The Serbian pavilion houses Serbia's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.
Background edit
The Venice Biennale is an international art biennial exhibition held in Venice, Italy. Often described as "the Olympics of the art world", participation in the Biennale is a prestigious event for contemporary artists. The festival has become a constellation of shows: a central exhibition curated by that year's artistic director, national pavilions hosted by individual nations, and independent exhibitions throughout Venice. The Biennale parent organization also hosts regular festivals in other arts: architecture, dance, film, music, and theater.[1]
Outside of the central, international exhibition, individual nations produce their own shows, known as pavilions, as their national representation. Nations that own their pavilion buildings, such as the 30 housed on the Giardini, are responsible for their own upkeep and construction costs as well. Nations without dedicated buildings create pavilions in venues throughout the city.[1]
Organization and building edit
The pavilion was originally designed by Italian architect Brenno Del Giudice in 1932 and built in 1938 as part of a new expansion of the complex on the Giardini's Sant'Elena Island. Two buildings were built next to each other, originally allocated to Sweden and Greece, but were later permanently transferred to Yugoslavia and Romania. The pavilion has the inscription "JUGOSLAVIA" ("Yugoslavia" in Italian) in large block letters above the entrance.
Artists from the former Yugoslavia participated in the Biennale from 1938 to 1990. Following the breakup of the country in the early 1990s, four new countries which declared independence (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia) began exhibiting separately, and the pavilion was inherited by Serbia and Montenegro (2003 and 2005) and after that by Serbia.[2]
Representation by year edit
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Art edit
- 2012 — Marija Miković, Marija Strajnić, Olga Lazarević, Janko Tadić, Nebojša Stevanović, Miloš Živković, Aleksandar Ristović, Nikola Andonov, Milan Dragić, and Marko Marović [3]
- 2015 — Ivan Grubanov (Curator: Lidija Merenik)[4]
- 2017 — Milena Dragičević, Vladislav Šćepanović, and Dragan Zdravković (Curator: Nikola Šuica) [5][6]
- 2022 — Vladimir Nikolić (Curator: Biljana Ćirić)[7]
- 2024 — Aleksandar Denić[8]
References edit
- ^ a b Russeth 2019.
- ^ Volpi 2013.
- ^ "Venice Biennale 2012: Serbian Pavilion". August 9, 2012.
- ^ Alex Greenberger (January 5, 2015), Ivan Grubanov to Represent Serbia at This Year's Venice Biennale ARTnews.
- ^ "Venice Biennale 2017 Archive".
- ^ "Serbien".
- ^ José da Silva (17 December 2021), Venice Biennale 2022: all the national pavilions, artists and curators The Art Newspaper.
- ^ da Silva, José (January 25, 2023). "Venice Biennale 2024: all the national pavilions, artists and curators". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
Bibliography edit
- Russeth, Andrew (April 17, 2019). "The Venice Biennale: Everything You Could Ever Want to Know". ARTnews. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- Volpi, Cristiana (2013). "Serbia". In Re Rebaudengo, Adele (ed.). Pavilions and Garden of Venice Biennale. Rome: Contrasto. p. 176. ISBN 978-88-6965-440-4.
Further reading edit
- Greenberger, Alex (January 5, 2015). "Ivan Grubanov to Represent Serbia at This Year's Venice Biennale". ARTnews. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- Mairs, Jessica (June 1, 2016). "Serbian Pavilion models interior on the bright blue hull of a boat". Dezeen. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- "Serbian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale". Artsy. May 4, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- "Serbian Pavilion – 55th Biennale di Venezia. June 1st – November 24th 2013". Artsy. May 24, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
