ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a Macedonian painter and multidisciplinary artist based in Germany. My practice moves between painting and object-making, exploring the relationship between material, labor, and the social conditions in which artworks are produced.

I work with canvas as both image and object. Through cutting, stitching, reconstruction, and the use of industrial materials such as concrete, I investigate how processes of construction, repair, pressure, and transformation become part of the work itself. Rather than treating painting as a passive surface, I approach it as a physical material shaped by history, work, and economic realities.

My interest lies in questions of value, structural inequality, and the material conditions that influence both artistic production and everyday life. I am interested in how objects carry traces of the systems that produce them, and how painting can shift from representation toward material presence.

I received my BFA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje and currently live and work in Germany.

Vladan Petrushevikj

Painter and multidisciplinary artist exploring painting as material through processes of construction, repair, and transformation.
Born 1993, Kumanovo, North Macedonia
Lives and works in Werder (Havel), Germany

Education

2016
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in PaintingFaculty of Fine Arts,
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia

Awards

2016
Borko Lazeski Award
Faculty of Fine Arts, Skopje, North Macedonia
Awarded with a solo exhibition at the Museum of the City of Skopje.

Solo Exhibitions

06.2017
Mostra
Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia

Selected Group Exhibitions

12.2016
Underground It Is Easier to Breathe #4
Skopje, North Macedonia

05.2017
Transparency
Skopje, North Macedonia

11.2017
Kumanovo Visual Artists
Kumanovo, North Macedonia

12.2017
St. Clement of Ohrid Through a Contemporary Artistic Perspective
Skopje, North Macedonia

03.2018
12th Biennial of Young Artists: Would It Be Late, If Time Stopped?
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia

Selected Group Exhibitions (Germany)

09.2025
25 Years of Atelier Vulkanfiberfabrik
Atelier Vulkanfiberfabrik, Werder (Havel), Germany

07.2026
5th Werderaner Kunstausstellung
Kunst-Geschoss Stadtgalerie, Werder (Havel), Germany

05.2026
Open Studios Brandenburg (Tag der Offenen Ateliers)
Atelier Vulkanfiberfabrik, Werder (Havel), Germany