Mice Jankulovski | Praise to the Black

Filmography

1978:

• “Difficult Things”, animation film, 3 min.

1985-2005 :

• Author and director of documentary movie series for art and culture in a production of MTV (Macedonian National TV):
  “Self-taught Artists in Macedonia” (series of ten TV portraits of artists)
  “Self-taught Artists in Yugoslavia” (series of ten TV portraits of artists)
  “Archeology in Macedonia” (two documentary movies)
  “Film Youth Forum” (series of twelve documentary movies)

Works in Collections

• Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Centar, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Ural Vision Foundation, Yekaterinburg, Russia / Budapest, Hungary
• Museum “Robevci House” Ohrid, N. Macedonia
• KulturDialog Armenien, Yerevan
• China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan
• Graphium, Timisoara, Romania
• Municipal Gallery Larnaca, Larnaca, Cyprus,
• Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece,
• Municipal Gallery Varna, Varna, Bulgaria.
• OSTEN Museum of Drawing, Skopje, North Macedonia
• Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, North Macedonia
• St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia
• Boro and Ramiz Youth Center, Pristina, Kosovo
• Devlet Resim Heykel Muzesi, Ankara, Turkey

Awards

2020 :

• Rembrandt Award for Excellence in Art by WAVA (World Association of Visual Arts)

2019:

• El Greco Award for Best Artist, Art Thessaloniki, Greece
• Lorenzo Il Magnifico Special Award by the President for Lifetime Achievement, Florence Biennale, Italy

2018:

• Artist of the World, Larnaca Biennial, Cyprus

2017:

• Gran Prix, 19th International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria
• Nomination by the Jury, IV International Biennial GRAPHIUM, Timisoara, Romania

2016:

• The Best Exhibition of the Year in Varna, Bulgaria (“Forms” by Mice Jankulovski)

2012:

• Honorary Plaque by the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria

1997:

• Gran Prix, World Gallery of Cartoons Skopje

1987:

• Third Award, Association of Cartoonists of Macedonia

1985:

• First Award, Association of Cartoonists of Macedonia
• Special Award, World Gallery of Cartoons, Skopje
• 13th November Award, City of Skopje
• Charter of Fine Arts, Award by the Arbitrary Community of the Republic of N. Macedonia

1982:

• First Award, Yugoslav Alliance for Environmental Protection and Improvement

1981:

• Our Achievements, Award by RK SSOJ

1979:

• Special Award, World Gallery of Cartoons, Skopje Associations and organizations
• FMM – Film Youth of Macedonia (founder and president)
• ZKM – Association of Cartoonists of Macedonia (founding member and actual President)
• FECO – The International Federation of Cartoonist Organizations (founding member)
• DLUM – Association of Visual Artists of Macedonia (member)
• OSTEN – Biennial of Drawing / Museum of Drawing (founder)

Selected Bibliography

2020:

• Texts in the monograph book “MICKO Mice Jankulovski – paintings”: “Mice Jankulovski: Form III – In the Interspace of Forms, Unveiling an Illusion about Absolute Darkness”, Vladimir Jancevski, art historian, N. Macedonia; “Mice Jankulovski: Forms in a Realm of Aesthetic Memory”: Dr. Melanie Zefferino, art historian and curator, Italy; “Black is the Colour of Drama”: Prof. Manos Stefanidis, art critic, curator and writer, Greece; “The Fundamentality in
  Mice Jankulovski’s Black”: Maty Grunberg, artist, Israel; “A Light Painting on a Colorless Field”: Olga Tobreluts, artist, Russia; “Essay on Black – To Shine with Darkness”: Milan Jazbec, Ambassador of Slovenia to North Macedonia, professor of diplomacy, writer and poet; “Where Light Becomes the Topic – Changing Painterly Surfaces”: Zsolt Petranyi, PhD, art historian and curator, Hungary; “The True Mediality in Jankulovski’s Black Surfaces”: Alexandr Borovsky, art historian, curator, art critic, Russia.

2019:

• Prof. Manos Stefanidis: “Unespected Dialog – Picasso & Jankulovski” (text in publication) Zsolt Petranyi, PhD: “Transcoded Structures – Before and After the Media in Abstraction” (text in catalog); Prof. Manos Stefanidis: “Black is the Color of Drama” (text in catalog), “Transcoded Structures”, OSTEN Pavilion, Palazzo Ca’Zanardi, Venice, Italy.

