First year of the About and around curating project

First year of the About and around curating project

           

Established cooperation

Professionals and collectives (participants of the public programme):

• Maja Ćirić, art historian, independent curator
• Branislav Dimitrijević and Mika Hannula, curators of the 53rd October salon in Belgrade
• Helene Larsson, cultural counsellor, Embassy of Sweden in Serbia, curator
• Milica Pekić, art historian, curator (KIOSK: contemporary art platform)
• Miroslav Karić, art historian, curator (Independent artistic association REMONT)
• Sunčica Ostoić, art historian, curator (KONTEJNER: bureau of contemporary art praxis)
• Ivana Meštrov, art historian, curator (Kustoska platforma / Curatorial platform)
• Bart Witte and Nikos Doulos, visual artists (Expodium)
• Nemanja Nikolić, Isidora Krstić, Iva Kuzmanović, Nina Ivanović and Sava Knežević, visual artists (Art space U10)
• Vladimir Čajkovac, art historian, curator 
• Saša Rakezić, alias Aleksandar Zograf, comic artist
• Amalija Stojsavljević, art historian, curator
• Ana Krstić, visual artist
• Dejan Sretenović and Una Popović, art historians, curators (Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade)
• Simonida Rajčević, visual artist
• Authors and artists of the project Bez odlaganja (Ana Bogdanović, Jelena Vojvodić, Vladimir Bjeličić, Nemanja Lađić)
• Vida Knežević and Marko Miletić, art historians (Kontekst collective)
• Aleksandra Estela Bjelica Mladenović and Zorana Đaković (Cultural Centre of Belgrade)
• Wolfgang Krause and Silvia Lorenz, visual artists

Institutions and organisations:

• Cultural Centre REX
• Gallery Remont
• Gallery O3one
• Gallery of the Belgrade Heritage House (official partner in Season #01)
• Cultural Centre of Belgrade (gallery Artget, October salon)
• Grad: European centre for culture and debate
• Mikser festival
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• Art space U10
• Third Belgrade
• Kontekst collective
• The Museum of Yugoslav History
• Gallery of the Railways museum
• Pavillion Cvijeta Zuzorić

Special programme:

• About and around curating at Mikser festival (25.05. – 02.06.2012) – exhibition project (supported by the Ministry of culture of Serbia)
• About and around curating at the 53rd October salon (22.09. – 04.11.2012); accompanying programme and cooperation with artistic collective Expodium from Netherlands

Academic course About and around curating: The technology of the exhibition process / the realisation of the project – “real world”

Realisation: by call from professors Mladenović and Antonijević, autumn 2012 and an exhibition in spring 2013; teaching associates and co-authors (A.Bereta and S.Tunić)

Lecturers:

• Curators, art historians, Andrej Bereta and Srđan Tunić (Civil Association ARTIKAL)
• Associate professor Milorad Mladenović, academic painter and architect (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade)
• Professor Radoš Antonijević, academic sculptor (Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade)
• Assistant Ivan Šuletić, painter (Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade)

Students (7 by each department, total 21) of University of Belgrade:

• Architecture
• Art History
• Fine arts (sculptors)

Goals:

• Practical activities of a curator
• Proactivity and teamwork
• Networking students of art faculties
• Exhibition as a project

Presentation of the project

• March 2012 Copenhagen, The Factory of Art & Design (with support from Danish Arts Council, UKK – Young Art Workers and curator Tijana Mišković)
• May 2012 Belgrade, festival Mikser
• September 2012 Zagreb, the 31st Youth Salon (by call from curator Vladimir Čajkovac, HDLU)
• December 2012 Istanbul, Cultural innovators Network; Belgrade, the Festival of education of grown-ups

Planned activities for Season #03 (January – June 2013)

• Publication on the first year of About and around curating project (springtime 2013)
• Academic course About and around curating students' exhibition in Art space U10 (28.02. – 13.03.2012.)
• Exhibitons with participants of the public programme (June 2012); in cooperation with gallery of Dom omladine Beograda
• Internacional project, in cooperation with cultural institutions   (universities, NGO's, museums, artistic collectives); spring 2013
• Public programme - public cultural institutions, exhibition spaces etc.

We are very satisfied with the achieved work results, colleagues' support and understanding by the general public. We've been enriched by sharing, exchange of experiences and positive vibrations. Therefore, we are grateful to everyone who participated in any way in the project Kustosiranje / About and around curating!

We are keeping on, of course...

Belgrade, January 2012

Andrej Bereta and Srđan Tunić