BK Academy of Arts

BK Academy of Arts is the oldest, private institution of higher education for the Arts in Serbia. The BK Academy of Arts offers courses to students through 11 departments:Acting, Dramaturgy, Film Directing, TV Directing, TV and Film Camera Work, TV and Film Editing, Recording and Sound Engineering, Computer Arts and Design, Photography, Painting, Media and Arts Management. Adopting models from the world’s elite arts academies, the BK Academy of Arts enables its students to optimally engage their abilities and talents, as well as develop their personal interests and initiatives in realizing a variety of artistic works.

The Academy’s lecturers are brought together from the highest and most respected ranks of the country’s artists, theorists and art historians, all working under the mission statement: Learn from the best.

Teaching is organized in small groups and classes which gives students the ideal teaching, maximum expressing of abilities and talent, as well as developing of personal interests and iniciatives for realizing of various artistic tasks. That is what enabled the Academy students, while still studying, to perform successfully at our most prominent theatres, to make radio-dramas, films and television broadcasts, write for theatres and electronic media, exhibit in prominent showrooms. Teaching comprises seminars and lectures of prominent professors - from our country and abroad, and famous artists.

BK Academy of Arts
Belgrade, Nemanjina 28
www.au-bk.edu.yu

ALPHA BANK

ALPHA BANK supported the exhibition GHOST PROJECT 2007 within the festival BELGRADE DESIGN WEEK, and thus enabled more than 100 local young talented industrial designers and architect to present their work to Belgrade and international audience.

By supporting young Serbian talents in the field of industrial design ALPHA BANK SERBIA gave an example of corporate social responsibility and drew attention to importance of building connection between economy and creativity as a crucial investment in development of Serbian commerce and cultural identity.

AO DESIGN

AO DESIGN project has derived from the need to support and stimulate the production and marketing of products and programs of young “non-affirmed” designers and architects in the field of interior design and furnishing.

AO DESIGN line is characterized by originality, functionality, daring forms, free coloristic approach, as well as combination of traditional and technologically modern materials, klirit, glass, metal, wood.

AO DESIGN has existed as a company since August 2001. In the same year, it participated at the Furniture Fair with the collection of metal-glass furniture, designed by Julien Rondinaud, when it received ULUPUDS (Serbian Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers) Award for Design.

At the same fair, in 2002, AO DESIGN exhibited furniture and klirit program, within the program of LHC House of Ideas, which gained the Award for the best stand presentation.

AO DESIGN operates so far: within metal-glass program by Julien Rondinaud, klirit-metal, wood by Danijela Aleksandrovic. AO DESIGN takes part in all furniture fairs, on the stands of LHC, CONTURE, ORNAMENTUM...which supplement their interior exhibitions with the mobiliar program of AOdesign.

Austrijski kulturni forum Beograd
Österreichisches Kulturforum Belgrad
Kneza Sime Markovica 2
11000 Belgrad

www.aussenministerium.at/belgradkf

Balzak

Stahinjića Bana 13
tel. 011/ 328 59 06
www.balzac.co.yu

Belgrade Witty Map

Unlike typical maps, the Belgrade Witty Map brings a unique combination of Belgrade city map and a guide to the best places in town and events not to be missed. It is this mixture of elements that gives a completely new touch to the map, providing quick and easy access to all relevant information for both visitors and locals. For the first time, you can spare yourself of annoying search through often confusing table of contents with a bunch of needless information. The Belgrade Witty Map offers easy-to-find illustrations that communicate with the reader in quick and funny manner.

Apart from the official information, the map also offers additional suggestions, made especially for visitors who only make a short stay in town, so they don’t have much time to get to feel its spirit. One of the first impressions that you get when you look at the map is its clever and jolly layout, which serves to cheer up people and make them set out to the city in a positive mood.

shop BUZZ / deltasport
Knez Mihailova 18, Beograd
year: 2006.

THE LOCATION of the BUZZ shop – which aspires to become a trendsetter – is in the main and most frequented pedestrian zone in Belgrade.THE INVESTOR’S IDEA about unconventionally combining displays of various articles and products has opened possibilities to explore a new and different approach to spatial organization of shopping and service provision.

Creating a flexible spatial concept serves as a matrix for constant changes in display of selling articles by engaging various designers. The idea of walking along a street, which opens a view of a series of scenes and ambiences, has been transferred to the basic organizational scheme of space. The design follows the principle of looking at shop-windows and street scenes – a voyeurism taken from the most frequented pedestrian street to the interior of a shop.

Each unit is a shop-window, a street scene or sight of a flat, while screens with fordable parts are used to connect and modify them, contributing to their mobility and transparency. The background of each unit consists of changing graphics that supports its theme - concept, sends a message, information.

od-do approach was to discover the original appearance of the space /an old 19th-century building/ and present it the way it is, as well as to make use of its potentials --- a brick vault ceiling has been left bare, as well as subsequently built annexe of concrete; the existing openings for natural light have been preserved, which make it possible to discern a typical atmosphere of interior of an old Belgrade block.

