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Together with Sanjaj Gallery, we featured artworks of Silvia Sarsano, Marko Kusmuk, Pasha Cas, Veljko Valjarevic and Marko Ladjusic. Visitors were also welcome to experience and interact with the immersive art installation, “In the Beginning Was the Word”, by Nele Karajlic, curated by Denis Leo Hegic and Sanja Jankovic, that made its premiere as one of the central artworks this October in Budapest.
Together with our colleagues, gallerists and curators, we experienced a cross-section of Serbian contemporary art in the exhibition “Encounters” at the art pavillion Cvijeta Zuzoric in Belgrade.
The exhibition was organized by the Association of Fine Artists of Serbis (ULUS) and we had the pleasure to showcase works by Andrej Bjelic.
We are grateful to ULUS for the opportunity to exhibit our large scale format paintings titled “Rare Leopard with Blue Spots” and “Bold Unicorn.” We also want to extend our gratitude to all the visitors who engaged with our pieces, and to the art lovers who were brought together by this event. Your curiosity and interest means the world to us.
Our pop-up event series SUPERSOBA explores Belgrade’s artistic community and cultural landscape. With each pop-up, we offer artists and creatives the opportunity to take over our showroom and present their work, experiments and positions to the audience.
In our regular format “Volare Curare” we invite next gen art curators and let them define and shape the discussion among themselves and with the audience – according to their current entails, thoughts and necessities. It is important to us to connect, share and ultimately promote the very future of art curation and production that they represent.
SUPERSOBA
In our 6th edition of Supersoba, we showcased the amazing visual and textual works of Brankovic sisters.
Aleksandra Brankovic is a visual artist from Serbia. Her art mainly features collages, which she combines with drawing and painting. She has exhibited her works in solo and group exhibitions in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and France. Her focus is on expressing different gender and other identities, as well as the different settings they inhabit and interact within.
Milja Brankovic is a poet and screenwriter. Milja is the founder of the poetry movement “Poetry from the Fridge” and is working on a multimedia project called “Neon Baby” with her twin sister and painter, Aleksandra Brankovic. She lives, loves, and writes in Belgrade.
VOLARE CURARE
Within Vol. 2 of Volare Curare we hosted young and talented curators that shared their opinions and views from the contemporary art scene in Belgrade.
In our vol.2 of Volare Curare we had the pleasure to host young curators Ana Simona Zelenovic, Teodora Jeremic and Senka Latinovic, where they shared their own take on the ever shapeshifting art scene in Serbia and what kind of future they envision for artists, art insititutins and audience engagement above all.
SUPERSOBA
Our 5th edition of Supersoba showcased the artworks of Yao Wang in our studio space at Cetinjska 15.
Yao Wang is a Chinese visual artist currently based in Belgrade. After finishing his undergraduate degree in graphic design (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in 2019, he traveled to Belgrade in the beginning of 2020 as an artist in residence and eventually got stuck due to the pandemic. After 2 years of being in the limbo of not being able to travel back home, he found himself at ease of calling Belgrade a temporary base. His works are primarily installation and sculpture based, with a focus on identity and the intimate relationship between the artist and his surroundings. This is often explored through humour and social commentary.
Sanja Vasic is a transdisciplinary artist. Using media such as writing, installation and photography, her work plays with multiple vocabularies, interweaving political and personal narratives; exploits embodied experiences; fragments of memory and relics of intense emotions…
VOLARE CURARE
Sharing is caring and caring is CURARE! Our second Supersoba pop up event vol. 1 of Volare Curare was all about #TALKTALKTALK with and among the young generation of curating power.
Three young curators shared their views and moderate their own VOLARE CURARE conversation: Bojana Jovanovic, Brajan Vojinovic and Jovana Trifuljesko with their opinions, ideas and perspectives on the subject of contemporary art in Serbia, importance of the individual relationship between emerging curators and emerging artists, on curating as a collective experience and most importantly: what does curating actually mean?
SUPERSOBA
We hosted an event with Anika Lomic – the pop-up “Emblem” was inviting the visitors to experience a series of works where the artist depicted the effects that nature and light create on various surfaces and materials. Anika also shared her skills and insights during a live sculpting workshop.
Lomic participated in numerous group art colonies, exhibitions and projects. She was involved in set design for short student films and theater plays, live music festival and is the author of a photo book. Anika has spent most of her professional life practicing and studying about furniture restoration. There are no set rules for Anika’s work process, she likes to improvise, but also to take meticulous care of the application and function of the work. As a child, she spent time in her father’s restoration workshop, where she began to explore materials. Her works include the use of environmentally friendly and sustainable materials for interior and exterior spaces, elements within applied forms. From a young age, she became interested in electric motors and light, and she makes installations and light items by upcycling found objects.
SUPERSOBA
Our first edition showed multimedia artworks of Serbian artist Bojana Torlak that we’re accompanied with a performance by the alternative performance group Kabare Nebula.
Bojana Torlak defines her artistic practice as visualising the materiality of the “non – existent entities”, and granting them somewhat of a double life in that process. By doing so, what is invisible to the naked eye obtains a body in a new, parallel dimension which exists in this time space reality, only in a different form. However much this process of materialization may be subjective, the feelings she is trying to grasp and transform are universal.
Bojana combines her conscious, logical experiences, as well as her inner life that takes place on an intuitive, spiritual, conscious and unconscious level, into one enigmatic energy unit. By combining these elements she tries to find and define the longing of her „soul“, traces of questioning and correction. What she finda as a motive is her own truth, that is, a true emotion that is inseparable from art.