Programme

Programme

Wednesday, 19th October, 2022

Knez Mihailova St., space in front of the Albania Palace in the daytime
Antonio Grgić, Xoće li i dalje ostati y dalekoj budućnosti [Will It Still Remain In the Distant Future]
participatory performance of building dematerialized architecture

Salon of the Belgrade City Museum, 30 Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
13.00Picture of the 20th of October
Srđan Veljović, artist talking and walking with Dr Olga Manojlović Pintar, historian
Gathering in front of the Salon of the Belgrade City Museum

 

Thursday, 20th October, 2022

opening # 1
18.00–22.00
Cultural Centre of Belgrade, University Library “Svetozar Marković”, Salon of the Belgrade City Museum, Vojislav M. Jovanović Marambo Legacy House, façade of the Borba Building, façade in 25 Makedonska St, Pavilion at the Flower Square, the plateau in front of the Albania Palace, Danas Daily Newspaper, 10 billboards
on the 20th of October all the venues will open at 00 and on the opening days, 20th, 21st, and 22nd they will work to 22.00 

Knez Mihailova St., part of the street among the buildings of the House of the Press (CCB), the former Russian Tsar Restaurant and the former Beograd Department Store
18.00 – Božidar Mandić – The Family of Clear Streams, A Howl for the Epoch, happening, 25’ 

Public space in front of the entrance to the Cultural Centre of Belgrade and the Vulkan Bookstore, in the pool of the fountain
19.00Milica Tomić, The Belgrade extension of the Edinburgh Statement: Who makes profit on art and who gains from it honestly, performance, Belgrade, 20th October, 2022, 20’
The extension of Dragoljub Raša Todosijević’s work from 1975 was performed for the first time ten years ago as part of the Pančevo Biennale and October XXX Symposium by curator Jelena Vesić. Several artists and critics were invited to re-perform and bring it into line with contemporary events the issues once raised as part of the October 75 project, initiated by Dunja Blažević at the Student Cultural Centre in 1975, as a counter-exhibition against the October Salon, which at that time was a kind of bureaucratic cultural event with bourgeois-modernist tendencies.
For the Belgrade performance of the Edinburgh StatementWho makes profit on art and who gains from it honestly, Milica Tomić will perform a spatial-semantic extension of Raša Todosijević’s work, by introducing current positions and functions within the ‘system of art’,

Svetozar Marković University Library, 71 Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
20.00Sanja Anđelković, Look up! I am no canopy – I am a Herald! speculative choral piece / performance, audio, 20′
Written and composed by Sanja Anđelković
Co-composer and sensory percussion: Lav Kovač
Cicadas: Živan Popović, Ivana Nožica, Branislava Zagorac, Vuk Popović, Vlado Ilić, Nataša Berić, Eleonora Vojnović
Conductor: Živan Popović
Costumes: Jana Stankovski

Salon of the Belgrade City Museum, 30 Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
21.00opening of the 59th October Salon and cocktail party
21:30 – Slaven Tolj, Belgrade, October 2022, performance, 20’ (lower level) 

Different locations in Belgrade on October 20th and 21th
Jörg Besser, Eggman, all-day performance

 

Friday, 21th October, 2022

The Cultural Centre of Belgrade Movie Theatre, 6 Kolarčeva St.
18.00Political Violence against Women in Afghanistan and New Scenario
Lectures, screenings of video works and talk with the audience
Sajia Sediqi, artist and Rahraw Omarzad, lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Kabul and the founder of the Centre for Contemporary Art Afghanistan CCAA and the Women’s Centre for Art.
Sajia Sediqi, From Red to Black to White, 10′
Rahraw Omarzad, Changing Color, 5′, Gaming and Losing, 5′

The Cultural Centre of Belgrade Movie Theatre, Film Gallery, 6 Kolarčeva St.
19.00 – Activation of the objects and guiding through the exhibition and all the CCB galleries
Milica Tomić How on Earth?
Participants in a guiding tour and discussion: artist Milica Tomić talks with curator Jelena Vesić and the participating artists Anousheh Kehar, Abdelrahman Elbashir, Amel Bešlagić, Philipp Sattler.
The talk and guidance will be in Serbian and English with the possibility of consecutive translation into both languages