DigitGroup

DigitGroup is an artistic group, founded in March 2006, by the first-year students of Interdisciplinary master studies of Digital Art at the University of Arts in Belgrade. The group acts as a platform for artistic research, education and production within the range of digital art.

DigitGroup
Belgrade
digitgroup@gmail.com

DISTRICT

Cultural Centre DISTRICT is a cultural spot, a modern gallery, a specific place for business presentations, an educational centre and an evening club. The basic development strategy of the cultural center is Business and Art in one place. The program contents of the center include exhibitions, DJ events, promotions of young and renowned artists from the country and abroad, performances, concerts, fashion shows, presentations of domestic and foreign brands as well as various programs of education.

District / MPU
Vuka Karadžića 18, Belgrade
www.district-art.com

THE BELGRADE YOUTH CULTURAL CENTRE

THE BELGRADE YOUTH CULTURAL CENTRE is an institution supported by the City Council's Department for Culture. Situated in a building in the very heart of Belgrade, and with almost 40 years' tradition in participating in defining the Belgrade cultural scenery, the BYCC is trying to remain open to new trends in all the aspects of art and culture. Either through program presentation, its own productions or the information and consulting services offered to the public, the BYCC is especially concerned in the needs of a young audience, offering them a multitude of opportunities for artistic expression - from psychological workshops, to the first presentations of their creative work.
Maintaining openness to all the new approaches in artistic creation and cultural activities as well as awareness of the young audience's needs has made of the BYCC a unique information and multimedia cultural centre in Belgrade.
Dom omladine Beograda
www.domomladine.org

European University

The European University, as an educational scientific institution, in cooperation with its members, realizes projects with the aim of enabling peace, better life and development of business in the world.
The literature and programs are in accordance with all European and world trends, and compatible with the programs of Europe, America and with the Bologna declaration.

The goal of the Faculty of European Business and Marketing is to actively follow all changes in the field of marketing and business, at the global and European market,  and to harmonize them with its curriculum. Thereby, the students are enabled to actively participate and follow modern trends of business, which is of great  importance for the further development of their careers. The emphasis is on the creative approach of the new marketing and business.

GAS STORE
Terazije 28
Beograd

CHAOS

CHAOS Gallery was founded in 1995, with the idea to exhibit therein various aspects of a drawing as one of the most important elements in the art creation, which has been marginalized in the exhibiting practice of all museum and gallery institutions. As for its concept, this exhibiting location belongs to the category of the specialized ones and represents a recognized institution of culture, for exhibitions in this galleryprovide significant credit to all artists and are important reference in their CVs.
CHAOS Gallery is the founder of one of the most prominent awards for the achievements in culture  - “Mića Popović” award. The award covers four fields: art, theater, film and literature - all spheres that our great artist dealt with.
The attractiveness of the Gallery CHAOS, in the previous period, has been confirmed by the artists showing interest in exhibiting their works therein, as well as by a great number of visitors - above all, experts, people from the profession, art critics and art historians, as well as numerous artists in various fields, students, pupils, intellectuals of a wide spectrum of professions, tourists, foreigners.

Gallery CHAOS
Cara Lazara 12
Belgrade

IPS MEDIA II

IPS MEDIA II is trading company based in Serbia. We operate on Serbian market for more than 16 years as leading importers and distributors of books, toys, gift programme, music, CDs, video games, and  stationery. IPS MEDIA II owns a chain of stores across the country and the two largest stores are situated in the centre of Belgrade: MAMUT Mega Store ( 2000m2 ) and Akademija in the walking zone of Knez Mihailova Street. We also have stores in shopping malls such as TC Merkator, TC Vero, TC Immocentar, and also in Niš, Čačak, Novi Sad, Subotica.

IPS MEDIA II  is especially interested in development of culture and promotion of art in Serbia and our selection of books supports that aim. Our bookstores are renowned as places where latest editions in the field of art, design, architecture and photography can be found.

Belgrade Cultural Centre

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.

Belgrade Cultural Centre
Knez Mihailova 6/1
Belgrade
www.kcb.org.yu

KONAK

The aim of the Association of Artists KONAK is not the proliferation and perfection of  works of art, but rather the development of the very artist. Creativity need not be reserved only for one sphere of expression but it is rather an integral quality that can be brought into an everyday life.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

KONAK, The Association of Artists
Belgrade

The Cultural Front

The Cultural Front (CF) was founded in December 2000 and is an independent non-government organization. The Cultural Front involves programs of cultural exchanges, cooproduction projects, introducing different cultural organizations, artists, musicians, art managers from other countries to the cultural scene in Belgrade. As a priority project, introducing cooperation between local organizations, Cultural Front Belgrade has opened partner offices in Zrenjanin and Prijepolje in beginning of 2003.

The Cultural Front, Makedonska 22/IV

MIKSER

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

MUSEUM OF APPLIED ART

The Museum of Applied Art is located in the very heart of Belgrade, in Topličin venac, next to Knez Mihailova Street. Placed in the representative building, which was known as Čelebonović Palace between the two world wars, it has been the most relevant cultural institution in the field of applied arts in Serbia for the last 55 years. Nowadays, the Museum disposes of more than 32 000 objects of applied art, among them works of outstanding artistic and cultural value.

