Artists @ Rooms

Rooms 1 & 12 | Milica Dukic | The Mirror

Artwork “The Mirror” is a portrait of a middle-aged male figure standing calm with a cart full of raw, secondary materials, with the large mirror in the foreground. It aims to draw attention to the issue of poverty. To keep an eye on individual from marginalized groups, and to raise questions about his life. Behind […]

Room 2 | Dea Dzankovic | Kopfkino

Kopfkino is a site specific immersive installation that explores the topic of fragmentation by combining ready made elements with video and sound. Kopfkino juxtaposes an intensely red environment with floral Edenesque installation aided by a video piece that parallels this approach by combining jarring video elements with a soothing form of a guided audio meditation. […]

Room 3 | Ráðhildur Ingadóttir | Vortex

In the years 1997 – 2000 I made some projects where I used clothes as a medium. Drawings and texts were printed on fleece garments, and these were then presented and distributed in different ways. By printing works on clothing that people wore, a kind of happening took place and the work could be experienced […]

Room 4 | Meeting Room

The Meeting Room is a place for talks and mingling. It is opened on Wednesday evening for a special performance by Sveta Pseta, followed on Friday and Saturday by conversations with our visiting curators.

Room 4 | св. Псета

The sound these dogs carry does not allow itself to be molded due its unpredictability and mixtures of genres. Primarily instrumental punk, in its attitude and energy, mixes with rocky surfish garage tunes and melodies, all wrapped up in a dirtbag of noise, whose intensity will keep resonating between your ears. If Sergio Leone was […]

Room 5 | Filip Stefanovic | Three of Life

The piece titled “The tree of life” is a live installation in the form of an aquarium, created for the purposes of Art Weekend Belgrade which will take place at the Hotel Belgrade in October 2021. Hotel “Belgrade”, once a renowned Belgrade hotel, is currently in very poor condition, it is ruined, and the old […]

Room 6 | Jelena Fuzinato | Supervisual, Paper 1

Jelena Fužinato has studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Banjaluka and Belgrade. She continued her education in art theory at AALTO University Helsinki and the University of Arts in Berlin, where she gained her Master’s degree. She works as visual artist and lecturer at Berlinische Galerie, Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture […]

Room 7 | Aleksandar Lazar | Patient Love

Aleksandar Lazar is a printmaker and multimedia artist working with subtleties of audio-visual synaesthesia, through the media of live cinema, video, printmaking and digital art. Holds an MA from the Department of Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he is currently attending Ph.D. studies. He has many collaborations with film makers, musicians, and […]

Rooms 8 & 10 | Nikola Radosavljevic | Mommy lessons

“Mommy lessons” belongs to a series of ambient installations developed in the last few years. The work deals with the structuring of generational trauma, the results of the application of bad patterns of education, in order to offer the possibility of change and “cure”, which is much needed by the observer today and here. Nikola […]

Room 9 | Milan Antic | Rhythm

My desire for experimentation and testing of boundaries of own creativity is enabling me to transform my thoughts into new shapes. By using method for painting based on the investigation of the relations between time, space and form, my piaintings are reflection of meditative attention and can be described as an aspiration towards contemplative states […]

Rooms 8 & 10 | Nikola Radosavljevic | Mommy lessons

“Mommy lessons” belongs to a series of ambient installations developed in the last few years. The work deals with the structuring of generational trauma, the results of the application of bad patterns of education, in order to offer the possibility of change and “cure”, which is much needed by the observer today and here. Nikola […]

Room 11 | Milos Janjic | Glava u oblacima

The contemporary dance performance piece “Glava u oblacima” permeates a range of different topics, which include pollution with consequences, subjective perception of work and rest in the modern world and individual motivation for work. The contemporary dance performance piece “Glava u oblacima” permeates a range of different topics, which include pollution with consequences, subjective perception […]

Rooms 1 & 12 | Milica Dukic | The Mirror

Artwork “The Mirror” is a portrait of a middle-aged male figure standing calm with a cart full of raw, secondary materials, with the large mirror in the foreground. It aims to draw attention to the issue of poverty. To keep an eye on individual from marginalized groups, and to raise questions about his life. Behind […]

Rooms 13 & 26 | Teodora Nikolic

Despite all the differences among people, skin is something that each of us own. Cadres of the presented skin are chosen by my inner feeling and they all come from different parts of the body, whereby I intentionally contrast the tightness of the folds on the real skin with the performance of the same motif […]

Rooms 14 & 28 | Lidija Delic | Two rooms

My practice is predicated, both conceptually and structurally, upon an inter-medial exploration of a set of relations between (my) subjective internal processes and spaces that surround me. I find it possible to elucidate, expend and transform internal personal spaces of atmosphere, dreams, memories and imagination through their transposition into the physical space of a gallery. […]

