Fresh Wave Festival x Vagon Gallery
The combination of contemporary art and electronic music at this year’s Fresh Wave Festival, in collaboration with Vagon Gallery, presented an innovative platform that opened the door to a new way of experiencing both media. This fusion of art, which deconstructs societal paradigms, and music, which operates through powerful sensory experiences, offered the audience an opportunity to explore and recreate collective identity through […]
Artist Talk – Marijana Đaković i Isidora Banjac
Isidora Banjac and Marijana Đaković discussed the current exhibition Vrela. How important is the material we use in art, and how does it influence the concept of a visual artwork? What happens after the Academy of Fine Arts? And how important are awards and opportunities? Marijana Đaković was born on May 20, 1999, in Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina […]
Hot Exhibition
Key concepts: installation, text, space, materials (construction, mechanical, craft), identity, gender roles, manipulation of information, lie and truth, paradox, ambivalence, the multiplicity of language, ambiguity of words. Through installations, I experiment with space and various materials from mechanics, construction, and crafts. I use ambiguity (the multiplicity of language) to show contrasts and tensions in society. I record sentences spoken by other people and […]
Artist Talk – Aleksandar Milošević i Isidora Banjac
Aleksandar Milošević showed us his daily work and explained why plumbing and art are so closely connected. The curator and art historian Isidora Banjac and Aleksandar Milošević discussed expectations, searches, and work! Aleksandar emphasized contemporary perceptions of labor and the working class, highlighting how historical context has shaped today's attitudes. His hermetic approach to the exhibition opened [...]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Art Scene
Isidora Branković gave a lecture titled "Bosnia and Herzegovina Art Scene" at Nihon University College of Art (Tokyo, Japan) with professors Tets Ohnari and Ryuta Iida, where she mapped and analyzed the main points of development and survival of the contemporary art scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She spoke about the position of young artists in Bosnia [...]
Abuse of official position
The work explores the complex relationships between social classes, rethinking how historical processes have shaped and influenced the working class in a contemporary context. Through its satirical approach, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on traditional concepts of justice and virtue, placing them in a new framework; it takes the vanished world where work created the individual, an individual identified with the trade or reduced to [...]
Artist Talk – Katarina Aćimović
At the Artist Talk with Katarina Aćimović, we discussed the position of women in contemporary art. How to place tradition in the context of the contemporary and into gallery spaces. And how important the curator is in all of this! Katarina Aćimović was born in 1999 in Zvornik. She graduated from the Economic High School in Loznica in 2019. She completed her studies in the class of Professor Jelena [...]
Fish
Fish by Katarina Aćimović 04#04#2024 Katarina Aćimović's artistic work is presented through the connection, intertwining, and exploration of family heritage and the position of women in the world of art. Starting with a personal story, from the connections that her mother works with, Katarina builds this exhibition, raising questions about the significance of heritage in her creation, about what embroidery represents in contemporary art, while also venturing into the realm of questions [...]
Promotion of the ZVONO Award – Artist Talk – Alma Gačanin
The Zvono Award is awarded annually based on a publicly announced competition and independent expert jury selection. It is the most significant professional incentive in Bosnia and Herzegovina, aimed at young artists, with its main content involving a two-month artistic residency at Residency Unlimited in New York. Since its establishment in 2006, the Zvono Award has been considered a valuable recognition [...]
Promotion of the ZVONO Award – Artist Talk with Students
The Zvono Award is awarded annually based on a publicly announced competition and independent expert jury selection. It is the most significant professional incentive in Bosnia and Herzegovina, aimed at young artists, with its main content involving a two-month artistic residency at Residency Unlimited in New York. Since its establishment in 2006, the Zvono Award has been considered a valuable recognition [...]
