Educational and production project New Collection targeted students of Art and History of Art from Belgrade and Novi Sad. The project gathered around 120 students of Art and History of Art around the following issue: what are the consequences of the situation in which some of the most referential institutions for contemporary art, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, operate in limited capacity and their collections are entirely unavailable to public for over a number of years now. It has developed through several phases. Students got to partake in lectures, and then 37 of them embarked upon conceiving and producing around 30 artwork with the help of mentors, artists and professors: Žolt Kovač, Miloš Tomić, Ljubomir Vučinić, Olivera Parlić, Anica Vučetić and Radoš Antonijević. Common tread of these newly produced works is that they directly question and critically address artistic production and education in Serbia, and have organically found their places as part of one of the six exhibition concepts within New Collection. Exhibitions are conceptualized by a group of Art History students, supported by their mentor – independent curator, Maja Ćirić.
New Collection is organised by IAA Third Belgrade in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute in Belgrade, supported by U10, Inex Gallery, Urban Incubator Association, and Ministry of Culture and Information.
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