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RAW INTUITIVE

Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art invites you to participate in the international MNMA Triennial MNMU - RAW INTUITIVE

MNMA Triennial is an international exhibition which is organized by MNMA beginning in 2016 as the continuation of the Salon (1970-1980) and the Biennial (1981-2013) traditionally known MNMA events since 1970.

Submission material:

The photographs of 3 - 5 artworks realized in the last three years (2020-2022) and artistic biography, authors can submit no later than 20 June 2022 by e-mail: trijenale@mnmu.rs, or artists can bring their work, every working day from 8 am to 4 pm, to the Museum premises on the one of the following addresses:

- MNMA Nemanjina 3, 11000 Belgrade, or

- MNMA Boska Djuricica 10, 35000 Jagodina

Please find more detailed information and application form 

Dear visitors,

Follow our exhibitions that we have prepared for you in the serial: MNMA - 1960-2020 Creativity Lab every Monday at Instagram and Facebook:

The Magical Architecture of Self - Taught Visionaries

Self-taught visionaries - Classics:
Milanka Dinić

Day of Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art

Dear visitors,

Follow our exhibitions that we have prepared for you in the serial: MNMA - 1960-2020 Creativity Lab every Monday at Instagram and Facebook:

Days of MNMA

Mont of Francophoie: Ornament in the works of Female Francophone artists

Winter in the works of naïve artists

Self-taught visionaries: Classics

Dušan Jevtović (1925 -2011)

Half a century of doing painting

Životin Nikolić

Half a century of doing painting

Slobodan Živanović

Half a century of doing painting

Dobrosav Milojević

Self-taught visionaries: Classics
Dragutin Aleksić (1947-2011)

Self-taught visionaries: Classics
Sava Sekulić (1902-1989)

MNMA 2000-2010

Self-taught visionaries: Classics
Janko Brašić

Art Colonies 1984-2018

MNMA 1990-2000

Salons, Biennials and Triennials 1970-2019

MNMA 1980-1990

Oto Bihalji-Merin (1904-1993)

Film from the opening of the exhibition: Oto Bihalji Merin and architects of modern thought

MNMA 1970-1980

The MNMA Story

The anniversary of Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art - MNMA (1960-2020)

Dear colleagues,

Regarding to the anniversary of Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art - MNMA (1960-2020), we organized a virtual visit to the current contents of our museum: Naive Art of Serbia (0: 00-6: 12) and part of a permanent exhibition on the subject of Outsider Art (6: 13-8: 35). The works represented are part of the rich international collection that our museum inherits.

We inform you that Museum of Naive and Marginal Art will release films from its production on its YouTube channel every Friday at 5 p.m.

Official Web site about coronavirus COVID-19 in the Republic of Serbia:

Exhibition

Joskin Šiljan – Same

The announced art workshop with Joškin Šiljan at Modern Gallery Subotica is cancelled due to the artist’s illness.
The exhibition is open until 22 February.

From the Art Workshop at MNMA

MNMA for the youngest – My first visit to museum

21 January 2020

Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art started 2020 year with a new pedagogic activity – My first visit to museum, prepared for the youngest visitors. On Tuesday 21 January, we organised creative visit to our Museum for the children aged 2-7 years from the preschool “Kids Club” in Jagodina. This activity included three different sections that took two hours (9.00-11.00).

IN MEMORIAM

Roger Cardinal (1940-2019)

Roger Cardinal, the art critic and Professor Emeritus at University of Kent (England), died on Friday, 1 November 2019 at the age of 79.

He was the author of the book Outsider Art, published in 1972, the first book on the topic of Art Brut ever published in England, where the term “Outsider Art“ was introduced. Together with Victor Musgrave he organised the first exhibition of the art of outsiders at Hayward Gallery in London, in 1979. He wrote about the lives of Outsider Art authors, the essays on architecture of Outsider Art, the art of prisoners, autistic people etc. He was a co-author of the Raw Vision Magazine and co-author of Raw Erotica (2013) together with John Maizels and Colin Rhodes. He was a member of International Jury of world artistic event Insita for many years, which was held in Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava until 2010.

NEW PARTNERSHIP

Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (Jagodina, Serbia) and
Casa dell’ Art Brut, Mairano, Casteggio (Pavia, Italy)

At the invitation of the Foundation Bussolera Branca, more precisely Mr Fabio Cei, the president of the Foundation and director of museum Casa dell’Art Brut in Mairano di Casteggio (Pavia), Nina Krstić, director of Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art in Jagodina, accepted the proposal for special kind of partnership of these two similar institutions, concerning their successful and long cooperation.

