Today, 12th april 2018 at 20h, students’ exhibition opening, from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, in Dorćol Platz, Dobračina 59b

Students of the Department of Photography and Camera of the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, from the first to the fourth year of studies, present their collections, art projects, as well as examinations, from 12th to 26th April 2018.

The exhibition is opened by students, authors of exhibited works.

The exhibition includes photographic and video works from the domain of documentary, advertising, feature and artistic forms. Young photographers present a wide range of their artistic interests: from analogue documentary photography, studio exercises, collage, installations, video and conceptual arts, fashion and promotional photography to the exploration of intimate personal themes, social environment, as well as interest in contemporary trends in photographic media and video art.

For music, Mafrose will be in charge.

Tonight, 12th april 2018 at 20h, opening of exhibition “Vedute mundi” from German photographer Hans Georg Esch, Atelje blanc / blank, Dunavska 86, II ulaz, IV sprat

The title of the exhibition was inspired by a series of etchings vedute di Roma (views of Rome) by Giovanni Battista Piranzeni. Contemporary German photographer Hans Georg Esch – HEGsch has been fascinated by landscapes for years. Photographs included in this exhibition combine the landscape and veduta, thus reflecting the character of the city. The photographs from „Cityscape” (city landscape) series are more than 4 metres in size, demanding from their viewers to distance themselves for at least few metres, literally speaking. Yet, if they want to discern all details, they need to get much closer, so close that they are no longer able to distinguish between left and right side of a viewed piece. Esch’s photographs are characterised by careful and wholesome composition, i.e. extraordinary combination of wide-angle and central perspective. That is exactly what makes them vedute (views), the function of which at the time was identical to the function of Instagram and other social networks that are primarily based on photography; they show us the places we have not visited or have not as yet encountered from the same perspective as the author. Esch is, therefore, showing us the images of the world – hence the title Vedute mundi. He confidently uses everything he has learned as an architectural photographer, putting his skills into the service of our knowledge of the world.

Rolf Sachsse

By Goethe-Institut Belgrad with the support of ingenhoven architects , Leica Camera & Carpet Concept

Come tonight, 11th april 2018 at 19h, to gallery Stara Kapetanija, Kej oslobođenja 8, Zemun, to the opening of Branislav Goluba photo exhibition “Venice Carnival”.

An exhibition of artistic photography Venice – Carnival presents a segment of a wider project in the field of street photography by author Branislav Golub (Candidate Photo Master of Photo Association of Serbia) wanted to bring the audience a very descriptive carnival atmosphere from a different angle. A specific author’s approach to the theme is incorporated in the compositional scheme, which emphasizes the parallel and the relation of the “two worlds”; one timeless, masked one that seeks to return the observer through time and another real, which is a common imagination, building a fairy-tale street atmosphere on the edge of fantasy.

Also, within a very compact thematic unit, photographs highlighting the individuality and character of the actors separated from the crowd are also highlighted. Their intimate retreat in the streets of Venice takes a significant place within the festival atmosphere by introducing observers into carnival through a different and specific prism of observation.

The characteristic and very recognizable photographic style of the author applied within this thematic whole, emphasizes the descriptive value of the street ambience within which the carnival itself takes place. The author allows the viewer to let go of his imagination and build his own perception of carnival and, at least in his mind, cast off the untamed, interwoven streets of Venice and be a part of the carnival atmosphere that returns through time, creating a completely specific visual amusement.

Tonight 5th april 2018, one exhibition in two galleries, “The Art of Seeing” photographies by Milena Arsenić, Boško Đorđević, Teodora Ivkov, Marijana Janković, Milutin Marković, Maja Medić, Matej Milenković, Milovan Milenković, Anđela Petrovski, Emilija Popović, Ivana Tešić i Jelena Žigić, selected by Klavdij Sluban. Opening at 18h, French Institute, Knez Mihailova 31, and then at 19h, Artget Gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Trg republike 5/I.