Knez Mihailova St., space in front of the Albania Palace
Antonio Grgić, Xoće li i dalje ostati y dalekoj budućnosti [Will It Still Remain In the Distant Future]
21.45 – every evening during the 59th October Salon, a 30-second participatory performance choreographed by Joana Knežević will take place in front of Palace Albania

 

Saturday, 22th October, 2022

Pavilion at the Flower Square, the corner between Njegoševa and Kralja Milana Streets
13.00Karkatag, n(ex)t y(o)u/new revisionism, activation of the installation

Plateau in front of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, 50 Kralja Milana St. (opposite the Pavilion at the Flower Square)
13.00Antonio Grgić, Monuments Sing, participatory concert at the Statue of a Wounded Man made by sculptor Vanja Radauš (1906–1975) 

Vojislav M. Jovanović Marambo Legacy House, Folk Literature Department of the University Library, 24 Birčaninova St.
15.00Milica Rakić, I Am Beautiful Like a REVOLUTION – Gala reception of DRUGarica rakič
* A limited edition of the booklet, specially issued within the 59th October Salon, will be given to the visitors: 10 Poems for the October Salon or The Truth of Language, Damir Avdić, Goran Babić, Dubravka Đurić, Vlado Martek, Dragana Mladenović, Radmila Petrović, Maša Seničić, Maja Solar, Marko Tomaš, Monika Herceg

BORBA, 7 Trg Nikole Pašića Sq.
Borba Library, 5th Floor
17.00Nemanja Cvijanović, The Meaning of Symbols of Artistic Interventions In Public Space Today, in 2022, discussion regarding the artistic intervention on the façade of the Borba Building “Betrayal of a better future”
Patricipants: Artan Sadiku, political philosopher, Vladan Jeremić, artist and culturologist, Nemanja Cvijanović, artist

Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Movie Theatre, 6 Kolarčeva St.
19.00Forward to the Past, talk
Meeting with the founder of the international initiative “New Patrons” from the perspective of the unique Yugoslav experience of cultural production.
Patricipants: François Hers, Ivana Momčilović, Dr Višnja Kukoč, Sonja Leboš, Simona Ognjanović and Ana Panić
In cooperation with the Museum of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslavia Edition, the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research from Zagreb, and with the support of the Kultura nova Foundation, the French Institute in Belgrade and the Cultural Centre of Belgrade

Cultural Centre of Belgrade, 6 Knez Mihajlova St. offices
20.00Vocal-Curatorial Syndrome (Senka Latinović, Vladimir Bjeličić), Crime Scene, 2022, performance, 60’
The number of visitors is limited. To make a reservation, write to olga.masic@kcb.org.rs
Gather in front of the official entrance to the CCB

 

Sunday, 23th October, 2022

Rudnik, Brezovica 32313
13.00–17.00
Commotion, happening
Art as Irritation, a talk on the grass
Patricipants: Igor Štiks, writer, Nebojša Milenković, curator, writer, blogger and social activist, Bojan Jovanović, anthropologist, writer, filmmaker and Božidar Mandić
Lunch
The number of visitors is limited. To book a place, write to olga.masic@kcb.org.rs
Organized bus transportation.  Departure at 11.00, and return from Rudnik at 17.00.

 

Thursday, 27th October, 2022

opening # 2
18 .00–22.00
Radio Belgrade RTS Club, Kula Art Hub, MoCAB e-reading room

RTS Club, 2 HilandarskaSt. (entrance from 1 Svetogorska St.)
18.00Jednostavno rečeno [Simply Said]

KULA ART HUB, 15 Cetinjska St.
19.00Katarina Petrović, Olivia Plender, Goran Dimić, Mila Panić, DK
20.00Mila Panić, Just Between Us, 2022. – in progress, open forum, stand-up comedy
E-READING ROOM, www.citajteo.rs
Digitized catalogues of the October Salons 1960–2021, from 27th October, available on the website of the MoCAB e-reading room – in cooperation with the Department for Art Documentation.

