The 58th October Salon - Belgrade Biennale has opened! "Dreamers" is an exhibition that brings together 64 international artists from all over the world.

Most of them have never exhibited in Belgrade or the Balkans before!

The choice of curators to invite the younger, ie the middle generation of artists was certainly completed by the works of already established names on the world stage such as Pierre Uig, Henri Sale, Jeremy Deler, Cao Fei, Mark Leki, which were relevant to curators for their research on this topic.

The exhibition features authors working in a wide range of media: video, performance, spatial installations, painting, sculptures - exploring different topics from those related to policies related to culture and identity, alienation and psychological aspects of human experience.

The exhibition of works, to single out some of them, Claudia Conte, Wong Ping, John Raffman, David Duar, Margarit Imo, Clara Hoznedlove, in the Museum of the City of Belgrade in Resavska transform the dimensions of space and draws visitors into a universe that is both foreign and famous.

The works of Sonja Radaković and Sanja Ćopić were specially performed during the opening weekend, and their traces can only be guessed at in the installation; while the work of Alex da Corte "Blue Moon" can be reported, viewed and participate in the living room or bedroom through a television screen and RTS3 channel (every evening from 20.55).

The 58th October Salon will be accompanied by a rich program - public guided tours, thematic guided tours, workshops for children and youth, talk with artists, and for fans of outdoor activities, every other weekend will be organized "October picnic" in the park in front of the Museum of Yugoslavia.

The following is a list of artists and artistic groups participating in the 58th October Salon - Belgrade Biennale:

Beginning date: 25.06.2021.
End date: 22.08.2021.
Locations: Cultural Center Hall, Belgrade Cultural Center, Museum of the City of Belgrade, Museum of Yugoslavia

Found out more on the official October Salon website:
http://www.oktobarskisalon.org/en/

October Salon Contact:
Cultural Center of Belgrade, Knez Mihailova 6/I, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

This year's October salon program:
http://www.oktobarskisalon.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/program_en-scaled.jpgy

https://www.biennialfoundation.org/

The first joint exhibition of painters Svetlana Ninković and Sara Kujundžić entitled "She and I" opened on Friday, July 2, at 8 pm, in the exhibition space of the Re-creative Center Silosi Belgrade. The exhibition will last until July 10, and it will be available to visitors every day from 6 to 10 pm in the chambers of the first silo.

The artists state that their intention is to explore and move the boundaries of the artistic ego through a series of abstract paintings. By sharing the same canvas during the creative process, the painters simultaneously open the question of mutual space and deep intimacy between them. They invite each other to create, upgrade or change together what has already been created. 

Svetlana Ninković graduated in 2006 from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, at the graphic department, and is a member of the "Art Circle". She has exhibited in 20 solos and about 30 group exhibitions in the country and abroad and participated in several art colonies and meetings. After graduating from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Sara Kujundzic went abroad, where she built her career in the waters of marketing and graphic design, and the teams that created under her art direction won internationally recognized awards in the field of advertising. Svetlana and Sara were in the same class, after which they remained close friends, and the exhibition She and I will show the works they sing together, which is a kind of a rarity in the world of fine arts.

This exhibition will also be the first in the newly opened Silos and announces a future gallery in the same place, dedicated to the local art scene. The Silos themselves are a kind of monument of brutalist architecture on the banks of the Danube, and they got new life thanks to the "Gaia Movement", a non-profit foundation that develops programs in the field of art, education, recreational sports, and environmental protection. 

Within the Silos, the Honey Garden and Urban Gardens have already been opened, as well as the Ponta bar as a gathering place for a wider social scene, and a summer stage has started for panel discussions, theater performances, and musical performances, as well as yoga and other forms of education. and recreation. In addition to the planned gallery, Silosi will soon contain an interactive museum and event center, and other facilities throughout the year.

The entrance to the Silos zone is located at the end of Dunavski kej Street, number 46, in Dorćol, behind the ramp of the former "Žitomlin" factory, and it is open to visitors every day from 12 noon to midnight.

On Thursday, June 17, at 7 pm, in the U10 gallery, the exhibition On the Other Side of the Sea by the French artist Clemon Bedel will be opened. The exhibition will be open until July 3.

"What is painting, if it is not a certain existence in the world (in Heidegger's sense) on a piece of canvas?" This existence in the world, this ontological connection with the temporality and transcendence of Clemon Bedel, allows the viewer to wander freely through the image or images, to perceive separate fragments of the biosphere and the remains of infrastructures in which human presence and logic exist only as phantom silhouettes. No dominant object will attract his attention, nor a great narrative that will conceptually hold him.

