O NAMA / ABOUT US
Founder of ART BOX Portal
The founder of ART BOX Portal, Creative-Educational Center Art Boks, has been actively promoting culture and the arts since 2013 through artistic residency programs, exhibitions, panels, creative workshops, lectures, and the publication of brochures, catalogs, and books in the fields of contemporary art and literature. It is also the founder and operator of an online portal dedicated to art and culture.
This association of citizens, artists, and educators was established with the goal of strengthening cultural participation and engagement in line with contemporary European discourse. It aims to improve cultural competencies and affirm art as a means of social integration—for artists, cultural professionals, women, youth, marginalized communities, and all interested citizens—thus fostering development and positive social change.
Mission
The mission of the Creative-Educational Center Art Boks is to support perspectives of the Other and the Different, actively counter stereotypes and discrimination, and promote civic engagement, education, and innovation, particularly among women, youth, and marginalized social groups. By promoting contemporary art, culture, and cultural life, and by integrating artistic and cultural content into educational and broader social processes, Art Boks strives to make art accessible and socially relevant.
Goals
Promotion of contemporary art and culture through informal methods and lifelong learning models.
Cultural, educational, and social empowerment of citizens in the spirit of democratic values, through increased access to knowledge about contemporary artistic and life practices.
Support for women’s artistic creation and the affirmation of feminist action.
Encouraging innovation and social engagement, especially among youth, while raising awareness of socially sensitive topics, environmental protection, and the importance of mental and physical health.
Clear opposition to militarism, nationalism, racism, misogyny, ageism, and all forms of social exclusion.
Networking of artists, educators, and citizens—locally, regionally, and internationally—through collaboration and the exchange of knowledge and experience.
Art Box believes that art and culture are not a luxury but a necessary foundation for a more inclusive, just, and humane society.
Sections
ART
Language and Literature
Visual Arts
Music Culture
BOX Sections
Knowledge of Nature and Society
Civic Education
Home Economics
The section names refer to school subjects. Some still exist today, while others evoke educational practices from the SFRY era, symbolically recalling a cultural context where multiculturalism, multiethnicity, women’s emancipation, and broad access to education and culture were important social values.
The content of each section is shaped according to the mission and goals of the portal, aiming to address contemporary artistic, cultural, and social topics through the lens of education.
Additional Sections / Categories
ABOUT US (Contact, Imprint)
PROJECTS
PUBLISHING
ENGLISH
More about ART BOX Portal
Since its establishment and official launch in September 2021, the ART BOX portal has been officially accredited at the Venice Biennale of Art, the Manifesta exhibition in Kassel, the Peacock Society 2025 Festival, and the Rock en Seine music festival in Paris, Way Out West music and film festival in Gothenburg, EXIT, Sterijino Pozorje, and INFANT festivals in Novi Sad, Belgrade festivals including BITEF, #ne:Bitef, FEST, BFI, BELDOSC, FAF, Slobodna Zona, KROKODIL, GoetheFEST, the International Queer Film Festival Merlinka, Belgrade Film Festival, Palić Film Festival, and more.
ART BOX portal expresses special gratitude to the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna for the invitation to attend the vernissage of Erwin Wurm’s retrospective exhibition.
The ART BOX portal was an official media sponsor of the Palić Film Festival and the international documentary film festival BELDOSC, and officially supported the Kondenz festival of contemporary dance and performance.
ART BOX Portal Interviewees
Her Excellency Kristin Melsom, Ambassador of Norway to Serbia, students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Slobodan Tišma, Vlasta Delimar, Line Nord, Salka Gudmundsdottir, Igor Cvijanović, Jasna Đuričić, Svetislav Basara, Uroš Đurić, Kajoko Jamasaki, Milica Rakić, Vesna Goldsvorti, Jana Panajotović, Kamila George, Toni Starešinić, Slađana Petrović Varagić, Oto Horvat, Dubravka Đurić, Constanze Malissa, Caroline Ansink, Izabel Fimijer, Marija Maca Obrovački, Bojana Škorić, Maja Erdeljanin, Laurie Rosenwald, Ivan Milenković, Siniša Tucić, Ilija Gubić, Dejana Vučićević, Ena Hasečić, Damir Zlatar Frey, members of Brooklin Funk Essentials and Joker Out, Jelena Đurić, Igor Drvenkar, Léopold Prudon, and others.
