Current exhibitions
Through a variety of themes and narratives, the exhibitions convey a variety of messages from artworks and educate us about art, as well as their creators.
Nobility in Serbian Visual Culture of the 18th Century
The exhibition Nobility in Serbian Visual Culture of the 18thCentury came about as the result of the doctoral dissertation and years of research by Dr. Aleksandra Čelovski, curator of the Gallery of Matica Srpska. The audience will be introduced to the life of the nobility gathered under the patronage of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci during the 18th century through several thematic sections: As part of the representative public, Blue blood and virtue: Types of nobility, Education as a privilege, Patrons and benefactors, Family gallery: Marriage strategies of the nobility, Nobility and endowment. Through over 80 works of art, items, and archival materials, the exhibition examines the phenomenon of nobility from various perspectives, including the acquisition of noble status, adaptation of an individual’s personal identity to the demands of the representative public through portrait commissions, contributions to the Church and endowment activities, patronage of arts and culture, the construction of luxurious mansions and castles, and the selection of burial sites.
Opening date:
February 14, 2025
Closing date:
June 1, 2025
Venue:
The Gallery of Matica Srpska
Sport in Art. The Art of Sports
The exhibition includes 44 works of art and objects created in the period from 1858 to 2018. In the Cultural Center of Serbia, selected works from the collection of the Gallery of Matica Srpska, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republika Srpska, the Museum of Yugoslavia, the “Sava Šumanović” Picture Gallery in Šid, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Legate House in Belgrade are presented. The selected works are signed by artists Sava Šumanović, Ivan Radović, Petar Dobrović, Ivan Tabaković, Steva Todorović, Petar Omčikus, Dušan Todorović, Bojan Bem, Uroš Đurić and Tomislav Peternek, as well as Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gottfried Helnwein. and James Rosenquist. Also, the Paris audience will have the opportunity to see sports props, medals and photographs from the collection of the Museum of Yugoslavia and artistic photographs from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
Opening date:
February 12, 2025
Closing date:
March 15, 2025
Venue:
Museum of Herzegovina in Trebinje