The other side of the sea is neither post-consumerist nor post-apocalyptic. It is the reconciling effect of living with the trouble that was initially caused by the force of the fall of civilization, rather than by the force of nature. In this abolition of world perspectives concerning dramatic flowering, Bedel finds a new perspective. He does this by articulating otherwise traumatic interweaving of planes that are more antagonistic than complementary. Here they show vitality and endurance, not entropy. ”from the text by Maja Ćirić

About the artist

Clemon Bedel is a French visual artist, born in 1993 in Strasbourg. In 2012, he enrolled at the National School of Art and Design in Nancy, where he mainly focused on installations and performance. After his stay at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade within the exchange program in 2016, he completely turned his attention to painting. After completing his master's studies at the National School of Art and Design, he returned to Belgrade, where he was a visiting student at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

He has had exhibitions in Serbia, Germany, and France, including a solo exhibition of paintings Shining through Reality at the City Cultural Center in Belgrade in May 2019 and participation in the Biennial of Young Creativity in Contemporary Art "MULUZ 019". in June 2019. After living in Belgrade for four years and residing in residencies, developing projects in Leipzig (2019) and Istanbul (2020), he now lives and works in Mulhouse, France.

Beginning date: 17th June
End date: 3rd July
Location: Kralja Milana 10 street (entrance from Kosovska devojka 3 street), Belgrade (Serbia)

Working hours:
Tuesday - Saturday: 12 - 20h
Sunday - Monday: closed

An exhibition of works Platform Israeli photographer Nathan Dvir will be open on May 25th at 19 pm in the Youth Center in Belgrade, as part of the current edition of the event Belgrade Month of Photography (Belgrade Photo Month) which is held at several locations in Belgrade. After the opening, visitors will be able to visit the exhibition from Tuesday to Saturday from 12 am to 9 pm and on Sunday from 12 noon to 6 pm, until June 4.

The platforms represent a research series of the unique underground architecture of New York , which is passed through every day, ie. in which he is temporarily residing. Metro platforms, viewed from the point of view of passengers from opposite sides, represent a voyeuristic experience precisely cut by the architecture of the space. The platform becomes a stage where the actors take their temporary seats before the train arrives, summoning the next act.

Combining voyeurism and photography and using the advantages of subway architecture, the series reflects alienation, separation, personal space, individualism, loneliness and the transient connection of the underground passages of the urban megalopolis.     

This year's festival is held in compliance with all measures of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Crisis Staff for the Suppression of Infectious Diseases Covid-19.

The Belgrade Month of Photography was organized for the first time in 2016, and this year's edition is the fifth in a row. The success of the festival is based on three strong pillars: the quality of the domestic photography scene, cooperation with art foundations, museums, galleries and all foreign cultural centers and embassies in Belgrade, as well as contacts and cooperation with other international events that give Serbian photographers a chance to present their work. abroad, bringing foreign photographers to Belgrade.

About the artist:

Natan’s main projects were exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and Israel including the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Portland Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Blenton Museum of Art (Austin), Southeast Museum of Photography (Daytona), International Center of Photography (New York), Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR), Anastasia Photo Gallery (New York), Schneider Gallery (Chicago), Houston Center for Photography, Center for Photography in Woodstock, Museo de Antioquia (Medellin), Triennial of Photography (Hamburg), Head On Festival (Sydney), Festival de la Luz (Buenos Aires), War Photo Museum (Dubrovnik), the Central European House of Photography (Bratislava), Christie’s (London), Kultur Bahnhof Eller (Düsseldorf), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Museum on the Seam (Jerusalem).

Natan’s work has been published by leading international magazines including National Geographic, The New York Times, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, Stern, Focus, The Times, The Guardian, Paris Match, Le Monde, L’Express, and Le Figaro among others. His work has received recognition winning prizes around the world including the Picture of the Year (POYi), PDN Photo Annual, American Photography, LensCulture Emerging Talent Award, Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3), International Photography Award (IPA), Discoveries of the Meeting Place (FotoFest), Aesthetica Art Prize, New York Photography Festival Award, Critical Mass top 50, and the Picture of the Year Award in the Israeli press.

The exhibition Beta_Enough is enough will be opened on Thursday, May 13, at 7 pm in the Collective of Architects (Drinčićeva 20). This program is dedicated to the Biennale of Architecture in Timisoara - Beta 2020, which occurred last year. Beta is a Euro regional platform for dialogue and cooperation. Its main goal is to improve the way we build our cities. 

The 3rd edition is dealing with the topic of responsibility for the present and future environment. This is an attempt to become a platform that articulates the attitude towards the increasing pressures. Environmental, social, cultural, economic… The pressures construction of facilities generates.  

The authors of this exhibition are the architect Anca Cioarec, Brindusa Tudor, and Ilka Ruby.

Anca Cioarec and Brindusa Tudor - Stardust Architects - are exploring poetic experiences in the design process. They come out of a desire to slow down the automation of the use of objects and space. They suggest moments of peace, presence and reflection.

