Danilo Spasović, also known by his artistic names Denke or Mega Denke, was born in 1979 in Novi Pazar. He finished high school in Novi Pazar and later earned a degree in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.
Denke is a multidisciplinary artist working in both painting and music. In his music career, he was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter in the bands Elektrolasta and Strašni Haremski Čuvari, and today he performs under the name Mega Denke. He has been actively engaged in painting since 2008, when he began working within the art collective Mubareć. He is also one of the founders of the association Art Brut Serbia, which promotes outsider art and artists outside the mainstream. Since 2024, he has been a permanent member of the Center for Depth Art.
His art is marked by a raw, expressive aesthetic, developed outside the framework of formal art training. Denke paints in an automatic and intuitive way, guided by impulse rather than planned composition. His works usually depict expressive anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, deformed, grotesque, and mutated—beings on the threshold of the human, animal, and fantastic. These figures appear in scenes that evoke mythological motifs and archetypal patterns, though without a clearly developed narrative. His painting is an act of personal introspection—a visual reflection of inner tensions, conflicts, and frustrations, often imbued with irony and a humorous detachment.
Collective Mubareć Exhibition, Elektrika Gallery, Pančevo, 2010
Collective Mubareć Exhibition, ZMUC Cultural Center, Belgrade, 2010
Collective Mubareć Exhibition, CRACK fumetti dirompenti Festival, Forte Prenestino, Rome, 2012
Collective Mubareć Exhibition, Novo Doba Festival, Inex Film, Belgrade, 2012
First Art Brut Serbia Exhibition, Cultural Center, Sopot, 2013
Collective Mubareć Exhibition within the FIJUK Fair, CUK Imago, Belgrade, 2015
Balkan Art Brut Salon, Štab Gallery, Belgrade, 2017
5 Years of Art Brut Serbia, Novo Doba Festival, Magacin, Belgrade, 2018
Dreamcatchers, Exhibition of Serbian and Croatian Marginal Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2020
Folk Treasure, Exhibition from the Art Brut Serbia Collection, Suluj Gallery, Belgrade, 2021
From the Art Brut Serbia Collection, Faculty of Contemporary Arts Gallery, Belgrade, 2022
Dreamcatchers, Exhibition of Serbian and Croatian Marginal Art, Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art, Jagodina, 2022
Art Brut Serbia Collection / project Art Brut: The Other? Europe, Novi Sad – ECOC 2022, Svilara Gallery, Novi Sad 2022
Art Brut Serbia Collective Exhibition, IDYLLEREI Festival, Nuremberg, 2024
