60th October Salon: Šta ostaje?/What’s left?

October 20–December 1, 2024
I am honored to be part of the 60th edition of the October Salon at the Cultural Center of Belgrade (Serbia).

The 60th edition of the October Salon opens on the Liberation Day of Belgrade, October 20. This fall, until December 1, the audience will encounter three different concepts created by three international curatorial teams at several locations in Belgrade with the slogan: “Šta ostaje?/What’s left?”
Where and what is the space for art and artists? What’s left—after we leave the exhibition spaces? What do big manifestations bring and what remains after them—… as a path, process, continuity, discontinuity, goal? What’s left after an exhibition? Then, what’s left—after all the encounters? Artists with artists, art with the public, international and local curators, spaces with artworks?
Answers and new questions will be offered during the autumn by three curatorial teams through three curatorial concepts, which is the curiosity of this year’s edition of the October Salon. Lorenzo Balbi, director of the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna--MAMbo, in collaboration with Dobrila Denegri, art historian and curator, will present a concept called Trace. Matthieu Lelièvre, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, in cooperation with Maja Kolaric, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, will present the concept Aesthetic(s) of Encounter(s). The third concept, Hope is a discipline, was developed by Lina Dzuverovic, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader MA Curating and Collections at the Chelsea College of Arts, the University of Arts, London, in collaboration with Emilia Epstajn and Ana Knezevic, curators at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and visual identity devised by Rafaela Drazic.

Three curatorial teams
Lorenzo Balbi & Dobrila Denegri: Trace
Matthieu Lelièvre & Maja Kolarić: Aesthetic(s) of Encounter(s)
Lina Džuverović, Emilia Epštajn & Ana Knežević: Hope is a Discipline
Trace (artists/participants): Alessandra Saviotti, Francesco Fonassi, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Alfredo Jaar, Maria Eichhorn, Daniela Ortiz, Nemanja Nikolić, Nina Ivanović, Marija Šević, Lidija Delić, Ministry of Space, Aldo Giannotti, Mane Radmanović, Ana Ereš, Ivan Petrović
Aesthetic(s) of Encounter(s) (artists): Jesper Just, Marina Marković, Randolpho Lamonier, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, Annika Kahrs, Jeppe Hein, Anne Imhof, Biljana Đurđević, Ivan Šuletić, Damir Radović, Edi Dubien, Kyungah Ham, Nikola Dimitrović, Malek Gnaoui
Hope is a Discipline (artists/participants): Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG), Jelena Savić, Mwana, Caravan, Milica Ružičić, Adrian Melis Sosa, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Darinka Pop-Mitić, Kathrin Böhm, Jelena Micić, doplgenger, And Others: The Gendered Politics And Practices of Art Collectives, Milica Duki.