Nebojša Milenković was born in 1971 in Niš. He graduated from the Department of Art History (Faculty of Philosophy) at the University of Belgrade. He is an art historian and museum advisor. He has previously worked in the gallery of Laza Kostić Cultural Centre in Sombor, and has worked in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina since 2002. He is in charge of MCAV’s conceptual art collection, his field of expertise. MCAV’s conceptual art collection is the only one of its kind in the region. He is also engaged in politics and is an activist.

In his work as an art historian, Milenković has focused on “utopic art projects, groups and individuals who share a vision of art as a spiritual practice that is capable of changing the world – these are predominantly conceptual artists and representatives of alternative culture.” He has published ten monographs on conceptual artists, among whom are Slavko Matković, Bálint Szombathy, Vujica Rešin Tucić, Vladimir Kopicl, Slobodan Šijan and Božidar Mandić. He is one of the curators of the exhibition Examples of Invisible Art (Digitalizing the Collection of Conceptual Art of MCAV).

Milenković describes the neo-avantgarde scene of the 1970s in Novi Sad as the main subject of his professional interest “because it is one of those rare periods in Yugoslav and Serbian culture when local art and culture are side by side with many contemporary trends in the global scene.”

Location:
- Novi Sad, Serbia

Milewski, Wacław

Wacław Milewski was Keeper of Archives at the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum from 1980 to 1989. In 1998, Milewski processed and described Aniela Mieczysławska Raczyńska Collection. Soldier of the Polish Home Army in occupied Poland, Milewski later served in the Polish 2nd Corps in Italy with the 25^th Lancers Regiment. After demobilization of the Polish armed forces in the West, he underwent officers’ training course in the special Polish officers’ training school in Britain. Milewski volunteered in the Institute in 1963 and has remained with the Institute to this day. He held several positions. He was the Curator of the Museum for a while and then in the early ‘70s he became deputy Keeper of Archives to Regina Oppman who was Keeper of Archives from 1951 until her death in 1980. Then he took over as Keeper of Archives until his retirement in 1989. From then he worked as a volunteer in the Archives with the Institute and as the building administrator. He currently lives in a nursing home in London.

Location:
- London, United Kingdom

Milivojević , Era

Era Milivojević was born in 1944 in Užiće. In 1971, he graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the class of Professor Stojan Ćelić. He has participated in a large number of exhibitions and performances in Yugoslavia, Serbia and abroad. His works are displayed in museums and other public and private collections. Era Milivojević lives in Belgrade.

Location:
- Belgrade, Serbia

Miller, Krzysztof

Krzysztof Miller (1962-2016) was a photographer and reporter famous for his characteristic, emotionally committed style and the coverages of the arm conflicts, revolutions, and social disasters.

From 1976 to 1986 Miller was a sportsman and a champion in diving in Polish People's Republic. From 1986 he was a photographer associated with the second circuit. His photographs were published in the independent dissident press and bulletins. From 1988 he collaborated with the Independent Students' Association. He documented, among other events, many happenings by the Gallery of Maniacal Activities in Łódź. In 1989 he had become a photo reporter in "Gazeta Wyborcza" where he worked the whole next decade till 2000, when he had to slow down due to his health problems.

In the 1990s Miller made his career traveling the world with the journalist Wojciech Jagielski and documenting wars, revolutions, and other breakthrough events. His photo reportages covered events in the Balkans, Romania, Georgia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and South Africa. The distinctive feature of Miller's photographs was the concern for the situation of the people and the empathy toward them. Such a committed style of photojournalism made him famous in Poland and abroad. In 2000 he was a member of the jury of the World Press Photo contest. After that year Miller started studying at the Film School in Łódź, where he co-founded groups Slowphoto and Artists 24h. During the studies in Łódź Miller developed the artistic side of his earlier journalist photographs. The experiments with the photographic techniques resulted in Miller's participation in many exhibitions in 2009 and 2014.

Milovac, Tihomir

Tihomir Milovac is an art historian and ethnologist. During his studies, he participated in the work of the theatre group Coccolemocco in Zagreb, and upon finishing his studies he continued to work actively on the Croatian cultural scene. He started working in the Museum of Contemporary Art, then the Contemporary Art Gallery, in 1984. He is the head of the Department of Experimental Research and co-author of the Museum's permanent display. He is also a co-author of the catalogue "Mladen Stilinović: Exploitation of the Dead."

As a member of the theatre group Coccolemocco, in 1977 and 1978 he participated in the theatre show "One Day in the Life of Ignac Golob," which dealt with self-management, the position of the little man in relation to the authorities, and his private and professional life. According to Tihomir Milovac, the show demonstrated in a very clear way the hypocrisy of the then government and “the general idea of self-management, which fell apart and simply made no sense any more. Despite the problems with the Association of Veterans of the People's Liberation War (AVNLW), most of the art world supported the show and it was performed throughout Yugoslavia for two years.

Milovac believes that the cultural opposition in socialist Yugoslavia had several faces, in the sense that there was public cultural opposition and the concealed one which he calls - subversive. Those in the public opposition risked their professional careers and lives; this was primarily in the world of literature and theatre. Within the field of visual arts, which was more subversive, attempts were made to point to specific phenomena in society at that time through certain types of activism.

Location:
- Zagreb, Croatia