On the occasion of International Museum Day and the European Night of Museums, MNMA organized expert-guided tours through two current exhibitions: “Art Brut. Works from the Infeld Collection” and “From Surrealism through Pop Art to Art Brut: New Works by Zil Milan.”
This year’s theme for International Museum Day was “Museums for Education and Research,” highlighting the importance of museums as dynamic educational institutions that foster learning, discovery, and cultural understanding. We were honored to welcome students from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade – Department of Art History, accompanied by Professor Lidija Merenik, Phd.
As part of the guided tour through the exhibition “Art Brut. Works from the Infeld Collection,” Ivana Bašičević Antić, Phd Director of MNMA, addressed questions on naïve and marginal art, the retrospective development of art brut, the global perception of art, cultural biases, and whether art should strive for strictly defined beauty—and who sets those standards.
She also discussed art that emerges primarily from the artist’s intuition rather than from a conceptual framework, the role of self-taught artists today, their integration into significant institutions presenting contemporary art, as well as the evaluation of artistic biographies and works of art.