On Friday, June 24th at Zvono Gallery in Belgrade, "Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" Award for 2011 exhibition was opened by Marko Stamenković, the member of the Jury who publicly announced that the this year Award winner is Marina Marković.

Featuring also short-listed finalists: Zorica Čolić, Nataša Kokić, Goran Micevski and Slobodan Stošić.

About the finalists selection and Marina Marković, award winner, from the statement of the Jury:

'Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award does not confer the "best" artist of the younger generation in Serbia. It is, above all, presenting the idea of ??survival of contemporary art in an environment where contemporary visual art is the least important, least profitable and least needed (in fact, it is quite superflouos and unnecessary) form of ??social activity, because the space where the works of these artists (photographs, installations, videos, documents, texts, drawings) have been created and where they now reside is a symbolic space of an orphanage, simply because their ways of thinking, acting, creating and surviving are often abandoned and left alone.
Besides the fact that this Award provides the winner with professional six-week residential stay in New York, along with winners from other central-eastern European countries, it is important to note that in the present context it can not and must not be promoted and given for achievements in the sphere of production, exhibiting and media-attention; it should and has to be awarded to non-existent, invisible, irrelevant and non-functional activity in the society it is created in: for the non-existent, invisible, non-functional and irrelevant sound of dust (Stošić), the body eating itself up in a cannibalistic ritual of self-preservation of the human species (Marković) for the gaze projectiong all its hopes and dreams (and the gazes of everyone who has left, or stayed, or still do not know whether to leave or stay), towards a cold, gray, horizon (Kokić), for the thought hiding behind the sun under a black rectangle in constant motion (Čolić), or hiding from the law on tre backdrop of a typical provincial living room, again somewhere in the north, where, 'heroic' still lives are grown instead of plantations of forbidden plants (Micevski).

In the strong competition of five finalists, selected by the jury, it was decided that the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award for 2011 should be awarded to the finalist that that meets the requirements of this year's open call in the most convincing manner. What does this mean? If the basic requirement of continuous and encompassing art practice that problematizes the relationship of the individual and society through the artistic relationship between the viewer and an art object (or the lack / absence of the object), is fullfiled; and if the artwork is the best mirror of the atmosphere and climate in which the image of a society is formed and shown - or is excluded from its own existence and no longer wants to be shown, deletes itself, by consuming itself in suicidal and self-destructive gesture of the paradoxical, simultaneous emergence and disappearance, and if, above all, there is a concrete, realistic and challenging project plan for the stay in the cultural environment of New York, then it is not surprising that the idea of ??survival of contemporary art and modern man depends on the body that eats itself away at self-cannibalistic ritual of self-preservation of the human species. Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award for 2011 is awarded to Marina Marković.'

Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos 2011 exhibition catalogue

Gallery of Dom omladine Beograd:

Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award:::: Production 2010

June 24th - July 10th

Imagine Imagineés, Tanja Juričan
Serpentine Dance, Ivana Popov
Underconstruction, Nataša Tepavčević

On Friday, 24th June, two exhibitions of Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos 2011 Award will be opened:

Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award:::: Production 2010, Gallery of Dom omladine Beograd, 19:00

Imagine Imagineés, Tanja Juričan
Serpentine Dance, Ivana Popov
Underconstruction, Nataša Tepavčević

"Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" 2011 Award Finals, Zvono Gallery, Begrade, 20:00

Zorica Čolić, Nataša Kokić, Marina Marković, Goran Micevski and Slobodan Stošić

"It is certain that this ‘European’ current viewpoint does not deal with everyday rhetoric of the long-awaited, promised, positive or negative integration with a political construct  popularly and officially called the European Union. The actuality of a European gaze, as one of possible ways of recognising individual artistic practice of each of the five finalists for the 2011 ‘Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos’ Award (Zorica Čolić, Nataša Kokić, Marina Marković, Goran Micevski and Slobodan Stošić) - but also all of them together - consists (in my opinion) of the following: the constant, determined, programmatic and poetic refusal to accept the codes and ‘laws’ of recognisable, worn-out, politically-correct and historically ‘relevant’ (therefore ‘desirable’ and ‘appropriate’) cultural matrixes from which ‘there must be no deviation’ should one desire to achieve success in the art scene today (any art scene for that matter, be it in a poor, provincial, ultimately politicised and bureaucratic, yet at the same time extremely pretentious and stubborn environment such as the Balkans).

