The collection of the posters and catalogs, from the collection of the City Gallery Collegium artisticum, will be opened on 12th July and will provide option to visitors of all ages to revive or enhance their view of the artistic life of Sarajevo in the last quarter of the 20th Century.Since 1975, the Collegium Artisticum had over 800 exhibitions.
Upcoming exhibition refers to the period until the year of 2000. and it is a first in a series of exhibitions that will be presenting the documentation of gallery activities.
The aim of the exhibition is to open the entire collection of the documentation for a public use.
Documentary exhibitions are part of a more extensive project “Reconstruction of Memory”, which Collegium artisticum is preparing for the period from September 2013th until September 2014th.
In addition to documentary exhibitions, the project includes the selector exhibitions of the regional importance . In close cooperation with the Goethe Institute in September this year will be presented exhibition of photography, video and installation artist from 11 Southeast European countries called “Recorded memories”.
From it beginning, under the leaderships of its first director Fuad Hadzihalilovic, the key place in creating programs for City Gallery (former Art Pavilion) belongs to the selector exhibitions which presented the creative activities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ex Yugoslavia.
With such orientation, Collegium artisticum has become one of the most important exhibition areas during the eighties, putting Sarajevo on the map of regional centers of culture.
Exhibitions like “The Yugoslav Art 1970-1978”, “The Yugoslav Art 1978-1983”, “The Art-criticism in the middle of the eighties” and “Yugoslav document” were the result of the efforts to articulate flows on the entire art scene in the former Yugoslavia, but they also reflect the marginalized position of the current scene in comparison to Western European art system.
At the transition from the 20th into the 21 century, the global art system has recognized for the first time the artistic production of Southeastern Europe as a vital carrier of contemporary trends in art, inspecting the dynamics of the relationship between (the western) “center” and the (eastern) “margin.”
In this moment, the second wave of the recognition is happening in which the traces of “Balkans exotic” are vanishing (with positive and negative consequences) and various critical approaches to the subject of cultural memory are being discussed.
The gallery Collegium artisticumis is connecting itself with the process of research and revaluation of the future cultural history with this documentary exhibitions and with project “Reconstruction of memories”
(Source:Fena)
