Tagged: Belgrade

The Labyrinth of the Nineties: Memory, Representation, and the Long Aftermath

The Labyrinth of the Nineties: Memory, Representation, and the Long Aftermath, M90 Foundation, Belgrade, permanent exhibition

The looming heritage of the 1990s in former Yugoslavia is marked by scars, both physical—on the bodies of the people—and metaphysical, psychological ones that are felt for a long time, and carried within. But how is this turbulent period assessed and examined in recent historiography and cultural studies? Usually defined as a period of great change—of transition from a divided to a unitary Europe, the fall of Communism, and the financialization of capital—in the former Yugoslavia it remains a contested topic, where each … Read more

Exhibition view with a range of objects and images on the walls and display boxes on the ground.

The Outsider: Vladan Radovanović at Belgrade’s Museum of Contemporary Art

Vladan Radovanović: Ahead of his Time and Beyond / Vladan Radovanović: Ispred vremena i izvan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, March 28 – September 10, 2024

Ours is an age of inclusive, pluralistic categories. For the discipline of art history, this is evident in the commonplace use of terms like modernisms and global contemporary art. Capacious and limitless, these terms seek to dispel myths of quality and canonicity, to flatten hierarchies between centers and peripheries, and to resolve asymmetries between the local and the global with little more than the use of a prefix or a plural. The retrospective exhibition, … Read more