МЕДИЈИ
АУТОРСКО ВОЂЕЊЕ И ДОДЕЛА НАГРАДЕ
По десети пут се одржава Нишки салон: 12/2, годишња изложба која обухвата дела дванаесторо уметника по избору два селектора. Селектори овогодишње јубиларне изложбе су Ивона Фрегл, независна кустоскиња из Београда и проферсор Слободан Радојковић са Факултета уметности у Нишу. У селекцији Ивоне Фрегл своје радове излажу Драгослав Крнајски, Душан Стипић Dudwarszky, Сања Латиновић, Нина Тодоровић, Нина Марић и Дања Текић, док селекцију Слободана Радојковића чине дела Лидије Антанасијевић, Владимира Вељашевића, Елизабете Маторкић Бисенић, Владимира Милановића, Иване Милев и Мине Ракиџић Достанић. Изложбу традиционално прати додела награде за најуспешнији рад. О награди актуелног Нишког салона: 12/2 одлучивао је трочлани жири у саставу: Радмила Костић, историчар уметности и музејски саветник у Галерији СЛУ, Борис Кандолф, академски уметник и мр. Братислав Башић, професоф ФУ Ниш. Награда је припала уметнику Душану Стипићу Дудварском за рад: Метаболизам наратива.
У записнику жирија стоји следеће: „Уметничко дело Метаболизам наратива представља просторну инсталацију која на иновативан и осмишљен начин проблематизује позицију савременог човека у друштву. Градећи слојевито значењско поље, уметник уводи посматрача у просторно-временску комуникацију. Дакле, убедљивим метафорама које поседују снажну, сабијену енергију он преиспитује стварност, указујући на актуелне парадоксе времена. Кроз јасну концептуалну
артикулацију отвара питања идентитета, манипулације, односно, људске егзистенције, развијајући критичан дискурс. Поседујући доследност у раду, оригиналност у избору материјала и завидну дозу критичности, Душан Стипић Dudwarszky гради комплексан визуелни говор и аутентичан став у оквирима домаће уметничке сцене.“
Поред Душана Стипића Дудварског досадашњи добитници Награде Нишког салона: 12/2 су Аница Вучетић (2016), Чедомир Васић (2017), Вукашин Миловић (2018), Радош Антонијевић (2019), Никола Марковић (2020), Марија Драгојловић (2021), Никола Џафо (2022), Дуња Трутин (2023) и Биљана Ђурђевић (2024).
Ову изложбу Галерије савремене ликовне уметности Ниш публика може да посети до 17.
децембра у Официрском дому у Нишу.
ИЗЛОЖБА СЛИКА МИЉАНА СТЕВАНОВИЋА
ПОЗИВАМО ВАС НА ОТВАРАЊЕ ИЗЛОЖБЕ СЛИКА МИЉАНА СТЕВАНОВИЋА
Између видљивог и наговештеног естетика равнотеже у Утопијским визијама
у четвртак, 13. новембра 2025. у 19 сати, Павиљон у Тврђави, Галерије савремене ликовне уметности Ниш
Миљан Стевановић је рођен 1991. године у Врању. Основне академске студије завршио на Факултету ликовних уметности у Београду у класи проф. Чедомира Васића, магистрирао је на истом факултету у класи проф. Добрице Бисенића. Докторирао је 2021. године у класи професора др. Владимира Милановића. Запослен је на Универзитету Метрополитен у звању доцента.
Седам пута је самостално излагао у Београду, Нишу (2018), Новом Саду и Словачкој.
Миљан Стевановић своју инспирацију црпи из природе. Пејзаж је повод и основа његових слика. Ликовни однос као и композицију конструише по виђеном пејзажу, трансформишући га у велике бојене плохе пастелних боја, без много нарације. Боју таложи, апсорбује, прелама. Флора је сведена и местимично израња из свуматозног пејзаза у сновиђењу. Пејзаж се назире из бојених површина попут авети, као у сновима нејасних секвенци. Да ли нас уметник оваквим призором заводи, скрећући пажњу на материју која нас окружује и титра нам осећај пријатности и милине, док смо окружени прелепим крајоликом и божанским ливадама? Кроз његова дела осећамо и мирис озона, кисеоника, магле, али и разноврсног биља. Визуелни утисак он транспонује у емотивно стање. Наративност и пуко пресликавање природе је за њега занемарљиво управо из тог разлога, већ акценат ставља на утиску. Специфичним начином третирања боје, кроз линију и пастуозни потез четком он редефинише класичан медииј слике. Хармонијом бојених плоха, линија и структура уметник изграђује индивидуални ликовни стил на себи својствен начин.
