Bora Iljovski (1942 – 2013)
Bora Iljovski was one of the most respected protagonists of modernism in Yugoslav painting. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1966, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in 1968 under the tutorage of Đordje Bošan. He is a member of the Artists’ Association of Serbia.
He has exhibited on numerous individual and group exhibitions at home and abroad. He exhibited at the Venetian Biennale in 1982. He had a retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade in 2006 after which he received the Politika prize for visual arts from the Vladislav Ribnikar Foundation.
The National Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the National Gallery in Berlin, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republica Srpska in Banja Luka, the Zepter Museum in Belgrade, as well as numerous private collections in Serbia and abroad house his artworks.