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'Revolt and Freedom' / Željko Opačak Bequest exhibition at MSURS
25 November 2021 – 25 February 2022
On 25 November 2021, the Željko Opačak Bequest exhibition called 'Revolt and Freedom' opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (MSURS).
In celebration of 50 years since its foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (MSURS) is holding an exhibition called “From Gallery to Museum”, which opened on Thursday 11 February 2021 at 6:00 PM.
On 23 October 2020, “Čačak Contemporary Art” opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (MSURS), showing works by 16 artists from Čačak, Serbia, from different generations and of different sensibilities and affinities.
The “Story Lines” exhibition brings together 6 projects / exhibitions that the diSTRUCTURE has performed in the past ten years. They represent psycho-geographic research and range from classic city wanderings to more complex research that also covers migration, gentrification...
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska presents its latest exhibition titled ‘Reconstruction’, a joint effort of four curators, conceptualised with the aim of conveying differing views about contemporary art in the Republic of Srpska and highlighting its heterogeneity.
A retrospective exhibition of the Belgrade artist Milovan Destil Marković titled DESTILLED FACE – WORKS 1980-2020 opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska on Thursday, 12 December, at 7 p.m.
‘Highlights: The Collection of Foreign Art of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska’ was conceptualised and first shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (MSURS), in celebration of 2018, announced the European Year of Cultural Heritage by the European Commission, with events organised under the slogan ‘Our heritage: where the past meets the future’ and aimed at promoting Europe’s rich and diverse cultural heritage.
To mark the fifty years since the catastrophic earthquake that struck Banjaluka in 1969, the exhibition ''Earthquake in Banjaluka 1969: Solidarity, Recovery and Development'' was opened as a central event of the manifestation in the Cultural Center Banski dvor.
In celebration of the event “Serbia Days in the Republic of Srpskaˮ, on 24 October 2019, an exhibition titled “European Phenomena from the Collection of the Matica Srpska Galleryˮ was opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska.
Exhibition Italy. (In)visible stories, curated by Micol Di Veroli and Dominique Lora, presents the works of 15 contemporary Italian artists who, through four segments and through the appropriate medium, present one part of Italy’s intangible cultural heritage.
The Nature of Sensibility is a solo retrospective exhibition by Biljana Gavranović, which seeks to present the artist’s rich and prolific oeuvre and illustrate fully the language of visual poetics she uses to express herself artistically.
The exhibition is a result of collaboration between the Goethe-Institute and the Center for Art and Media from Karlsruhe (ZKM) and shows politically and socially engaged video games as a far more serious phenomenon which is not exclusively meant for entertainment.
The theme of Lehrner’s explorations is tales yet untold or unknown about the cities he has visited, about the worlds that once were or still exist today, but are not experienced true to what they really are. Lehrner’s works may as well be seen as records of the art of performance, since the artist frequently finds himself in situations that require physical exertion, if his work is to adequatly present what he seeks to show.
Perceptions: The Beauty of a Flower is in the Picking is a new art project in the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, which continues an exceptionally successful collaboration with the British Council. During the previous years, collaboration between these two institutions resulted in giving Banja Luka two very important and well-visited exhibitions, ’’New Religion’’ by Damien Herst, and ’’Vanity of Small Differences’’ by Grayson Perry.
With the exhibition Was ist Kunst Bosnia and Herzegovina / Heroes 1941–1941, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska presents one of the most intriguing artistic collectives of Eastern Europe, the Slovenian artistic group Irwin.
The exhibition ''Which Way Home'' by Uroš Đurić, the conceptual artist from Belgrade, will be open on Thursday, 11th of October at 7 P.M. at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska is organizing the Helga Paris: Photograph exhibition in collaboration with Goethe Institute in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations of the Federal Republic of Germany (ifa: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), which will be open on September 6th and will last until September 26.
This is a collaborative exhibition of the works of Slobodan Vidović and Radoslav Tadić, two Banja Luka-based artists, who persist in staying present and regularly exhibiting in local and regional art shows, here presented together because of their years-long consistent formulation and use of the painting language.
As one of the activities accompanying the exhibition Highlights: The Collection of Foreign Art of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, organised to mark the European Year of Cultural Heritage and staged with the assistance of the EU Delegation to BiH, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska asked the junior and senior students of the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka taking the course Intermedia Art to have their works shown in the 17th annual student exhibition enter into dialogue with the works shown at the MSURS.
From 25 May to 2 July, Gallery PLUS, the exhibition and sale salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, hosted Individual Mythologies, an exhibition of works by artists Ana Vasić, Jelena Vučić, and Vesna Majstorović.
The exhibition “Highlights: The Collection of Foreign Art of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska” is being staged to mark 2018, declared the European Year of Cultural Heritage by the European Commission, under the slogan “Our heritage: where the past meets the future” and in celebration of Europe’s rich and diverse cultural heritage.
This is a retrospective exhibition presenting a selection of works by Petar Lubarda made between and after the World Wars, up until the artist’s death.
The exhibition is conceptualised as a synthesis of the artistic practices of two artists working in parallel on the contemporary art scene of the Republic of Srpska for a decade now, and it provides an insight into the positions of contemporary local painting.
The exhibition “The Mona Lisa and Superman: John Kennedy and the New Cultural Boundaries” marks the 100th anniversary since the birth of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).
British artist Grayson Perry (born in 1960) uses traditional media such as tapestry, ceramic, and print-making to explore his fascination with contemporary social issues and the often provocative topics of religion, sex, gender, politics, class and identity.
This exhibition marks the beginning of collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska with the National Museum of Montenegro, with the aim of creating opportunities for exchanges and different kinds of professional cooperation, jointly developing projects and applying for their EU funding.
U okviru svoje prve samostalne izložbe u Banjaluci u Muzeju savremene umjetnosti Republike Srpske vajar Radoš Antonijević će se predstaviti sa više prostornih objekata i instalacija.
This is a specialised exhibition for the blind and visually impaired, consisting of prints, paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska and dedicated to the art group “Space-Shape”, founded in 1975, who introduced abstraction to art in Bosnia and Herzegovina back in the 1970’s.
To mark the 22nd of April, the Day of the City of Banja Luka, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska will organize the opening of the exhibition Themes and Ideas: Serbian Painting 1900-1941, in collaboration with the Gallery of Matica srpska from Novi Sad.
This is the latest project by Mladen Miljanović which consists of series of works that were created in the past three years, and the exhibition in Banja Luka will show the 12 works that are divided into two sections.