Room 15, 16, 17 & 18 | Jovana Blagojevic & Pavle Curcic | Wireless

Jovana Blagojevic and Pavle Curcic are examining intuition, telepathy and electrification in the work called Wireless. Jovana Blagojević graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, 2021. She is currently completing her master degree. Jovana has exibited in a few group shows. In her practice, Jovana is interested in how personal topics and […]

Room 19 | Daliborka Djuric | La pastorale

Romanticized Wheeler’s tapestries were found in most of the houses I was in when I was young, as a symbol of happiness and balance of one family. At the same time, it was a symbol of luxury, considering that the schemes were expensive, and the work itself required a lot of free time. Today, I […]

Room 20 | Petar Aleksic | A Well Kept Secret

His exhibited work includes a tapestry and paintings from the series A Well Kept Secret. As templates for this works, mythological and religious scenographies and motifs are used, but with the eviction of actors from canonical images. Instead of a mere interpretation, the series deals with the appropriation and reconceptualization of physical space, and consequently […]

Room 21 | Tadija Janicic | Spring Walk | Offender

The works exhibited are a part of series created during 2020 Covid-19 quarantine which I spent with my family at Palic lake. I see an artwork as the concentration of an idea or concept into a physical entity. I permanently and consistently deal with the life of contemporary man, re-examining the relative and temporary character […]

Room 22 | Tamara Tomić-Vajagić in collaboration with Lena Melentijević and Arabella Stanger | Come into our room: a soft oral history of the Hotel Beograd

The Hotel’s socialist-era transition into a nationalised lodging, managed by the Jugoslovenske Železnice, intersects with the history of its surrounding area locally known as “Štajga”—socialist Belgrade’s seedy part of the city, with the sole openly erotic cinema (Partizan). But, what part did the Hotel Beograd play in Štajga’s and the city’s history? Aiming to find […]

Room 23 | Adrienn Újházi | Microbial heritage

The beverage Kombucha was consumed mostly during the second half of the 20th century. The drink was home made and mostly every house had a few bottles of this beverage with the starter culture – SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast). The material and the drink is made by fermentation from black tea which […]

Room 24 | The Shock Cooperative | Karkatag Collective

Karkatag is Belgrade based Serbian art collective. It exists since 2009. Work of collective includes machines, interactive and autonomous installations and manipulable objects. Collective uses industrial materials and technologies in research of different natural and scientific phenomena, interactivity and performativity of machines, sound, motion. Through public actions and performances, by placing installations and machines in […]

Room 25 | Culture center LAB | Milana Trifunjagic

Culture center LAB will present the work of Milena Trifunjagic, a scenic designer and Scenic Architecture, Technique and Design senior at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad. Her work is mostly focused on scenography, illustration and DJ-ing, though her interests are various in differ- ent spheres of arts. Her project Crack and the […]

Rooms 13 & 26 | Teodora Nikolic

Despite all the differences among people, skin is something that each of us own. Cadres of the presented skin are chosen by my inner feeling and they all come from different parts of the body, whereby I intentionally contrast the tightness of the folds on the real skin with the performance of the same motif […]

Room 27 | Rade Tepavcevic | Santa Claus | Santa Claus in Trouble

By giving animals the characteristics of a person to send the message more clearly, Rade Tepavcevic’s paintings can be interpreted as fabels and in this way, he allegorically paints the relationship between people and animals (dogs). Sometimes, the text occures on the paintings and the form of the text is often concise in ofer to […]

Rooms 14 & 28 | Lidija Delic | Two rooms

My practice is predicated, both conceptually and structurally, upon an inter-medial exploration of a set of relations between (my) subjective internal processes and spaces that surround me. I find it possible to elucidate, expend and transform internal personal spaces of atmosphere, dreams, memories and imagination through their transposition into the physical space of a gallery. […]

Room 29 | Nebojša Yamasaki Vukelić | Architect of the classless society currently out of employment wandering Utopia

I think my works come from two opposing drives – the need to escape reality and at the same time the need to articulate a critical stance towards it. I’m interested in personal and collective capacities for social imagination; the (in)ability to imagine different futures, especially better ones. I think my works come from two […]

Room 30 | Predrag Caranovic

Predrag Caranovic, born in 1955, graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of Art History. He worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art as a Senior Curator at the Center for Visual Culture. He has been exhibiting professionally since 1974. His works are in the collections of several museums in the country and […]

Rooms 31 & 32 | Collection of Dragan Srdic

Collection of Dragan Srdic 1. Who is Jovo P.? 2. Did Jovo P. paint himself in the Montenegrin costume? 3. Who is the author of the exhibited paintings? 4. What gallery does the exhibit take place in? 5. Is 1977 the year that both the exhibition was opened and the painting was created? 6. Was […]

