28th SALON OF ARCHITECTURE
April 02-30, 2006
Venue: Muzej primenjene umetnosti/the Museum of Applied Arts
Address: Vuka Karadžića St.18
www.mpu.org.yu

NEW SERBIAN ESTHETICS – BIRTH / Exhibition
New Serbian Aesthetics

March 20 – December 20, 2006
Venue: ЗAПLET restaurant
Address: Kajmakčalanska St.2, Belgrade
www.zaplet.co.yu

The BIRTH concept is a personal perception of and playing with one’s own memory and cognition on the subject of life before life. The exhibition will gather nine works for nine months and symbolically present a lifecycle from conception to birth. The idea of BIRTH metaphorically also indicates changes in the concept of ZAPLET.

The first in a series is the conception of the fetus, an embryo originating in the ovarian cell, by Igor Milanovic. In the following eight months, the walls of Zaplet will take on works by Boris Marčetić, Vladimir Grčić, Goran Milanović, Matija Vujović, Milan Kliska, Nebojša Cvetković, Mane Radmanović and Nemanja Jehličko.

The countdown has begun.

ZNAKOVI I PROJEKTI PORED PUTA/ SIGNS AND PROJECTS BY THE ROAD
Exhibition, open doors 18-22 april 2006.

Venue: OPEN STUDIO: Architectural studio SINESTEZIA

Ana Zatezalo, Cedomir Ristic, Johanna Moser
Address: Andrićev venac 10, Belgrade

A retrospective of alternative projects by Sinestezia focusing on:
+ digital techniques in design
+ research
+ experiment
+ production through product design
+ manufacturing techniques as an inspiration for architecture

Genesis of selFFise Project
April 17 – April 22
Plateau in front of the City Library, corner of Knez Mihajlova Street and Raiceva Street.

During GENERATOR - Open Air Workshop, a real time genesis of selFFice Project will be taking place. Project selFFice was created from the idea of “opening” a public area, animating it and the adoption of the same by the users. Work in a public area is a phenomenon which resulted from the contemporary explosion of information, the need for change, and the wish to exist in a real world while at the same time interacting in the virtual world of messages and information.

Project selFFice transfers a part of employees’ lives into a public ambiance, it brings down the utopian views on the privacy of offices, and it adjusts to the dynamics of needs of deferent professions and users. selFFice transforms the public space into a place for exchanging information, which enables one to continue working at all times. SELF OFFICE promotes the removal of physical barriers and supports a unique work ambiance which can be adjusted to different needs depending on the kind of work that is being done, the anatomy of the human body and its position while working.

project helped : Sinestezija, Re:design, Mikser, Belgrade Parlament

KUPITE KALEIDOSKOP/ BUY A KALEIDOSCOPE
Objects exhibition by Jelene Blečić
April 13 – May 13, 2006
Venue: Centar za savremenu umetnost - Strategie Art / Centre for Modern Art
Address: Višegradska St.25, Belgrade

The ninth independent exhibition of Jelena's art, radiating optimism and love of life, has been eagerly awaited by her fans ever since December 2002 when last she exhibited at the Jugoslovenska galerija umetničkih predmeta (the Yugoslav Gallery of Artifacts).

In the meanwhile, in 2003 she had an exhibition in Mexico City, at the Minoche gallery as the government of Mexico grant-holder and a guest of the Faculty Centro National de las Artes “Esmeralda”. It is only natural to expect that vivid colorfulness and cultural diversity of Mexico, where she spent 7 months, additionally enriched the outlook to life advocated by this thirty-two year old artist. The exhibition ‘BUY A KALEIDOSCOPE’ will be open till May 13, 2006.

Sunday, April 16, 2006
DAYS OF BELGRADE & BELGRADE DESIGN WEEK
- OPENING CEREMONY -
Venue: The SAVA CENTER
Address: Milentija Popovića Blvd. 9, Novi Beograd

UJEDINJENI STUDENTI DIZAJNA/UNITED STUDENTS OF DESIGN
Exhibition Venue: Students Cultural Centre
Address: Srpskih vladara St. 48,Belgrade
www.skc.org.yu

Sunday, April 16-22, 2006

Project is made up of works by students of all area of design (interior design, graphic design, package design, industrial, fashion design...). The students exhibiting come from Belgrade schools and faculties (the Faculty of Architecture, Academy of Applied Arts and Design, Advanced Polytechnics School, Advanced school of fine arts, Design Faculty). By following and creating modern visual language of the students of design, this exhibition contributes to promotion and development of esthetics principle and visual culture as a whole, as an insight into fresh perception void of conventionalism.

