У оквиру пројекта „Ото Бихаљи-Мерин и Шпанија” Музеја наивне и маргиналне уметности, биће отворене две изложбе које ће публици приближити кључне тачке шпанске културе, сагледане кроз призму живота и кретања Ота Бихаљи-Мерина. Кустоскиње пројекта су Сенка Латиновић и Даница Ђорђевић Јанковић.
Пројекат „Ото Бихаљи-Мерин и Шпанија” замишљен је као омаж односу који је овај врсни југословенски ликовни критичар, писац и свестрани културни радник, кроз многобројна познанства, написане есеје и књиге, успоставио са шпанском уметношћу, али и политичком борбом шпанског народа.
Изложба „Тумачити Гоју: Бихаљи-Меринова визија уметности” биће отворена у Галерији Института Сервантес 28. априла, када ће бити одржана и промоција публикације „Гоја” Ота Бихаљи-Мерина, првог превода Бихаљи-Меринових томова о Франсиску Гоји на српски језик.
On Tuesday, December 23rd at 6:00 PM, the exhibition “UNUSUAL COLLECTION: A Selection of Works from the Collection of Ljudmila Stratimirović” will open at the Oto Bihalji-Merin Salon in Belgrade. The exhibition curator is Senka Latinović.
At the core of this exhibition is not just its unusualness. It also opens up questions that remain deeply taboo. Is there art that doesn't belong in a museum? Who in the art system has the right to say what is and isn't a work of art? Are institutions ready to reconsider their position as the unquestionable arbiter, their own prejudices, and the barriers they produce?
Guided by reflections on these themes, we welcome you into a unique cabinet of wonders presented by Ljudmila Stratimirović. Within it, we will encounter an intriguing and fragmentary collection pulsating with despair and struggle, banality and madness, imagination and imperfection, and above all—humanity's search for hope and meaning, even in the most difficult life circumstances.
The exhibition will be open until January 31, 2026.
The exhibition „Lazar Vujaklija: Protest Towards Oneself” will open on Tuesday, December 16th at 6 PM at the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art in Jagodina.
The upcoming exhibition presents the first institutional, comprehensive retrospective of the oeuvre of this significant artist. Realized on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his last solo exhibition and the 30th anniversary of his death, the exhibition and accompanying catalog open up space for new readings of Vujaklija's unique creative language in light of contemporary art history. The exhibition curators are Vladimir Kokoruš and Danica Đorđević Janković.
The opening of the exhibition will also mark a jubilee – 65 years of the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art.
The exhibition brings together 170 works, presenting the artist's oeuvre through all the media in which he created – painting, graphics, drawing, tapestry, mural, poster, book illustration, sculpture, and carpet design, and is based on thorough research of the artist's oeuvre, the title of which is inspired by a quote from his self-published monograph: „Receive these nameless paintings as you wish, as my protest against myself but also as my longing for the beauty of the meaning of life.”
The exhibition „Lazar Vujaklija: Protest Against Oneself” is dedicated to an artist who, through his work, authentic artistic language, unique pictorial alphabet, and continuous media research, developed a clearly recognizable, yet insufficiently explored, body of work within the domain of Yugoslav and Serbian art of the second half of the 20th century. A member of the December Group, the author of the first Belgrade mural, and a participant in the Venice Biennale, Vujaklija is remembered as a creator who eludes classifications and terminological definitions.
Following its successful opening at the Gallery of the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art in Jagodina, the international exhibition Fourth Triennial MNMU: Eccentrics, curated by Radmila Stamenkovic, will also be shown at the Oto Bihalji-Merin Salon in Belgrade. The opening is scheduled for Thursday, October 23rd at 6 PM.
The selection of works and the concept for this exhibition were created by the curator of the Oto Bihalji-Merin Salon, Senka Latinović. Due to the limited capacity of the exhibition space, fifty-two works by forty authors will be displayed, while the works of the remaining fifteen participants of the Triennial will be available for visitors to view in digital form, as reproductions on an LED screen.
This year's Triennial asks what it means to be eccentric today and what potential eccentricity holds for the future. Center and periphery, mainstream and margin, institutional and non-institutional validation are concepts that increasingly occupy us, not only as artists and cultural workers, but also as human beings. Can we hope that the turbulent times we are currently living in herald a radical paradigm shift, a chance for a new beginning in which it will be necessary to view the world, interpersonal (and interspecies) relationships, as well as art from a completely different, decentered perspective?
The first solo exhibition of artist Jovan Marinković's Phantom of Freedom, after being shown at the Gallery of the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art in Jagodina, is moving to the Salon Oto Bihalji-Merin in Belgrade. The exhibition will feature 21 paintings and 9 drawings.
Jovan Marinković was born in 1965 in Kruševac. He graduated in 1989 from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and two years later completed his master's degree in drawing at the same faculty. He lives and works in Belgrade.
So far Marinković has exhibited at the Gallery of the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation, the Gallery of the Belgrade Cultural Centre, the Srećna Gallery of the SKC, the SULUJ Gallery, and the ULUS Gallery. In 1997 he participated in the 38th October Salon in Belgrade. He was one of the authors at the 2006 exhibition at the Galerie Home′ art in Perros-Guirec, France, together with representatives of French art brut and marginal art scene. His participation in the Third Triennial at MNMA – RAW INTUITIVE, 2022, an international exhibition organized by the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art was of exceptional importance. RAW INTUITIVE, an international exhibition organized by the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art was of exceptional importance.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog featuring texts by Dr. Ivana Bašičević Antić, Professor Dr. Nikola Šuica, and the exhibition curator Lepe Milošević.
The Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art Celebrates 65 Years of Existence
Officially opened on April 1, 1960, the Museum became a national cultural institution in 2006, focusing on art that emerges outside of academic education and offers an alternative to dominant artistic trends.
As the only museological institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the art forms referred to by terms such as naïve art, primitive art, art brut, and the currently recognized term outsider art, the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art has, through over six decades of continuous work, contributed to the inclusion of these valuable practices in the canon of 20th- and 21st-century art history.
On Thursday, October 26, the first permanent exhibition of the Oto Bihalji-Merin Salon was opened at Nemanjina 3 in Belgrade, organized by the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art. On this occasion, a memorandum of cooperation was also signed between the MNMA and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, along with the announcement of a major exhibition dedicated to Oto Bihalji-Merin in 2024.
Speakers at the event included Ivana Bašićević Antić, Phd Director of the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art; Maja Gojković, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia and Minister of Culture; Senka Latinović, Curator of the Oto Bihalji-Merin Salon; and Marijana Kolaric, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
The Salon is open on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with prior notice required at least one day in advance via email at info@mnmu.rs.
THE MUSEUM FEATURED IN THE ICOM JOURNAL
The ICOM Serbia Journal, a unique publication in the region aimed at presenting the work of museum professionals in Serbia and showcasing examples of best practices from both the country and abroad, included our Museum in its review of exhibitions for 2022.
The selection criteria for the exhibitions were: original curatorial projects implemented in museum and gallery settings related to collections, as well as collaborations between multiple professional institutions. The exhibitions featured by the journal include: Europe According to Fejes, Raw Intuitive – The Third MNMA Triennial, The World According to Ilija, and the new permanent exhibition of the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art.
RECOGNITION FROM BORBA MAGAZINE
The ceremonial celebration marking the 101st anniversary of Borba magazine was held on February 22, 2023, at the Army Hall in Belgrade. The event gathered numerous distinguished guests, and awards were presented on this occasion. Among the award recipients was our Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art. We received the recognition for our exceptional contribution to the development of museum activities in Serbia.
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