April 5, 7PM
Muzej Jovana Cvijića
Jelena Ćetković 5, Belgrade, Serbia

IVAN HADŽI ZDRAVKOVIĆ SOSA (1952-2013)
Dinaric Beauty
Curated by Ivana Zdravković and Ljudmila Đukić

An interest in photography and motion pictures motivated Ivan Hadži
Zdravković Sosa to move from Niš to Belgrade in 1971 to study camera at a newly founded department at The Faculty of Dramatic Arts. He continuously followed contemporary technologies and generously transmitted his love and knowledge to younger generations by teaching photography. He taught in both specialised schools and at university level throughout his life. The exhibition is inspired by the research of Jovan Cvijić on the relationship between humankind and nature, and his description of the Dinaric type as closely connected to the land and nature. Dinaric Beauty and the ecological sensibility of Jovan Cvijić are conveyed through
the beauty of a female form and motifs from nature. The exhibited art works were produced during the later periods of Sosa’s life and epitomise both his endless love and talent for photography. The strong color scheme and balanced composition are distinctive to photographs of both female nudes and nature. By superimposing images, for which he was famous for, the artist placed female nudes in a natural setting. Through photos that illustrate Cvijić’s words, the exhibition is striving to inspire a return to nature, reflecting on his work, and to highlight his timeless idea about human ecological sensibility. Authors of the exhibition of Ivan Sosa’s photographs
are his daughter Ivana Zdravković and curator Ljudmila Đukić. Exhibition designer is Jelena Macanović.

April 4, 7PM
Pro3or
Koče Popovića 9, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Cuba is one of the last countries in the world where Islam has entered. Although is still widely unknown, the number of Cubans embracing Islam has constantly increased in the recent years. This growth is strongly linked with the current scenario of changes in Cuba, which includes a higher tolerance towards religions.

With a current population around 3,000, Cuban Muslims are present in several districts of La Habana but also have expanded to many other provinces, like Camagüey, Santiago or Varadero.

Why a Muslim community is born in the middle of a Socialist Caribbean Island?

The “Cuban Muslims” project is not aiming to give closed answers, but provide clues for reflection. By delving into one of the most unique Muslim communities worldwide, an innovative approach to Cuba and Islam is generated. The goal is to break visual stereotypes, questioning issues like identity, faith and traditions.

On Saturday 6/4/2019 at 12h Joan Alvado will do a guided visit by the exhibition and will present his work and his last photobook.

This exhibition has been carried out through the collaboration of the Instituto Cervantes de Belgrado and the Belgrade Photo Month Festival and the essential support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E through its Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) that supports artist mobility, by which Spanish artists Joan Alvado and García de Marina will be able to participate in the Belgrade Photo Month Festival.

April 4, 12PM
Residence of the Swiss Ambassador. Belgrade.

Zürich, Sommer 1980 is all about barriers, barricades, police, demonstrators, rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas.

Almost 40 years ago, the city was on a war footing. Clashes in public places between the establishment and the alternative scene were played out at levels of violence that would be unimaginable today. Unlike 1968, the anarchic youth revolts in Zurich in 1980 were an avant-garde spectacle and made international headlines. The demand of the young people was that they wanted an Autonomous Youth Centre, but in fact what they wanted was everything, now. Using this insistence on everything, deliberately slanted towards the absurd, with Dadaist wit and subversive camouflage, the movement unsettled representatives of all the established political forces, including many 68ers who were just starting to take over the
institutions. The street battles mark a shift towards open cultural politics in Zurich and to comprehensive development and marketing of urban youth culture. To a certain extent, the movement was event culture avant la lettre. Without it there would have been no street parade, and no party culture making an international impact.

Heussler is an internationally known, independent photographer and artist. She made investigations on her own stake into regions of crisis, was active for human rights, grassroots activism, feminism and against repression and discrimination on several continents. Her works are shown in international exhibitions and various photo books. She teaches regularly and documented her work, its use and publication on www.oliviaheussler.com.