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The space where the works of these artists (photographs, installations, videos, documents, texts, drawings) have been created and where they now reside is a symbolic space of an orphanage: simply because their ways of thinking, acting, creating and surviving are abandoned by the environment where contemporary visual art is least important, least profitable and least needed (in fact, it is quite superfluous and unnecessary) form of social activity. In this constant haze (where the utterly utopian strength of their thoughts materializes in practice), an award for artistic endeavours  cannot and must not be promoted and given for achievements in the sphere of production, display or media-attention - it should and has to be awarded for the non-existent, invisible, non-functional and irrelevant activity in the society it is created in: for the non-existent, invisible, non-functional and irrelevant sound of dust (Stošić), for the body eating itself up in a cannibalistic ritual of the self-preservation of the human species (Marković), for the gaze projecting all its hopes and dreams (and the gazes of everyone who has left, or stayed, or still do not know whether to leave or to stay) towards a cold, grey, northern horizon (Kokić), for the thought hiding behind the sun under a constantly-moving black square (Čolić) or hiding from the law on the backdrop of a typical provincial living-room, again somewhere in the north, where ‘heroic’ still lives are grown instead of plantations of forbidden plants (Micevski)."

Excerpts from the text published in the catalog of the "Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" Award 2011 exhibition:

Partly Cloudy
A sketch for the text concerning youth and art in time of variable atmospheric pressure

by Marko Stamenković

GDE SU BILI ŠTA SU RADILI
Sunday, May 22nd, 19h Cultural Center REX,

Jevrejska 16, Belgrade

Dušica Dražić: Mangelos Experience

Dušica Dražić visited International Studios and Curatorial Program (ISCP) u New York, in October-November 2010, as an"Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" Award winner. She will speak about her experience with the Open Call of the Award and her residence in ISCP studio in New York

Open call in Serbian only, visit page here.

27th April 
18:00, Public interview: Irit Rogoff (London) interviewed by Branislav Dimitrijević (Belgrade)
28th April
18:00, Public interview: Sabina Sabolović – WHW (Zagreb) interviewed by Branka Ćurčić (Novi Sad)
29th April
18:00, Presentation of: Media Art Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, curator: Kristian Lukić (Novi Sad)

Participants: Eva Eggermann (Vienna), Nikita Kadan (Kiev), Iva Kovač (Rijeka), Marko Miletić (Belgrade), Noa Nahari (Prague), Gordana Nikolić (Novi Sad), Nini Palavandishvili (Tbilisi), Livia Panchu (Iasi),  Jakob Racek (Plovdiv), Marlene Rigler (Vienna/Munich), Wiebke Stadler (Skopje) i Elena Veljanovska (Skopje)

A curatorial workshop Towards Curating as a Critical Practice will be held within framework of marking 10 years of Mangelos Award for young visual artists from Serbia, joining together twelve young curators from Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Czech, Romania and Austria.

The workshop will address the critical reexamination of the field of contemporary curatorial practice and its discursive alternative strategies of work in wider cultural and social field. Several prominent curators and art theorists will participate in public interviews within this workshop, such as:  Irit Rogoff, visual culture theoretician, Branislav Dimitrijević, freelance curator and theoretician from Belgrade, Sabina Sabolović, curator and member of "What, How and for Whom?" collective (WHW) from Zagreb and Kristian Lukić, curator of Museum of Contemporary Art form Vojvodina in Novi Sad. Creating concept of the workshop and its moderation was entrusted to Branka Ćurčić, cultural worker of Center for New Media_kuda.org from Novi Sad.

Organization: DEZ ORG, Ilija & Mangelos Foundation, Remont – Independent Artistic Association and Center for New Media_kuda.org.

Support: Erste Foundation, Foundation for Open Society, Department for Culture of Vojvodina Province, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia, City of Novi Sad

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27th April – 12th May 2011
Exhibition opening: 27th April at 20:00, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad

The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens
10 years of Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award for young visual artists

Participants: Dušica Dražić, Siniša Ilić, Vladimir Nikolić, Ivan Petrović, Milena Putnik, Milica Ružičić, Ivana Smiljanić i Katarina Zdjelar

Curator: Radmila Joksimović

Exhibition The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens marks the tenth anniversary of the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award, one of the most relevant awards for a young visual artist in Serbia. Participants of the exhibition are former award laureates, and the opening will be followed by announcement of this year’s open call to artists for participation.

