Written by: Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // Artists are expected to arrive at an artist in residence with a clear project and plan. Yet an artist residency is never just a space; it is a context that, sooner or later, determines a new theme — often more significant than the one originally planned. We write about...
Art Box portal // Housed in the imposing building of the former Gare d’Orsay railway station, constructed for the 1900 World’s Fair, the Musée d’Orsay has, since 1986, been one of Europe’s most important art museums, attracting around 3 million visitors annually. Focusing on the period from 1848 to 1914, the museum preserves masterpieces of...
Art Box portal // Bitef (The Belgrade International Theatre Festival), Serbia’s largest and oldest international theatre festival, is not taking place this year — at least not in its institutional form. However, under the slogan “Bitef is wherever we gather,” this year’s ne:Bitef will be held from December 15 to 18 at several locations across...
Art Box portal // The exhibition “Recording Africa: The Travel Lens of the Caravan of Friendship” will open on November 27, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and will remain on view until April 13, 2026. Milica Naumov curates the show. At the beginning of 1962, as parts of the...
Art Box portal // The Croatian Association of Visual Artists Dubrovnik has opened the exhibition Parallel Realities at the Flora Gallery in Lapad, featuring four artists from Novi Sad: visual artists Maja Erdeljanin, Stevan Kojić, and Dragan Vojvodić, as well as writer Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić. Starting from diverse poetics and media, the artists explore layered...
Art Box portal // On October 10, 2025, the solo exhibition Sound(less)/(Brez)zvočno by intermedia and interdisciplinary artist Dragan Vojvodić was opened at the artKIT exhibition space (Maribor, Slovenia). The artist performed a musical performance at the opening. The exhibition connects autobiographical discourse with ideas from avant-garde and conceptual art practices, interrogating sound and its absence....
Art Box portal // The Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai (1954), “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, amid apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” László Krasznahorkai is one of the great epic writers of the Central European tradition that stretches...
Art Box portal // Starting on October 10, 2025, Vienna will host the first major retrospective of Marina Abramović (1946, Belgrade) in Austria, presented at Albertina Modern in collaboration with Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien. Spanning more than five decades, the show traces her artistic journey from early works created in 1970s Belgrade, through her legendary...
By Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // In the Marais district, in Paris’s 4th arrondissement, behind narrow streets and the influx of tourists, lies the Historical Library of the City of Paris (Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris – BHVP), housed in the Hôtel de Lamoignon, one of the oldest private mansions in this neighborhood, which...
Art Box portal // David Bowie (1947–2016) is widely celebrated as a musical pioneer and cultural icon whose career spanned five decades and left a profound mark on contemporary art, fashion, and performance. In September 2025, The David Bowie Centre — a new, permanent home for Bowie’s extraordinary archive — officially opened at the V&A...