The Museum of African Art in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Egypt invites you to the lecture:
EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION AND THE SECRETS OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES
Friday, 25 October 2019, 11:00
Venue: The Museum of African Art, 14 Andre Nikolića Street
Lecturer: Dr. Mamdouh Eldamaty, Professor of Egyptology (Faculty of Philosophy – Ain Shams University) and former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities
Discussion participant: Prof. Dr. Danijela Stefanović, Department of History & Prof. Dr. Vera Vasiljević, Department of Archeology (Faculty of Philosophy – University of Belgrade)
* The lecture and discussion are in English
** Entrance: free
17 October - 22 December 2019
UNPROTECTED WITNESS NO. 1: AFRODISIAC
An Intervention on the Permanent Display of the MAA
Unprotected Witness no. 1: Afrodisiac is the research project of three institutions – the Museum of African Art, Faculty of Fine Arts and Center for Museology and Heritology, two curatos – Jelena Spaić, Ana Knežević, one expert consultant – Milan Popadić and eight artists – Milica Rakić, Ana Adamović, Irena Kelečević, Ana Vujović, Ivana Ivković, Siniša Ilić, Milica Josimov & Saša Tkačenko.
The Unprotected Witness is a museum object, a well-kept memorable substance exposed to artistic interpretation and reinvention. The first Unprotected Witness is interpolated in the premises of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of African Art – the Veda and Dr. Zdravko Pečar Collection (MAA). As a subtitle, Afrodisiac refers to the eponymous groundbreaking 1973 album by Fela Kuti and the beginnings of Afrobeat. The whole concept of the setting can be interpreted from the musical backdrop (the aforementioned Kuti and the song, Public Witness Program by Fugazi from their 1993 album) of political-artistic visions of Kuti and Fugazi, but also within the phenomenon of institutional critique that morphs into institutional chic.
The exhibition will run at the MAA until 22 December 2019.
The Cultural Heritage of Topčider
A tour organized by the Museum of African Art, memorial House of King Peter and Heritage House
Since the 19th century the urban planning of Topčider (one of Belgrade's many hills) was envisioned as a city oasis, with numerous parks, picnic spots, large areas of forest and greenery. Hidden within it are numerous villas, summer houses and art studios built at the beginning of the 20th century. Through the “Cultural Heritage of Topčider” tour we will reveal different cultural institutions. During this tour, you can visit Museum of African Art, the memorial House of King Peter, Archive of Yugoslavia, Heritage House – the Legacy of Petar Lubarda, Museum Vespa Serbia, House of Olga Jančić and Public Aquarium and Tropicarium Belgrade. To get an impression about the tour, visit this link.
Walking and talking with you, are art historians Ana Knežević, Museum of African Art curator & Ivana Zatežić, Heritage House associate.
Join our trek of discovery of the cultural Heritage of Topčider Hill!
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