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SARAJEVO
1987 and 1989 The
Yugoslav Documenta, an art show of
contemporary Yugoslav artists, is the
first art exhibition on such a large
scale in Sarajevo. The exhibition takes
place in the Kulturno Sportski Centar
Skenderija (Skenderija Sports and
Cultural Centre) since there is no
proper art venue for such an event.
The third Documenta is planned to be
international in scope, but is never
realized because the war breaks out in
1992.
1997 Meeting Point, the first
annual exhibition by the SCCA,
(Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts
Sarajevo), is organized as a series of
site-specific interventions in the public
space Ćulhan, the point of departure
for many young Bosnian artists
who have since received international
recognition and success. The work
with SCCA launches their careers.
1999 Ars Aevi Collection is the
first show organized by the Ars Aevi
Museum of Contemporary Art in
Sarajevo, in cooperation with artists
and museums all over the world who
participate in the creation of this
collection to express solidarity with
the inhabitants of the destroyed city of
Sarajevo. This is the first time that the
Sarajevo public sees works by so many
significant international artists.
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1993 Svjedoci postojanja (Witnesses
of Existence), is an exhibition
which gathers together the series of
individual art interventions by Sarajevo
artists (Nusret Pašić, Zoran Bogdanović,
Petar Waldegg, Mustafa Skopljak,
Edin Numankadić, Sanjin
Jukić, Ante Jurić and Radoslav Tadić)
from the time during the massive
attack on the city and its inhabitants
(1992–1993). Their work, exhibited in
the burned-out Kino Sutjeska (Sutjeska
cinema), shows life and cultural
resistance in the besieged city.
2001 Since the Ars Aevi
Museum of Contemporary Art is
still waiting for its permanent home,
six exhibitions of the artists from its
collection (Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Richard Nonas, IRWIN, Daniel
Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Joseph Beuys)
are organized in different galleries
and alternative spaces in Sarajevo.
2009 Stagnation. Sarajevo still
does not have adequate art venues for
large-scale exhibitions, and there are
no plans for building new galleries or
expanding the existing ones.
Sarajevo
SPIKE ART GUIDE EAST 01 — 2009 Sarajevo