Exhibition title The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens relates to the case in which the logic of network of the conditions, circumstances, causes and consequences of interdependence and negotiation, in space of reality in which we operate, is unpredictable, and impossible to negotiate, and thus becomes a space of uncertainty and insecurity. Works in the exhibition The Curious Case of If's and When's recognize and explore some of its elements, examine the potential and scope of artistic and social action and the possibility of relocation of the point of view and its consequences.
RJ

First call for applications
Curatorial workshop: Towards Curating as a Critical Practice
27th - 28th April 2011
Novi Sad, Serbia

We are pleased to launch an open call for applications for a curatorial workshop targeted at individuals who have started a career
in contemporary art as curators, writers or critics. This workshop will be part of the 10 years of D.B. Mangelos Award program (YVAA network) and is aimed at starting a dialogue about contemporary artistic/curatorial practice in S/CEE region.

The workshop will take place in Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia on 27th and 28th April 2011 (Wednesday and Thursday) and is organized by Remont, DEZ ORG and Ilija and Mangelos Foundation.

Towards Curating as a Critical Practice

Context outline:
Is there such a practice as a critical curating and what would it assume? In today's conditions of cultural and knowledge production and general flexibilization and professionalization of labor, it could be said that particular figure of a curator lives its expanded role as a cultural producer. Indeed, the role of a curator in contemporary production of art&culture goes way beyond mediation of art works towards the audience, since it includes variety of activities ranging from basic conceptualizing and mounting of the exhibition, to handling complex institutional network of relationships and financial logistics. Curators' role today is expanded indeed, but that expansion also comprehends imperative to network, to improve managerial skills, to communicate and cooperate, which is pointing out a new form of professionalization in cultural field of post-fordist labor market. That position often encompasses ambivalences which are present in practice of curating as a representational, an intermediary strategy
between art world and society's power structures/institutions. On the other hand, the curatorial practice is very much involved with theoretical reflection, with knowledge and knowledge production, and it is rich with a potentiality, as a point of access to engagement in political aspects of society. Last but not least, although loaded with different influences, what should be remembered as a bottom-line of this particular practice in the art world is curator's responsibility towards audience and the public.

Two-days long workshop in Novi Sad will try to open space for discussion among younger generation of curators from South East Europe, by enrolling and challenging theoretically on what they observe and do in the field of contemporary curating, and on whatcould be done. The discussions among curators and art critics will be accompanied with lectures and conversations with renowned international and regional curators and art theorists, which will serve as a further discussion booster. The workshop aims to map wider context of contemporary curating practice and to try to imagine discursive alternative strategies to it by answering the question: Is there such a practice as a critical curating and what would it assume?

The workshop will be led by art critic Branka Ćurčić.

Branka Ćurčić is a writer, art critic and program editor in the New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad (kuda.org), since 2002. She graduated Fine Art and Theory of Art and Media (MA) in Novi Sad and Belgrade, Serbia. In the Center_kuda.org, she is the editor of publishing project (kuda.read), which is focused on examining critical approaches towards new media culture, new cultural and political relations, contemporary artistic practice and the social realm. She actively participates in (co-)curating exhibitions, in organizing lectures, conferences and workshops regarding contemporary art theory and practices. She also takes part in several international research projects and her essays have been published in many magazines and publications in the region and internationally. She lives and works in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Documents to apply:
In order to apply, please email the following information in English to dezorg@gmail.com by February 1st, 2011:
- A motivation letter explaining your background, why you are interested in participating in the workshop.
- A short biography, presenting recent relevant projects, or project/s you are currently involved with.

Selection process:
Ten applications will be accepted. Applicants living/working in the S/CEE region are welcomed to apply. Primary attention will be paid to applicants' motivation letter. All applicants will be notified of the selection results by the end of February 2011.

Workshop will be held in English language. For any additional info please write to dezorg@gmail.com.

