The exhibition Between Shores: Danube Dialogues 2013–2024 is open to visitors at the Salon of the Belgrade City Museum until September 8, 2025.
Photo: Marijana Janković
The exhibition Between Shores brings together 30 artists who, over the past decade, have shaped the identity of the Danube Dialogues-an international contemporary art festival in Novi Sad dedicated to connecting countries of the Danube macro-region: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Montenegro.
In the spirit of openness and intercultural dialogue, the festival has occasionally hosted countries beyond the region, such as China and Japan, further expanding the network of artistic exchange and perspectives.
“Between Shores is not only a spatial designation for rivers connecting the countries of the Danube basin, but also a liminal space-a place between the known and the unknown, the worldly and the spiritual, art and everyday life. In many mythologies, the river symbolizes transition: in ancient Greek tradition, it is the Styx-waters that separate the world of the living from the world of the dead, but also connect them as a place of change, initiation, and inner transformation,” explains the exhibition curator, Ksenija Marinković.
In this spirit, the exhibition opens a space for memory and new dialogue, at a moment when we remember and pay tribute to Sava Stepanov (1951–2024), the long-time artistic director whose work shaped the festival’s mission.
Reflecting on his last thematic impulse, the title Between Shores becomes a metaphor for life and artistic transition-a call to continue the dialogue that, like the rivers connecting us, endures even when physical presence ceases.
Within the exhibition, selected works by the following artists are presented: Ulrike Kesl (Germany), Claudie Cheisling (Germany), Fritz Ruprechter (Austria), Franz Riedl (Austria), Eva Petrič (Slovenia/Austria), Kriste Zomerer and Lorena Minjon (Austria), Rudolf Sikora (Slovakia), DrMariaš (Hungary), Rok Juhas (Hungary), Zlatan Vehabović (Croatia), Vladimir Frelih and Dragan Matić (Croatian-Serbian artistic duo), Ana Adam (Romania), Lee Rasovski (Romania), Iglika Hristova (Bulgaria), Ghenadii Popescu (Moldova), Sam Duren (USA), Milena Jovićević (Montenegro), Tina Dobrajc (Slovenia), Nele Hasanbegović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Mladen Miljanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Goran Despotovski (Serbia), Nataša Teofilović (Serbia), Čedomir Vasić (Serbia), Andrea Ivanović Jakšić (Serbia), Milorad Mića Stajčić (Serbia), Stevan Kojić (Serbia), and Mira Brtka (Serbia).