Назив његове изложбе гласи, Између видљивог и наговештеног : естетика равнотеже у Утопијским визијама. Утопија није недостижност већ преображај кроз чин сликања. Лирски призвук је визуелна тишина не би ли уочили границу између видљивог и наговештеног.
Дакле, Стевановић гради композицију од апстрактних површина, аморфног облика у свуматозном ефекту, налик везу пастелним концем хоризонталних редова. Боја прати сенку и облик жељеног призора попут сна или фатаморгане. Све делује крхко и нежно стављајући акценат на духовни и емотивни доживљај који уметник у том тренутку има.
Изложба Миљана Стевановића трајаће од 13. до 30. новембра 2025. год.
ИЗЛОЖБА РАДОВА ЈЕЛЕНЕ СИМИЋ
„ЛИЧНИ СИМБОЛ – ДИСТОРЗИЈА КРУГА“, петак, 18. јули 2025. Салон 77 у 20 сати
Јелена Симић је рођена 1995. године у Блацу. Основне и мастер студије завршила је на Факултету уметности у Нишу у класи проф. Братислава Башића. Добитница је награде „Диплома најбољем дипломираном студенту“, од стране Факултета уметности у Нишу за 2020-21 академску годину. Тренутно је на докторским студијама на Академији уметности у Новом Саду. Члан је УЛУСа и СУЛУВа. Учествовала је на око 40 колективних изложби, а приредила шест самосталних изложби у Нишу, Врању, Новом Саду, Београду, Врбасу и Опову.
Изложба „Лични симбол- дисторзија круга“ уско је повезана и инспирисана природом, из које уметница акумулира и црпи инспирацију. Дисторзија Круга, као симбол заступљен је на готово свим радовима, заузимајући централно место на композицији заједно са аптрактним формама. На њеним радовима кроз цртеж, графику, колаж и скулптуру, круг претворен у елипсу повезује читаву причу, попут невидљиве нити градећи слику сведене колористичке вредности. Боју користи селективно као акценат (црвена и плава). На великим површина које умирују целу композицију дело је парцијално подељено плохама аплицираних текстилних или папирнатих површина. Њиховом употребом ауторка потенцира рустичност и текстуру а сама ликовност је богатија. Уочавамо лакоћу у изразу снажних цртачких партија које прелазе у деструкцију материјала, ушивањем, убадањем, цепањем, шрафирањем, лепљењем, гребањем по површини слике или цртежа, Јелена на тај начин, индиректно сугерише, упозорава на уништавање природе од стране човека. Док насупрот томе, употребом природних несликарских материјала: памука, јуте, папируса она истражује њихове ликовне, концептуалне и комуникациске моћи. Симболизам целог пројекта или ти порука уметнице је заправо апел на прекомерност коришћења пластичног отпада уместо природних еколошких материјала. Елипса је симбол, мост између свесног и несвесног. Њена комуникација са природом је непрекидна, она је транспонује у цртеж, слику, скулптуру. Своју емпатију, доживљаје, осећања преноси на платно кроз линију, површину па чак и боју, на себи својствен начин, она смело осликава све оно што осећа, види и што је окружује.
Изложбу публика може посетити до 3. августа 2025.
Maja Đurović "Next Time"
Opening of the exhibition on June 26th at 8pm
Exhibition of mosaics by Maja Đurović: “Next time”
Maja Đurović (1977) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Graphics, in the class of Professor Biljana Vuković. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia since 2009. She has exhibited at seven solo and over seventy group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has won several awards for mosaic: FLU Award for Mosaic at the Exhibition of Awarded Students 2005/2006; Plaque for Artistic Contribution to Contemporary Mosaic by the group of fine artists Ametist in Belgrade 2007; Honorable mention at the exhibition of small-format mosaics by the “Ametist” art group in Belgrade in 2011 and an award for exceptional artistic work at the exhibition of the 5th Biennial of Mosaics, organized by the Student Cultural Center New Belgrade in 2012.