Monday, June 21st 2010, 20:00
Kontekst Gallery
Kapetan Mišina 6a, Beograd

On Moday, June 21st at Kontekst Gallery, exhibition of the „Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos“ Award finalists for 2010 was opened by Marko Miletić, Open call organizer, Ivana Bašičević, president of the Mangelos Foundation and Miroslav Karić, the member of the Jury who publicly announced that the this year Award winner is Dušica Dražić.

On show: Aleksandrija Ajduković, Tanja Juričan, Ivana Popov and Maja Radanović.

About Dušica Dražić work, from the statement of the Jury:

"After finishing studies Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Dušica Dražić continued her professional development at the Bauhaus University in Weimar – the Department of Public Art New Artistic Strategies. During the last two years, besides engagement in the art field she frequently takes on the role of "cultural worker", acting as an initiator of projects, producer and graphic designer. With a special interest in art in public space Dražić in her work focuses on the search for the abandoned, forgotten spaces in the urban structure of modern cities exploring their transformation, microhistories, transformation and rethinks them at the level of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. In Dušica Dražić’s production concept and form are of the equal importance in opening the work for its multi-layer interpretations, that is, for developing new ways to the observer. This current, relevant artistic practice places Dušica Dražić in the line of very dedicated, serious and already formed authors, whose opus reflects the consistency in the analysis and questioning of the issues that are in the focus of her artistic research."

Exhibiton is open until July 2nd, 2010.

Exhibition of DB Mangelos Award 2008-2009 produced artworks will be on show until July 2nd:

          Four point Three - Nikola MARKOVIĆ @ Narodna banka Srbije, Trg Slavija
          Albania - a new Mediterranean love, Andrea PALASTI,
          According to Her, Marija ĐORĐEVIĆ
          Women under Tension, Paula MUHR
          Otkup, Danilo PRNJAT
          Of Abnormality, Ranko TRAVANJ @ galerija Remont

Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos 2010. Exhibition catalogue

The Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award will be awarded for the nineth time this year. The main attributes of this prize denoting its significance for the local milleu are a precise conceptual outline, the principle of selection and continuity. Due to the lack of organised logistics and support brought about by alienation or removal of art and culture in general from the strategically relevant areas of social activity, contemporary Serbian production has entered the stage of minimalised, elementary survival. It had an impact on all the artists, particularly those who have only just established their position in the art scene or were preparing to do so. Insofar, the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award has gained importance over time as one of the few points of expressive intensity making the production of the younger generations’ artists visible.

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Non-acceptances, Maja Stanković

Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos 2010. Exhibition catalogue

DB Mangelos 2010 Invite.PDF

Jury: Branka Ćurčić (art critic, Center for New Media_Kuda.org, Novi Sad), Jasmina Čubrilo (art historian, Belgrade), Nikola Dedić (art historian and theoristi, Niš/Belgrade), Miroslav Karić (art historian, Belgrade), Maja Stanković (art historian, Belgrade) and Ivana Smiljanić (artist, Mangelos Award winner of 2009) chose five finalists of "Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" 2010 Award: Aleksandrija Ajduković, Dušica Dražić, Tanja Juričan, Ivana Popov and Maja Radanović.
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On Moday, June 21st 2010 two exhibitions of Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos 2010 Award will be opened:

Exhibition of DB Mangelos Award 2008-2009 produced artworks:
18:00, 4koma3 - Nikola MARKOVIĆ @ Narodna banka Srbije, Trg Slavija

19:00, Albania - a new Mediterranean love, Andrea PALASTI,
          < em>Mirna do marta, Marija ĐORĐEVIĆ
           Žene pod tenzijom, Paula MUHR
          Otkup, Danilo PRNJAT
          O nenormalnosti, Ranko TRAVANJ @ galerija Remont

„Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos“ 2010 Award finalists:
20:00  Aleksandrija AJDUKOVIĆ
          Dušica DRAŽIĆ
          Tanja JURIČAN
          Ivana POPOV
          Maja RADANOVIĆ

Jury will announce award winner at the opening of the exhibition.

REX, Jevrejska 16

Thursday, May 6th, 19:00

Ivana Smiljanić: New York Experience

Ivana Smiljanić visited International Studios and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, in October/November2009, as 'Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos' Award winner.
She will speak about ISCP Open Studios, about exhibition of Jovana Stokić at the Gallery MC 'Dear Countrymen and Women' and solo show 'A Dense Dance' (with Andras Zefalvay), where she performed 'I DANCE DANCE DANCE', with music selected by curators, directors, art critics from MoMA, Artforum, X Initiative, White Columns, Brooklyn Museum.. and many photos and stories from streets of New York!

