Belgrade Design Week 2006

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You can still become one of the PARTNERS of the festival. For more details please contact Nina Babić at: nina@belgradedesignweek.com As part of its official agenda BDW promotes all programs that meet the following two conditions: a relevant topic and opening date during the design week. The Partner is obligated to brand the space and any advertisements with a BDW logo. BDW will not undertake any other expenses.

	The Sava Center (SC), Belgrade�s international congress, cultural and business center, is one of the biggest in Europe, situated in New Belgrade, in the vicinity of the Belgrade arena and the business centre �Ušće�. Since its official opening in May 1977, the Sava Center has been the venue of choice for over 7,000 domestic and international meetings and conferences, with over 1,5 million participants, as well as for some 8,000 cultural events attended by over 6,5 million visitors. The Sava Center boasts the largest concert and cinema hall in the Balkans. This modern edifice designed by the architect S. Maksimovic, with its functionality, technical and space capacities, has over the past 28 years imposed itself both as an unavoidable landmark in the European and international map of congress business, and as the focal point of Belgrade and Serbia art life. The Sava Centar Milentija Popovića 9 Novi Beograd www.savacentar.com

	Belgrade Cultural Centre (KBC) was founded in 1957, and ever since has been exploring different forms and using different media to tackle important subject matters of the moment in the spheres of contemporary art, literature, science, culture and cultural heritage. Alongside the basic program (fine arts, literary-debates, music, film and publishing), KBC is the organizer of the October Salon, the biggest international event in the field of contemporary visual art in Serbia, as well as the multimedia one-writer festival, the organ festival and the harpsichord festival. The unique space comprises two galleries, a cinema hall, a bookshop, �The Belgrade Window-shop� souvenirs and a café bar, all situated in the culturally protected pedestrian area, the Knez Mihailo street, making the KCB an attractive partner and ideal Belgrade space for exhibitions, promotions, film viewings and similar events. Kulturni centar Beograda / Belgrade Cultural Centre Knez Mihailova 6/1 Belgrade www.kcb.org.yu

	The Museum of Contemporary Arts was founded to serve as a modern gallery on June 17, 1958. Architecturally, the building lists among the most important works of the post-war Yugoslavia. It was opened on October 20, 1965, and in the same year the architects Ivan Antić and Ivanka Raspopović were awarded the October Prize of the city of Belgrade. The building of the Museum of Contemporary Arts is located in New Belgrade, at the confluence of the Sava and the Danube rivers, facing the Kalemegdan and the Belgrade fortress. The museum stands out architecturally due to its original spatial composition of crystalline volumes, blending harmoniously into the surroundings. By its remarkable interior space concept and its original architectural design, this structure has earned a title of outstanding examples of museum architecture in the world. Muzej savremene umetnosti / The Museum of Contemporary Arts Ušće 10. Blok 15 11070 Novi Beograd web: www.msub.org.yu

	The central place of the KOCKA (CUBE) art caf�, both in the physical and in the program sense, belongs to the glass cube, the stage of the bulk of the program. Dislocated and physically isolated by glass, the cube represents a sort of autonomous space within the boundaries of caf�-gallery, making it ideal for all types of exhibitions (sculptures, objects, ambient set-ups), as much as for small theatre plays, dance arrangements, concerts, projections, performances and other multimedia disciplines. KOCKA cooperates with artists of all profiles, giving an equal treatment both to classical artistic expression and to all kinds of new media. KOCKA pays special attention to young, fledgling artists.