Swiss Ambassador Residence
Andre Nikolica 30, Senjak. Beograd

Group Visit Organized upon request/Grupne posete po upitu info@belgradephotomonth.org by Angelina Bartula

Before exhibition opening Olivia Heussler will have 2 talks.
2/3/2019 17h – 18,30h Fakultet za medije i komunikacije in English
3/3/2019 11h – 13h in Artget Galerija with Daniel Belinchon in Spanish with translation to Serbian

With the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Belgrade

April 3, 8PM
Papergirl Galerija Hub
Kralja Milana 15, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

April 2, 7PM
Instituto Cervantes de Belgrado
Čika Ljubina 19, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Unfinished Word. Photo exhibition by García de Marina.
The exhibition opens on April 2 and closes on April 28 at Cervantes Institute in Belgrade.

García de Marina (Gijón, Spain 1975). The Object has been his main mean of expression since 2011. He has had several solo exhibitions and taken part in numerous art events, both national and international.

This Poet of the Prosaic is attracted by the symbolism of objects, making random connections between objects that by default don’t have anything in common, by the condensation and the essence. His works derive from intuition, ideas, the surrealism and from the world of dreams and the subconscious.

Before the inauguration, starting at 5:30pm the same day, García de Marina will tell us more about his creative process. This talk will be held in Spanish and moderated by David Pujado, with simultaneous translation into Serbian.

This exhibition has been carried out through the collaboration of the Instituto Cervantes de Belgrado and the Belgrade Photo Month Festival with the participation of the Government of the Principality of Asturias and the essential support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E through its Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) that supports artist mobility, by which Spanish artists Joan Alvado and García de Marina will be able to participate in the Belgrade Photo Month Festival.

April a 8PM
Atelje i galerija Čubrilo
Milenijumska kula na Gardošu
Grobljanska bb, Zemun

While photographing scenes on the streets, contemporary street
photographers approach the subject starting from the idea of perceiving the absurd, unusual and lucid life situations that, by choosing the angle and relation of the first and second plan, approach the ideas of surrealism.

The photographs of Dragan Babović are exploring exactly that line and, in addition to being photographed in Paris, they are actually illustrating the phenomenon of the city on a universal scale. The artist avoided the romantic attitude towards Paris, did not fall to the idea of a tourist photograph or the rise of the city solely by its historical toponyms.

On the other hand, Babović insisted on life stories, the
communication of passers-by, and we must mention the surrealism of everyday life in which essential moments are interesting for photography, because the street is always a place of provocative motives. But they are often the product of the intelligence of a photographer who manages to link situations that a common passer-by does not notice. When limiting the field of view is an
essential choice, it is the identity of the photographer that determines what is worthy of attention. And with the street photographs of Dragan Babović, this is precisely the key detail in defining the artistic view of Paris, but also the world around us.

1. April 18:30
Bartcelona Gallery
Čumićeva, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

An artist originally from Chile, today living and working in Paris,
photographer, experimentator and one of the biggest stars of the
polaroid world, is coming to Belgrade Photo Month 2019, with his instant photography exhibition. Bringing with him a glamorous and nostalgic beauty of Polaroids, but also a unique creativity as Raul is not afraid of cutting the polaroid photographs, opening them, peeling them off and reassembling in a new piece of art. His work, detached from all the digital processes and trends of modern times, is often timeless in its aspects.

Raul Diaz, best known as RRRDIAZ, was born in Santiago de Chile in 1968 and miseducated in the United States through his adolescent years where he studied at the New York School of Visual Arts and eventually graduated from the Corcoran School of Arts in Washington with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in photography. In 1990 he moved to Paris, France and began his career as a fashion photographer where he became the assistant to big names in fashion photography like Mario Testino and JB Mondino. In 2009,
after a short but busy career in fashion photography, he decided to open En Face, a boutique-gallery devoted to instant photography. His store was the first store to sell Impossible Project film locally in Paris and he has hosted numerous exhibitions featuring artists from around the world at his gallery.

This exhibition is supported by Polaroid Impossible and it will include 2 workshops that will be done is the Bartcelona Gallery.
On 30/03 11-15h – Polaroid double exposure
On 31/03 11-15h – Polaroid light painting