2018:

• Dr. Melanie Zefferino: “Mice Jankulovski – Forms in a Realm of Aesthetic Memory” (text in catalog), “Forms in Black” Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, www.culturenow.gr, www.independent.gr, www.floroieikastikoi.blogspot.com

2017

• Maja Cankulovska: “On the Forms by Mice Jankulovski”, (text in catalog), Archivi della Misericordia, Venice, Enzo Di Martino: “Il Gazzettino” Venice, “Jankulovski, the Clash between White and Black” (originally in Italian), Sonja Abadzieva: “Visual Arts in Macedonia –XX Century, Book 2.: Multimedia Art” (Mice Jankulovski, pg. 66-69), Osten, Skopje, N. Macedonia

2016:

• Denitsa Yaneva, PhD, “The Forms by Mice Jankulovski”, (text in catalog), Graffit Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria

2014:

• Tamara Arsovska: “Chronical Memories” (pg. 302-310), PANILI, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1994:

• Vladimir Velickovski: “Macedonian Cartoon” (pg. 207; 230), NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia; Trajan Martinovski: “The Painting on Glass by Mice Jankulovski” (pg. 183-195), DIALOG – MAGAZINE FOR THE SOCIETY THEORY AND CRITICS, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1992:

• R.: “Exhibition by Mice Jankulovski in Blagoevgrad”, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1991:

• R.:“Exhibition by Mice Jankulovski”, Rovel Gallery, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia;
  R.:“Jankulovski and Pelegrini exhibit together”, VECER, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1990:

• G. Ristovski, N. Cvetanovski: “Exhibition of Portraits by Mice Jankulovski”, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia; Dz.P.: “Exhibition by Ciuha and Jankulovski”, VECER, Skopje, N.  Macedonia

1989:

• S.G.: “Exhibition by Mice Jankulovski”, Cultural Center “Braka Miladinovci”, Struga, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia; Zoran Kostov: “Provocation – Shot in a Blanc”, Mice Jankulovski, VECER, Skopje, N. Macedonia; S.G.: “Exhibition by Vasilevski and Jankulovski in Sofija”, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1988

• S.G.: “Solo Exhibition by Jankulovski and Generalic”, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1987:

• S.G.: “Cartoons by Mice Jankulovski”, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N.  Macedonia

1986:

• Ljuben Paunoski, “Esthetic Art in the Cartoons by Mice Jankulovski” (text in catalog), National Museum, Struga, Macedonia; C.Z.: “Exhibition of Cartoons by Mice Jankulovski”, VECER, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1985:

• V.K.: “Exhibition of Cartoons by Mice Jankulovski”, Center for Culture and Information, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia; D.C.: “Against Tenanting in Culture” Mice Jankulovski, Third solo exhibition in Skopje, EKRAN, Skopje, N. Macedonia; Paskal Lilevski: “Penetration into
  Contemporary” (Exhibition by Mice Jankulovski), VECER, Skopje, N. Macedonia; Vasil Tocinovski: “Art-esthetic Reach, towards the exhibition of cartoons by Mice Jankulovski”, Center for Culture and Information in Skopje, EKRAN, Skopje, N. Macedonia; Vladimir Velickovski: “A Theme with Universal Marks, Towards the exhibition of cartoons by Mice Jankulovski”,Center for Culture and Information in Skopje, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia; D. Kondovski, V. Jocic, M. Jankulovski: “Awarded”, XVII World Gallery of Cartoons, VECER, Skopje,  N. Macedonia; D.P.: “The Cartoons by Mice Jankulovski”, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia; V.S.: “The Cartoons by Mice Jankulovski”, VECER, Skopje, Macedonia; Msc. Metodi Petrovski: Mice Jankulovski (text in catalog), The Workers House, Strumica, N. Macedonia; R.: Awarded “13 Noemvri Awards”, (Mice Jankulovski), VECER, Skopje, N. Macedonia; Dz. Popovski: “There are ‘Sweet Themes’”, Meeting with the artist Mice Jankulovski, the winner of the “13 Noemvri Award”, VECER, Skopje,
  N. Macedonia; M.T.: “Exhibition of Cartoons by Mice Jankulovski”, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1984:

• Lj.P.: “First Award for Mice Jankulovski”, NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1983:

• Ratka Cetkovic: “Multistructural Perception of the Problem” (S. Bozinovska, M. Jankulovski, R. Dandarov), POBJEDA, Titograd, Montenegro; S.G.:, “Exhibition of Cartoons” (M. Jankulovski, R. Dandarov), NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1982:

• S.G.: “Cartoon and Short Story Awards Announced” (D. Cudo, M. Jankulovski), NOVA MAKEDONIJA, Skopje,  N. Macedonia

1980:

• Krste Jovanovski: “Notes from One Trip”, Mice Jankulovski – Exhibition of Cartoons, STUDENTSKI ZBOR, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1979:

• R.: “А Smile through Тears” (Mice Jankulovski), VECER, Skopje,  N. Macedonia

1979:

• Gorgija Najdovski, “Ten Years of Silent Creation – Mice Jankulovski” (text in catalog)Gorgija Najdovski, “Interview with Mice Jankulovski”, TRUDBENIK, Skopje Ranko Munitic, “Cinematography Animation in Yugoslavia”, University of Arts in Belgrade Belgrade, (About: Petar Gligorov, Darko Markovic, Boro Pejcinov, Delco Mihajlov , Mice Jankulovski)

1978:

• “А Smile through Тears”, book of cartoons by Mice Jankulovski, STUDENTSKI ZBOR, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1977

• Naume Radiceski, “In a Quest for the Form”, STUDENTSKI ZBOR, Skopje, N. Macedonia

1975

• Vladimir Georgievski, “Forms”, text in catalog of the exhibition at the Youth Cultural Center, Skopje, N. Macedonia