Room 33 | COSE COSMICHE

COSE COSMICHE is a platform/place/catalyst/curatorial project where artists, scientists and researchers from various disciplines are called to present a reflection, a thought on space, time, energy, matter, void, to define the universe in which we live and propose new forms, ideas and theories to represent and explain the world. Cose Cosmiche is curated by Helga […]

Room 34 | Jovana Krneta | In future we…

I had strong desire to meet myself from the future. I have had this need for a long time allready but past overpowered and present was priority. For the first time, while I’m entering room 34, I feel ready to talk. I have decided to welcome her there, my future self, to turn a room […]

Room 35 | Emilija Terzic

Her work centers around her emotionality and sensitivity that she often feels unable to express otherwise. She aims to make what is honest and not what is pretentious. Her presented work stems from a joyful poem she wrote in tears on a summer night, while contemplating her death. Those seem to be ongoing themes in […]

Room 36 | Aleksandar Jevtic | Escape Room

Escape Room series is a crying game for the lost city deserts. Every urban spot is tagged, labeled and sold. Wherever the money’s coming from it brings malignant growth. The value of the city lies in its lost spaces, that we must defend and keep.They are the only room to escape. And Belgrade is loosing […]

Room 37 | Zarko Aleksic

Taking into account neurobiological and endeavours within cognitive neurosciences, his practice addresses personalized phenomenology through examining own states of mind. Problems of mind/brain and its processes, structure and characteristics, are elaborated in the methodical appropriation of knowledge produced within the field of philosophy and cognitive neuroscience, tackling perception, imagination, language, memory, attention, reasoning and emotion […]

Rooms 38 & 39 | Branislav Nikolic

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia, the department of painting, in 1996. He received postgraduate degrees from the Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, the Netherlands in 2001 and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia in 2002. From 1995 he is a member of the Association of […]

Rooms 40 & 42 | Nikola Garovic

His work is based mainly on drawing, but tends to explore all other mediums. Collecting the objects that surround him by using different bases, formats and techniques, they become entangled with his thoughts. Repurposing the found objects from the past by reusing them in another context – he is giving a deeper perception on the […]

Rooms 41 & 54 | Martina Yordanova and Galya Krumova Presenting Ivan Moudov

In his project “Paintings for hotels and music for elevators” the artist puts his finger on a very common yet strangely neglected issue: public buildings interior. All too often, the places that are supposed to cultivate public taste propagate nothing but poor quality. Offering as an alternative entirely „white“ pictures, under whose layers of paint […]

Rooms 40 & 42 | Nikola Garovic

His work is based mainly on drawing, but tends to explore all other mediums. Collecting the objects that surround him by using different bases, formats and techniques, they become entangled with his thoughts. Repurposing the found objects from the past by reusing them in another context – he is giving a deeper perception on the […]

Rooms 43, 44, 45 & 46 | Marija Iva Gocic, Aleksa Bartol, Sara Pantovic & Nikola Knezevic | 4 the experience

Performance “4 the experience” consists of four parts that share subject matter and are taking place simultaneously. Played by a dozen people in four rooms, they are separate in style and separated by walls. Each performance is played continuously in a loop and an audience visits rooms one at the time. The most appropriate definition […]

Room 47 | Veljko Vuckovic | Unfinished Business

Worn out compromises − inside-out demises In my research of the painting medium, I deal with the problem of using already existing visual performances as my starting points. In this case, it’s about frozen footage from two political movies by Costa-Gavras – Z (1969) and State of Siege (1972). Such “archeological” approach is reflected in […]

Room 48 | Vanja Mijatovic

In 2020, I completed my bachelor’s studies and in 2021 my master’s studies at the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. I have participated in several group exhibitions. My primary focus is sculpture whose elements are complemented by the similarity of shapes and also by the similarity of their meaning. […]

Room 49 | Zagorka Stojanovic | The Tapestry

The tapestry is a part of larger work consisting of 28 tapestries. Zagorka Stojanović was born in Belgrade in 1939, where she graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts. She works with tapestry, costume design, scenography, (theater, film and TV) illustration and fashion costume. She is visiting professor in Poland, Romania and Zagreb. Her works […]

Room 50 | Lions’ room sculpture – Arslani | Vladmir Markovic

Lions’ room sculpture – Arslani, purchased on the flea market of Damascus in 1890. Unknown artist. The lions are coming back to Hotel Belgrade. Like the Arslani sculpture also Hotel Belgrade came in and out of the family Markovic.