Portal Authors
Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, Merima Aranitović, Maja Rogač Stančević, Sara Stojev, Shannon Egan, Milan Đurišić, Neda Todorović, Nataša Krstić, Matthew Stone (translated into Serbian by Milica Smart), Maja Erdeljanin, Dragana V. Todoreskov, Dragan Vojvodić, Sandra Urban, Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Predrag Šiđanin, Izabella Eck, Ivana Miljak Karanfilov, Milana Milić, Olivera Jeranče, Aleksandra Mihajlović, Laura Kovač, Velibor Živkov, Radmila Stanković, Marija Jovanović Beljanski, Iskra Lj. Marin, Ana Sekulić, Dunja Ilić, Marina Krdžavac, Vesna Strugar, Boris Jeranče, Ivana Orta, Konstantin Filipović, Nataša Krsmanović, Bojana Maksimović, Jelena Rovčanin, Dušan Zdravković, Brankica Matić, Sergej Stantić, Staša Stantić, Maja Babić, and others.
Authors of Original Photo Stories or Photographs
Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, Merima Aranitović, Sara Popović, Dragan Vojvodić, Anthony Chervino, Nils Ramhoy, Nima Sarabi, Dušanka Savić, Sandra Urban, Daša Bradić, Boris Jeranče, Ivana Beljanski Ulić, Olivera Jeranče, Manja Hodolkov, Marija Jovanović Beljanski, Predrag Šiđanin, Maja Budžarov, Jovana Vujić, Milica Francuz, Galerie Gisela Clement, Zorana Mioković, Jelisaveta Džigurski, Sergej Stantić, Baste Salomonsen Nord, and others.
Acknowledgements and Partners
Art Box would like to extend its gratitude to the Venice Biennale; Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the Royal Academy of Arts, Hayward Gallery and Moco Museum in London; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Musée Yves Saint Laurent and Palais Galliera in Paris; Museo Reina Sofía and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid; Museu Picasso in Barcelona; the Yayoi Kusama Museum, Mori Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Astrup Fearnley Museet and the Munch Museum in Oslo; Kiasma, the Design Museum and the Museum of Photography in Helsinki; ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen; the Vienna institutions Albertina and Albertina Modern, as well as mumok and Belvedere 21; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice; the Nobel Prize Museum and Fotografiska in Stockholm; the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg; KODE Art Museums in Bergen; the Reykjavík Art Museum in Iceland; and the Rijksmuseum, Moco Museum and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade and the Museum of Yugoslavia, among others, for their trust and press accreditations.
We also extend our thanks to Ejecta Projects (USA), the Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture 2022 Foundation, the Tartu 2024 Foundation, USF Verftet in Bergen, and others for press accreditations, joint projects and collaborations.
Photographs for publication have been kindly provided by Palais Galliera – Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, Musée Yves Saint Laurent and Grand Palais in Paris; Espace Vanderborght in Brussels; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Palazzo Grassi in Venice; Albertina and Albertina Modern in Vienna; the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne; Tate Modern in London; as well as festivals and institutions such as FEST, BITEF, KROKODIL, Slobodna zona, EXIT, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Sterijino pozorje, the Belgrade Dance Festival, the Belgrade Film Festival, and others.
Projects and Publishing
The same founder of the portal, Creative-Educational Center ART BOX, has led numerous international residency and artistic projects (Norway, Sweden, Iceland, 2021—2026) as well as publishing activities (2021—2025).
Published works include: Contexts of Invisibility (Artistic Residencies and Marginalized Groups) / Contex of Invisibility (Artist Residencies and Marginalized Groups), bilingual e-book (2025), posthumous book of Borivoje Adašević Pietà (2024), bilingual artistic e-books How to Understand Contemporary Art_2024 / Kako razumeti savremenu umetnost_2024 (2024), A Women Artists’ Room of One’s Own / Sopstvena soba žena umetnica (2023), How to Understand Contemporary Art Practice / Kako razumeti savremenu umetnost (2023), #Meaning of Home_2022 / #Značenje doma_2022 (2022), and an illustrated Serbian-English guide for youth How to Understand New Art Practice / Kako razumeti novosadsku novu umetničku praksu (2021).