Confidential
Exhibition
BELGRADE GRAPHIC DESIGN SCENE
Monday, April 17, 2006
Venue: КОЦКА арткафе
Address: Carice Milice 7, Beograd
www.kocka-art.com

Exhibiting works by: Nebojsa Cvetkovic, Aleksandar Macasev, Igor Milovanovic, Aleksandra Prhal, Mane Radmanovic, Slavisa Savic, Vladan Srdic.

Tuesday, April 18
(R)EVOLUCIJA TAŠNE, Izložba /(R)EVOLUTION OF THE BAG, Exhibition
Tuesday, April 18, 2006,
starting at 19.O0
The Museum of Etnography
Address: Studentski trg/Students' square 13, Belgrade
www.etnomuzej.co.yu

The exhibition shows traditional Balkans culture back in the times when there was a classification of bags into a public, the man’s bag, representing social status of the owner and the bag carried in the sphere of private life, where all bags had a sort of a unisex function. In the XX century the woman’s bag starts occupying a part of the public space as one of the symbols of female culture transformation. GLAM up will show how a bag, traveling through history, became the most indispensable accessory at the beginning of the XXI century.

Hella Jongerius - Exhibition
Tuesday April 18, 2006, at 21.00
HAUS showroom
Address: Kondina St. 20, Belgrade 

In the framework of BDW, NITEA organizes promotion of Hella Jongerius, one of the most original Dutch designers.  Hela Jongerius designs unique and serial products made of fabrics, ceramics, porcelain and plastics for international companies such as Maharam, Rozental, Nimfenburg. She cooperated and exhibited with the DROOG DESIGN group, famous worldwide for their avant-garde and radical design concept.

Already in the mid-90's her works found their way into the New York Museum of Modern Art, and she had her first independent exhibition in the London Design Museum in 2002. The latest projects by Hele Jongerius are linked to VITRU, famous manufacturer and promoter of top furniture design, for whom she designed the Polder ottoman and Bovist tabouret, two products which most explicitly illustrate teh creativity of this extraordinary designer.

Beside the furniture, at Hela Jongerius promotion exhibition in Belgrade there will be unique and assembly-line products made of porcelain, plastics and textile.

Book promotion: „Design Serbia“

ПОСМАТРАЧ ДИЗАЈНА 06 /DESIGN WATCHERS
NOVI FRANCUSKI DIZAJN – Izložba/ Exhibition of new French design Opening on Thursday, April 20, 2006, at 20.00h
French Cultural Centre
Monday, April 17 to Satruday, May 6, 2006.
Venue: French Cultural Centre
Address: Knez Mihailova St. 31
www.apci.asso.fr

Using Belgrade Design Week as a framework, the French Cultural Centre is co-organizing an exhibition with the French Agency for Promotion of Industrial Design (APCI). Founded in 1983, this agency aims to indicate to manufacturers and producers in all sectors that the design is today an unavoidable asset in the international market, and also to familiarize the wider public with their right to design, regardless of their shopping, economic and cultural power. Beside that, the APCI’s mission is to spread the use of design in order to improve the quality of life.

In order to promote the French industrial design in France and abroad, this agency sets about organizing traveling shows, and since 1999 has been presenting the most representative everyday objects, outcomes of an efficient cooperation between manufacturers and designers.

This exhibition offers an insight into some 50 products selected for the WATCHER 06 display, focusing on the so-called ‘stars’, or the best products awarded in the current year. The visitors will have an opportunity to discover, among other, the rabbit in the service of new forms of communication, 100% rust-free fabric, an imaginative breakfast set….
All in all, a handful of pretty surprises in store for you!

