Meet the artist
Svetlana Popović – Lana S is a contemporary artist based in Belgrade, Serbia. Her practice encompasses abstract painting, wax and hand-painted silk, exploring depth, light and transformation through layered colour, texture and movement.
She graduated from the Faculty of Culture and Media in Belgrade and continued her artistic development through a scholarship programme at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts – ISI Denpasar in Bali. During seven years of living in Indonesia, she developed her knowledge of painting, batik and textile art while collaborating with international artists and shaping her distinctive visual language.
After returning to Belgrade, she expanded her practice through large-scale abstract paintings and original works on silk. Her compositions emerge through an intuitive process in which warm and cool tones, light and darkness, transparent layers and tactile surfaces gradually interact.
Her work invites the viewer to move beyond the visible surface and enter a quieter space of perception, inner dialogue and personal transformation.
In 2026, her work was presented through international exhibitions and art projects in London, New York, Paris, Vienna and Belgrade. Her artistic practice was also featured in an interview and publication by Visual Art Journal.
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EXHIBITIONS
Visual Art Journal Times Square Billboard Showcase
August 16, 2026
1560 Broadway, Times Square, New York, USA
Featured artwork: Depth of Water
Acrylic and wax on canvas, 100 × 120 cm
Fragments of the Contemporary #1 — International Juried Group Exhibition
September 5–6, 2026
Galerie M, 18 Rue Lally-Tollendal, Paris, France
Organized by The Names Gallery
Featured artwork: Subsurface
Acrylic and wax on canvas, 80 × 120 cm
International Juried Group Exhibition — The Names Gallery
September 12–13, 2026
The Last Abstraction Gallery, Ottakringer Straße 23/13, 1160 Vienna, Austria
Featured artwork: Depth of Water
Acrylic and wax on canvas, 100 × 120 cm
Dani Nikole Tesle 2026
Juried International Group Exhibition
Galerija Nikola Radošević, Belgrade, Serbia
In collaboration with the Tesla Science Foundation (USA)
1-15June 2026
Exhibited work: Between Two Breaths (80 × 120 cm)
Selected for the international exhibition Dani Nikole Tesle 2026, featuring 53 artists and organized as part of the multidisciplinary program dedicated to the legacy of Nikola Tesla. The exhibition was presented in Belgrade and included works responding to Tesla's life, scientific achievements and contemporary interpretations of his ideas.
International Group Exhibition, Into the Fold, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK — May 2026
(Suspension, acrylic on canvas, 30 × 30 cm)
Group Exhibition, Touch of Creation (Dodir stvaranja), Gallery Ikar, Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia — May 2026
(Winter Landscape, acrylic on canvas, 80 × 100 cm)
Group Exhibition, Gallery Ikar, Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia — April 2025
(Sunflower, acrylic on canvas, 50 × 50 cm)
• Private Studio Presentation — Dortmund, Germany (2026)
• Art Photography & Batik Exhibition — Pond Gallery, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia (2017)
• Dewi Batik Studio Exhibitions — Ubud, Bali, Indonesia (2018–2020)
• Fashion Exhibition — Fashion Mag — Hotel Cepter — Belgrade, Serbia (2022)
ONLINE PLATFORM EXHIBITION
• Saatchi Art (International Online Gallery) — 2025–present
https://www.saatchiart.com/lanasartist
Selected works available for international collectors.
Lana S is also represented on Singulart, where her work Between Two Breaths (acrylic on canvas 80 x 120cm) was featured in the curated collection European Artists to Follow (2026).
INTERVIEW & PUBLICATIONS
Artist Interview — Visual Art Journal
August 24, 2026
Online international artist feature
The interview explores Svetlana Popović – Lana S’s artistic development, her years in Bali and her practice centred on depth, light, texture and transformation.
Visual Art Journal — Issue #60
September 2026
International print and digital art publication
Featured artist: Svetlana Popović – Lana S
SELECTED PROJECTS
- Many Voices (2026)
Svilena serija -
Autorska kolekcija ručno oslikanih svilenih marama
od 70 radova (35 velikih i 35 mini) realizovana za događaj povodom Dana žena sa preduzetnicama sa Kosova i Metohije u organizaciji Kancelarije za Kosovo i Metohiju.
Each piece develops a unique variation of organic form and color, reflecting individual voices and the diverse paths of women entrepreneurs.
Umetnički projekat „Many Voices“, which includes 70 unique hand-painted works presents "Kinetic Voice". Reč je o dekonstruisanoj instalaciji u kojoj svaki pojedinačni rad nosi fragment šireg kolektivnog identiteta.
Odabrani radovi iz serije Many Voices, 2026
Your artistic practice stood out during the curation process and we look forward to presenting it to our international audience of collectors, curators, and art lovers.” “This work is a beautiful study of relief and monochromatic texture. It has an almost fossilized quality, as if an organic form—perhaps a bird or a dragonfly—were pressed into wet clay and left to dry over centuries. The way you have built the physical surface of the canvas with dense, sculpted paste creates striking highlights and shadows that shift depending on the light. By using a very limited palette of greenish sea-foam tones, turquoise, and sandy-yellow hues, you have kept the focus entirely on the central, elevated form. The piece is highly tactile and feels as though it belongs in the collection of a natural history museum from another planet.” — The Holy Art Gallery, London
London Exhibition — May 2026
Moj rad Suspension predstavljen je u Londonu kao deo međunarodne izložbe “Into the Fold” u organizaciji The Holy Art Gallery.
Presenting the work within this kind of contemporary international context opened a space for dialogue between atmosphere, material presence, and the quiet tension beneath the surface.
