Professional guidance through the exhibition and awarding of the best work at the 10th Niš Salon: 12/2
The audience was guided through the exhibition by the selectors of the jubilee Niš Salon, Ivona Fregl, an independent curator from Belgrade, and Professor Slobodan Radojković from the Faculty of Arts in Niš.
The winner of the 10th Niš Salon: 12/2 Award is Dušan Stipić Dudwarszky. On behalf of the jury, the award was presented by Radmila Kostić, museum advisor at the SLU Gallery Niš.
The Niš Salon: 12/2, an annual exhibition that includes works by twelve artists selected by two selectors, is being held for the tenth time. The selectors of this year’s jubilee exhibition are Ivona Fregl, an independent curator from Belgrade, and Professor Slobodan Radojković from the Faculty of Arts in Niš. In the Ivona Fregl selection, Dragoslav Krnajski, Dušan Stipić Dudwarszky, Sanja Latinović, Nina Todorović, Nina Marić and Danja Tekić exhibit their works, while Slobodan Radojković’s selection includes works by Lidija Antanasijević, Vladimir Veljašević, Elizabeta Matorkić Bisenić, Vladimir Milanović, Ivana Milev and Mina Rakidžić Dostanić. The exhibition is traditionally accompanied by the award ceremony for the most successful work. The award for the current Niš Salon: 12/2 was decided by a three-member jury consisting of: Radmila Kostić, art historian and museum advisor at the SLU Gallery, Boris Kandolf, academic artist and M.A. Bratislav Bašić, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Niš. The award went to the artist Dušan Stipić Dudwarski for his work: Metabolism of Narratives.
The jury’s minutes state the following: “The artwork Metabolism of Narratives is a spatial installation that problematizes the position of modern man in society in an innovative and thoughtful way. By building a layered field of meaning, the artist introduces the observer to spatio-temporal communication. Thus, with convincing metaphors that possess strong, compressed energy, he questions reality, pointing to the current paradoxes of time. Through clear conceptual articulation, he opens up questions of identity, manipulation, or rather, human existence, developing a critical discourse. Possessing consistency in his work, originality in the choice of materials and an enviable dose of criticality, Dušan Stipić Dudwarszky builds a complex visual language and an authentic stance within the framework of the domestic art scene.”
In addition to Dušan Stipić Dudvarski, previous winners of the Niš Salon Award: 12/2 are Anica Vučetić (2016), Čedomir Vasić (2017), Vukašin Milović (2018), Radoš Antonijević (2019), Nikola Marković (2020), Marija Dragojlović (2021), Nikola Džafo (2022), Dunja Trutin (2023) and Biljana Đurđević (2024).
This exhibition of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš can be visited by the public until December 17th at the Officers’ House in Niš.