Milan Lučić is an Arts Manager with over 25 years of experience. For the past 10 years Milan has been the British Council’s Arts Manager Western Balkans, delivering a wide-ranging programme of festivals, showcases, exhibitions and capacity building across multiple artforms in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. He developed the concepts for “PlayUK”, an arts and digital technology platform and “Perceptions”, a gender equality programme for national museums. Milan presented “Perceptions” at ICOM’s global conference in Kyoto in 2019.
Previously, Milan held roles as Director for Dom omladine, Belgrade’s largest cultural and performing arts centre, as well as at Serbian Film Centre, Belgrade Jazz Festival, and CENPI – Centre of New Theatre and Dance. He has been arts director or creative producer in many national and international programmes including the “Queer identities in contemporary culture”, the first ever LGBTQ+ film and theatre season in Serbia, and “Vareso Aver”, a Roma contemporary arts festival. He established “Balkan Express”, a performing arts network. He has delivered further projects in Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Hungary.
Milan has led numerous fundraising campaigns with the EU, ECF, HIVOS, SIDA, Swedish-Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and others. He secured one million US dollars from USAID which led to a multimillion Euro refurbishment of Dom omladine.
He has served on various boards and committees, including nine years at the Europe’s largest arts network IETM, Norwegian Nettverk for scenekunste, Serbian Film Encyclopaedia, Atelje 212 theatre, Belgrade Summer Festival and Serbian Ministry of Culture Creative Europe.
Milan has a degree in Dramaturgy and is a fellow of Devos Institute – Kennedy Centre, University of Maryland.