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Tagged: post-yugoslav art

An installation view with a freestanding male nude holding flowers on a circular base and a wall-mounted piece representing a map of Yugoslavia and Serbia.

ARTMargins Online: Exhibition Reviews

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 by Iva Glisic ·

Zdravko Joksimović: A Glimmering Friendship

Zdravko Joksimović: A Glimmering Friendship, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, May 8 – August 25, 2025

Spanning almost four decades of creative production, the retrospective of sculptor Zdravko Joksimović at Belgrade’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCAB) this summer defies convention. Rather than following a chronological trajectory, curator Miroslav Karić has chosen to organize more than 270 works—from drawings to ready-made paintings, assemblages, and sculptures—into twelve thematic units for the two-part exhibition, A Glimmering Friendship. Opting for an “open structure of display,” the exhibition launched with the first six units(Zdravko Joksimović: A Glimmering Friendship, exhibition brochure.); halfway … Read more

An artist is painting a black and white mural on the wall

ARTMargins Online: Articles / ARTMargins Online: Special Issue

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 by Biljana Purić ·

Live Solidarity — Art Workers and Feminist Artistic Organizing in the Post-Yugoslav Region

Equating all types of work and workers in his writing, Edvard Kardelj, one of the main ideators of the Yugoslav workers’ self-management system, set the scene for the understanding of the role of artists in Yugoslav society.(Edvard Kardelj, Pravci razvoja političkog sistema socijalističkog samoupravljanja (Beograd: Komunist, 1978), p. 25.) The idea of class solidarity and the equal value of work—regardless of it being intellectual or physical—was embraced, and many initiatives followed this idea, such as the art program at the Ironworks complex in Sisak, in present-day Croatia, where workers assisted artists, and collaborated with them in the creation … Read more