Povodom zatvaranja izložbe „Paralele“ Slobodana Vidovića i Radoslava Tadića, u Muzeju savremene umjetnosti Republike Srpske 8. februara predstavljena je prateća publikacija – katalog ove izložbe i održan muzičko-vizuelni performans.

 

In an event accompanying the “Parallels” exhibition hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, on 25 January the exhibiting artists took visitors on a tour of their works.

 

Grayson Perry, one of Britain’s best known contemporary artists, gave a lecture titled “The Very English Business of Art, Class and Taste” before a 400-strong audience at the Concert Hall of Banja Luka’s Banski Dvor Cultural Centre.

 

Radoš Antonijević’s “One Man’s Garden” was launched in early April with an extraordinary art intervention called “Potato Eaters”, during which the artist planted potatoes in the public open space of the deck in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska.

 

Lexicon of Tanja’s Ostojić (2011–17) is an interdisciplinary, participatory research project in which the on-line social media networks as well as collaborations with women who share the same first name and family name has been utilised.

 

Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska had the opportunity to host Eng. Nagin Cox of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), who is a prominent member of the operating team for interplanetary research.

 

As part of the competition for the Zvono Award- an award for young artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina up to 35 years of age- Sarajevo Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA), in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, is organising an informatory evening on Tuesday, 1st March at 19:00.

 

Curator tour through the exhibition ''Contemporary Thesaurus'' will be given by the Museum curator Žana Vukičević on Wednesday, 24 February at 19:00.

 

The publication titled "Space, Form, Touch" is a catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska adapted for the blind and visually impaired. Meeting the standards of contemporary museology and professional challenges, MSURS succeeded in staging this exhibition, whose organisation proved to be one of its most demanding projects to date.

 

Marcin Berdyszak is one of the middle generation of Polish visual artists. He has continuously been present on the Polish contemporary art scene, and has had solo shows in Germany, USA, Mexico, Finland, UK and Slovakia, and taken part in collaborative exhibitions worldwide. Since 1989, he has worked at the University of Arts in Poznań, where he is currently University rector.

 

The Project Biennial of Contemporary Art "D-0 АRК Underground" is a unique contemporary art project.

 

One of the events that accompanied the exhibition "Art and Power – Landscapes from the Josip Broz Tito Collection" was the screening of documentaries banned during the SFRJ and Josip Broz Tito’s rule.

 

As one of the events accompanying the exhibition "Belgrade by Jovan Bijelić", Lana Pilipović, senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, took the visitors on a curator tour of the exhibition.

 

One of the events accompanying the Vojin Bakić exhibition "Lightbearing Forms" was the curator tour led by Nataša Ivančević, museum advisor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, who presented to the visitors the concept underlying the project.

 

 

A curator tour of the Vojin Bakić exhibition "Lightbearing Forms" was given by the MSURS senior curator Lana Pilipović. It was an opportunity for the visitors to talk to the curator and learn about the fifty-year-long career of this great artist, during which he created many works of outstanding artistic quality. They heard about the creative process behind Bakić’s abstract work, which is inseparable from the European modernist tradition, since he is considered by world critics to be one of Europe’s greatest modernist sculptors.

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 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. 

 

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.

 

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 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.

 

MSURS curators Lana Pilipović and Žana Vukičević provided guided tours and curator interpretation of the exhibition for the visitors.

 

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.

 

As part of the programme of activities accompanying the exhibition “50 Years of Graphic Communications in Serbia 1960–2010”, a lecture titled “Design: The Fundamentals of Communication” was given at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska by the exhibition author Rаdomir Vuković, architect and graphic designer.