Dunavski dijalozi 2015

Aug 21, 2015

Treći međunarodni festival savremene umetnosti podunavskog regiona
28. avgust – 30. septembar
Novi Sad – Apatin
16 izložbi, 20 događaja, 17 lokacija (14 u Novom Sadu, 3 u Apatinu), simpozijum, 56 umetnika i 15 teoretičara umetnosti iz 13 zemalja podunavskog makro regiona

Otvaranja:
Apatin 28. avgust 2015.
Novi Sad 7, 8. i 18. septembar 2015.

Zemlje: Nemačka, Austrija, Slovačka, Mađarska, Hrvatska, Srbija, Rumunija, Bugarska, Ukrajina, Slovenija, Češka Republika, Bosna i Hercegovina, Crna Gora. Zemlja u fokusu: ex Jugoslavija. Pored Srbije i Hrvatske koje su učestvovale u prethodnim izdanjima u novom izdanju predstavljamo umetničke scene BIH, Slovenije i Crne gore.

Istorija: Festival savremene umetnosti podunavskih zemalja Dunavski dijalozi pokrenula je 2012. godine, kao pilot projekat galerija Bel Art u saradnji sa Erlin galerijom iz Budimpešte. U nultom izdanju u pretrovaradinskom podgrađu na levoj obali Dunava priređene su četiri izložbe u kojima su učestvovli po jedan mađarski i jedan srpski umetnik. Prvi zvaničan festival na kome je učestvovalo 80 umetnika iz 10 zemalja održan je 2013. godine. Prošle 2014. godine na Dunavskim dijalozima na 18 izložbi učestvovalo je 90 umetnika, kuratora i kritičara iz regiona.

Koncept festivala je da svaka zemlja iz čitavog regiona, predstavi aktuelnu scenu po izboru selektora iz matične zemlje kroz izložbe i posebne umetničke programe: performanse, video projekcije, okrugle stolove i radionice.

Tema centralne izložbe i simpozijuma: Umetnost u doba (ne)emocionalnosti Temu Umetnost u doba (ne)emocionalnosti nametnula je atmosfera elektronski umreženog sveta, u kojem je čovek-pojedinac sve više uslovljen tehnološkim okružjem i integrisan u najrazličitije globalne situacije a sve manje je posvećen sebi samom, sopstvenoj emocionalnosti. Nezaustavljivo agresivna medijska kultura atakuje na našu personalnost, sve više potiskujući i smanjujući prostore inimnosti. Društvene mreže menjaju odnose među ljudima, pa nas besprekorno precizna elektronika svojim brojčanicima upozorava na dosegnuti broj „prijatelja“ koji su nam se pridružli svojim statusima: prijatelj više nije neko blizak, neko s kim smo u neposrednom kontaktu, s kim ćemo direktno razgovarati i ko će nas razumeti i s kim ćemo ostvariti emocionalni odnos – nego se takvima danas imenuju neki nama nepoznati i najčešće veoma udaljeni ljudi. Umesto stvarnih emocija – nudi nam se virtuelna komunikacija, svojevrsni surogat stvarnih ljudskih odnosa…
U vremenu kada slika/slikarstvo više nije dominantni vizuelni jezik; kada je zavladala vizuelnost zasnovana na tehnološkim slikama, kada je umetnička vizuelna jedinica podjednako proizvod čoveka i tehnologije – pojam emocionalnosti koja je dugo bila u središtu umetnikovog izraza, danas se itekako menja i problematizuje. Otvoreni su novi prostori umetnikovog delanja i stvaranja. Sve to donosi nove i drugačije umetničke situacije, rezultate i poruke. Zbog toga temu Umetnost u doba (ne)emocionalnosti smatramo odista provokativnom, uvereni da je u aktuelnom trenutku podjednako primenjljiva u umetničkim zbivanjima u zemljama proširenog podunavskog regiona. Kustosi izložbe su Hartvig Knak (Austrija), Vladimir Beskid (Slovačka) i Sava Stepanov (Srbija).

Cooperation extended: Zanimljivi deo programa Dunavskih dijaloga uveden prošle godine izložbama 235 km, 100 godina: srpski i austrijski umetnici danas priređenim u Zrenjaninu, te u austrijskim gradovima Badenu i Medlingu naslovljen je Cooperation extended. Radi se zapravo o nastavku umetničkih susreta ostvarenih u prethodnom izdanju. Tako će u okviru Dunavskih dijaloga 2015 krajem godine biti priređene izložbe slovačkih umetnika u Muzeju savremene umetnosti Vojvodine i srpskih umetnika u Kunsthale-u u Košicama (Slovačka).
Organizatori Festivala kreativno koriste specifičnost Novog Sada i svojim programima povezuju pešačku zonu užeg centra grada. U toku trajanja festivala Novi Sad se transformiše u jedinstven i dinamičan umetnički ambijent. Svedoci smo da se u našem gradu razvija jedinstven festival savremene vizuelne umetnosti na kome se susreću, razmenjuju umetničke ideje, umrežavaju umetnici, kustosi, institucije podunavskog regiona i realizuju zajednički projekti.