International and grant residency projects were realized in collaboration with KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre in Finland (2025), projects How to Understand Contemporary Art (sponsored by the Cultural Administration of Novi Sad, 2024, 2023) and A Women Artists’ Room of One’s Own (sponsored by the Cultural Administration of Novi Sad, 2023), as well as the international exhibition #Meaning of Home_2022 (Farsickness/Homesickness/Homelessness, Creative District, Novi Sad) 2022, sponsored by Novi Sad EPK 2022 Foundation, as part of the program module Another Europe, accompanied by a bilingual e-publication in English with an introduction in Serbian; as well as mobility-based residency art projects in Petrovaradin/Novi Sad (2021–2023) and Gothenburg/Sweden (sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, 2022, 2023).
Technical and Web Administration
Technical and web administration is managed by Siniša Banda.
Registration
ART BOX portal is registered in the Registry of Public Media of the Republic of Serbia – reg. no. IN001110 as of 12.07.2021.
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Osnivač ART BOX portala
Osnivač ART BOX portala, Kreativno-edukativni centar Art Boks, od 2013. godine aktivno se bavi promocijom kulture i umetnosti kroz realizaciju umetničkih rezidencijalnih programa, izložbi, tribina, kreativnih radionica, predavanja, kao i izdavanje publikacija — brošura, kataloga i knjiga iz oblasti savremene umetnosti i književnosti. Takođe je osnivač i vodi onlajn portal posvećen umetnosti i kulturi.
Ovo udruženje građana, umetnika i edukatora osnovano je s ciljem osnaživanja kulturne participacije i potrošnje, u skladu sa savremenim evropskim diskursima. Teži unapređenju kulturnih kompetencija i afirmaciji umetnosti kao sredstva društvene integracije — za umetnike, profesionalce u kulturi, žene, mlade, marginalizovane zajednice i sve zainteresovane građane i građanke — podstičući time razvoj i pozitivne promene u društvu.
Misija
Misija Kreativno-edukativnog centra Art Boks zasniva se na podršci perspektivama Drugog i Drugačijeg, aktivnom suprotstavljanju stereotipima i diskriminaciji, te na podsticanju građanskog angažmana, edukacije i inovativnosti — naročito među ženama, mladima i marginalizovanim društvenim grupama. Kroz promociju savremene umetnosti, kulture i kulture življenja, kao i integraciju umetničkih i kulturnih sadržaja u obrazovne i šire društvene procese, Art Boks nastoji da umetnost učini dostupnom i društveno relevantnom.
Ciljevi
Promocija savremene umetnosti i kulture kroz neformalne oblike i modele celoživotnog učenja.
Kulturno, edukativno i socijalno osnaživanje građana i građanki u duhu demokratskih vrednosti, kroz povećanje dostupnosti znanja o savremenim umetničkim i životnim praksama.
Podrška umetničkom stvaralaštvu žena i afirmacija feminističkog delovanja.
Podsticanje inovativnosti i društvenog angažmana, naročito među mladima, uz razvijanje svesti o socijalno osetljivim temama, zaštiti životne sredine i značaju mentalnog i fizičkog zdravlja.
Jasno suprotstavljanje militarizmu, nacionalizmu, rasizmu, mizoginiji, ejdžizmu i svim oblicima društvene isključenosti.
Umrežavanje umetnika, edukatora i građana — lokalno, regionalno i međunarodno — kroz saradnju i razmenu znanja i iskustava.
Art Box veruje da umetnost i kultura nisu luksuz, već neophodan temelj inkluzivnijeg, pravednijeg i humanijeg društva.
Rubrike
ART
Jezik i književnost
Likovna kultura
Muzička kultura
Sekcije BOX
Poznavanje prirode i društva
Građansko vaspitanje
Domaćinstvo
Nazivi rubrika upućuju na nazive školskih predmeta. Neki od njih i danas postoje, drugi evociraju obrazovne prakse iz vremena SFRJ, simbolično prizivajući njen kulturološki kontekst, u kome su multikulturalnost, multietničnost, emancipacija žena i široka dostupnost obrazovanja i kulture činili važne društvene vrednosti.
Sadržaj svake rubrike oblikovan je u skladu s misijom i ciljevima portala, sa željom da aktuelizuje umetničke, kulturne i društvene teme kroz prizmu obrazovanja.