Room 51 | Dobosari dobrih vesti | Skart

During a sudden break between ever-changing strategies of pandemic restrictions, in December 2020, when schools shortly started working again and the streets returned to its usual course, a group of high schoolers from Bujanovac and Vranje decided to counterattack: despite all the darkness that pandemic had brought, brave and loud crew took to the streets […]

Rooms 52 & 53 | Collections of masks by Sasa Markovic Mikrob | Part of the Aleksandra Niksic and Misko Bilbija collections

Saša Marković Mikrob (October 21, 1959, Belgrade, SFRY – July 15, 2010, Belgrade, Serbia), also known as Mexican, Groom, Bamboo and Ganesha, was a visual artist, journalist, radio host, social worker and much more. Unique phenomenon on the Serbian alternative and art scene. He studied Yugoslav literature and Serbo-Croatian language at the Faculty of Philology […]

Rooms 41 & 54 | Martina Yordanova and Galya Krumova Presenting Ivan Moudov

In his project “Paintings for hotels and music for elevators” the artist puts his finger on a very common yet strangely neglected issue: public buildings interior. All too often, the places that are supposed to cultivate public taste propagate nothing but poor quality. Offering as an alternative entirely „white“ pictures, under whose layers of paint […]

Room 55 | Marija Knezevic

Marija Knezevic is a Serbian born multidisciplinary artist based in Belgrade. After studying cinematography at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Serbia her fascination for hand drawn animation led her to a unique style of painting on glass, that resembles the treatment of celluloid film negatives. Her paintings explore a child-like wonder and sensitivity of […]

Room 56 | Nemanja Nikolic Prika | Preporuka

Preporuka is a Serbian word for recommendation, or simply a tip. It’s a contribution to better understanding of Belgrade for travelers and to those who live in it alike. It is a growing collection of statements about our path through cultural turbulence. Odd sights that we (Belgraders) got accustomed to are part of everyday exploration. […]

Rooms 57 & 58 | Vocal Curatorial Syndrome

VCS (Vocal Curatorial Syndrome) is post-curatorial performative duo consisted of art historians Senka Latinović and Vladimir Bjeličić. Based on the strategy of active criticism, VCS aims to rethink curatorial practice in the sense of its class, gender, ethical and aesthetical positioning within the local context, as well as global. The phenomenon of professional (un)sustainability or […]

Room 59 | Jovana Jovanovic

My original inspiration is drawn from traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts and the elements of contemporary manga/anime aesthetics but it’s also accompanied by the street art culture. The idea of flatness is here to place the characters into the relation of equality in the bright-colored world of optimism. I try to create my characters mainly pure […]

Room 60 | Bogdan Djukanovic

The selection of materials which I use to create my symbolical sets and pieces is influenced by characteristics of everyday, mundane things. This way, my use of those materials becomes visible – it unveils the physical, visual and symbolical power of what we see. Bogdan Djukanovic completed his undergraduate and master’s academic studies at the […]

Room 61 | Nemanja Milenkovic | I haven’t done it on purpose

“I haven’t done it on purpose…” is an installation made out of three artworks which were made in past three years, in different visual mediums. The main subject of the installation is a representation of a dead animal that is killed by a human, both intentionally and unintentionally. He works as a teaching assistant on […]

Room 62 & 68 | Yao Wang | Limbo

Inspired by the current mental and physical state I’m in. After being stuck in Belgrade for more than a year and half I’ve developed a complicated relationship with the city, at one point it has become a “comfort zone like” limbo , yet in the meantime I’m still struggling to feel the true connection with […]

Room 63 | Aleksandar Rakezic

Can an artistic reproduction of advertisement do even more than that? His works are immaculate copies of the objects around him carefully chosen to correspond to the contemporary viewer. Aleksandar Rakezić attended the faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade and Beaux-Arts des Paris. Currently working on his PhD project. His work has been influenced by […]

Room 64 | Marija Sevic

The central themes I explore as an artist are my private and social life, depicted as fragments. I try to visualize these personal and shared elements as singular and unique situations in time. In depicting the everyday life I see the possibility to connect with the viewers, allowing them to identify with the image or, […]

Room 65 | The Warehouse Macura | Jovana Popic and Konstantino Dregos

The Warehouse Macura will present two artists: Jovana Popic and Konstantino Dregos. Like the museum itself, it is named after its owner Vladimir Macura, and it was conceived as a place for archiving a wide variety of artworks. Besides the artistic exhibits and exhibitions, there are also the various cultural performances.The Macura Musseum is initially […]

Rooms 66 & 67 | Part of the Prison Art Collection | Ljudmila Stratimirovic

Art work were created in the Special Prison Hospital of the Central Prison in Belgrade in the period from 1969 til 2019. In very modest conditions, but with the support of the medical staff, occupational therapy was carried out as part of the rehabilitation of psychiatric patients and patients who were drugs addicts. To all […]

Room 62 & 68 | Yao Wang | Limbo

Inspired by the current mental and physical state I’m in. After being stuck in Belgrade for more than a year and half I’ve developed a complicated relationship with the city, at one point it has become a “comfort zone like” limbo , yet in the meantime I’m still struggling to feel the true connection with […]