She received a commendation for graphics at the 25th October Art Salon in Kovin in 2007; Special recognition for merit at Art Fest & Doral, Miami, Florida, USA, 2012, as well as Plaques from the “Heritage of Metropolitan Pitirim” Fund for the contribution and progress of Serbian art in the Slavic world for participation in the exhibition “1150 Years of Slavic Literacy and Culture”, Moscow, 2013.
For the Tourist Organization of Serbia, she realized replicas: the Medusa mosaic from the ancient settlement of Mediana near Niš and the Venator mosaic from the Felix Romuliana palace near Gamzigrad, 2013. Maja Đurović’s research focuses on the analysis of the inner life of an individual, that is, the state of his or her own being in relation to the environment. Through portrait motifs and human figures, she visualizes the character of the portrayed, emphasizing their individual characteristics. Skillfully handling the technique of mosaics made in natural stone, Maja Đurović presents in a special way her story about passivity, alienation, and apathy in the time and society that surrounds us. The atmosphere is almost elegiac, stopped in a moment that indicates a deep thoughtfulness about one's own existence. All the exhibited works deal with the fate of an ordinary person through visions of lonely, depressed characters who move through the silence of space, wandering aimlessly.
The artistic program of the opening of the exhibition includes:
soprano: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, full professor at the Faculty of Arts in Niš
pianist: Staša Stamenković, professional piano associate, Faculty of Arts in Niš
GRAPHIC WORKSHOP SIĆEVO 2025.
The participants of this year's Graphic Workshop 2025 are:
Susanna Doccioli / Italy/, Nikola Radosavljević /Užice/, Marija Anđelković /Belgrade/, Jelena Milićević /Belgrade/ and Aleksandar Dević /Niš/.
In the jubilee year when the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš marks 120 years since the founding of the First Yugoslav Colony Sićevo, the International Graphic Workshop Sićevo, as a newly founded colony, celebrates 20 years of its existence. By popularizing the graphic medium, this type of residency brings together significant names from both the Serbian and international art scenes, but also follows the development of young authors from the graphic world. The collection of graphic sheets in the Fund of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš now numbers over 200 graphic sheets, of various techniques and styles created only thanks to the Graphic Workshop.
From June 2 to 8, 2025, graphic artists will be staying in Sićevo in the Colony building. In addition to working in the workshop, exchanging personal experiences in the field of graphic techniques, and socializing, the artists will spend one day in the city of Niš and visiting cultural and historical landmarks and getting to know the tradition and culture of our environment.
Susanna Doccioli / Italy /, Susanna Doccioli was born and raised in Rome. To further her education in the field of graphics and graphic and visual communication at the prestigious I.S.I.A. Institute for Graphic Design, she moved to Urbino. While staying in Urbino, she joined the International Center for Graphic Arts - KAUS. Later, she continued her education in Berlin and Rome.2018. In 2011, she founded the Stamperia Ripa 69 Association with other graphic artists, of which she is the president and collaborates with various institutions and workshops in organizing exhibitions and workshops in teaching woodcut techniques and basic engraving techniques. Her works are in many private and public collections. In addition to her artistic engagement, she is also engaged in pedagogical work, but also works as an illustrator and designer for numerous well-known publishing houses in Italy.
Nikola Radosavljević /Užice/. He was born in Užice in 1991. He completed his undergraduate and master's studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He received his doctorate in the field of new media graphic practices at the same faculty in 2020. He completed his second master's studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Graphics, in 2022. He has received several awards and recognitions, including the Graphic Arts Triennial Award, Ural, Russia, the Grand Seal of the Graphic Arts Collective Gallery and the Golden Needle of ULUS, the Grand Prize of the International Graphic Arts Triennial in Krakow, Poland. He has participated in a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad, as well as in many residency programs. So far, he has organized 38 solo exhibitions.
