating plants in landscaped, urban spaces. The action was carried out in Ljub...
Production: DNLM, 2017
The intervention in public space is the first action in a series entitled Cultivated Plants. The work responds to culturally established, aesthetically conditioned patterns of treating plants in landscaped, urban spaces. The action was carried out in Ljub...
DNLM - Roundabout Park (07:45)
Production: DNLM, 2017
Roundabouts are interesting examples of public spaces that are inaccessible to us, even if they are not physically fenced off. Since they are located within the traffic infrastructure, the only way to reach roundabouts is to illegally cross the roads. The...
Production: DNLM, 2017
Roundabouts are interesting examples of public spaces that are inaccessible to us, even if they are not physically fenced off. Since they are located within the traffic infrastructure, the only way to reach roundabouts is to illegally cross the roads. The...
DNLM - Longcut (02:19)
Production: DNLM, 2017
The video documents one of the performative actions through which so-called longcuts are created. Longcuts always begin and end at the same point as shortcuts, developing in between into independent, improvised paths. Logcuts are therefore a processual wo...
Production: DNLM, 2017
The video documents one of the performative actions through which so-called longcuts are created. Longcuts always begin and end at the same point as shortcuts, developing in between into independent, improvised paths. Logcuts are therefore a processual wo...
DNLM - Product (06:27)
Production: DNLM, 2017
The video documents a processual work that humorously plays with the idea of the product as a cell of consumer society. The artist places the logic of commodification in an environment where we do not expect it. The location of the intervention is a pear...
Production: DNLM, 2017
The video documents a processual work that humorously plays with the idea of the product as a cell of consumer society. The artist places the logic of commodification in an environment where we do not expect it. The location of the intervention is a pear...
DNLM - Plastic Makes It Static (03:17)
Production: DNLM, 2017
Fountains basically operate on the principle of water circulation, as it happens in nature. Based on the fact of growing drinking water bottling industry, the artist decides to capture all the water circulating in the fountain in plastic packaging. For th...
Production: DNLM, 2017
Fountains basically operate on the principle of water circulation, as it happens in nature. Based on the fact of growing drinking water bottling industry, the artist decides to capture all the water circulating in the fountain in plastic packaging. For th...