Direktorka festivala je Vesna Latinović, a umetnički direktor je likovni kritičar Sava Stepanov.
Festival podržavaju Sekretarijat za kulturu APV, Grad Novi Sad, Ministarstvo kulture Republike Srbije, Austrijski Kulturni Forum, Opština Apatin, brojni partneri i prijatelji.
(www.danubeartfest.org)

PROGRAM:

28. avgust, Apatin

NA SREDINI DUNAVA

* JULIJE KNIFER (Hrvatska) – MAPA GRAFIKA (1987), Kulturni centar Apatin, Trg Nikole Tesle 12
* ALEKSANDRA LUNG (Nemačka), Galerija Meander, Trg Nikole Tesle 12
* ZVONIMIR SANTRAČ (Srbija), MESTO SUSRETA (IZ CRNOG U CRNO), obala Dunava
Kustoskinja Radmila Savčić

7. i 8. septembar, Novi Sad

UMETNOST U DOBA (NE)EMOCIONALNOSTI

* CENTRALNA IZLOŽBA FESTIVALA SAVREMENE UMETNOSTI DUNAVSKI DIJALOZI 2015, Galerija likovne umetnosti Pokon zbirka Rajka Mamuzića, Vase Stajića 1
Učesnici: Zsolt Tibor (Mađarska), Jan Vikar (Češka), Ralf Edelmann (Nemačka), Stephanie Guse (Nemačka), Brigitte Lang (Austrija), Ulrike Königshofer (Austrija), Anetta Mona Chişa (Rumunija,Nemačka) i Lucia Tkáčová (Slovačka, Nemačka), Lena Von Lapschina (Rusija, Austrija), Olja Trijaška Stefanović (Srbija, Slovačka), Pavla Sceranková (Slovačka, Češka), Vladeva Dixebová (Ukrajina, Slovačka), Marikke Heinz Hoek (Nemačka), Eva Petrič (Slovenija, Austrija), Kseniya Simonova (Ukrajina), Stevan Kojič (Srbija), Nataša Teofilović (Srbija), Nada Denič (Srbija), Isidora Todorović (Srbija), Vengel Vaštag (Srbija).
Kustosi: Hartwig Knack (Austrija), Vladimir Beskid ( Slovačka) i Sava Stepanov (Srbija).

UMETNOST U DOBA (NE)EMOCIONALNOSTI
* INTERNACIONALNI MINI-SIMPOZIJUM U KOPRODUKCIJI SA ZAVODOM ZA KULTURU VOJVODINE, Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine (Kino sala), Dunavska 37
Učesnici: Hartwig Knack (Austrija), Vladimir Beskid (Slovačka), Karl-Heinz Strole (Austrija), Mladen Lučić (Hrvatska), Arne Brejc (Slovenija), Anastasija Miranović (Crna Gora), Dragan Prole ( Srbija), Sava Stepanov (Srbija), Sanja Kojić Mladenov (Srbija), Čeda Vasić (Srbija).