Marija Anđelković /Belgrade/, Serbian graphic artist born in 1988 in Belgrade. She completed her undergraduate and master's studies in Belgrade at the Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, in the class of Professor Dragan Momirov. As part of a student exchange, she spent one semester in Krakow. She has been a member of ULUS since 2013. So far, she has organized eight solo exhibitions. She has exhibited at numerous collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has been awarded several times for her work. She has participated in several domestic and international art projects and graphic workshops. She was invited by the International Center for Graphic Arts in Ljubljana to lead a master class in lithography in 2024. Since 2018, she has been employed at the Center for Graphic Arts and Visual Research at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, as a printmaker.
Jelena Milićević /1992/ is a visual artist whose work includes graphics, illustration, and neon installations. She graduated and received her master's degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she completed her master's studies in the graphics department in 2016. After her studies, she worked as a lithographer at the Center for Graphic Arts and Visual Research "Akademija". She developed her artistic experience and skills through collaboration with artists from the region, Europe, and South America, as well as through participation in numerous workshops and exchanges. She has exhibited in numerous collective exhibitions and has organized eleven solo exhibitions, of which we highlight the exhibition in London in collaboration with Faww Gallery. Her works are in private and public collections in Serbia and Great Britain. In addition to graphics, she also illustrates books of newspaper articles. She lives and works in Belgrade.
Aleksadnar Dević /Belgrade/ born in 1954. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, where he also completed postgraduate studies in the Department of Graphics. He is a member of ULUS. He has participated in numerous collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. In recent years, he has been intensively involved in computer graphics. For a short time, he worked as a professor of computer graphics and graphic design at the Secondary Art School in Niš, as well as at the Faculty of Arts in the subjects of Graphic Communication and Prosthodontic Graphics. From 2000 to 2004, he was the director of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts in Niš. He has received numerous awards for his work. He has organized over ten solo exhibitions so far.
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS: BJELICA, CVETKOVIĆ, KOVAČEV
Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš
PAINTINGS EXHIBITION: BJELICA, CVETKOVIC, KOVAČEV
PAVILLION IN THE FORTRESS (April 29 - May 23)
A joint exhibition of three artists with different approaches, ideas and concepts is an opportunity for the art public to become more familiar with the diverse trends of our contemporary art.
IVANA BJELICA (Novi Sad, 1969) graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Painting, in the class of Professor Milan Blanuša. She has held over twenty solo exhibitions and has exhibited at over a hundred collective exhibitions in the country and abroad (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Spain, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, Japan, India).
She has won several awards in the field of fine arts (drawing, painting, collage).
She is a member of SULUV, ULUPUDS and the Art Circle (Association of Artists of the Petrovaradin Fortress). She has participated in numerous art colonies, art expos and other art events. Her works of art are in numerous private, gallery and museum collections in Serbia and abroad. In addition to fine arts, she is involved in photography, graphic design and interior design. For many years, she was the editor of the art program of the Mali likovni salon gallery, Cultural Center of Novi Sad (2003-2007), she has realized a significant number of exhibitions of eminent artists from the country and abroad and has achieved successful cooperation with many cultural institutions.
He is the founder of the Lumens art association (2013), whose main goal is the development and promotion of contemporary fine arts and culture, international cooperation and education.
He is known to the Niš audience as a participant in the Sićevo Art Colony in 1978, 1994, 2019. The gallery in the Fund contains 6 works. He had a solo exhibition in 1982, and participated in the Niš Salon 2020.
He lives and creates as an independent artist in Novi Sad.
With a careful formulation of the plastic-poetic and aesthetic, he builds concise artistic wholes. At the center of her artistic research is nature or man in the environment in which we live, understanding the complex human destiny. The dynamic gesture and light-dark contrasts are not in the function of any drama, but rather serve to more clearly define space or ideas.
ALEKSANDAR CVETKOVIĆ (Aleksinac, 1947) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1973, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in 1975. In five decades of creative work, he has organized nearly eighty solo exhibitions in the country and abroad, and participated in the selections of several hundred art events on almost all continents.