Sekcije i rubrike dodatno
O NAMA (Kontakt, Impresum)
PROJEKTI
IZDAVAŠTVO
ENGLISH
Više o Art Box portalu
Od svog osnivanja i zvaničnog početka rada, septembra 2021. godine, ART BOX portal bio je zvanično akreditovan na Bijenalu umetnosti u Veneciji, izložbi Manifesta u Kaselu, Peacock Society 2025 festivalu i Rock en Seine muzičkom festivalu u Parizu, Way Out West muzičkom i filmskom festivalu u Geteborgu, festivalima EXIT, Sterijino pozorje i INFANT u Novom Sadu, beogradskim festivalima BITEF, #ne:Bitef, FEST, BFI, BELDOSC, FAF, Slobodna zona, KROKODIL, GoetheFEST, Međunarodnom festivalu Queer filma Merlinka, Beograd Film Festival; Filmskom festivalu Palić, i dr.
ART BOX portal se posebno zahvaljuje bečkom muzeju ALBERTINA MODERN i pozivu da gostuje na vernisažu retrospektivne izložbe Ervina Vurma.
Portal ART BOX je bio zvaničan medijski sponzor Filmskog festivala Palić, međunarodnog festivala dokumentarnog filma BELDOSC, a zvanično je medijski podržao i Kondenz festival savremenog plesa i performansa.
Sagovornici/ce portala ART BOX
Nj. E. ambasadorka Norveške u Srbiji Kristin Melsom, studenti i studentkinje Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu, Slobodan Tišma, Ariane Lugeon, Vlasta Delimar, Line Nord, Salka Gudmundsdottir, Igor Cvijanović, Jasna Đuričić, Svetislav Basara, Uroš Đurić, Kajoko Jamasaki, Milica Rakić, Vesna Goldsvorti, Jana Panajotović, Kamila Džordž, Toni Starešinić, Slađana Petrović Varagić, Oto Horvat, Dubravka Đurić, Marija Kalafatić, Constanze Malissa, Caroline Ansink, Izabel Fimijer, Marija Maca Obrovački, Bojana Škorić, Maja Erdeljanin, Laurie Rosenwald, Ivan Milenković, Siniša Tucić, Ilija Gubić, Dejana Vučićević, Ena Hasečić, Damir Zlatar Frey, članovi benda Brooklin Funk Essentials i Joker Out, Jelena Đurić, Igor Drvenkar, Léopold Prudon i dr.
Autori/ke tekstova
Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, Merima Aranitović, Maja Rogač Stančević, Sara Stojev, Shannon Egan, Milan Đurišić, Neda Todorović, Nataša Krstić, Matthew Stone (na srpskom jeziku u prevodu Milice Smart), Maja Erdeljanin, Dragana V. Todoreskov, Dragan Vojvodić, Sandra Urban, Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Predrag Šiđanin, Izabella Eck, Ivana Miljak Karanfilov, Milana Milić, Olivera Jeranče, Aleksandra Mihajlović, Laura Kovač, Velibor Živkov, Radmila Stanković, Marija Jovanović Beljanski, Iskra Lj. Marin, Ana Sekulić, Dunja Ilić, Marina Krdžavac, Vesna Strugar, Boris Jeranče, Ivana Orta, Konstantin Filipović, Nataša Krsmanović, Bojana Maksimović, Jelena Rovčanin, Dušan Zdravković, Brankica Matić, Sergej Stantić, Staša Stantić, Maja Babić, i dr.
Autori/ke originalnih foto-priča i fotografija
Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, Merima Aranitović, Sara Popović, Dragan Vojvodić, Anthony Chervino, Nils Ramhoy, Nima Sarabi, Dušanka Savić, Sandra Urban, Daša Bradić, Boris Jeranče, Ivana Beljanski Ulić, Olivera Jeranče, Manja Hodolkov, Marija Jovanović Beljanski, Predrag Šiđanin, Maja Budžarov, Jovana Vujić, Milica Francuz, Galerie Gisela Clement, Zorana Mioković, Jelisaveta Džigurski, Sergej Stantić, Baste Salomonsen Nord, Ariane Lugeon i dr.