Exhibition

The imprint of creative subconsciousness

Gallery Kritiku (Prague, Czech Republic)
Opening on Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 6.00 p.m.
The exhibition ends on 11 August 2019

2^nd Triennial of self-taught visionary art

Organizer: MNMA (Jagodina, Serbia)
Sponsor: Ministry of Culture and information RS

For the 2nd Trienial of Self-taught Visionary Art competititon 145 artists with 660 works signed, from 32 countries (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Izrael, India, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Finland, France, Macedonia, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, USA, Uzbekistan)
The Jury: John Maizels (Raw Vision, London) – president, Vladimir Abakumov (Art brut-Outsider art Center, Bar), Mario del Curto (Ferme des Tilleuls, Renens), Nina Krstić (MNMU, Jagodina), Ivana Jovanović (MNMU, Jagodina), Nina Ljubomirović (MNMU, Jagodina), selected 164 works done by 70 artist from 20 countries.
Special guest of the exhibition: Anuj Saini (India).

The list of chosen artists for the Exhibition of 2nd Triennial of self-taught visionary art

Exhibition

Encounters: Joskin Šiljan, Marcela Vichrova, Rosen Rashev

Bulgarian Cultural Institute (BCI), Prague, Czech Republic

10th October – 2nd November 2018

Annual award

MNMA – institution of the year

On Ceremonial Assembly of National Committee ICOM Serbia held at the House of King Peter I in Belgrade on 9 May 2018 traditional annual awards for the best results in the domain of museum cooperation for 2017 were assigned.

Manifestation Museums for 10

In commemoration of Milan Rašić

1931-2018

Milan Rašić, world classic, one of the most significant self-taught visionaries in Serbia died in Belgrade at the age of 87 on Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Self-Taught Visionaries of Serbia

27 March 2018
House of King Peter I,

Vase Pelagića 40, Belgrade

Turbulences on the Balkans

On 7 September 2017, in overcrowded Halle Saint Pierre, our exhibition of paintings and sculptures of the artists from Serbia entitled Turbulences on the Balkans opened; the exhibition was organised by MNMA (Jagodina Serbia) and Halle Saint Pierre, Paris.
The representative collection of multi-lingual monographs and other advertising material published by MNMA drew special attention of the audience.

Outsider Fair in Paris

On Friday, 20th October MNMA organised presentation about works of artists from Turbulences in Halle and promotion of advertising material. As our guests: Marc Bourlier, sculptor from Paris and Nadezda Musyankova (custos, Tretjakov gallery) takes part in presentation of MNMA.

Event

Turbulences dans les Balkans

Exhibition

Nek Chand and Rock Garden

Thursady, October 5th at 5.p.m. opening ceremony of the exhibition Nek Chand and Rock Garden in Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić", Little Kalemegdan 1, Belgrade.

Turbulences dans les Balkans

Halle Saint Pierre (Paris)
7 September 2017 – 31 July 2018

A great exhibition named Turbulences dans les Balkans organised by Halle Saint Pierre (Paris) and Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (Serbia) supported by Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Serbia and Gallery Halle Saint Pierre (Paris) is in preparation.

Museums of Serbia

Ten days from 10 to 10

11-20 May 2017
 

Programmes during the event (doc)

Programmes during the event (jpg)

Exhibition

From Two Viewpoints

12 April – 10 May 2017

Gallery of Charles’ Bridge Museum, Prague

From the opening ceremony: Her Excellency Mrs. Vera Mavric, Pavel Zdenek, director of the Museum of Charles Bridge, Nina Krstic, author of the exhibition

Acting for a long time as an alternative artistic scene which minimized the established canons, the art of self-taught visionaries made possible for audience to learn about parallel worlds of numerous independent, misunderstood, authentic and gifted artists who created in loneliness and isolation.

Opening of the exhibition

Sava Sekulić - The Power of Vision

The Cultural Center of Serbia in Paris
16.10 - 19.11.2021

Catalogue and online exhibition

Životin Nikolić – Half a century of doing painting

November and December 2020

Retrospective exhibition

Art Colony of the MNMA

House of Culture "Stevan Mokranjac", Negotin
22. 10 – 4. 11. 2020.

