60th October Salon: Šta ostaje?/What’s left?

Three curatorial teams
Lorenzo Balbi & Dobrila Denegri: Trace
Matthieu Lelièvre & Maja Kolarić: Aesthetic(s) of Encounter(s)
Lina Džuverović, Emilia Epštajn & Ana Knežević: Hope is a Discipline

Trace (artists/participants): Alessandra Saviotti, Francesco Fonassi, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Alfredo Jaar, Maria Eichhorn, Daniela Ortiz, Nemanja Nikolić, Nina Ivanović, Marija Šević, Lidija Delić, Ministry of Space, Aldo Giannotti, Mane Radmanović, Ana Ereš, Ivan Petrović

Aesthetic(s) of Encounter(s) (artists): Jesper Just, Marina Marković, Randolpho Lamonier, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, Annika Kahrs, Jeppe Hein, Anne Imhof, Biljana Đurđević, Ivan Šuletić, Damir Radović, Edi Dubien, Kyungah Ham, Nikola Dimitrović, Malek Gnaoui

Hope is a Discipline (artists/participants): Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG), Jelena Savić, Mwana, Caravan, Milica Ružičić, Adrian Melis Sosa, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Darinka Pop-Mitić, Kathrin Böhm, Jelena Micić, doplgenger, And Others: The Gendered Politics And Practices of Art Collectives, Milica Dukić

Venues: Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Pavillion in Cvetni Trg, Salon of Museum of the City of Belgrade, the Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, the former Akademija Club, the Gallery of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia, the Gallery of the Union of Fine Artists of Yugoslavia, Museum of African Art, windows of the French Institute and public spaces in the city.

Media conference: Friday, October 18, 12pm, followed by performance 70 x 7—The Meal by Lucy and Jorge Orta, at 2pm

Press and professional preview: Saturday, October 19, 5pm

Opening: Sunday, October 20, 6pm

The 60th edition of the October Salon opens on the Liberation Day of Belgrade, October 20. This fall, until December 1, the audience will encounter three different concepts created by three international curatorial teams at several locations in Belgrade with the slogan: “Šta ostaje?/What’s left?”

Where and what is the space for art and artists? What’s left—after we leave the exhibition spaces? What do big manifestations bring and what remains after them—… as a path, process, continuity, discontinuity, goal? What’s left after an exhibition? Then, what’s left—after all the encounters? Artists with artists, art with the public, international and local curators, spaces with artworks?

Answers and new questions will be offered during the autumn by three curatorial teams through three curatorial concepts, which is the curiosity of this year’s edition of the October Salon. Lorenzo Balbi, director of the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna—MAMbo, in collaboration with Dobrila Denegri, art historian and curator, will present a concept called Trace. Matthieu Lelièvre, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, in cooperation with Maja Kolaric, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, will present the concept Aesthetic(s) of Encounter(s). The third concept, Hope is a discipline, was developed by Lina Dzuverovic, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader MA Curating and Collections at the Chelsea College of Arts, the University of Arts, London, in collaboration with Emilia Epstajn and Ana Knezevic, curators at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and visual identity devised by Rafaela Drazic.

Members of the Board of the October Salon
Vuk Vidor, President
Gordana Goncic
Zorana Djakovic Minniti
Danica Jovovic Prodanovic
Mihael Milunovic

Founder and patron: City of Belgrade
Organized by: the Cultural Center of Belgrade
Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia

Partners
Museum of African Art
Museum of the City of Belgrade
Faculty of Fine Arts
Gallery of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS)
Gallery of the Union of Fine Artists of Yugoslavia (SULUJ)
Liceulice
La Biennale de Lyon
Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London
Museum of Modern Art, Bologna

Supported by
Italian Council
British Council
Danish Arts Foundation
French Institute, Serbia
Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade
Austrian Cultural Forum
La Boîte
Alma Quattro

Program support
Hestia
Infomedia Group
Cveće zla

Media contact
Ljiljana Ilić, coordinator for communication and media, Cultural Center of Belgrade: T +381.63.368.335 / ljiljana.ilic [​at​] kcb.org.rs