Zahvalnosti i partneri
ART BOX portal se zahvaljuje: Bijenalu umetnosti u Veneciji, muzejima Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Art, Hayward Gallery i MOCO u Londonu, muzejima MoMA i Metropoliten u Njujorku, Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée national Picasso Paris, Palais de Tokyo, the Fondation Louis Vuitton i Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection, Musée Yves Saint Laurent i Palais Galliera u Parizu, Muzeju kraljice Sofije u Madridu, Muzeju Tisen u Madridu, Pikasovom muzeju u Barseloni, Muzeju Jajoi Kusame u Tokiju, Mori Art muzeju u Tokiju, Muzeju savremene umetnosti Tokija (MOT), Astrup Fearnley muzeju i Munkovom muzeju u Oslu, Kiasma muzeju, Muzeju dizajna i muzeju fotografije u Helsinkiju, Muzejima Arken i Luizijana u Kopenhagenu, bečkim muzejima Albertina i Albertina Modern, mumok i Belvedere 21. Museum of Contemporary Art, Peggi Guggenheim muzeju u Veneciji, Nobelovom muzeju i Fotografiska Museum-u u Stokholmu, geteborškom Röhsska muzeju dizajna i zanatstva, KODE muzeju u Bergenu, Reykjavík Art muzeju na Islandu i muzjima Rijks, MOCO i Sredelijk u Amsterdamu, MSUB i muzeju Jugoslavije u Beogradu i dr. na ukazanom poverenju i press akreditacijama, kao i galeriji Ejecta Project (SAD), fondaciji Novi Sad EKP 2022 i Fondaciji Tartu EPK 2024, USF Verftetu iz Bergena i dr. na press akreditacijama, zajedničkim projektima ili saradnji.
Fotografije za objavljivanje ustupili su nam i Palais Galliera — Muzej mode grada Pariza, Musée Yves Saint Laurent i Grand Palais iz Pariza, Espace Vanderborght iz Brisela, muzeji Peggy Gugenheim i Palazzo Grassi u Veneciji, Muzej ALBERTINA i ALBERTINA MODERN u Beču, Mori muzej iz Tokija, The National Gallery of Victoria u Melburnu, Tate Modern u Londonu, beogradski festivali FEST, BITEF, KROKODIL, Slobodna zona, novosadski EXIT, MSUV, Sterijino pozorje, Beogradski festival igre, Beograd film festival i dr.
Projekti i izdavaštvo
Istoimeni osnivač portala, Kreativno-edukativni centar ART BOX, nosilac je niza internacionalnih rezidencijalnih i umetničkih projekata (Norveška, Švedska, Island 2021—2026) kao i izdavačke delatnosti (2021—2025).
Publikovane su knjige: Konteksti nevidljivosti (umetničke rezidencije i marginalizovane grupe) / Contex of Invisibility (Artist Residencies and Marginalized Groups), dvojezično, e-knjiga (2025), knjiga zaostavštine Borivoja Adaševića Pietà (2024), dvojezične umetničke e-knjige: Kako razumeti savremenu umetnost_2024 / How to Understand Contemporary Art Practice_2024 (2024), Sopstvena soba žena umetnica / A Women Artists’ Room of Ones’ Own (2023), Kako razumeti savremenu umetnost / How to Understand Contemporary Art Practice (2023), #Značenje doma_2022 / meaning of Home (2022), kao i ilustrovani srpsko-engleski vodič za mlade Kako razumeti novosadsku novu umetničku praksu / How to understand New Art Practice (2021).
Realizovani su internacionalni i grantrezidencijalni projekat u saradnji sa KulttuuriKauppilla umetničkim centrom u Finskoj (2025), projekti Kako razumeti savremenu umetnost (pod pokroviteljstvom gradske uprave za kulturu Novog Sada, 2024, 2023) i Sopstvena soba žena umetnica (pod pokroviteljstvom gradske uprave za kulturu Novog Sada, 2023), kao i internacionalna izložba #Značenje doma_2022 (Farsickness/Homesickness/Homelessness), Kreativni distrikt, Novi Sad) 2022. pod pokroviteljstvom Fondacije Novi Sad EPK 2022, u okviru programskog luka Druga Evropa koju prati istoimena e-publikacija na engleskom jeziku sa uvodom na srpskom; kao i rezidencijalni umetnički projekti mobilnosti u Petrovaradinu/Novom Sadu (2021–2023) i Geteborgu/Švedska (pod pokroviteljstvom Ministarstva kulture Republike Srbije, 2022, 2023).
Tehnička administracija
Za tehničku i veb administraciju zadužen je Siniša Banda.
Registracija
ART BOX portal je registrovan u Registru javnih glasila Republike Srbije – reg. broj IN001110 od 12.07.2021. godine.
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