	Click Fashion Studio is the first private fashion model agency in Serbia, set up back in 1991. Owing to its authorship, imaginative, educative and often alternative approach to fashion, Click soon became a factor on its own in many fashion and stage performances in cultural and public life of Belgrade. Having acquired great experience while working in the Yugoslav market, models of the Click Fashion Studio have of recently also been present in the fashion markets of Milan, Paris, London, Tokyo, New York, etc. The quality they accumulated working for the Click Fashion Studio groomed them for working with some of the top international designers: Armani, Ferre, Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, Paco Rabbane, Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel, Yojhi Yammamoto, etc. Through organization of different activities Click persists on understanding fashion as the culture of�dressing and a factor raising the quality of living. The most important among these events is the Belgrade FASHION WEEK, since 1996 organized twice a year after the model of similar projects in the world. Click approached the modern media buffs through establishing cooperation with the French satellite fashion channel, the FTV, which is the official media patron of this manifestation. www.fs-click.com

	The Museum of Ethnography, founded in 1901, is one of the most prominent institutions of cultural and national history of Serbia, and the oldest establishment of this kind in the southeast Europe. Since its very beginning, the museum collection grows progressively with each new acquisition, and its funds now contain over 50,000 ethnographic items and around 100,000 paintings, drawings, photographs, documents, archives, a rich library (60,000 books and magazines) and other museum material, as well as audio-visual records of folk culture phenomena (on films, new media, etc). In the past one hundred years, the museum set up approximately 400 exhibitions in the country and abroad. The Museum of Ethnography accumulates, conserves, preserves, researches and presents numerous and wide-ranging objects of traditional folk culture in Serbia, as well as objects from the countries of former Yugoslavia, Europe and non-European countries, covering predominantly the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum of Ethnography now occupies the former Belgrade stock exchange building, adapted to museum purposes in 1984. Etnografski muzej / The Museum of Ethnography Studentski trg / the Student Square Belgrade www.etnomuzej.co.yu





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	NITEA furnishes business premises providing furniture for offices, hotels, catering services, etc., with maximum functionality and meeting high esthetic requirements of the built-in materials and equipment for specific operations � all for a reasonable financial investment. NITEA has been granted exclusive distributing rights for the Serbia and Montenegro market by: FREZZA, VITRA, OFFICE&CO, SITLAND, FRIGHETTO. www.nitea.co.yu

	SUPERSPACE is the new 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), which was 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. SUPERSPACE Beton hala / The Concrete Hall Savsko pristani�te / the Sava Docks Karadjordjeva br.2, Beograd

	GLAM UP is a concept shop for bags, luggage selection and accompanying accessories. Under the motto �It is the attitude that counts and a few fine accessories�, GLAM UP celebrates versatility and developing one�s individual style and self-confidence. The name itself literally suggests an element of toying with fashion, understanding it primarily as fun rather than as a serious status category. GLAM UP gives much attention to universal social values and development of culture and generously sponsors progressive cultural events. As part of their activities, GLAM UP organizes fashion shows, music concerts, exhibitions by the young and progressive forces in the society thereby relentlessly adding to the dynamic image of Belgrade.

	MIKSER is an enthusiastic machinery behind various innovative trans-cultural projects. Rather an interactive network of strong individuals with diverse backgrounds than a structured non-government organization, MIKSER is dedicated to "stirring" the existing cultural content, providing projects with cross-references between avant-garde thinking and phenomena rising from the local and global popular culture. MIKSER is also dedicated to developing social tolerance in Serbia by "mixing" the local culture with different cultural influences, creating projects which establish the missing dialogue between contemporary cultural tendencies and the current cultural scene in Serbia, particularly in the field of art, design, architecture, communications and media. www.mikser.org

	Student Cultural Centre (SKC) officially opened for work in 1971, as an institution helping the then young artists who in return started the extended media scene in these parts. Among the more significant segments in the Student Cultural Centre history is the Festival of Extended Media, the April Meetings, which became linked to the fine arts segment of the BITEF and since 1972 a host of international and domestic artists took part in it: Marina Abramović, Zoran Popović, Era Milivojević, Đina Pane, Raša Todosijević, Jovan Čekić, Joseph Beuss, Anthony Hovel, Samuel Baker, Linda Cliver... Today, several program segments make up the Student Cultural Centre: art galleries (Fine Arts Gallery, V.I.P. Art Gallery, the Circus Gallery, the Happy Gallery), music radio room, SKC radio station at FM107.9 MHz, forums/debates, theatre program, film and internet centre. All program concepts promote artists of all generations working in all art media, with a focus on new technologies. Student Cultural Centre Belgrade www.skc.org.yu