Museum of Contemporary Art
of Republic of Srpska
The month of March is a month of gender equality, when International Women's Day is celebrated. This year's March 8th global theme explores how technology and innovation contribute to gender equality. The pilot project "NFT for Women" which the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska implements in cooperation with UN Women in BiH fully combines these two principles.
On 10 February, in celebration of its day the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (MSURS) hosted a media reception to present the results achieved in 2021, the year it marked its 50th anniversary.
On Friday, 27 August 2021, at 12 p.m., the MSURS held a press conference to announce it has received a major bequest from artist Željko Opačak. This generous donation will greatly enlarge the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska in the year that marks its 50th anniversary.
On 18 May 2021, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (MSURS) celebrated International Museum Day (IMD). This was an opportunity to mark 130 years since the construction of the old Austro-Hungarian railway station in Banja Luka, which is home to the MSURS.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that hit Banjaluka in 1969, an installation by the Banjaluka artist Dragoslav Malinić, titled "Disappearing - Emerging," has been set up on the building of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska.
Between April 15 and 25, the “Space” Art Platform ran a project titled “She-Shed” in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska. The project featured a series of events accompanying the exhibition “Perceptions: The Beauty of a Flower is in the Picking”, hosted by MSURS in collaboration with the British Council.
As part of the programme accompanying the exhibition “Perceptions: The Beauty of a Flower is in the Picking”, Prof. Danijela Majstorović, Ph.D., gave a lecture on the topic “Women’s emancipation between continuity and incident”, offering a chronology of media representations of women in the former Yugoslavia since 1941 to date.
On 9 April, at 19.00 hours, MSURS hosted Muharem Bazdulj, another prominent figure on the regional literary scene, in “From a man’s point of view”, its series of author-led tours of the exhibition “Perceptions: The Beauty of a Flower is in the Picking”.
A series of interesting conversations and discussions on the topic of the position of women in art was continued on March 27 with our guest Niamh Coghlan, art historian and representative of the Richard Saulton Gallery, as part of the accompanying programme of the exhibition ’’Perceptions: The Beauty of a Flower Is in the Picking’’.
The programme of the workshop for the youth was created in collaboration with the artist Sandra Dukić, and the participants were first-year and third-year students of the Banja Luka Gymnasium.
Series of author-guided tours through the exhibition ’’Perceptions: The Beauty of a Flower is in the Picking’’, under the title ’’From a Man’s Perspective with...’’ was started on March 22.
At the first gathering which was organised for the public, artists Svjetlana Salić Mitrović and Sandra Dukić joined Lana Pilipović, the exhibition’s curator. On this occasion, Lana Pilipović presented the concept of the exhibition to the interested audience and pointed out the differences and similarities related to the art practices of different geographical, social, cultural and economic contexts in which 26 artists who are present at this exhibition live and work.
Artist Mladen Miljanović's new video titled ''Sounds of the Homeland“ was premiered on 15 February, on the occasion of the celebration of the Day of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska.
As part of the activities accompanying We, Highlights, the exhibition of students of the Banja Luka Academy of Arts staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, visitors will have a chance to see a series of performances called A Ballet for the Museum by Marina Božić, to be held daily between 2 and 15 July, beginning at 8 p.m.
At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Forum of Slavic Cultures, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska took part in the XX International Festival “Intermuseum 2018”, the biggest event in Russia showcasing the work of museums.
In the accompanying program of the exhibition "The Vanity of Small Differences" by Grayson Perry at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska, we will begin a series of guided tours through the exhibition.
The Potato Eaters'' is the title of an extraordinary artistic project by the artist Rados Antonijevic, which is realised on the lawn in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art of RS.
After months of effort, a series of successful meetings and a constructive dialogue with the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska and the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as all the other referent institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska had received an official confirmation for the participation of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 57th La Biennale di Venezia at the 86th session of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Biennale will be held in the period between 13 May and 26 November 2017.