Exhibition « Future of Melancholia » dedicated to artists from Serbia open in Grac – Culture

Exhibition is open with numerous artists. The opening of the exhibition was attended by Marijana Kolarić, director of Museum of Contemporary Art, Miroslav Karić, Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as Artists Marija Šević, Nina Zeljković, Marko Obradović, Vukadin Filipović and Sasa Tkačenko. Today from 12am in Halle Fur Kunst, guidance will be organized through the exhibition and Artist Talk with artists present.

The curator of the exhibition is Sandro Droschl, and the Assistant Curse Karo Fajstricer. This is the third part of the exhibition, which was previously set up in the Gallery-Legate Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković and MSUB Salon.

The Future of Melancholia exhibition reflects Melancholi as a state of mind that reflects the complexity of the modern moment. This phenomenon at the same time is a reaction to the challenges of populist tendencies around the world, expressed through a withdrawal from political and public life in the sphere of private.

In Halle Für Kunst Steiermark (HK Styria) in Graz, three artistic generations from Serbia were presented, within the research of continuity of the surreal or associative of the twenties to date.
Historical positions include the works of the surrealist group gathered around Marka Ristić, Van Bora, Radojice Zivanovic Noe and others, who were the principals of Surrealism in Serbia and at the same time active in international surrealist circles. In the period of the 1950s, artists and artists appear to be extremely individual approaches and poetics, Ljiljana Blaževska, Kosara Bokšan, Radomir Reljić, Leonid Sevice, Sava Sekulić, Ivan Tabaković and Milica Zorić. Their deeds, whether through figuration or abstract forms, explore metaphysical perspectives, surreal motifs, allegorical visions and relationships between spirit and matter, thus creating unique representations of direct reality and world experiences.

The exhibition also includes part of modern Serb artists who, like its Austrian counterparts, are presented in Belgrade, use allusive language and nostalgic scenes to shape fantastic, suggestive, sometimes gloomy worlds. Like its predecessors, this generation, which consists of Lidija Delić, Vukadin Filipović, MILENA DRAVIĆEVIĆ, MARIJA ŠEVIĆ, Nina Zeljković and Saša Tkačenko – associated with artists around the world in new contexts to enter into a supranational and multilateral dialogue.

The exhibition in Graz will be open until 8. June.

Future of Melancholia was created through the cooperation of Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and Halle Für Kunst Steiermark. This exhibition would not be possible without generous support departments of the Cultural Entrance of the Styria, Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs (BMEIA), the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia. The project was launched within the BMEIA Program Imagine Dignity – Laboratories of Hope: Regenerating Democratic Prosperity.
The project aims to promote deeper exchange and cultural connection between Serbia, Austria and Styria in the context of joint European space, providing dialog inspection into current flows in art.