
Instructions for Happiness
Amer Hadzic
ABOUT
Amer Hadžić’s solo exhibition Instructions for Happiness explores contemporary notions of happiness, success, and personal expectations through painting, sculpture, and dioramas. Combining pop art, urban aesthetics, humour, and irony, the artist questions the promises and contradictions of everyday life.
Instructions for Happiness, an exhibition by Bosnian-Herzegovinian artist Amer Hadžić, presents a body of work that brings together popular culture, urban aesthetics, and a critical reflection on contemporary society. Through painting, sculpture, and dioramas, Hadžić places familiar characters from animated films and comic books within urban environments marked by graffiti, inscriptions, and traces of time. Their seemingly carefree nature contrasts with questions of success, money, loneliness, and social expectations. The exhibition's title carries an ironic undertone, questioning the idea that universal instructions for happiness could exist. Humour, nostalgia, and sarcasm become ways of addressing more complex aspects of everyday life, while three-dimensional works extend the artist's visual language beyond the canvas. Rather than offering definitive answers, the exhibition invites viewers to look beyond familiar imagery and recognise their own experiences, expectations, and the contradictions of contemporary life. The exhibition runs from October 24 to November 30, 2026, at Aleksić Gallery in Kragujevac.
ARTIST
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Đorđe Bukvić — Herbarium, 3–21 October 2026.

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