The exhibition represents the collection of 24 paintings, which Bratsa Bonifacho, Canadian artist of Serbian origin, has donated to Belgrade City Museum. The paintings will be exhibited for the first time for the audience in Belgrade. The exhibition includes Bonifacho’s works from different phases, created between 1975 and 2015, thus creating a specific cross-section of his artistic career.

Bonifacho’s paintings of large formats were mostly done in the spirit of abstract expressionism, but they are also a specific amalgam of the European abstract art, and North-American pop art. . He often uses in his works the elements of symbolism, and figurative painting, thus expressing various thoughts and emotions, while since his early days he has been fascinated by language, word-play, and the use of letters on canvases. Bonifacho is internationally recognized for his use of letters on canvases. Those texts are confusing for the most of the people, but they are Bratsa’s way of expressing his view of the world. If we start reading written messages we will be amused sometimes, or ponder over some of the statements, but most often we will be unable to discern the meaning of the words, or find hidden messages.

Bratsa Bonifacho is artistic name of the painter Blagoje Srdić, who was born in Belgrade, in 1937. He had graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of Drawing and Painting, but he also attended the Faculty of Architecture. After his studies, he went to Krueger Atelier, in Frankfurt, for his specialization. After his studies he lived in France for a while, and in 1973 he moved to Canada. He received Canadian citizenship in 1976, and since then he has been living in Vancouver. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Fine Artists and. As a renowned and recognized artist, he had had more than 50 independent exhibitions, as well as, over 70 joint exhibitions.

The exhibition represented the biographical data and interesting facts from the lives of the Serbian rulers’ wives, from the dynasties of Obrenović and Karađorđević.

The chosen wives were those of the Serbian rulers, as well as, those from Yugoslavia, from the period after the Second Serbian Uprising, and liberation from the Turks. The rulers in question were four from the dynasty Obrenović, and three from Karađorđević family. The Obrenović’s wives were: Princess Ljubica Obrenović, spouse of Prince Miloš; Princess Julija Obrenović, spouse of Prince Mihailo; Princess Natalija Obrenović who had become the Queen, spouse of King Milan; and Queen Draga, the last of the Obrenović dynasty, spouse of King Aleksandar.

Female rulers from the house of Karađorđević were Persida Karađorđević, spouse of Prince Aleksandar, and the only Yugoslav Queen, Marija, spouse of King Aleksandar Karađorđević; Princess Zorka, spouse of Petar I Karađorđević, the daughter of Montenegrin King Nikola Petrović, died in 1890, 14 years before her husband had become the King of Serbia, which is why she was not included in the exhibition.

With the help of the abundant photographic materials, as weel as, personal objects from the every-day life of those women, the visitors are introduced to their personal stories. We wanted to portray them as ordinary women, which they were, with their daily pleasures, needs, and problems. That is why their stories are about the lives they have led before the marriage, about their sometimes happy and sometimes unhappy marriages, about their children, and their role in the political life of Serbia. In short, the stories are about everything which represents the life of a wife and a mother, who is in addition a wife of the ruler.

After the well-received opening performance in Paris, Ana Gnjatović’s electro-acoustic cabaret will be staged in the Vaulted Hall, at the Residence of Princess Ljubica.

As Within the third season of Belgrade’s Musical Vaults, the Belgrade City Museum and the Cultural Element present to the audience the young Serbian artists assembled around A Weill Ago.

The programme for a soprano, a piano and an electronic set is inspired by Kurt Weill's personality and music. His songs, as well as the voices of Lotte Lenya, Berthold Brecht, Danilo Kiš..., the sounds of childhood and the sounds of war, archival recordings and a personal history, appear, diffract and layer one upon another through sung, spoken, recorded and sampled inserts. Ana Gnjatović’s built-up electroacoustic layer contextualizes and comments on Weill's songs performed by the soprano Tijana Đuričić to the piano accompaniment of Milivoje Veljić. Together, these two layers make a cabaret-like bittersweet acoustic narrative about art and responsibility.

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Serbian piano music was based on the model of the music from the West, and it blossomed in the parts of the Kingdom of Serbia that had been under the European influence in the 19th century. During the period, the drawing-room music had its special place. It included a type of music, but also the musical practice that have disappeared from the historical scene by the mid 19th century. The ones who were the pioneers in the development of this artistic movement, and how did the movement develop at the Obrenović’s court, will be revealed through concerts/lectures held by the pianist Dina Čubrilović, and lecturer Srđan Teparić, who is an expert in musical theory, assisten professor at the Faculty of Musical Arts, and Radio Belgrade’s critic

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At the Residence of Princess Ljubica, the Cultural Element organized the programe ’’Stukas Flew In at the Dawn“, which ceremoniously closed the exhibition ’’Belgrade Fairground – back to the future’’. Through the performance, that was a combination of music and dance, and was directly linked to the exhibition, we wanted to depict a huge machinery that flew over Belgrade, and had left permanent, and indelible cosequences. The performance was based on a concept that the victims and tragically ended destinies should never be forgotten, but also on the retelling of the story of Belgrade Fairground and destroyed hope.

The exhibition Sajmište (Old Belgrade Fair)– Back to the Future is the final stage of the eponymous project, jointly organized by the Belgrade City Museum and the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, with the support of Museum Night Art Production Group. The exhibition was set up by the Master’s students of the Faculty of Architecture under the guidance of their professors and the curators of the Belgrade City Museum.

The work of the sculptor Sava Sandić (1915–2016) spans his 60-year long career. The works displayed at the exhibition are only a small part of his rich sculptural oeuvre and they belong to his gift collection donated to the Belgrade City Museum in 2008. On that occasion, Sava Sandić highlighted that the gift, which included 39 sculptures, was an expression of his desire to leave a memorial of his work and life in Belgrade.

Through her latest works in the areas of graphic art, drawing, animation and experimental books, the author opens a new ‘window’, as a follow-up to a series of previous exhibitions dedicated to cities, memories, impressions and personal notes.

The exhibition of prints and photographs Athos. The Holy Mountain, organized at the Residence of Princess Ljubica, is a satellite event of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, which will be held in Belgrade on August 22–27, 2017.

The visitors to the exhibition have an opportunity to enjoy the unique designs of famous fashion brands, including Gianfranco Ferrè, Marella Ferrera, Gai Mattiolo, Gattinoni, Sorelle Fontana, Giorgio Armani, Enrico Coveri, Laura Biagiotti, Versace, Valentino, Fendi and Renato Balestra.

The most valuable items from the rich Collection of Antiquity at the Belgrade City Museum, including about 200 items, will be exhibited at the Residence of Princess Ljubica. The diversity of their forms vividly speaks about the artisan and artistic aspirations of the ancient world, at the time when the first City was emerging in this area, as well as about the interests and culture of its inhabitants, fashion, and the need of the individuals of the time to display publicly their wealth, well-being, merit and social status.

One of the most important figures in the cultural and literary history of Bulgaria and the entire Slavic world – Bishop Clement, ended his earthly journey on July 27, 916. He has survived in the collective memory as ‘Saint Clement the Golden’ and ‘Saint Clement the Teacher’, the master of the Bulgarian literary language, the founder of the first literary school and the first bishop in medieval Bulgaria. He established a bridge between the Moravian mission of the Slavic apostles Cyril and Methodius and the First Bulgarian Empire.