 

Saturday, 29th October, 2022

opening # 3
13.00–17.00
Faculty of Dramatic Arts

Faculty of Dramatic Arts, 20 Bulevar umetnosti Blvd. (by the main entrance, continue straight on and down the stairs through the building to the red door – entrance to TV studio S1)
TV Studio S1
13.00Želimir Žilnik, Belgrade, good morning 2, video installation, 2022

TV Studio S2
14.00Marija Ručara, play
Stage interpretation of works by surrealist poets Dušan Matić and Aleksandar Vučo, performed by Hleb Theatre
Direction and dramaturgy: Sanja Krsmanović Tasić
Cast: Marta Keler, Jugoslav Hadžić, Danilo Karapandža, Sanja Krsmanović Tasić
In cooperation with “Na sopstveni pogon” Festival www.nsp.nezavisnakultura.net

TV Studio S1
15.30Women in TV, Film and Art Production, talk

KROKODIL’s Centre for Contemporary Literature, 43 Karađorđeva St.
19.00New Enemy Offensives and Self-Defense Monuments
A talk on the occasion of publishing the monograph Antifascism as a Self-Defence Monument, edited by Tevž Logar and Vladan Jeremić, published by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art from Rijeka, and the Piran Coastal Gallery.
Patricipants: Dragan Markovina, historian and publicist, Igor Štiks, writer and political philosopher.

 

Sunday, 30th October, 2022

Bitef Theatre, 1 Mire Trailović Sq.
ICSS – 15th Kondenz Festival of Contemporary Dance and Performance
20.00 U.F.O. Hommage to Katalin Ladik, performance
Authors: Jule Flierl and Irena Tomažin
Concept, choreography, performance Jule Flierl and Irena Tomažin
Free entrance. More information at www.dancestation.org

 

Thursday, 3rd November, 2022

opening # 4
18.00–20.00
National Museum of Serbia

National Museum of Serbia, 1a Trg Republike Sq.
Room 2.13, second floor – European Art from the 14th to the 20th Century
18.00Eric Corne, La Vague (The Wave), 2022
Artistic dialogue within the permanent exhibition of European art
Les lumières de l’exil – vie ou theatre / The Lights of Exile – Life or Theatre, talk
Participants: artist Eric Corne and museum advisor and curator of the Collection of Drawings and Graphics of Foreign Authors at the National Museum, Dragana Kovačić
The talk will be in Serbian and French with the possibility of consecutive translation into both languages.

 

Saturday, 5th November, 2022

12.00–15.00 Art Spaces/ Spaces for Art, walk
Gathering at the University Library “Svetozar Marković”, 71 Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
Route: University Library “Svetozar Marković” – Salon of the Belgrade City Museum – Cultural Centre of Belgrade

Artget Gallery, Fine Arts Gallery, Podroom Galerija, Film Galery
Entrance at 5 Trg Republike Sq.
15.00 – Guiding tour through Milica Tomić’s exhibition How on Earth? Led by Jelena Vesić, curator

KULA ART HUB, 15 Cetinjska St.
19.00Aesclepius – Anatomic Aesc Machine, satirical epic, public performance
Text, concept and public performance: Mila Manojlović
Composition and sound design: Manja Ristić

 

Wednesday, 9th November, 2022

Salon of the Belgrade City Museum, 30 Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
18.00 – Prepad at the 59th October Salonpresentation of the festival (programme) of Prepad-initiative of young creative people ready to join the local wider culture and art scene. The festival has been held since 2020 and its goal is to give young people aged 14 to 19 a space to show their art.
Patricipants: Katarina Zarić, Nađa Marjanović, Ilija Maršićević, Maša Sekulović, Dunja Cvejanov and Petar Obradović

 

Saturday, 12th November, 2022

Salon of the Belgrade City Museum, 30 Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
13.00 – thematic guidance through the exhibition, led by members of the Institute for Social Theory and Philosophy

 

Friday, 18th November, 2022

University Library “Svetozar Marković”, 71 Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
17.00–19.00 Polygon for Demonstrative Exercises, collage workshop dedicated to the new October Salon, with artist Šejma Fere
Open to all. To book a place, write to olga.masic@kcb.org.rs

Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Movie Theatre, 6 Kolarčeva St.
18.00 – Film programme: Zoran Tairović, a selection of films
After the screenings, a talk with the artist and Ivan Vasiljević, film critic

 

Saturday, 19th November, 2022

University Library “Svetozar Marković”, 71 Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
11.00–14.00 Polygon for Demonstrative Exercises, collage workshop dedicated to the new October Salon, with artist Šejma Fere
Open to all. To book a place, write to olga.masic@kcb.org.rs

