KURS group 2012 ENG
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KURS group (SER)
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KURS (SER)
KURS association (Creatively oriented situation solving) was founded in 2010 by a group of young artists, students of Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. Members of the association are:
Miloš Miletić, Nikola Đorđević, Jelena Grujičić – Gautier, Tanja Uverić and Mirjana Radovanović. The association's fields of interest are art in public space and the fight for accessibility of cultural and educational contents. Since 2012 KURS association is a member of Plenum Druge scene.
Until 2010, KURS association performed their projects in public space as an informal group, and in 2010, when they became a formal group, they developed the project Art reconstruction (Umetnička rekonstrukcija), oriented towards engaging young artists to work in public space and in cooperation with the local community and state institutions. The first part of the project included painting of murals in Belgrade, while the second part, which continued in 2011, was oriented towards historical research of murals in Belgrade from 70's until today. The association was part of several projects and initiatives, f.e.: Ekspedicije Ineks-film / Expeditions Inex-film (mural on the building of the Hungarian organisation "Petefi" with cooperation of Art association (UA) from Zrenjanin), Ajde fest in Kruševac... Since December 2011, the association is managing a space called Cabinet (Kabinet), which has quickly become a gathering place for students, activist and art groups that are linked through different left-oriented political options. Thus far, they have organised several classes, discussions, tribunes and exhibitions there.
Guests of GuestRoomMaribor residency were two members of the KURS association, Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović. -
Miloš Miletić (1986) is a cultural worker, artist and founder of the KURS association. He is finishing his Master’s degree at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. In 2008 he was chosen for the position of the student - prorector of the University of Arts in Belgrade; he stayed in the position until 2009. His fields of interest are art in public space, internet as a space for developing art contents and analysis of institutions, responsible for production of cultural and educational contents. His activities are oriented towards the fight for protection of culture and education as public goods.
Mirjana Radovanović (1983) has been a member of the KURS association since its foundation. She is a painter and cultural worker, who completed a specialist degree in Painting at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. Her works examine media representations of ideologies and political events. She has been exhibiting actively since 2006; among her most important exhibitions were: First roaming biennial of Teheran; Urban Jealousy, Belgrade; 50th October Salon (participation in the video of Branimir Stojanović “Svi govore / Everybody talks”), Belgrade; SYMBIOSIS? The 15th Biennale de la Mediterranee, Thessaloniki (Greece). -
During their residency in Maribor, the artists were researching the heritage of the fight for national liberation, and the history and legacy of Maribor’s former pride, the automobile factory Tovarna avtomobilov Maribor (TAM).
The socially engaged artists explored topics such as the fight for liberation, the struggle for workers’ rights and fight for a better life, intertwined them with their own creative poetics, and connected them to current developments and the situation of artists – cultural workers. They were not driven by nostalgia, but wanted to shine a light on the aforementioned issues, while using parallels from the past as a point of comparison, a warning, and an aid in the search for solutions on a conceptual level.
The artists turned the façade of the GuestRoomMaribor Gallery into a large canvas for the transfer of ideas – a collage that combines the iconography of both stories and uses distinct colour symbolism to give the whole the symbolic charge. Inside the gallery, they exhibited four canvases, on which they continued with colour symbolism (red, white, blue), and so rounded off the whole - with portraits of workers and liberation fighters from the front of the gallery. The power of the image was sometimes reinforced by selected sections of poetry, which further underlined the fighting spirit of the work itself. -
The artists also printed three postcards with portraits of national heroes Slava Klavora, Franc Vrunč and Slavko Šlander, who were shot as hostages on August 24, 1941 in Maribor. The postcards ironically sent ‘greetings from Maribor’. The materials for the research and creation of their works were kindly provided by Maribor’s National Liberation Museum.
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Text: Maja Pardeilhan
KURS association (Creatively oriented situation solving) was founded in 2010 by a group of young artists, students of Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. Members of the association are:
Miloš Miletić, Nikola Đorđević, Jelena Grujičić – Gautier, Tanja Uverić and Mirjana Radovanović. The association's fields of interest are art in public space and the fight for accessibility of cultural and educational contents. Since 2012 KURS association is a member of Plenum Druge scene.
Until 2010, KURS association performed their projects in public space as an informal group, and in 2010, when they became a formal group, they developed the project Art reconstruction (Umetnička rekonstrukcija), oriented towards engaging young artists to work in public space and in cooperation with the local community and state institutions. The first part of the project included painting of murals in Belgrade, while the second part, which continued in 2011, was oriented towards historical research of murals in Belgrade from 70's until today. The association was part of several projects and initiatives, f.e.: Ekspedicije Ineks-film / Expeditions Inex-film (mural on the building of the Hungarian organisation "Petefi" with cooperation of Art association (UA) from Zrenjanin), Ajde fest in Kruševac... Since December 2011, the association is managing a space called Cabinet (Kabinet), which has quickly become a gathering place for students, activist and art groups that are linked through different left-oriented political options. Thus far, they have organised several classes, discussions, tribunes and exhibitions there.
Guests of GuestRoomMaribor residency were two members of the KURS association, Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović.