He has won a number of domestic and international awards and recognitions, including: Awards for painting at the October Salon in Belgrade in 1977 and 1988; Award at the International Drawing Exhibition in Nuremberg in 1979; First Prize at the YAVA Biennial in New York in 1980; Award at the Alexandria Biennial of Art in 1980; Golden Palette of ULUS in Belgrade in 1985; Politika Award in Belgrade in 1990; Awards at the Nadežda Petrović Memorial in Čačak in 1978 and 1990; Award for Painting at the Milena Pavlović Barila Memorial in Požarevac in 1985 and 1995; Award of the City of Belgrade Despot Stefan Lazarević for 2021, Recognition for Outstanding Contribution to National Culture in 2024. His works are in numerous museum and private collections in the country and abroad.
He is a member of ULUS. He lives and works in Belgrade.
Cvetković follows his own feelings and the sensibility of society in a special way with a deconstructed visual language. Having traveled a long way from hyperrealism through new expressionism, informel and pop art to liberal modernism, he continues to explore mythological and historical themes. In the process of forming new, metaphorical wholes, he introduces new materials, while simultaneously nurturing his own pictorial system, achieving highly aesthetic visual art.
ĐORĐE KOVAČEV (1947) graduated from the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1972. In addition to painting, he is also involved in musical creativity in various genres. He lived and exhibited in Vienna, Austria from 1982 to 1986. He has had several solo and collective exhibitions. Currently, his permanent exhibition is in the “Kovačev” gallery in Čurug.
While still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, working in a conservation team at the archaeological site of Lepenski Vir, he came into contact with objects and artifacts created by a man, a member of the Lepen culture. His interest in archaeology dates back to that time, and he deepened it even more during the period when, as a museum associate, he made drawings for documentation at the sites of Velesnica, Gomolava, etc.
In the meantime, he studied various anthropological studies on Amazonian tribes such as the Yanomame. He was particularly interested in the study of Aborigines conducted by Geza Rahaim in the 1930s.
As a result of all these experiences, a cycle of paintings, totems, sculptures, and objects was created, which he himself titled: From Churug to Churunga (Churunga is a well-preserved relic of great importance for the identity of Aboriginal tribes).
He lives and works as an independent artist in Churug.
Kovachev has a clearly defined concept in which he intertwines
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND PROMOTION OF THE MONOGRAPH "MIROSLAV ANĐELKOVIĆ"
OFFICERS' HOUSING
We invite you to the opening of the painting exhibition and promotion of the monograph "Miroslav Anđelković" by Sonja Vukašinović, on April 10, 2025 at the Oficirski Dom Gallery, starting at 7 p.m. The promotion of the monograph will be attended by Emilija Ćoćić Bilić, director of the SLU Gallery Niš, Malina Radonjić, art historian, Sonja Vukašinović, museum advisor from the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš.
The retrospective exhibition - in memoriam of Miroslav Anđelković consists of a selection of about forty paintings from his rich legacy as well as a selection of works from the Fund of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš.
Miroslav Anđelković was born on April 6, 1945 in Jelasnica. After graduating from art school in Niš, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He graduated and received his master's degree in the class of Prof. Nedeljko Gvozdenović. He became a member of ULUS, Lada, and the Niš Graphic Circle.
Miroslav Anđelković entered the art scene in Serbia in 1970 with the exhibition "Generation 1969/70" and was noticed by art critics and professional audiences. He exhibited his work about 35 times and was awarded 11 times for his work. Abroad, he exhibited in group exhibitions in Luxembourg, Paris, Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, Aarau, Craiova, Veliko Tarnovo, Moscow, and Nitra.
He collaborated with prominent writers and poets from Niš. He provided drawings for many literary works, such as "People of God" by Bora Sranković, "Ibis Age" by Stevan Sremac, "White Stone" by Dragoljub Janković, Lyrical folk songs of the Timok region "Oh, how the old mountain", "Divinska Mycenae" by Radmilo Radovanović, while with Tomislav Mijović he published four books of a joint poetic-lyrical diary under the titles: "In the gentleness and solitude", "Shimmers of calling", "Javke odsjaji, ugarci", "Vreme na okupu", and he illustrated Stevan Raičković's work "Notes about Black Vladimir".
