Museum of Contemporary Art
of Republic of Srpska
Roman Uranjek, Slovenian painter and sculptor and one of the founding members of the art group IRWIN, gave a lecture on this art group and especially focused on its project "NSK State in Time".
The regional workshop for preventive conservation titled "Protection of Cultural Heritage in Emergency Situations Caused by Climate Change" brought together thirty museum specialists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Macedonia.
The activities that accompanied the exhibition "Documents/An Introduction to the Study of Discontinuance" by Nenad Malešević included a lecture entitled "On the Other Side of the Sublime / Lars von Trier’s Melancholia", given on by Jovan Čekić, Dr.Sc., author of the text published in the exhibition catalogue.
In the Živa Award ceremony for the best museum of South East Europe, which was held in Skopje on 7 November, The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska received a special recognition for its work.
One of the activities accompanying the exhibition "Light in the Darkness of WWI: The Highest Achievements of the Protagonists of Impressionism in Serbia" was the promotion of the homonymous publication. Ljubica Miljković, author of the publication and advisor at The National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade, led a guided tour of the exhibition.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska showed the documentary "Prague and Serbian Painters", by screenwriter and director Nenad Ognjenović, accompanying the exhibition "Light in the Darkness of WWI: The Highest Achievements of the Protagonists of Impressionism in Serbia".
Art historian Maša Davidović led guided tours for primary and secondary school students, as well as organised student visits, with the assistance of volunteers from Banja Luka Gymnasium.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska and Banja Luka Gymnasium signed a cooperation agreement.
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Curator tour through the Kata Mijatović exhibition "Between the Sky and the Earth"
24 September 2014
On the closing day of the Kata Mijatović exhibition "Between the Sky and the Earth", Žana Vukičević, curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, took the visitors on a guided tour of the exhibition.
The presentation and discussion on the "Tač.ka" Group of Visual Artists from Prijedor and the project Art in Nature Laboratory "Ars Kozara" was organised as part of the Multimedia Art Project of The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska.
Chris Dercon, Director of Tate Modern, London was in Banja Luka on 24 August, when he visited The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska and saw Breda Beban’s exhibition "Let’s Call It Love".
The exhibition "Dobrović, Šumanović, Konjović, Šuput – European Contexts" was a chance to show to the public a forgotten painting by Bogdan Šuput kept in the holdings of The National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka.
His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco visited The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska.
MSURS curators Lana Pilipović and Žana Vukičević provided guided tours and curator interpretation of the exhibition for the visitors.
Seventy-one children took part in this one-day art workshop for preschoolers and young primary school children.
The author of the exhibition, Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, Mr.Sc., Director of the Gallery of the Matica Srpska, had a lecture about the exhibition concept and the work of the four painters presented, who marked the Serbian art in the first half of the 20th century.
This was the second stop motion animation workshop organised by MSURS, and it brought together fifteen primary school pupils, students of the Dragaš School of Drawing and Painting.
The accompanying events of the exhibition "EXCEPTIONALITIES: Contemporary Aspects of Cultural Heritage/The New Trends of the Future Permanent Exhibition" included a presentation of the work by artist Igor Bošnjak (Trebinje), along with the project/biennial "namaTRE.ba".
The video workshop "Video Edition 01" was the first project of The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska to initiate and support the production and promotion of video art.
The Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU) foundation was established in 1984 with the goal of promoting communication, understanding and cooperation between artists from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia through international exchanges in the field of art.
Marija Pilipović, the principal flute of the Banja Luka Philharmonic, had a flute recital at The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska.
During the exhibition, MSURS provided several author-led guided tours for the visitors, during which Sarita Vujković, Dr.Sc., author of the exhibition, presented the basic concept of the project.