2009 Award winner, Ivana Smiljanić used reidesdence program of ISC (Newyork, USA) in the following period: October 15th – December 1st 2009.

On Novmber 24th Ivana organiyed performance I DANCE DANCE DANCE in New York - ISCP Gallery on 2nd floor, Metropolitan Ave. 1040, Brooklyn – music for this performance was selected by curators, directors, artcritics from MoMA, X Space, White Columns, Drawing Center, Brooklyn Museum, Artforum...

http://www.ivanasmiljanic.com

Documents
Salon msu
11 November, 2009 - 6 December, 2009

Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, November 11th 2009 at 7 P.M.

During two periods of time (1997–2003 and 2005–2008), in a number of parallel courses, emerges Ivan Petrovic’s body of photographs joined under the title Documents.
What binds these photographs into a new and complex whole is not the theme around which they originated, but above all: “… a need to present, by way of revising one’s own archive and its fresh patterning, a possibility for a more integral comprehension and interpretation of given circumstances and events; to perform a kind of inquiry procedure and to insert, into official statistics, something called personal drama…” (Petrovic).
Shaped as a whole from a number of heterogeneous series, which are numerically dominated by portraits, they are also bound by the fact that they appeared in Serbia, in the ambiances of the artist’s immediate surroundings, in social circumstances of general aggression and pressures and that as such, somewhat anticipating the precariousness of upcoming periods, are now obtaining a new place in reading and interpreting of contemporary public and social circumstances.
After ten years of following and recording situations and events, family and friends, there emerged several hundreds of photographs. By its large number and consistency, this body tends to give an integral picture of the artist’s surroundings in the given period, of the social circumstances and the life of students in Belgrade (mostly his acquaintances from Krusevac), of the life of his artist friends, including his two-and-a-half-month stay in Kosovo in 1999 during the NATO bombardment of FR Yugoslavia. The body also contains the photographs of confiscated objects that Petrovic took in the archive of the Municipal Misdemeanor Court in Krusevac, as well as the photographs of a duplicated photograph album found in Kosovo…
This archive of photographic material of sorts Petrovic uses as a resource, on the one hand, to provide an integral picture of his surroundings, which he has been observing for some years past. Besides, he always differently and afresh arranges them in space and groups them into “clusters” and new wholes, constructing in this way special micro-narratives, through which he reexamines the connection between the document and the narrative at the base of it.

Monday, June 15th 2009, 20:00
Kontekst Gallery
Centar za kulturu "Stari Grad"
Kapetan Mišina 6a, Beograd

At Kontekst Gallery of Centar za kulturu Stari Grad, on Moday, June 15th at 20:00 exhibition of the „Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos“ Award finalists for 2009 was opened by Ivana Bašičević, preident of the Mangelos fondation and Nikola Dedić, member of the Jury who publicly announced tha the this year Award winner is Ivana Smiljanić.

On show: Aleksandrija Ajduković, Zorica Čolić, Dušica Dražić, Ivana Smiljanić and Ranko Travanj

Exhibiton is open until July 3rd 2009.

Monday, June 15th 2009, 20:00
Kontekst Gallery
Centar za kulturu "Stari Grad"
Kapetan Mišina 6a, Beograd

At Kontekst Gallery of Centar za kulturu Stari Grad, on Monday, June 15th at 20:00 finalists exhibition of Award „Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos“ 2009 will be openned.

On show: Aleksandrija Ajduković, Zorica Čolić, Dušica Dražić, Ivana Smiljanić and Ranko Travanj

Award winner will be announced at the opening.

Exhibition catalogue is here.

Jury: Nikola Dedić (art historian and theorist, Niš), Maida Gruden (curator, Dom kulture Studentski grad Gallery, Belgrade), Gordana Nikolić (curator, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina), Miroslav Karić (art historian, Belgrade), Jelena Radić (artist, Belgrade) and Ivan Petrović (artist Mangelos Award winner for 2008) chose finalists of "Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" Award for 2009: Aleksandrija Ajduković, Zorica Čolić, Dušica Dražić, Ivana Smiljanić and Ranko Travanj

Decision of the Award winner will be reached after the interview with the finalists, and announced at the opening of the Award "Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" finalists ehxibition at Kontekst Gallery, on June 15th at 20:00.