He began his working life as a professor, first at the Gymnasium in Leskovac and Niš, and then moved to the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts in Niš, first as a curator, artistic director and director. He then moved to the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, where he worked until his retirement as a full professor. In 2011, he was awarded the Grand Plaque with the Charter of the University of Belgrade. He participated in a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad.
He passed away on April 15, 2021.
During his lifetime, he created over 400 paintings and countless drawings, watercolors, and graphics. The exact number is impossible to determine because the paintings have been stolen and a large number have remained in the permanent ownership of many institutions, museums, and galleries that have purchased his work or received it as a gift through participation in various art events and art colonies. His drawings adorn and illustrate many literary works. The family legacy includes 80 paintings and countless drawings and watercolors. Almost all of his work has been published in catalogues accompanying his solo and group exhibitions, and he has exhibited continuously for the past fifty years.
The development of his work has been accompanied by constant improvement and development without sudden leaps or drastic changes. The variety of colors changed depending on personal affinity and life circumstances, with the unlimited introduction of his emotional states and philosophical thoughts. Anđelković is inspired by nature, which he transposes. The paintings are dominated by a sensitively skillful harmony of the rational and the emotional, rich chromatic textures and visual parts, tonally harmonized with accents of warm and cold. His works exude strong emotion, which is presented through color but also strong expressive drawing.
Anđelković was one of the most attractive and versatile artists of Niš from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in Niš and Serbia. Through his active engagement at all levels of culture, he participated in the creation of the city's artistic and cultural life.
He exhibited his work 35 times, winning 11 awards. He participated in many famous art colonies in the former Yugoslavia.
Throughout his working life, he worked on the promotion and creation of the city's artistic life, as an academic artist, artistic director and later director of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš, but also through various juries, commissions, artistic councils, pedagogical work, following his artistic credo in the hope of achieving his goal. His work will remain permanently recorded and remembered not only in these areas but also beyond, because he left a deep mark in the history of artistic creation in our country.
NENAD NEDELJKOV ''Study II''
NENAD NEDELJKOV
Study II
paintings and video
On Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m., the exhibition of paintings and videos Studio II by Nenad Nedeljkov will open.
Nenad Nedeljkov's various conceptual and thematic interests are determined by his current artistic moment on the human figure and the possibility that the motif of the body responds to the desire for the visibility of the incorporeal. Therefore, on the basis of being and the body, a contribution is made to the eternal unraveling of the universal order, in the context of perishability and inexorable finality, and spiritual imperishability and biological vitality.
In an exceptional interweaving of digital and manual formative procedures, the artist creates variations of one and the same motif. A centrally composed cutout of a figure, with outstretched arms as in a crucifixion, is anatomically and graphically defined or almost completely distorted or reduced.
The two-channel video work Studio II is directly based on the cycle of variations in mixed media, entitled Studio, and represents its very successful extension, while the video Outside the Area suggests the flow of time and the cosmic rule of continuous movement.
Nenad Nedeljkov was born in 1971 in Zrenjanin. He graduated in painting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He received his master's degree in digital art from the Interdisciplinary Studies Department of the University of Arts in Belgrade. He has realized 15 solo exhibitions and participated in a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad (the Netherlands, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, USA, India, Australia, Turkey, Italy, Colombia, Great Britain, Switzerland, Greece, Mexico, France, Portugal, Argentina, Japan, Peru, the Netherlands).
The exhibition of works by Nenad Nedeljkov can be visited by the public in Niš until March 30th, at the Pavilion in the Fortress.
ACQUISITIONS 2015-2023
ACQUISITIONS 2015-2023 / PURCHASES OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES.
In its fifty-five years of existence, the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš has, thanks to various types of acquisitions (purchases, gifts, Art Colony "Sićevo", Graphic Workshop "Sićevo"), formed an impressive fund that currently numbers 1,798 works of art, classified into six collections. Since purchase is the safest and most relevant method of acquisition from the point of view of the value of a work, during the first twenty years of its existence, the Niš Gallery purchased works from numerous exhibitions for its collections, but this process was forcibly interrupted in the early 1990s, with the closure of the city and republic funds for the purchase of works of art due to the deteriorating economic situation in the country. After a long break, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia began to announce annual competitions for “financing works of art for the needs of art gallery and museum collections” in 2014. Regularly participating in these competitions, GSLU Niš has purchased 61 works with the funds of the Ministry of Culture, including 2023, including 22 paintings, 16 sculptures, 15 works of new media and 8 works on paper. Since eleven works purchased in 2014 were exhibited at the previous exhibition Acquisitions, on this occasion we are presenting to the public for the first time all the paintings and sculptures purchased in the period from 2015 to 2023.
