Unidee2008

Curator, Serbia
Curator, member of IKT – the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. He has a BA in Art History and an MA in Cultural Policy and Cultural Management from the University of Belgrade. His research interests range from interdisciplinary analyses of contemporary visual arts, the politics of education, and curatorial studies, to cultural organization and socio-economical aspects of aesthetic discourses. He has curated projects and exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, whilst his writings on contemporary art have been published internationally.

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A presentation of research exploring the subject of labels/brands/trademarks by focusing on the usage of the artist’s signature as the main point of reference. This project will develop into a workshop, meeting and public presentation to be held in Belgrade 2008-2009, in association with Unicredit.

Lately, there have been a growing number of Eastern European artists who have become interested in empirical research on name-tags and trade marks. This project is a close inspection of labels and personal names, and especially the analysis of an artist’s signature on their piece of work as a means of recognition and reference.
In its three stages of development, the project will primarily consist of a workshop, scheduled for December, which should be held in cooperation with the University of Arts in Belgrade. Its aim is to bring students to a series of discussions on the subject of brand names, preparing them for the second stage of the project, a meeting to be held in May 2009. This will bring together 10 international speakers and participants from various fields of expertise in contemporary art, society and economy in a further discussion, further preparation for the ultimate stage of a public exhibition and publication scheduled for October 2009. A collection of the visual and textual materials collected from the previous two activities will be shown there, coinciding with the Belgrade’s most important international contemporary art event, the ‘October Salon’.

Developed within “Unidee & UniCredit project – cultural strategies for local development” in partnership with UniCredit.