Hana Miletić explores the politics of care and repair. In her work she engages with the residues of political and economic transitions. She uses photography and weaving together, creating handwoven textiles based on her photographs of everyday repairs and transformations in public space. Miletić understands weaving as a slow, manual process that resists the fast pace and standardization of production in contemporary life. Influenced by the tradition of handwork in her family, she also explores broader histories of textile production, including the roles of animals, machines, and recycled materials. Her work engages with questions about how knowledge, skills, and gestures of maintenance are transferred across generations, species, and systems. By foregrounding acts of mending and material translation, Miletić proposes an attentive political engagement rooted in these transfers.
Hana Miletić was born in Zagreb in 1982, today she lives and works in Brussels. She studied photography, art history and gender studies in Belgium and The Netherlands. Her most recent solo exhibitions were held at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Kunsthalle Mainz; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU), Rijeka; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Bergen Kunsthall; and WIELS, Brussels. She has participated i.a. in the Dhaka Art Summit 2023, Manifesta 14 Prishtina, and Sharjah Biennial 13. She was a resident at Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, and at the Albers Foundation’s cultural centre Thread in Sinthian. In 2021, she was awarded the Bâloise Art Prize.
