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

On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the father of the Italian language, the Italian Embassy in Belgrade and the Italian Institute of Culture present the exhibition Hypermodern Dante. Illustrations of Dante's work around the world in the period from 1983 to 2021, which will be held from April 14th to May 12th in the premises of the Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade. 

The exhibition will be opened on Wednesday, April 14th, at 6:30 PM, and the live broadcast of the opening can be watched on the YouTube channel of the Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade. The exhibition will be open to visitors from April 15th to May 12th, 2021, from Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 7:00 p.m., and its premiere edition is in Belgrade. After Belgrade, it will be presented to the public in Athens, Prague, Moscow, Madrid and London.

The exhibition Hypermodern Dante offers an overview of the latest trends in the long history of illustrated depictions of Dante's works and represents a unique opportunity to show Serbian audiences iconographic works of a high artistic range inspired by the Top Poet. Visitors will be able to enjoy the various experiences, techniques and methodologies brought into dialogue through eighty works by five contemporary artists - Tom Phillips, Monica Bajsner, Mima Paladin, Emiliano Pontius and Paolo Barbieri. It is a kind of journey into contemporary visual culture.

The solo exhibition of the artist Nikola Mihajlović "Transmutation" will be opened on April 1st at 6 pm at the Balkan Cinema and will last until April 30th. In this exhibition, the author will present his paintings inspired by meta-spaces, invisible dimensions where energies and sentiments take on the contours of architectural forms. 

The works were created in the period of the last year, during which Mihajlović created in the studio of the Balkan Cinema. The opening hours are from 6 pm to 8 pm, respecting all epidemiological measures, and will culminate with a live performance at 7:30 pm, when the author will convey a "provocative" message to the visitors of the exhibition.

As for the works that will be presented at the exhibition, street art artist and architect Nikola Mihajlović says: "Architectural thinking and approach to certain issues have left a strong influence on my work, which can be seen through the use of universal mathematical relations, geometry, lines." the influence of spontaneous and untamed energy of nature and emotion. It can be said that the relationship between these contrasts is the main path I take in my work. "

Ksenija Samardzija, curator of the exhibition and director of the Foundation Sasha Marceta, about forthcoming exhibitions and cooperation with Nikola Mihajlovic says, "Transmutation is the title of the exhibition that accompanies the formation of work during the period of the last year and from which part of the image is emerging in the cinema Balkan , in a kind an improvised atelier of a historic building that retains an attic and a wooden roof structure. With the transfer of Cinema Balkan as a working space, the desired situation was achieved for the Balkans to change, adapt and open. With the need to define itself as a modern cultural center, and in that sense the cooperation of the Sašo Marčet and Nikola Mihajlović Foundation is developing through an organized, well-thought-out and systematic position of support ”.

Stevan Vukovic, a member of the Sasa Marcheta Foundation's program council, writes in a publication dedicated to the exhibition, among other things: "Nikola Mihajlovic Korija's works examine the modalities of cooperation of colored shapes and lines, focusing on the plastic values ​​expressed through these cooperations. they act on the observer, without relying on the evocation of previously seen painting patterns, nor on analogies with established examples of work in that field. They are focused on the aesthetic experience of the observer, with the aim of evoking new modalities of affectivity and offering specific ways of feeling reality, which separate a specific moment from the continuity of time, while the baggage of everyday thoughts, worries and preoccupations is set aside, at least for a moment, to sink into relationships. the basic elements of artistic expression, which are thus also the only contents shown in these paintings ”.  

Artist announces the exhibition:

The exhibition was produced by the Sasa Marcheta Foundation.

About the artist:

Nikola Mihajlović was born in Belgrade in 1986. He attended the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium and then acquired the title of Master of Architecture in 2011 at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. He has been actively involved in artistic creation since 2008 in the form of street art, and later in the studio painting. He is the winner of the first prize at the national art competition Voyage Bleu, participant and organizer of several international and domestic projects in the field of art, among which stand out: a series of exhibitions entitled Scene at several locations in Belgrade, organization of street art festival in Požarevac, organization of street art festival Balkan Live in Belgrade, participation inStart India Festival in Hyderabad, India; participation in the Urban art-ventures festival in Volos (Greece); mural painting and a solo exhibition in Verbier (Switzerland); participation in the residence at Glo'Art in Lanaken (Belgium).

He has exhibited at numerous collective and several solo exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, among which stand-out solo exhibitions at the Parobrod Gallery in Belgrade and the Espace Temoin Gallery in Geneva; two collective exhibitions in Berlin, two participations in the Art Autumn in Sombor. He is a member of the Street Smart art collective and an external associate at the Sasa Marcheta Foundation in Belgrade. He is currently working on the project Artificial Intelligence and Art in cooperation with the Center for the Promotion of Science in Belgrade.

Cinema Balkan, Brace Jugovica 16 Street, Belgrade (Serbia)
Beginning date: 1/4/2021
End date: 30t/4/2021