The jubilee, 60th October Salon will be opened on October 20, the former Liberation Day of Belgrade, and until December 1 at several locations it will present three concepts of the international curatorial team, united by the slogan "What remains?"
Where and what is the space for art and artists? What remains after we leave the exhibition spaces? What do big manifestations bring and what remains after them... as a path, process, continuity, discontinuity, goal? What remains after an exhibition? Then, what remains after all the encounters – artists with artists, art with the public, international and domestic curators, spaces with artworks? These are some of the questions that the 60th October Salon will try to answer.
Why three concepts?
The answers will be offered by three concepts offered by three teams of curators. Why three?
Zorana Đaković Minniti, member of the October Salon Board and program director of the KCB, otherwise the organizer of the October Salon, explains that such a decision was prompted by the need to continue the process of re-examining the functioning of this manifestation, as well as being in the spirit of the idea of questioning the possibility of coexistence of different conception, curatorial and artistic positions.
The three teams of curators are: Lorenzo Balbi, director of the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna (MAMbo), in collaboration with art historian and curator Dobrila Denegri, will present the "Trace" concept. Matju Lelijevr, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, in cooperation with Maja Kolarić, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, will present the concept "Aesthetic(s) of Encounters", while the third concept "Hope is a discipline" was designed by Lina Džuverović, senior lecturer and head of the study master's program Curatorial work and collections at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London in collaboration with Emilia Epstein and Anna Knežević, curators at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and with Rafaela Dražić, who designed the visual identity.
Space
Zorana Đaković Minniti also said that, due to the lack of space, the three concepts will be closest in the Gallery of the Cultural Center.
"Given that there is still no central exhibition space intended for the October Salon, nor was any of the existing ones in Belgrade available for use, the galleries of the Belgrade Cultural Center will be the only spaces where these three concepts will be physically closest."
In addition to the KCB Gallery, the October Salon will be available in the Pavilion on Cvetni trg, the Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, the former Akademija club, the Gallery of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia, the Gallery of the Union of Fine Artists of Yugoslavia, in the Hall of the Museum of the City of Belgrade, the Museum of African Arts, windows of the French Institute and in public spaces in the city.
- The October salon is open until December 1.