To meet jubilee

Dobrosav Milojević - Half a century of doing painting

Sunday, October 4 at 1 p.m.
Birthplace of the artist, Donje Štiplje near Jagodina

Chamber exhibition of sculptures from MNMA collection

Sculpture of Self-Taught Visionaries – Classics

- Permanent display at Regional Museum, Jagodina

- Gallery of Faculty of Education, Jagodina
 

From 20 August 2020
 

Exhibition

Exhibition of drawings and paintings by Joškin Šiljan - Untold Stories, Gallery 73, Belgrade.

Video clip from the Opening ceremony ...

IN MEMORIAM

Miodrag Pavlović Dragomirac
(1938-2020)

Miodrag Pavlović Dragomirac, a naive painter, passed away at the age of 82, on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. (about the artist)

Exhibition

Joskin Šiljan – Same

Modern Gallery Subotica
18 December 2019 – 22 February 2020

Exhibition

Naïve Art in Serbia

Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art, Jagodina
The opening of the exhibition: 27 December 2019 at 5pm
27 December 2019 – 29 February 2020

Exhibition

Intuition at the margins

Gallery RTS, Takovska 10
24 October-20 November 2019

Opening of the exhibition:

on Thursday, 24 October at 7.00 PM

Exhibition

The Second Triennial of Self-Taught Visionary Art

16 October – 10 November 2019
Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade
Mali Kalemegdan 1

Exhibition

The Twentieth Art Colony MNMA at Cultural Centre on Zlatibor

29 June – 26 July 2019, Zlatibor

Exhibition

Come true dream of Pal Homonaj

Retrospective exhibition of paintings

Tuesday 18 June – 5 July 2019
The House of King Petar I

MUSEUMS FOR 10

May 13 - 19, 2019

Program MNMA

Exhibition

Srboljub Kojadinović:
Voyage to the future
through oceans of the past

MNMA, Boška Đuričića 10, Jagodina
18 May - 15 August 2019

Opening Ceremony of the exhibition:
Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 8 p.m.

Event

Celebraton of MNMA Foundation Day

Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art
Invites you to Celebraton of MNMA Foundation

1 April – 12 May 2019, MNMA

Programme

- Meeting the artists:

Art workshop for children and adults

- Opening of retrospective exhibition of paintings of Miodrag Pavlović Dragomirac
- Projection of documentary of Dragomirac, a self-taught painter from Dobrača

IN MEMORIAM

Milica Kosenko Maširević

Milica Maširević, aged 88, museum counsellor and many-year director of Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art died on Sunday, 24 March 2019.
She graduated from Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History of Art in Belgrade in 1956. She worked at Gallery of Self-taught Artists from its foundation in 1960. Milica Maširević, was a director of the institution from 1963-1980. She organised more than a hundred exhibitions of naïve art in the country and abroad.
After she retired she did research in naïve art and art reviews. She published more than 200 papers including: Self-taught Artists in Serbia (co-authorship), 1977; Monograph of Gallery of Self-taught Artists in Serbia (co-authorship), 1979; A Shepherd Is Looking for the Bottom of the Sky (co-authorship), 2001; Talks in the Atelier, 2010; The Imaginative. Naïve Painters and Sculptors of Serbia, 2017.
M. Vračević

Exhibition

The juices of life – S E V E

MNMA at La Ferme des Tilleuls à Renens (Lausanne), Switzerland
La Ferme des Tilleuls à Renens:

21 February - 26 May 2019

The Juices of Life is one of interesting mutual projects of MNMA and Mario del Curto, a multimedia artist from Lausanne, who devoted a great part of his career of a director, an art photographer and a custodian to the promotion of works of Serbian self-taught visionary artists

Exhibition

JOŠKIN ŠILJAN

Gallery Chaos, Dositejeva 3, Belgrade
15 January – 8 February 2019

Promotion of MNMArt journal 8, Calendar 2019 and

Exhibition 20th Colony of Naïve and Marginal Art

MNMA, Jagodina
Friday, 21 December 2018, at 6.00 pm

Exhibition

The Twentieth Colony of Naïve and Marginal Art

Cultural Centre City, Belgrade
12-24 November 2018

Opening: On Monday, 12 November at 8.00 pm at Cultural Centre City in Belgrade

(4 Braće Krsmanović Street)

