Programme 2024

In the coming year, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro will be focused on expanding its reach to the region, Europe and the world. Having tailored a high-quality strategy and a systematic approach, featuring guest appearances of internationally renowned artists, the Museum will aim at establishing a visible footprint on Montenegro’s art landscape.

The vision of the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Vladislav Šćepanović, rests upon the idea of expansion and embracing new perspectives in the context of presentation of contemporary artistic creativity, strengthening of international cooperation, and creation of spaces for educational activities. The priorities of the newly established institution include curating a dialogue with the community, with a new generation of people who enjoy art. Therefore, the Museum is planning to establish close cooperation with numerous regional and international institutions.

The program of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro for 2024 includes exhibitions by the following artists: Kiki Smith, Sam Durant, Erró, Šejla Kamerić, Laibach, an overview of the contemporary Montenegrin art scene, the Museum of Broken Relationships, Ivica Aranđus, Existential Questions in Contemporary Sculptural Practice—Gallery of Contemporary Art Niš,  Mijo Mijušković, Slobodan Bobo Slovinić, Emir Šehanović, Aleksandar Leka Mladenović, Ivana Radovanović.

Erró
March 5–May 6, 2024
Organised according to a chronological-thematic framework, this exhibition covers Erró’s artistic career from the fifties right up to his recent works. It puts on show decades of work, during which images made by other people have nourished his imagination and his practice. Avidly collected in the course of his numerous travels around the world, these images have been subjected to various misappropriations and unexpected combinations. The exhibition seeks to show how Erró’s fund of sources has been enriched and renewed over time to cover every possible domain, from art and cinema to comic strips, by way of science and technology, history and politics, advertising and propaganda, or eroticism. It looks at the different ways in which he has refashioned and recomposed this visual material in order to create a hub of resistance to every form of authority, and to express a highly inventive fantasy.

Curators: Maša Vlaović, Danielle Kvaran

Overview of the Montenegrin Contemporary Art Scene
June 4–September 3, 2024
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro is preparing a large project, entitled Overview of Montenegrin Contemporary Art. Following research on the ground, and analysis of phenomena featured in Montenegro’s visual arts, an exhibition of selected works, and an accompanying publication on the project will be prepared. The exhibition and the promotion of the accompanying publication will take place in June–September 2024. Through this research, the Museum aims to share new insights and up-to-date analysis on the contemporary creativity of Montenegrin artists.

Sam Durant: Nonaligned Echoes, Gifts and Returns
September 10–November 10, 2024
Nonaligned Echoes, Gifts and Returns extends from the work titled Proposal for Nonaligned Monuments, Free Movement (2020) and continues Sam Durant’s study of the legacy of the NAM and the post-colonial period. This pursuit has brought him to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, which houses the exceptional Art Collection of Non-Aligned (formerly the Gallery of Art of Non-Aligned Countries). The artist will conceive a series of new works engaged in a nuanced dialogue with selected artworks and gifts within the collection, aiming to, throughout the process, contemplate, learn, and expand upon the alternative world visions fostered by the NAM.

Curator: Natalija Vujošević

Šejla Kamerić: Firstborn
September 12–November 12, 2024
Focused  on a questioning of identity values based on personal experience, and of social patterns that include stereotyped notions of women and femininity, the exhibition Firstborn embodies the artistic perceptions of Šejla Kamerić, which are based on pronounced empathy, as a key mechanism of communication in her artistic work. The exhibition was created in a kind of conceptual collaboration with the curator Milica Bezmarević. This creative dialogue, stretching over the years, which produced the exhibition in a process of designing the exhibition their joint conversation, published in Šejla’s monograph Mother is a bitch, was born. At the exhibition, for the first time, the work done for MSUCG will be presented, which in its content refers to the mentioned topics, pointing to the issues of retrograde perception of gender heritage.

Curator: Milica Bezmarević

Laibach
November 19, 2024–January 18, 2025
Laibach Kunst denotes the principle of Laibach’s activity, which extends beyond music itself, primarily into fine art, but also into other visual production. Artistry has remained an important element of Laibach to this day. The concept of the exhibition is the presentation of different aspects: documentation segments, posters, photographs, video installations and other visual segments of the group. For the presentation in the Gallery MSUCG will make a special work to mark the exhibition.

Curator: Natalija Đuranović

Kiki Smith
November 21, 2024–February 21, 2025
Kiki Smith’s solo exhibition will be her first exhibition in Montenegro, which will present artworks created during her multi-decade creative career, in a wide range from those in which the artist dealt with the subject of the human body in various aspects, through works in which she focuses on animals, fables and nature, including the most recent works created in the past few years. The installation, in collaboration with the artist, was designed as a compact unit that will include tapestries, sculptures, graphics and drawings.

Curators: Milica Bezmarević, Mirjana Dušić, Ljuba Jovićević