CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION BELGRADE - BERLIN

29.09 - 21.10.22

EDITION #3: EXHIBITION FOR CHEB DARGEOB

An art connoisseur and a pickpocket, a diplomat and a smuggler, a crook and a loyal family man - Cheb Dargeob has a moving history leaving traces that are relevant to this day.

Together with the Austrian artist Violetta Ehnsperg, we will explore the multitude of his complex relationships in the "Exhibition for Cheb Dargeob" in our premises at Cetinjska 15.

With Violetta Ehnsperg and the curators Denis Leo Hegić & Jan Gustav Fiedler, we will welcome you to at the vernissage on September 29th at 7 p.m.

29.09.2022 OPENING

EXHIBITION

FOR CHEB

DARGEOB

PRESENTING WORKS BY

VIOLETTA
EHNSPERG

ART MARKET BUDAPEST, Balna
06.10 - 09.10.22

BRANISLAV
JANKIĆ

OLIGOPTICA is the title of the multimedia installation by the Serbian-American artist Branislav (Slav) Jankić, which we will be presenting at the upcoming Art Market Budapest!

As a child, Branislav Jankić left his hometown of Vukovar in the turmoils of the 1990s. After refugee stops in Germany, work and education in Italy and the USA, Branislav today lives and creates in Berlin and New York.

This year's Art Market Budapest is putting a special spotlight on artists from Serbia and together with Slav´s body of work we will be showing narratives of contemporary Serbian art that go beyond borders of Serbia and the Balkans in general. Join us in this all-encompassing "oligoptic" summary.

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06.10 - 09.10.22
ART MARKET BUDAPEST

OLIGOPTICA

PRESENTING WORKS BY
BRANISLAV JANKIĆ

SUPERSOBA
EDITION #2

VOLARE
CURARE

Sharing is caring and caring is CURARE! What better way to share our premises for the next SUPERSOBA then with the new wave of curators in Serbia!

Our second #SUPERSOBA pop up event is all about #TALKTALKTALK with and among the young generation of curating power.

So join us in welcoming Bojana Jovanović , Brajan Vojinović, Jovana Trifuljesko this Thursday 15.09, starting from 6 PM at the Supermarket Lab studio at Cetinjska 15.

SUPERSOBA
EDITION #1

BOJANA
TORLAK

We are kicking things off in September with a brand new concept of pop up events - Supersoba! The Edition #1: Primordial will showcase the works by the artist Bojana Torlak in our studio space at Cetinjska 15, and it will be open for viewing between 08.09 - 22.09.2022.

We aim to create a community driven space by giving the opportunity to the artists to completely take over the showroom and encouraging collaboration with other artists as well. This is why the showcase of Bojana's multimedia artworks will be accompanied with a performance by the alternative performance group Kabare Nebula.

Bojana defines her artistic practice as visualising the materiality of the "non - existent entities", and granting them somewhat of a double life in that process. By doing so, what is invisible to the naked eye obtains a body in a new, parallel dimension which exists in this time space reality, only in a different form. However much this process of materialization may be subjective, the feelings she is trying to grasp and transform are universal.

In the same vein, Primordial will showcase the artists conscious, logic based expricences, as well as her inner life which takes place on an intitive, spiritual, conscious and subconscious levels as a single energetic whole, by which she seeks to visualize this process of self - examination. The event will showcase what motivates the artist the most - her own truth, or better said the true emotion which is inseparable from art.

ARTIST ESSAY

SOPHIE
HIRSCH

MONOLOG TALKS

EDITION #2 SUZOVAČA

08.07 - 05.08.22

Dea Džanković made sure we skip the sophomore jitters with her solo exhibition Suzovača! She introduced the visitors to a collection of works that explore the public phenomenon of kafana - as one of the ultimate spaces of social interaction. After a month of tears, rakija, tarot and broken glasses galore, we hope all of us have reached a different perspective when it comes to seeing a kafana for what it truly is - a cultural institution.

EDITION #2

EDITION #2:
SUZOVAČA
08.07. - 05.08.22

SUZOVAČA OPENING NIGHT

SUZOVAČA

PRESENTING WORKS BY
DEA DŽANKOVIĆ

Art always is a medium of communication. Sometimes to express a concrete thought, vision or aspect, sometimes to articulate an abstract or emotional universe beyond words.

And vice versa, art has always been influenced by communication. Arguments, discussions, criticism and new inspirations are one of the key origins for creating art. Often these places of communication turn into art themselves. Raphael's Fresco „The School of Athens“, Frans Hals „Shrovetide Revellers“ or Diego Velazquez „Luncheon“ among countless others depict different forms of verbal communication in different social settings from different times.

„Bodegones“, the depiction of everyday life situations, often located in kitchens, restaurants or bars, are highlighting these places of personal exchange.

Dea Džanković explores one setting of verbal interaction in particular. In her exhibition „Suzovača“ the Monolog Gallery is reflecting a Kafana, an important nucleus of social exchange in Serbia.

A Kafana is a place where one goes to let go, it is an environment of emotional outbursts, shouting, crying, physical confrontation, confessions, penance, and glass shattering galore.

And one of the key ingredients of this unique atmosphere is the Rakija. It is the oil that greases this unpredictable engine of emotions. “Suzovača” refers to the central artwork in the exhibition, a bottle of Rakija, based on tears. In this case, the tears of Dea Dzankovic. A salty metaphor of bottled emotions.

The title of the exhibition and its penultimate piece came about as a play on words, from typical names for rakija depending on the flavor, and suze (meaning tears) as its key ingredient. Moreover, it represents a specific formula that puts together tears and alcohol in a drinkable form.

Jan Gustav Fiedler and Denis Leo Hegic

26.05 - 18.06.22

EDITION #1: NAVIGATING AN ALL - INSCLUSIVE VERTIGO

After 4 weeks of “Navigating an all-inclusive vertigo” we have not arrived at a final destination, but were rather lucky to open further questions and reflect upon them. Gratitude goes to the creators Jelena Micić and Vera Klimentyeva for being our Odysseyesses who took us on their journey.

MONOLOG OPENING NIGHT

HOW DOES ART SPEAK?
AND WHAT DOES IT SAY?

MONOLOG contemporary sets off as the black box of the art world, registering vibrations, recording turbulences and anticipating ongoing and future trends.

Located in the epicenter of Belgrade's nightlife - the Cetinjska district - the gallery offers an open space in which contemporary themes are articulated and enables a creative pipeline between Belgrade and Berlin with the Museum of Now (MON) and Supermarket Lab as founders of the initiative.