With this exhibition the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska and the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska join the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade and the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad for a celebration of an anniversary – 130 years since the birth and 50 years since the death of the great Serbian painter and academician Jovan Bijelić.

The exhibition "Belgrade by Jovan Bijelić" includes 38 works selected from the collections of the SANU Gallery, the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Belgrade City Museum, the Museum of Theatrical Arts of Serbia and the National Theatre in Belgrade, the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, the National Museum in Smederevska Palanka, and the National Museum in Šabac. This exhibition is of great value thanks to its exhibits from private collections, which are usually not accessible to the public.

After Belgrade and Novi Sad, the exhibition "Belgrade by Jovan Bijelić" is being shown in Banja Luka, with a new monograph published to accompany it. The idea to stage the exhibition in Banja Luka was natural and only to be expected, given the ties between Bijelić and Bosnia and Herzegovina as the country of his origin, where many of his remarkable works are still kept, and whom this exhibition is symbolically bringing back to.

Professor Čupić selected the finest works by Bijelić in an attempt to reconsider the artist’s oeuvre by pointing out the greatness and significance of his Belgrade motifs, but also his home country paintings, poetic and nostalgic, which he made in far-away Belgrade in memory of times long gone. Circumstances took Bijelić out of his home village of Revenik near Bosanski Petrovac to be schooled in Krakow, Prague and Paris, eventually leading him to Belgrade, where he lived, worked and created his greatest pieces.

Exhibition author: Dr.Sc. Simona Čupić, professor of history of modern art, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade

MSURS exhibition curator: Lana Pilipović, senior curator

The exhibition is being staged in partnership with the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, and Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad.

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