Miloš Miletić (1986) is a cultural worker, artist and founder of the KURS association. He is finishing his Master’s degree at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. In 2008 he was chosen for the position of the student - prorector of the University of Arts in Belgrade; he stayed in the position until 2009. His fields of interest are art in public space, internet as a space for developing art contents and analysis of institutions, responsible for production of cultural and educational contents. His activities are oriented towards the fight for protection of culture and education as public goods.
Miloš Miletić, Nikola Đorđević, Jelena Grujičić – Gautier, Tanja Uverić and Mirjana Radovanović. The association's fields of interest are art in public space and the fight for accessibility of cultural and educational contents. Since 2012 KURS association is a member of Plenum Druge scene.
Until 2010, KURS association performed their projects in public space as an informal group, and in 2010, when they became a formal group, they developed the project Art reconstruction (Umetnička rekonstrukcija), oriented towards engaging young artists to work in public space and in cooperation with the local community and state institutions. The first part of the project included painting of murals in Belgrade, while the second part, which continued in 2011, was oriented towards historical research of murals in Belgrade from 70's until today. The association was part of several projects and initiatives, f.e.: Ekspedicije Ineks-film / Expeditions Inex-film (mural on the building of the Hungarian organisation "Petefi" with cooperation of Art association (UA) from Zrenjanin), Ajde fest in Kruševac... Since December 2011, the association is managing a space called Cabinet (Kabinet), which has quickly become a gathering place for students, activist and art groups that are linked through different left-oriented political options. Thus far, they have organised several classes, discussions, tribunes and exhibitions there.
Guests of GuestRoomMaribor residency were two members of the KURS association, Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović.
Miloš Miletić (1986) is a cultural worker, artist and founder of the KURS association. He is finishing his Master’s degree at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. In 2008 he was chosen for the position of the student - prorector of the University of Arts in Belgrade; he stayed in the position until 2009. His fields of interest are art in public space, internet as a space for developing art contents and analysis of institutions, responsible for production of cultural and educational contents. His activities are oriented towards the fight for protection of culture and education as public goods.
Mirjana Radovanović (1983) has been a member of the KURS association since its foundation. She is a painter and cultural worker, who completed a specialist degree in Painting at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. Her works examine media representations of ideologies and political events. She has been exhibiting actively since 2006; among her most important exhibitions were: First roaming biennial of Teheran; Urban Jealousy, Belgrade; 50th October Salon (participation in the video of Branimir Stojanović “Svi govore / Everybody talks”), Belgrade; SYMBIOSIS? The 15th Biennale de la Mediterranee, Thessaloniki (Greece)During their residency in Maribor, the artists were researching the heritage of the fight for national liberation, and the history and legacy of Maribor’s former pride, the automobile factory Tovarna avtomobilov Maribor (TAM).
The socially engaged artists explored topics such as the fight for liberation, the struggle for workers’ rights and fight for a better life, intertwined them with their own creative poetics, and connected them to current developments and the situation of artists – cultural workers. They were not driven by nostalgia, but wanted to shine a light on the aforementioned issues, while using parallels from the past as a point of comparison, a warning, and an aid in the search for solutions on a conceptual level.
The artists turned the façade of the GuestRoomMaribor Gallery into a large canvas for the transfer of ideas – a collage that combines the iconography of both stories and uses distinct colour symbolism to give the whole the symbolic charge. Inside the gallery, they exhibited four canvases, on which they continued with colour symbolism (red, white, blue), and so rounded off the whole - with portraits of workers and liberation fighters from the front of the gallery. The power of the image was sometimes reinforced by selected sections of poetry, which further underlined the fighting spirit of the work itself.
The artists also printed three postcards with portraits of national heroes Slava Klavora, Franc Vrunč and Slavko Šlander, who were shot as hostages on August 24, 1941 in Maribor. The postcards ironically sent ‘greetings from Maribor’. The materials for the research and creation of their works were kindly provided by Maribor’s National Liberation Museum.
Text: Maja Pardeilhan
The socially engaged artists explored topics such as the fight for liberation, the struggle for workers’ rights and fight for a better life, intertwined them with their own creative poetics, and connected them to current developments and the situation of artists – cultural workers. They were not driven by nostalgia, but wanted to shine a light on the aforementioned issues, while using parallels from the past as a point of comparison, a warning, and an aid in the search for solutions on a conceptual level.
The artists turned the façade of the GuestRoomMaribor Gallery into a large canvas for the transfer of ideas – a collage that combines the iconography of both stories and uses distinct colour symbolism to give the whole the symbolic charge. Inside the gallery, they exhibited four canvases, on which they continued with colour symbolism (red, white, blue), and so rounded off the whole - with portraits of workers and liberation fighters from the front of the gallery. The power of the image was sometimes reinforced by selected sections of poetry, which further underlined the fighting spirit of the work itself.
The artists also printed three postcards with portraits of national heroes Slava Klavora, Franc Vrunč and Slavko Šlander, who were shot as hostages on August 24, 1941 in Maribor. The postcards ironically sent ‘greetings from Maribor’. The materials for the research and creation of their works were kindly provided by Maribor’s National Liberation Museum.
Text: Maja Pardeilhan