The exhibition presents dozens of projects (local and international). These works created architects who did not have enough to wait for solutions "from the top-down". Creators who found their own way of using what already exists. Their art highlights the ways in which our planet can be treated with respect and responsibility. It is oriented towards the environment, the economy, and society as a whole. The exhibition will be led by guests from Romania - Beta team.

"We believe that it is necessary to look at what we already have, to observe the inventory of local resources, the reuse of abandoned and unused buildings, in order to find methods that will make them alive, and demolition to be our last option. To take care of, maintain, and repair broken. We should use the existing ones again, repair the materials, remember our crafts and try to adapt them to both the design and the construction process. And if we have to rebuild, from the beginning, we appreciate experimenting and researching new materials that are good for the environment, that is, biodegradable, renewable materials " - said architects Ilka Rubi, Anca Cioarec, and Brindusa Tudor.

Ilka Ruby

The 16th edition of the Belgrade International Architecture Week - BINA will be open from April 22 to May 20, 2021. The event was organized by the Association of Architects of Belgrade and the Cultural Center of Belgrade. 

The focus of this year's BINA program is the Belgrade School of Housing, which covers many subtopics.

Location: Collective Gallery (Galerija Kolektiv),
                Drinčićeva 20 Street, Belgrade (Serbia)
Opening date: 13/05/2021

The works of three authors will be presented: the video work "Sounds of the Homeland" by Mladen Miljanovic, the sculpture "Yugo America" ​​by Rados Antonijevic and the installation "America" ​​by Nenad Malesevic.

The exhibition was produced by the Sasa Marcheta Foundation

The curator of the exhibition and the director of the Foundation, Ksenija Samardžija, said about this exhibition:

- The exhibition offers us the remains, lived and reworked contents - what is left of the great historical narratives. The Sasa Marcheta Foundation supported the organization of this exhibition with the intention of considering the issues of consequences, what comes after the dramatic experience and where the utopian shores of freedom are today, at a time when tectonic changes are changing social, political and ethical narratives.

Art historian Stevan Vukovic states in the exhibition catalog: 

"Through the thematic combination of works in this exhibition, an image of imaginary America is created, which serves as an external landmark, that is, as a kind of otherness in relation to everyday life in the 'Balkan ravines', but also as a kind of 'inner side of the territory', whose existence constantly makes it known that in all that local Balkans, no one is completely immune to Americanization, which is taking place continuously, slowly and imperceptibly. "

"Sounds of the homeland"

"Sounds of the Homeland" by Mladen Miljanovic is a fifteen-minute video and represents a resemmatization of an artistic one that takes and combines already existing original songs - different versions of the same song "America Made Bosnia a State" by Ante Bubalo.

The space of song and art is used as a potential of neutral space and a platform of culture in which every growth is possible because it is a space to which everyone claims the right, but no one is its absolute owner.

On the other hand, the work is a product of reflection on the current position of veterans from all three armies of the last war, and the question of the purpose of the fight from today's point of view as well as the possibility of the utopia of the opposing collective.

The work was shot in May 2018 and produced in 2019 in collaboration with the film crew of Greg Blakey, an Australian director based in Berlin, and the author of the photo documentation is Nemanja Mićević.

"Yugo Amerika"

The metal sculpture "Yugo America" ​​was created in 2019 and represents the shell of a Yugo car - cut and narrowed along the axis of symmetry by Rados Antonijevic.

From 1985 to 1992, in a campaign called Yugo America, the export of this car to the United States lasted. Regardless of whether (as it was assessed in America) it is the worst car of all time, its shape and name remain deeply integrated into the constructions of our identity, and it has a cult status in Serbia.

The form of the work, emphasized by the sculptural intervention, outgrows the simplicity of the industrial object and gives an impulse to the opinion about heritage and identity. The name "Yugo America" ​​can be the name for all modernity strategies in the Balkans.

"America"

Nenad Malešević's installation "America" ​​includes three photographs, a thousand drawings and one postage stamp.

The series of drawings started in 2015 and contains ten books, ie. volumes. The motif is a sculpture near New York, on the Island of Freedom, known as the Statue of Liberty. The photos were taken in February 2019 on Freedom Island, at 53rd New York Street and at the Metropolitan Museum.

The drawings were made according to the illustration of the Statue of Liberty from the postage stamp of the official name "Statue of Liberty", issued in 1961 in Buffalo, New York. and purchased in Zemun in 2011. Drawings and photographs are a form of the question "What is America to me (which was not Kafka)?" The drawing process is devoid of certainty and close to expressionism, although, as the author states, “.

Yugovica's Brothers 16 Street (Braće Jugovića 16), Belgrade (Serbia), The Balkan Cinema

Beginning date: 8/04/2021

End date: 30/4/2021