After a 16-year hiatus, the Podgorica art salon is continuing its journey founded less than three decades ago. The salon will be opened tomorrow in the Modern Gallery in Podgorica, at 20:XNUMX p.m., when the exhibition "Garden of Hope - Art and the Search for Truth" will be presented.
Museum consultant at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, dr Sanja Kojić Mladenov who devised the concept and selected the participants, said at today's press conference that she did the selection of artists together with the curatorial team of the Podgorica Museum and Gallery, expressing her gratitude.
Artists from Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia will present their works: Ana Aleksić, Bojan Stojčić, Darja Bajagić, diStruktura, Dragan Vojvodić, Irena Lagator Pejović, Gordana Kuč, Ivan Đurišić, Ivan Šuković, Ivana Ivković, Ivanka Vana Prelević, Jelena Pavićević Marković, Jelena Tomašević, Lana Čmajčanin, Lidija Delić, Marija Marković, Milka Delibašić, Nada Kazić, Nenad Šoškić, Nikola Marković, Nikolina Zuber, Robert Jankulovski & Monika, Moteska, Selma Selman, Selman Trtovac, Sreten Milatović, Tomo Pavićević, Vaso Nikčević.
"The works that will be presented were created in different media, there are new, traditional, all expressions, and in addition, they are different thematically and in the approach itself. There are works that deal with mutual relations, the topic of ecology and ecological practice, and there are quite a few in which the authors search for the truth," said the curator.
Director of the Podgorica Museum and Gallery Ivana Ćupić she reminded that the Podgorica Art Salon, as one of the most significant cultural events in Podgorica and Montenegro, was held for the first time in 1995. The tradition of holding the Salon continued until 2008, with a break in 1999, and then there was a break until this year.
"The first exhibition of the Salon after a long break aims to gather and present contemporary local and regional artists. As a manifestation of a long tradition, the framework of the Salon builds on already achieved results that followed both social, artistic and historical trends, and continues with the productive current artistic phenomena, but also methodological approaches and concepts", pointed out Ćupić.
The coordinator moves Miloš Marjanović stated at the press conference that every institution in Montenegro and every environment has a certain art review that unites poets from that environment, whether at the local or state level. This, the Podgorica art salon, is needed by the public institution Museums and Galleries of Podgorica and the capital city, he added.
During the duration of the exhibition, until January 16, 2025, three prizes will be awarded, namely: cash for the first place, cash for the second, as well as an exhibition in one of the spaces of the Museum and galleries during 2025/2026 for the third place...
The jury that will decide on the awards consists of: the director of JU Museums and Galleries Podgorica Ivana Ćupić, curator and selector Sanja Kojić Mladenov, curator coordinator Miloš Marjanović and Jelena Janković from the New Gallery of Visual Arts in Podgorica.
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