The exhibition consists of paintings by: Mihael Milunović, Nikola Džaf, Miško Pavlović, Bratislava Basic, Nikola Marković, Pulai Arpad, Ivan Šuletić, Vesna Knežević, Jadranka Mišić Pejović, Ivan Milenković, Srđan Đile Marković, Tadija Janičić, Igor Antic, the DIMTIM group, as well as sculptures by: Mrđan Bajić, Željka Momirov, Gabriel Glid, Dragan Drobljak, Rajko Popivoda, Gordana Kaljalović Odanović, Zdravko Joksimović, Dragan Jelenković, Marko Crnobrnja, Nikola Pešić, Dragoslav Krnajski, Radoš Antonijević, Balša Rajčević, Rade Mutapović and Anđela Grabež. All the purchased works possess high aesthetic and artistic regularity, they typically characterize the individual artistic handwriting of the artist, testify to the dominant motif-thematic preoccupation of the author and to the authentic visual expression. Most of the works contain clear echoes of general social circumstances at their semantic level and represent the author's intellectualized reaction to the characteristics of the current time, expressed in a metaphorical or symbolic manner.
The purchase policy of the GSLU Niš is continuously based on respecting several important principles, namely: unifying the exhibition and museological activities of the institution, adequate monitoring of the national scene, filling the collections with works by artists who are not represented in them or are insufficiently represented. Thanks to the purchases made, the collections of contemporary painting and contemporary sculpture have been significantly enriched with valuable works, the vast majority of which were exhibited in Niš, the number of authors represented in the GSLU Niš fund has increased, and most importantly - the purchases made have significantly contributed to the development of these collections, not only from the point of view of quantitative replenishment, but primarily from the point of view of increasing their overall qualitative value and updating. The exhibition will run until April 6.
PLURAL STRATEGIES
EXHIBITION "PLURAL STRATEGIES" - SELECTION FROM THE COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTING OF THE GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY FINE ART IN NIŠ
Pavilion and Fortress /December 12th at 1:00 PM/
After exhibitions in Novi Sad and Belgrade, the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš is organizing an exhibition from its rich collection entitled "Plural Strategies".
The exhibition features 30 Serbian artists from the second half of the 20th century who, as leading figures of their time, left a deep mark on our art history: Mladen Srbinović, Stojan Ćelić, Mića Popović, Milan Konjović, Ivan Tabaković, Zoran Pavlović, Boža Ilić, Lazar Vujaklija, Ljubica Cuca Sokić, Bora Iljovski, Peđa Milosavljević, Olja Ivanjicki, Sinisa Vuković, Mihajlo Petrov, Stojan Trumić, Bojan Bem, Čedomir Krstić, Boško Petrović, Kosa Bokšan ...
During the seventh and eighth decades, in addition to the existence of a number of newly formed individual painting practices, several parallel currents were discernible, so that completely separate artistic languages and innovative artistic phenomena began to exist at the same time.
Different artistic practices in one artist's work lead to the dematerialization of the work of art, penetrating the essence of the visual language. At the same time, new cultural and artistic phenomena begin to deal with existential questions, that is, critical reexaminations of reality. In addition, during that period, a group of artists appears on the Serbian art scene, expressing interest in the renewal of the figure in different contexts.
The selected works of art do not have a connection with the themes or ideas they explore, but as diverse visual achievements with completely individual problem concepts, they represent significant material for researching the development of visual art in these areas. Artists of various stylistic orientations, as representatives of complex artistic developments, participated in the formation of the collection of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts, which today is among the most valuable collections in our country, aspiring to soon grow into the Museum of Southeast Serbia.
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