Miloš Trakilović is an artist based in Berlin. His practice explores the politics of perceptibility, focusing on themes of dissolution, fragmentation, memory, and loss. His recent work examines the role of vision in shaping meaning and producing power in the wake of the digital turn, investigating how technological advancements and digitalization influence human perception, often in relation to contemporary warfare, its mediatization, and lingering effects. Trakilović primarily works with digital and time-based media, with film, video, and installation as central elements of his practice.
He holds a BFA and MFA from the University of the Arts in Berlin, where he studied in the Experimental Film and New Media Art department. Trakilović was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2022 to 2024. His work has been presented at Kunst Werke, Berlin (2025); National Art Center, Tokyo (2024); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2023); Trafó Gallery, Budapest (2023); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2021); Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2021); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2020); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2019), among others. His work is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin.
In this session, Miloš Trakilović will provide insight into the context of his work, tracing how conflict is mediated through images, digital technologies, and technologies of capture, and how these mediations produce, enforce, and erase political subjectivity and national constructs. Focusing on contexts marked by conflict and its aftermath, the session examines the interface between politics and poetic expression, exploring how language that suppresses, oppresses, or expresses can generate testimony. Moving through poetry and image-based examples, we will attend to strategies that reclaim poetic imagination and explore the mutable relationship between image and language in the digital sphere.