Art work of applicant are published here. Registered applicants can vote until June 1st at 00.00 CET.

Call entries are closed, applicant list is available at the page applicantsi.

Tuesday, 12. May, 18:00

Omladinski centar CK 13
Vojvode Bojovića 13, Novi Sad

Participants:
Marko Miletić (Kontekst Gallery, open call organizer, Belgrade)
Gordana Nikolić (curator, Museum for Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, jury member, Novi Sad)
Andrea Palašti (artist, 2008 Award finalist, Novi Sad)

The open call for the Mangelos Award 2009 is no open

More info and details in Serbian here.

Members of organization team reached decision on the grounds of collected open call materials for 2008 to produce artworks of Nikola Marković, Andrea Palašti (supported by jury) and Danilo Prnjat.

15th December, Moday at 20h

On show: Marina Marković, Goran Micevski, Andrea Palašti, Ivan Petrović - Award winner, Ivana Smiljanić

Jury: Nikola Dedić (art historian and theorist, Niš), Maida Gruden (curator, Dom kulture Studentski grad Gallery, Belgrade), Gordana Nikolić (curator, Museum for Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad), Miroslav Karić (art historian, Belgrade), Jelena Radić (artist, DEZ ORG, Belgrade) and Katarina Zdjelar (artist, Mangelos Award winner of 2007, Rotterdam).

Izložba je otvorena do 23.01.2009.

Joint Exhibition of Young Visual Artists Awards Winners 

and Symposium  in Belgrade, July 2008

EXHIBITION

at Magacin, Kraljevica Marka 4, Belgrade // Opening: Sat, July 12 at 18:30 h

SYMPOSIUM

Borders/Common Ground // Bordering Common Ground

at Dom omladine Beograda, Makedonska 22/IV, Belgrade // Sat, July 12, 12-16 h

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The Young Visual Artists Awards program (YVAA) is an international award program for young visual artists in Central and South Eastern Europe organized by affiliates in ten countries in the region and The Foundation for a Civil Society (FCS). Since 1990 this annual program with national exhibitions and awards, which now includes residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, has been organized in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Albania, and was newly established in Bulgaria.

For the third time in the history of the YVAA program the artists awarded within this international program will be presented in a joint exhibition and on this occasion, the organizers prepared a symposium on common topics. The first two such events took place in Prague in 2005 and in Pristina in 2006. Both of the events in Belgrade will bring together artists and arts professionals from the countries of the region and guests from the rest of Europe and the United States. Among them are Christian Rattemeyer, Curator, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Miguel Amado, Curator and Contributor to Artforum.com, Francisca Zolyom, Board Member of tranzit.hu and Director of Institute of Contemporary Art in Dunaujvaros, Hungary, Amb. William Luers, former President of The Metropolitan Museum in New York, and Wendy Luers, President of FCS and former Board Member of the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue. Information on the awards and awarded artists' portfolios may be found at www.yvaa.net

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JOINT EXHIBITION OF YOUNG VISUAL ARTISTS AWARDS WINNERS

at Magacin, Kraljevica Marka 4, Belgrade// Opening: Saturday, July 12 at 18:30 h

On view through July 25, 2008 - Gallery Hours: Mon-Sun 14-21 h

Participating artists: Irgin Sena (ARDHJE Award, Albania), Mladen Miljanovic (ZVONO Award, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Vedran Perkov (Radoslav Putar Award, Croatia), Barbora Klimova (Jindrich Chalupecky Award, Czech Republic), Bekim Gllogu (Artist of Tomorrow Award, Kosovo), Boris Petrovski (Denes Award, Macedonia), Katarina Zdjelar (Dimitrije Basicevic Mangelos Award, Serbia), Lucia Nimcova (Oskar Cepan Award, Slovakia), Luiza Margan and Miha Presker (OHO Group Award, Slovenia)

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SYMPOSIUM BORDERS/COMMON GROUND//BORDERING COMMON GROUND

at Dom omladine Beograda, Makedonska 22/IV, Belgrade // Saturday, July 12, 12-16 h

Concept: Asja Hafner, Program Coordinator and Editor, SCCA/pro.ba Sarajevo