POJEDINAČNE IZLOŽBE PODUNAVSKIH ZEMALJA
* NEMAČKA: ALEKSANDRA LUNG, kustoskinja Radmila Savčić, Mali likovni salon, Bul. Mijala Pupina 9
* AUSTRIJA: KARL-HEINZ STROLE, kustoskinja Andrea Junger, Likovni salon Kulturnog centra Novog Sada, Katolička porta 5
* RUMUNIJA: DAN MACIUCA I VLAD OLARIU, kustos Andrei Jecza, Galerija SULUV-a, Bul. Mihajla Pupina 9
* SLOVAČKA: MIRO ŠVOLIK, selektorka Olja Stefanović Triaška, Galerija Foto kino i video saveza Vojvodine, Nikole Pašića 34
* HRVATSKA: DAVOR SANVINCETI, kustos Mladen Lučić, Galerija Bel Art, Bul. Mihajla Pupina 17
* MAĐARSKA: CSABA PÁL, kustoskinja Marta Katalin Szilagy, Galerija Most, Zavod za kulturu Vojvodine, Vojvode Putnika 2
* BUGARSKA: BOZHIDAR BOYADZHIEV, VALENTINA IVANCHEVA, VALENTIN BALABANOV-BILY, VASIL ABADJIEV, GEORGI PASEV, EMIL ZHELIAZKOV, IVAN ABAJIEV, LAZAR LYUTAKOV, PETJA DIMITROVA, SAN DOKAN, IANKO ATANASOV, kustos Bozhidar Boyadzhiev, Klub Tribine mladih, Katolička porta 5
* SLOVENIJA: TINA DOBRAJC, kustos Arne Brejc, Centar za vizuelnu kulturu Zlatno oko, Laze Telečkog 3/I
* CRNA GORA: NENAD ŠOŠKIĆ, kustoskinja Anastasija Miranović, Galerija Arhiva Vojvodine, Dunavska 35
* BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA: MLADEN MILJANOVIĆ, kustos Sava Stepanov, Galerija Podrum, Apolo centar, Trg slobode 3
* SRBIJA: DUŠAN OTAŠEVIĆ, SLOBODAN KOJIĆ, MARIJA DRAGOJLOVIĆ, RATOMIR KULIĆ, MIROSLAVA KOJIĆ, ČEDOMIR VASIĆ, BALINT SOMBATI, kustoskinja Svetlana Mladenov, Muzej Vojvodine, Dunavska 35

18. septembar, Novi Sad

* VOJVODINA + : MIRJANA BLAGOJEV, TADIJA JANIČIĆ, KSENIJA KOVAČEVIĆ, NIKOLA MACURA, MONIKA SIGETI, kustoskinja Slavica Popov, Galerija Bel Art, Bul. Mihajla Pupina 17

PREMONITION, BLOOD, HOPE

Oct 23, 2014

Art in Vojvodina and Serbia from 1914 to 2014

The work of almost every generation of Serbian and Vojvodina artists in the ill-starred twentieth century emerged between wars.  Following fast on one another came: the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), the Great War (1914-1918), World War 2 (1941-1945), the civil war accompanying the fall of Yugoslavia (1991-1995), with the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to round off the century.  Forever finding themselves between premonition, blood and hope, artists constantly endeavoured to give adequate expression to the feeling and spirit of the times, while achieving ontological authenticity and meaning.

Exhibition currated by Sava Stepanov

Concept by Vesna Latinović and Dr Peter Zawrel

A co-production of Bel Art Gallery, Novi Sad and Künstlerhaus, Vienna
www.k-haus.at

Design by Ljubomir Maksimov

From 14 November 2014 to 4 January 2015

Supported by the Vojvodina Secretariat for Culture and Information

Opening: 13 November 2014 at 19.00, Künstlerhaus, Karlsplatz 5, Vienna

There are three parts to Premonition, Blood, Hope.  The first consists of the Milan Konjović exhibition, At the Crossroads of Serbian art (1914-1993), which shows Konjović’s proposals for and influence on Serbian art of the time;  part two represents the Fatal nineties – Opposing Chaos, and part three: After 2000, Transition in Art – Art in Transition.

Milan Konjović, IN CAPTIVITY, oil on canvas, 1941.

I

Milan Konjović at the Crossroads of Serbian Art (1914-1990)

An illustration of historic and artistic developments from the outset of World War 1 to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the particular focus here is on Milan Konjović (1898-1993) whose long life and opus over-shadowed almost all of the “foreshortened 20th century”.  His works covered key wartime events and his drawings from the Great War, in which he fought as a soldier on various fronts from Ukraine to northern Italy, have been preserved.  These are followed by pastels from the POW camp at Osnabrück, Oflag 5b, where he was imprisoned in 1941, and finally a testimony to the artist’s premonition of the civil war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Konjović’s role in Serbian art is a major one since he was part of some of its most crucial and significant moments: in the post-cubist phase (1920-22); as a leading expressionist in the interwar period; as front runner in the fight against the ideology of socialist realism from the beginning of the 1950s to the early 1960s; as an exponent of early performance (1962), important in that it anticipated and initiated conceptual art in Serbia and Vojvodina, and finally as a participant in the postmodern Nova slika (New Image Painting) in the mid-1980s.

1. The Serbian Cubist Digression  In Serbian art history, Konjović is recognised as having produced the major works of cubism and post-cubism.  These represented the first decidedly and deliberately modernist paintings in Serbian art, important because of their radical contribution to stimulating modernist thinking among artists. In addition to Konjović, works by other important players  working in the same vein will be shown, such as Petar Dobrović, Sava Šumanović, Ivan Radović, and Arpad G. Balasz.