SUPERSTARS@SUPERSPACE
Gaetano Pesce, Luigi Colani, Karim Rashid , Konstantin Grcic & Ross Lovegrove
thuersday 20. april 2006. at 21h
SUPERSPACE Beton hala / The Concrete Hall
Savsko pristanište / the Sava Docks

SUPERSPACE is the new gallery space for exhibitions in Belgrade, blooming on the river banks, a five-minute walk from the central city pedestrian zone, proposing to give its visitors an insight into the latest currents in architecture and design.

It was created after the revitalization of the BETON HALA (the Concrete Hall), the only authentic industrial facility on the banks of the Sava river, engineered in the period between the two wars and finished in 1937.
The BETON HALA, abandoned and neglected during the past 60 years, is resurfacing in the new light as SUPERSPACE only to start something which soon could turn into the center of cultural offer of Belgrade.

GHOST PROJECT

Friday, 21 April at 21h / Beton Hala / Future Jazz Institute / Savsko Pristanište / Karađorđeva 2

www.mikser.org

Author: Maja Vidaković
Exhibition Design: Marija Kalabić

Graphic Design: Andrej Dolinka

Video Design: Dragan Dimčić

Production: MIKSER

GHOST PROJECT is a multi media installation which simultaneously celebrates the inexhaustible enthusiasm and ideas of young creators and severely criticizes the absence of a symbiotic connection between designers and industry in our country.
As industrial design doesn’t really exist in its true sense, this exhibition has been symbolically named GHOST PROJECT, equally treating the “virtual” and realized projects of local creators.

GHOST PROJECT is fore mostly intended to provide an intensive experience than to offer a methodological review of authors and designs.
Through an audio-visual installation – projections of photographs and animations of designed objects – actual objects also acquire a metaphysical meaning.

Deliberately toying with the “intangibility” of objects, GHOST PROJECT positions our creative “reality” in a realistic social-economic context.
The “esotericism” of approach has a twofold function: it illustrates the current social status of a designed object in our country (Ghost), and at the same time it brings us closer to the global manner of treating designed things, as “objects of adoration”, “objects of desire” (God). From the corridors of our own thoughts, the creators’ ideas are trying to evolve into a stadium somewhere between these two extremes and finally take an active participation in the creation of the physical image of our reality.

Observe/ Listen carefully.

Exhibition sponsored by: Stari Grad Municipality, Municipality of Belgrade

Partner: Sky Music

MAXIM VELCOVSKY & QUBUS
Exhibition
Saturday, April 22, 2006, at 19.00h
Vanue: Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Arts
Address: Pariska St. 14

Maxim Velcovsky is one of the most original and most sought after designers in the Prague art scene, considered to be one of the most important proponents of the new wave of the Check design. He works in plain white porcelain, creating modern, functional and quirky objects with a tinge of humor. Velcovsky takes everyday cheap object and transforms them into witty and elegant 'must-have' objects. A plain white plastic cup or a cut-off bottom of a plastic bottle are made up in fine white porcelain, with a cheeky small red label that says 'New!'

Velcovsky also uses references typical for the culture he stems form. Thus his fruit bowl dubbed ‘The Republic’ has the shape of the Check Republic. His works carry a subtle hints of kitsch, are sweet and funny, disrespectful of tradition and incredibly desirable. This has not gone unnoticed – his products have entered the mass production and are sold at the exclusive Prague shop Qubus.

A selection of Qubus shop objects will be exhibited in the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Arts, from April 19 through April 26.

SANDOM
cocktail party
Saturday, April 22, 2006, at 21.00h
Venue: SANDOM
Address: 27. marta St. 36, Belgrade

Otvoreni studio / Open Studio
Studio od-do, 29.novembra St. 7, telephone: 322 68 76
www.od-do.com

od-do (to-and-fro) are Nataša Ilinčić, Jelena Videnov, Jugoslava Kljakić, Ana Jakić.

The work of the od-do team of authors includes different, interconnected disciplines, from architecture, through interior and furniture design, to stage, graphic and web design.

During the Belgrade Design Week the od-do will present a video installation showing the process of designing everyday objects – a portrayal of a surrounding in which a designer creates, and which simultaneously frustrates, confines and reassures, and of final results in shape of executed, displayed pieces of furniture. Video document testifies to a conflicting and ironic representation between the process of execution that a designer undergoes and what s/he aspires to while creating the object existing in their minds.

Pop Up! / Show up!