KULUNDZIC Kosta

Kosta KULUNDZIC (born 1972 in Paris) is a French-American contemporary artist of Serbian origin.

Kosta Kulundzic graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 1998. Winner of the Claude Berthault Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2012, he taught at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Val de Seine, at the Université Paris-Sud, at the Honolulu Museum of Art School and now teaches classical drawing at the University of Hawaii. In 2012, he was one of the initiators of the sub-realist movement, together with Serbian artist Vuk Vidor and French artist Stéphane Pencréac'h, who was set up in reaction to the conceptualization of contemporary painting: for these artists, the image must take precedence over the idea and not the opposite. A grandchild of a pop, he brings religious writings and violence closer to the contemporary world. This carnival reversal gives us to see an inversion of values, a world in which women have taken over men, and give up the most terrible crimes in a most playful atmosphere. It demonstrates a certain political commitment, for example in the sketch of the hearing at Trump vs. Hawaii in 2017. He exhibited in Belgium, Bosnia, China, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States.

In 2018, selected as part of an artistic project, Kosta Kulundzic painted in situ two frescoes in the parking lot of the Royal Hamilius in Luxembourg, a building designed by architect Sir Norman Foster. Artists Dorothy Louise Recker, Lise Stoufflet, Gaëtan Henrioux, Axel Sanson and Valentina Canseco are also participating in the project.