On Tuesday, February 6, at 7:00 PM, the opening of the exhibition “Existential Questions in Contemporary Sculptural Practice” will take place at The House of King’s Guard.

The exhibition represents a selection from the Collection of Contemporary Sculpture of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš. The opening will feature speeches by MCAM curator Maja Dedić and the director of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš, Emilija Bilić.

The realization of the exhibition is the result of years of collaboration between the two institutions. In contrast to the first cycle of collaboration, which presented the current art scene of Niš in Podgorica (2018), this time the Gallery presents a part of its art collection through an exhibition curated by art historian Milica Todorović titled “Existential Questions in Contemporary Sculptural Practice,” based on a selection from the sculpture collection.

The collection of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš has been continuously enriched since its establishment in 1970 and currently holds 1874 inventory units divided into five collections. The collection of contemporary sculpture predominantly features works by artists from Serbia, although authors from all former Yugoslav republics are also represented. Despite its modest size, the collection adequately testifies to the developments within sculptural expression from the 1960s to the present day.

For the promotion in Podgorica, a selection of 10 sculptures created over the last 25 years has been made. The exhibition is conceptually designed to emphasize two phenomena typical of recent sculptural practice. The first is of visual nature and implies changes in the ontological status of sculpture as a medium, incorporating new materials, with a significant involvement of machines in realization and the influence of advanced sophisticated technologies. The second change is content-cognitive and is manifested primarily in the expansion of the thematic repertoire of sculptural works to those themes containing a clear allusion to the existential questions of contemporary human life.

The exhibition will feature works by Zlatko Glamočak, Mrđan Bajić, Rajko Popivoda, Zdravko Joksimović, Gabriel Glid, Dragan Jelenković, Radoš Antonijević, Marko Crnobrnja, Mirko Marić, and Rado Mutapović.

The represented artists are exceptionally significant figures in the recent sculptural practice, with developed bodies of work and a rich exhibition activity on the national and international scenes.

The exhibition will be open to the public until February 27.