Exhibition

Encounters: Joskin Šiljan, Marcela Vichrova, Rosen Rashev

Bulgarian Cultural Institute (BCI), Prague, Czech Republic

10th October – 2nd November 2018

Exhibition

Magic vitality of the marginal

18 – 30 October 2018
Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzorić”
Mali Kalemegdan 1, Belgrade
 

Opening: On Thursday, 18 October 2018

at 7.00 pm

Exhibition

Oto Bihalji Merin and architects of modern thought

19 October – 6 November 2018, Heritage House, Kneza Mihaila 46, Belgrade

Opening:

On Friday 19 October 2018 at 7.00 pm

IN MEMORIAMM

Bibesco – Francesco Maria (Masmata)
1941 - 2018

The painter Bibesco (Francesko Maria Masmata) died in Genoa (Italy) on 31 August 2018. He was born in Genoa on 22 July 1941. He began doing painting in 1995. He had solo and group exhibitions in his country and abroad. He participated in the Nineteenth Colony of Naïve and Marginal Art (2017), organised by MNMA (Jagodina, Serbia). The greatest collection of his works is in Genoa. MNMA has also some of his realisations.

Exhibition

The exhibition of Japanese artist Katsumi Tsuji

5 July / 31 July 2018, MNMA
Thursday, 5 July 2018 at 8.00 pm. MNMA

Exhibition

Sculpture of Serbian self-taught visionaries

Gallery of Central Military Club of Serbia
Belgrade, Braće Jugovića 19
21 June – 7 July 2018

The exhibition Sculpture of Serbian Self-taught Visionaries opens at Gallery of Central Military Club of Serbia, Media Centre “Odbrana” on Thursday 21 June at 7:00 pm.

Exhibition – The Seventh Encounter with the Artist

Saša Petrović Berdujac - Sculptures

Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art

On Saturday 19 May 2018, the exhibition Saša Petrović Berdujac – Sculptures, whose author is Ivana Jovanović, higher custodian, opened at Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art as a part of national museum event Museum for 10 and European Night of Museums.

The new issue

MNMArt No. 7, May 2018

Download the new issue

Manifestation Museums for 10

Program

Celebration of the Day Foundation of the Museum

Museum of Naive and Marginal Art
Invites you to Celebration of the Day Foundation of the Museum
On Sunday, 1 April 2018, from 12.00-3.00 p.m.
- Meeting the artists
- Art workshop
- Projection of films
- Promotion of exhibitingand publishing
activity

Exhibition

Self-Taught Visionaries of Serbia

27 March 2018
House of King Peter I,

Vase Pelagića 40, Belgrade

Exhibition

Francophone Outsiders

(Selection of works from the MNMA Collection)
1 – 31. 3. 2018
MNMA, Jagodina

MONTH OF FRANCOPHONIE at Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art
Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art marks the Month of Francophonie by the exhibition Francophone Outsiders from 1 – 31 March. The exhibition is a selection of works from the MNMA Collection within permanent museum display.

Exhibition

Barbarien – Prison Days

22 February 2018
Correctional Institution, Ćuprija

Prison Days in Correction Institution, Ćuprija
On Thursday, 22 February 2018 from 5-6 pm the exhibition of works of Barbarien entitled Prison Days was realised at Correctional Institution in Ćuprija.

Promotion

Collection of papers 12-17, MNMArt No. 6 and Calendar for 2018

28 December 2017
MNMA Jagodina

A successful work year of Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art was competed with the Promotion of new volume of the journal MNMArt No. 6 and Calendar for 2018, Collection of papers 12-17 and exhibition of posters and other advertising materials which accompanied exhibiting and publishing activities of MNMA in 2017.

Exhibition

Neck Chand and Rock Garden

Thursady, October 5th at 5.p.m. opening ceremony of the exhibition "Neck Chand and Rock Garden" in Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić", Little Kalemegdan 1, Belgrade.
Published by: Museum of Naive and Marginal Art, Jagodina, Serbia.
Sponsored by: Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia
and Embassy of India, Belgrade
Author of the exhibition and monography: Nina Krstić
Author of the film: Anuj Saini
Exhibition will be open till October 15th.

Exhibition

The Nineteenth Art Colony of Naive and Marginal Art

19th colony of naive and marginal art
Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić", Tuesday, September 26th at 7 p.m.
Little Kalemegdan 1, Belgrade.

Exhibition

Turbulences dans les Balkans

Halle Saint Pierre (Paris)
7 September 2017 – 31 July 2018