2. Expressionism – Pure Painting. The most important developments in Serbian painting between the two world wars – expressionism in colour and gesture, intimism, poetic and coloristic realism – are known in professional literature as the Circle of Pure Painting. Besides Konjović, among the other members were Bijelić, Dobrović, Šumanović, Job, Zora Petrović, Šerban who, wavering between avant-garde and tradition, arrived at authentic personal results that were close to the sensibilities of the world and times in which they lived and worked. This section of the exhibition presents the works of Zora Petrović, Petar Dobrović and Milenko Šerban.

3. Against Socialist Realism, Towards Abstraction. In post-war Yugoslavia, artists were obliged to adopt the concept of Socialist Realism, with the state trying to use art to prop up communist ideology and the regime. Konjović was a distinguished opponent of any such idea. Two exhibitions in spring of 1951, one by him the other by Lubarda, were a major contribution to vanquishing these policies. By the 1950s and early 1960s, several of Konjović’s paintings had begun to hint at abstraction, giving a major impetus to artistic freedom and the modernisation of Serbian art of the time. Other artists shown here are:  József  Ács, Boško and  Zoran Petrović, Ankica Oprešnik, Pál Petrik,  Milivoj Nikolajević  and others.

4. Only One Performance. In 1962, Milan Konjović gave a public performance of painting in Novi Sad, which all but coincided with similar performances by a few European painters such as Yves Klein and Georges Mathieu. It turned out to be the precursor of a powerful conceptual movement in Vojvodina, the seeds of which germinated in the late sixties and seventies. Along with photographs of the original performance, you will see works by conceptual artists from Vojvodina, members of the Bosch+Bosch group,  Bálint Szombathy, Slavko  Matković, Attila Csernik, Verbumprogram and others.

5. Art in the Eighties: Byzantine Quotations. By this time Konjović, himself in his eighties, was taking an active part in the art of the 1980s.  His plunge into expressionism and unexpected “quotations” from Byzantine iconography brought him closer to the contemporary artistic scene, not just as an anticipator but as a relevant participant in current happenings.  In addition to paintings from his “Byzantine Cycle”, we will be showing works by some of the most important representatives of the Vojvodina postmodern painters: László Kerekes, Milenko Prvački, Dobrivoje Rajić, Dušan Todorović, Branka Janković and Vera Zarić.

Dragan Vojvodić, DISTORTION OF ORGANISM, video still 1

II

Art in the Nineties: Opposing Chaos – Reason and Sensitivity

Art in 1990s Yugoslavia took place against a backdrop of epochal crisis.  The dominant idea of those years was destruction, generated by the collapse of the former Yugoslav socialist federation, a catastrophic economic situation, world-record inflation, a stringent embargo and exclusion from the international community combined with the physical reality of wartime devastation.  Art in Vojvodina found a way to stand up to this state of affairs, fostering a spirit of multi-culturalism, flexible rationalism, harmony, constructiveness and building through ideas of geometry, minimalism and construction.  Artists demonstrated their wholehearted engagement in the form of street action, performances, large works executed “in situ” etc.  Throughout this time of “art in the nineties”, the guiding thought was Filberto Menna’s dictum that “art has the right to its own individuality – not to become dissociated but to offer its own example, to serve as model to other arts and practices”.  It resisted chaos, offering instead ideas of construction and order, harmony and rationalism.  Its chief figures are Zoran Pantelić, Rastislav Škulec, Dragan Rakić, Igor Antić, Zvonimir Santrač, Balint Szombathy, Andrej Tišma, Apsolutno and Mira Brtka.

Goran Despotovski, SELECTION, installation, 2014.

III.

After 2000: Art in the Age of Transition – Transition in Art

The third part of the exhibition covers developments after 2000.  The leading figures here are the artists who, in the sublimation of an instant’s experience, summed up the twentieth century: intuiting the oncoming drama of war, being caught up in the atmosphere of a civil war (1991-1995), moving towards hope of better times only for a new premonition to overtake them, the brutal NATO bombing of 1999, followed by another period of hope after 2000.  This repetition of fate, naturally, is no fit state in which to initiate innovative change.  There is no prevailing approach, the abiding constant is a belief in ontological individuality and the value of art.  The subjects of art in Vojvodina are usually variations on the theme of social transition.  Simultaneously, as the global logic of the “iconosphere” predominated, pulsating with images of the most varied origin and intent, Serbian art was forced into transition from traditional to electronic media and electronic art.  The outstanding figures in art after 2000 are: Mira Brtka, Milan Blanuša, Goran Despotovski, Bosiljka Zirojević, Ljubomir Vučinić, Stevan Kojić, Nataša Teofilović, Jelena Bulajić, Andrea Ivanović, Korina Gubik, Andrea Palašti, MP_art, and Multiflex among others.