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.
Uroš Đurić's first solo exhibition in Banja Luka represents a cross section of three decades of creativity of this successful artist, who through his art projects comments and criticizes the society in which he lives and creates his works.
The MoCARS exhibition will include the most significant works from his rich and successful career: paintings, photographs and video works from several Đurić's series, including his new series ''Art for Class Society''.
What will certainly be interesting for the Banja Luka audience is the fact that, besides his most significant works, Uroš Đurić will present his newest work from the series ''God Loves the Dreams of Serbian Artists'', that he created in collaboration with the players of FC Borac from Banja Luka.
In order to create this work, Uroš Đurić spent a few days in training with the football players and the staff of this club, and he also posed as the club's twelfth player for the photograph.
By including sports in his artistic ouvre, football in this case as the most important side thing in the world, the artist wishes to integrate into the community, to support our football club as one of the symbols of our city's sports, as well as to additionally engage the local community.
Uroš Đurić was born in 1964 in Belgrade. He studied Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He graduated in 1992 and acquired his masters degree in 1998 at the Department of Painting of the Faculty of Fine Arts. He is the author of the Manifesto of Autonomism (together with Stevan Markuš).
He is one of the founders of the independent artistic association Remont, in which he establishes the Remont Gallery and the magazine which carries the same name. Since 1990, he has exhibited in over 30 solo and 100 group exhibitions in Belgrade, Vienna, Berlin, Kassel, New York, Regensburg, Rennes, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Graz, etc.
He played in approximately twenty films, documentaries and TV series. In the period between 1992 and 2010 he worked as an author and editor of numerous shows on the B92 Radio. He is the winner of several awards, among which is the award of the October Salon for the years 1991 and 2005.
Many domestic, as well as international art theorists, have written about his work. The Banja Luka exhibition will be followed by a catalogue with texts by Mladen Banjac, the exibition's curator, Stevan Vukotić, historian and art theorist, and by Uroš Đurić himself.
The exhibition ''Which Way Home'' will be open until 22nd of November 2018.