At the invitation of the Cultural Center "Mija Aleksić" from Gornji Milanovac, the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art presents the exhibition "The Profile of an Institution," which opened on September 19 at 6 PM.

At the opening, the attendees were addressed by Dragan Arsić, the director of the Cultural Center "Mija Aleksić," and Ivana Bašičević Antić, PhD, the director of the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art.

Changes in the global contemporary art scene dictate changes in the program of our Museum. The new profile of the museum that we are building is an active participant in the domestic and then international institutional art scene. Since its founding in 1960, when it was established under the name Gallery of Self-taught Visual Artists in Svetozarevo, the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art has continuously worked on the study, collection, protection, and promotion of works by extraordinary and authentic creators who did not follow established paths but implied the emergence of new forms and innovative approaches to artistic creation. As the name of the Museum suggests, they have often been positioned outside the epicenter of the official cultural matrix.
We see the exhibition "The Profile of an Institution" as a great opportunity to present a concise overview of works from our collection, ranging from naive art to art brut. The exhibition will take place at two locations.

In the Modern Gallery, the exhibition opens with works from the first generation of classics of naive and marginal art: Janko Brašić, Milanka Dinić, Milan Rašić, and Sava Sekulić. Meanwhile, at the Cultural Center "Mija Aleksić," sculptures from various generations and expressions will be displayed, intertwining the rural genre of Dragutin Aleksić, Bogosav Živković, and Milan Stanisavljević, along with the primordial stone figurines of Ilija Filipović, up to contemporary creators like Predrag Milićević Barbarien, Voјkan Morar, and the French artist Margot, including academically trained artists such as Goran Stojčetović. This is not about a succession of generations and genres, but rather a transition from the external to the internal world, from what we see to what we feel, what smolders in our inner being and must explode and materialize through drawing and color.
The exhibition will be complemented by curator-led tours and creative workshops for children.

The authors of the exhibition are Vladimir Kokoruš and Radmila Stamenković, curators of the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art.