“So much subjectivity gives rise to a multiple visual expression which encompasses the diverse fields of contemporary photography. Diversity reveals the many faces, not to say the complexity of today’s Serbia. It’s about the view of young photographers who take care of the world they live in.”
– Klavdij Sluban

Tonight 4th april 2018 at 19h, opening of Lukas Birk photography exhibition “Travelogue Sammlung”, at TransformArt gallery, Svetog Save 8

In Travelogue Sammlung, storyteller, collector and conservator Lukas Birk draws photographic material out of his family albums and journeys to repurpose old books of his personal collection. On the pages of these out-dated publications, he inserts images of his family history and trajectory as an artist to generate displaced contents and readings.

Based on visual recollections of journeys that took place from Austria via the Balkans to the Middle East and back to Europe, Birk’s storyline revisits notions and cliches such as the trappings of exoticism, the “Other” as a Western construct, folklore and the status of the artist.

By throwing pictures back to the arena of history and by mixing heterogeneous materials, it reinvents the content and nature of pre-existent photographic collections, triggering personal and collective memory in manifold ways.

From vernacular to fine art photography, and from the intimacy of the family album to ruthless public exposure, the product of this operation is a novel archival palimpsest of prints, books and objects, real and imaginary at heart, that. This remix emerges as a fascinating hybrid narrative that unwraps the lifetime of three generations of men and the ultimate destiny of a collection.

In collaboration with Austrian Kulturforum Belgrad and Austrian Arts Council.

Today, 4th april 2018 at 19h, opening of Petar Jončić photography exhibition, Zemun municipality gallery, Kosovska 9

On 26 black and white photographs, most of which were made with an analog camera, Petar Jončić created a unique group of people who communicate, listens what others say and thus create their own community, a small collection of different characters, all of which have their own story.
 
Portraits were shot all over Serbia, in various cities and villages, and on the wall of the gallery will be connected in a long series in order to create an illusion of conversation and socializing of those who have never met.
 
Petar Jončić is a journalist at TV Studio B and a film critic of Radio Belgrade 3. He deals with photography as an amateur from the end of the eighties. He participated in numerous jurying domestic and international photo exhibitions. In the last two years he actively deals with street photography and captures portraits of people who find themselves in the immediate vicinity, most often during journalistic reporting or during the realization of his TV reports.
 
For his work he received numerous awards in the field of cinema.

Today, 4th April 2018 at 18h, come to the opening of (dis)Connection contest exhibition, gallery Čubrilo at Gardoš tower in Zemunu

Photo Contest (dis)Connection is an inaugural part of the “Pametni Prostor” (Smart Space) program, which primarily aims to raise the level of awareness of the users of public space regarding the inclusive and efficient use of space that is a public good.

The theme of the competition is to visualize the photograph through visual media – to ask questions to which the public sphere belongs, who are users of the public space and whether some groups are missing (persons of a certain gender, persons of a certain age, persons with disabilities, etc.), as different groups of citizens use the same space and how does the use of public space change in relation to the seasons or the day?

Over 200 photographs were received, 40 of them were selected for the exhibition. Jelisaveta Blagojević, professor of philosophy at the Department for Political Critical Studies, FMK, Maja Lalić, architect and urban planners, and Zarko Culić, photographer at magazine Portret, chose works for the exhibition, and the first three works selected by the jury as the highest grade will be given recognition during the opening of the exhibition.

Gran Via, Luis Camacho Peral exhibition, tonight at 19h in Instituto Cervantes de Belgrado, Čika Ljubina 19

RESONANCIAS URBANAS: MADRID, CALLE LEGANITOS

The centenary Gran Vía is one of the main arteries of the city of Madrid and one of its most emblematic avenues. Its creation, between 1910 and 1931, marked the beginning of the modernization of the city with the construction of the first skyscrapers in the country and the incursion of the architectural currents of the moment.

The photographs that make up this exhibition constitute remnants of life that compress space, time and memory in the form of a snapshot. They are day-to-day images taken from the fugacity and that explore the dynamic intersection between the subject and time, the real and the surreal, in street scenes disarticulated adrift.

Luis Camacho was born in Madrid in 1972. He is a member of the documentary photography collective Calle 35 and founder of the Villaverde Photographic Association. In his work as a photojournalist he has published in the majority of print media in Spain and has received awards such as FotoCam Comunidad de Madrid in 2013 with the image entitled ‘Madrid is light’, which is part of this exhibition.

The exhibition, which will be open until June 20, is part of the Belgrade Photo Month program.

Free entry.