12.00–15.00 Art Spaces/ Spaces for Art, walk
Gathering at the entrance to Radio Belgrade, 2 Hilandarska St.
Route: Radio Belgrade – Mural by Dušan Rajić Dulait at 25 Makedonska St. – Kula Art Hub

Salon of the Belgrade City Museum, 30 Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
13.00 – thematic guidance through the exhibition, led by members of the Institute for Social Theory and Philosophy

 

Thursday, 24th November, 2022

opening # 5
18.00–20.00
Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery of the Belgrade City Library

Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, 14 Pariska St.
18.00Ana Adamović, Dubravka Ugrešić 

Gallery of the Belgrade City Library, 56 Knez Mihajlova St.
18.00Local Community of The Stjepan Filipović Neighbourhood and The Association of Fine Artists

 

Friday, 25th November, 2022

10.30–20.00Radio Belgrade RTS Club, 2 Hilandarska St. (entrance from 1 Svetogorska St.)
October Salon: Past/Present/Future
Critical historicization, social relations, presentation policy

This year, the AICA Association of Art Critics – Serbian Section is raising fundamental historical and contemporary issues regarding the institution of the October Salon, studying the materials of the recently established archive of this art event: press clippings, catalogues, photographs, legal documents and oral testimonies. Centering criticism as an indispensable driver of cognitive processes, and a mediator in social relations and public
opinion, members of the AICA Association are organizing an elaborate symposium with three debate programmes: October Salon and Art Criticism; Art Criticism of the Second Half of the 20th Century: viewpoints, criticisms, discussions; October Salon and Large Exhibitions of Contemporary Art: exhibition modalities and reflections, how to think forward?
Moderators: Branislav Dimitrijević, Jelena Vesić and Stevan Vuković
Speakers: Jasmina Čubrilo, Radonja Leposavić, Miroslav Karić, Mirjana Boba Stojadinović, Branislav Dimitrijević, Milica Pekić, Stevan Vuković and Jelena Vesić
Curator of the program: Jelena Vesić, president of the AICA-Serbia

 

Saturday, 26th November, 2022

Artget Gallery, Fine Arts Gallery, Podroom Galery, Film Gallery
Entrance at 5 Trg Republike Sq.
15.00 – Tour through the exhibition How on Earth?, led by Jelena Vesić, curator

 

Sunday, 27th November, 2022

12.00–15.00 Art Spaces/ Spaces for Art, walk
Gathering at the entrance to Radio Belgrade, 2 Hilandarska St.
Route: Mural by Dušan Rajić Dulait at 25 Makedonska St. – public space around the Cultural Centre of Belgrade – Belgrade City Library – Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art

 

Tuesday, 29th November, 2022

University Library “Svetozar Marković”, 71 Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra Blvd.
18.00Sanja Anđelković, Look up! I am no canopy – I am a messenger! Speculative choral piece / performance, audio, 20′
*Award ceremony of the 59th October Salon – place and time will be announced at a later date

Thursday, 1st December, 2022

Radio Belgrade RTS Club, 2 Hilandarska St. (entrance from 1 Svetogorska St.)
17.00–19.00Where Is the October Salon Going?
public discussion
The end of the “leap” 59th October Salon is an opportunity for a public discussion about the future of this international exhibition of contemporary art and the key questions that have been raised in recent years and remained unanswered, including the idea of the Belgrade Biennale.
Organizers: AICA Serbia, SEECult.org and Cultural Centre of Belgrade
Moderators: Milica Pekić (AICA) and Vesna Milosavljević (SEECult.org)
Participants: representatives of the Secretariat for Culture of Belgrade, the Ministry of Culture and Information of Serbia, the Board of the October Salon and the professional community.

 

Sunday, 4th December, 2022

Knez Mihailova St, plateau in front of the Culture centre of Belgrade
12.00Šok ZaDruga, In the times of crises, you bite your hardest!, performance and closing of all the 59th October Salon venues, except for the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gallery of the Belgrade City Library

* On Wednesdays, members of the Culture Centre of Belgrade collective will be present in the exhibition spaces
* For group visits and special guided tours through the exhibition, write to olga.masic@kcb.org.rs
* Entry to all venues is free, and entry to the National Museum of Serbia is free on Sundays
* The catalogue of the event will be published at a later date.
* The organizer reserves the right to change the programme and the audience will be informed of all changes in a timely manner