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AFRO FESTIVAL

June 29th–30th 2024

The Afro Festival was held in the Museum of African Art from Friday, June 29, to Sunday, June 30. Every year in the last weekend of June, the MAU garden becomes a beehive of sorts for the gathering of a vast museum audience as well as numerous other art and music buffs, tourists, the diplomatic community and the general public, becoming a place to meet, exchange ideas and good feelings fueled by the discovery different forms of creativity that come from the African continent.

Rich dance and musical program made Afro festival atmosphere great through the dance show by Donia Tembe Đurić, and music shows by Duo Libya, bend Avalski put, consisting of African students in Serbia, DJ Pen, Nego Zamba, guitarist, with the support of Embassy of Brazil in Serbia, Singidundun, school of drums, as well as by the presentation of the great star Marko Louis.

As every year, within Afro festival we organized Bazaar, the sales exhibition offered visitors a wide variety of art, craft and souvenir items from the most diverse regions of Africa. In cooperation with local artists and creatives, we offer a selection of jewelry, textiles, clothing and accessories inspired by African motifs and designs.

Thematic exhibition

Zdravko Pečar │ (SELF)PORTRAITS

Opening: Saturday, May 25 2024, at 1 p.m.

Opening address by Professor Milan Ristović, PhD, and exhibition author, Assistant Professor Nemanja Radonjić, PhD.

Catalogue editors and exhibition curators
Dr. Nemanja Radonjić, Emilia Epstein, Ana Knežević

Through the exhibition “Zdravko Pečar – (SELF)PORTRAITS” we offer several perspectives on the kaleidoscopic personality of Zdravko Pečar, encompassing his life, work, and enduring legacy. This exhibition acts as a polyptych, unveiling his journey through pivotal historical events, the zeitgeist of his era, revolutionary endeavours, diplomatic engagements, scholarly research and publications, photographic archives, printed records, and other significant documentation. It showcases his dynamic actions, which at times yield ambivalent outcomes and consequences, yet always resonate with vitality.

Approaching Zdravko Pečar from a certain temporal remove, especially bearing in mind the specificities of the Yugoslav and Non-Aligned framework within which he laboured, it was impossible for us to resist the impression that through the exhibition process we are dealing with a man who has almost stepped into the realm of fiction and become a character from a book – a protagonist of his own life. And yet, we remain acutely aware of his tangible presence as a flesh-andblood individual who continues to resonate within the landscapes of memory, even today.

THREE CURATORIAL TEAMS PRESENTED THEIR CONCEPTS FOR THE 60 TH OCTOBER SALON

Press conference (Photo: Tanja Drobnjak)

Ana Knežević and Emilia Epštajn, MAU curators, are part of one of three selected international teams

On Friday, December 15, a press conference was held at the ARTGET gallery of the Belgrade Cultural Centre to announce the 60th October Salon. The upcoming, jubilee edition of the October Salon will be held from October 20 to December 1, 2024, organized by the Belgrade Cultural Centre, and realized by three international curatorial teams. Along several Belgrade locations, one of the exhibition spaces of the 60th October Salon will be The Museum of African Art.

Three different concepts will explore, through the exhibition and programme, how and to what extent contemporary art tries to reflect and respond to the various challenges and problems of the age we live in, but also what its internal crises say about us and our position in the present. What will the dialogue among the curatorial teams bring and how can different concepts coexist?

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, House of Olga Jančić, Monument to Isidora Sekulić, Hyde park Belgrade 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!

New Online Presentation

MAU DIGITAL IMPRINT

The project of digitally recording the permanent display and whole Museum of African Art (MAU) building was conducted in several stages over the course of 2015, 2021 and 2022, with the aim of creating a so-called digital imprint as form of cultural heritage preservation. In light of the announced reconstruction of the Museum, by mapping all relevant data, we wanted to create lasting documentation of the initial architecture, as well as the concept of the first permanent display of the MAU. Recording the space and exhibition setting of the Museum using the most current technology and translating the data into a digital impression will make them permanently accessible to all future researchers and other interested parties, even when they cease to exist in their current state.

We invite you to actively explore our new online presentation www.otisak.mau.rs. Enjoy panoramic virtual walks through the museum, encounter the permanent display, museum garden or murals painted onto the façade, and investigate the many contents regarding exhibited pieces and collecting trajectories. Go back to 1977 and read about some of the impressions at the time of the opening of this lasting symbol of Non-Aligned times – a museum created on the grounds of friendship and sincere support of the peoples of Africa, and admiration for the power of their artistic expression.

Free MAU catalogs available on the site

Browse through some of the classics offered by our exhibition catalogs, which are available on the Museum's website.

MAU presents its new visual identity

The new visual identity of the Museum of African Art (MAU) is based on a simple and recognisable, reduced geometric form and pattern that is widely present in the arts of African countries, but can also be seen in the design of the first museum permanent exhibition. It is the zigzag line motif that symbolises rhythm, movement and the flow of life. At the same time, as a continuous restless pulsation, the minimalist, yet modern and dynamic zigzag line connects the past and the future and invites active participation.

By reflecting the museum's mission and continuing practises already established, the new identity is at once an invitation to play, to participate, and to stimulate dialogue through the interweaving of ideas, experiences, and knowledge. The typography of the Museum of African Art's acronym takes its cue from this motif, as does the new, distinguishable, easy-to-use, and memorable sign, composed of three letters: MAU, a name familiar to the general public and already widely accepted.