MUSEUM OF APPLIED ART
Vuka Karadžića 18, Topličin venac, Belgrade
www.mpu.org.yu

NITEA

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

O3ONE

O3ONE is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2004 to support contemporary visual art and cultural production emerging in the new market economies (including exhibitions, installations, electronic media, photography, design, video, performance, architecture, fashion, science, new technologies). O3ONE Project Space, known primarily for a dynamic exhibition program (with an exhibition space, various ongoing public programs, presentations, lectures, workshops, conference-related discursive events, and publishing) is primarily committed to cultural and intellectual diversity with a focus on contemporary art practices, enriching the cultural landscape in the city of Belgrade and production climate in Serbia.

Being oriented toward project-based cultural initiatives, it serves as a multimedia working platform open to all actors operating in the various fields of culture, economics, business, and media.

O3ONE
Andricev venac 12
Belgrade
www.o3.co.yu

od-do

The work of od-do team of authors encompasses different, mutually connected disciplines, (od) from architecture, interior and furniture design, to (do) stage design, graphic and web design.
This year, too, od-do actively participates at Belgrade Design Week, associated with other artists, within the concept REdesign your mind.

od-do architects
Belgrade, Serbia
www.od-do.com

Politika Newspaper and Magazines

The first edition of Politika, the oldest daily in our country and one of the oldest in Europe, was published on 25 January 1904 (12 January 1904, according to the old calendar), initiated thereby by Vladislav Ribnikar, the first owner and the founder of Politika, who has gathered the most ingenious people of their times together. The network of the recognized journalists, the renowned correspondents and external associates writing for it, has been extended ever since. With its comprehensive contents, Politika has gradually acquired the status of national institution, affecting political, cultural and public life in the country.

Politika Newspaper and Magazines company was founded on 1 March 2002, as a joint venture between Politika AD and a German media concern WAZ (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) Medien Gruppe, with each party holding the equal shares.

Continuing the tradition of one of the most prominent media houses in this region, PNM publishes two dailies, Politika and Sportski žurnal, and nine magazines: Bazar, Ana, Viva, Svet kompjutera, Politikin zabavnik, Ilustrovana politika, Huper, Enigmatika and, a licensed edition Auto Bild. In 2005, approximately 62 million copies of newspaper and magazines were published.

POLITIKA
Newspaper and Magazines
Makedonska Street 29, Belgrade
www.politika.co.yu

Theater on Terazije

The theater was founded in 1949, as a unique theater in our country, which cherishes primarily musical plays as a genre, and it comprises the following theater companies: drama, ballet, choir and orchestra. With its hall, technically equipped according to the highest world standards, Theater on Terazije offers today in its repertoire the hit musical plays such as Chicago, A Chorus Line, Some Like It Hot, Gypsies Fly to Heaven, as well as multi-awarded comedies such as Heroes, Priest Cira and Priest Spira, Two Odours of the Rose.

Theater on Terazije
Trg Nikole Pašića 3, Belgrade
www.pozoristeterazije.com

RUBBERLOGIC

RUBBERLOGIC Studio brings together multidisciplinary artists whose work and interests range from architecture, interior, architectural visualizations, graphic and web design, through music and animation, to industrial and furniture design. There is a constant aspiration to establish, for each single project, an optimum team, which will evolve and get results by means of complementary and interactive work and mutual education. RUBBERLOGIC Studio is open to cooperation with young artists who can conceive themselves as a part of the team and who can offer their knowledge to others.

RUBBERLOGIC - Open studio
Bulevar Despota Stefana 7 (the former 29. Novembra)
Belgrade
www.rubberlogic.com

SINESTEZIA
Belgrade ‘07

Sinestezia is a team of highly qualified experts in architecture, urban design, furniture design and product design. Sinestezia Studio in Belgrade was founded by Ana Zatezalo in 2003, and in 2004, she also founded Sinestezia Studio in Paris. Since the foundation, Ana and Cedomir have been constantly there, along with numerous associates and partners in projects.

They prefer to work on design of 3D projects and products. Sinestezia pays attention to further marketing of these projects, i.e. the way in which design will be treated by management and the way this architecture will live and be used: to turn the usual into more unusual, thus more luxurious use of space and more successful business. In Sinestezia, a special attention has been given to small, extra supplements and details of a project...

www.sinestezia.net

Ana graduated architecture from Villemin School, Beaux Arts in Paris (2000), and obtained MsAAD Master degree from Columbia University in New York (2001).

In 2002, she worked as an assistant and associate at the Columbia University, New York and in 2004, at the Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade.

At the Belgrade Design Week, Ana Zatezalo works as a design consultant and initiator of the exhibitions - “Corsets” and “French Kiss Team”, as well as the editor of the book “BDW 06 Diary”, while simultaneously preparing the book “BDW 07 Diary”.

The School of Design

The School of Design was founded in 1963, and it is one of the three schools in Serbia dealing with the education in fine and applied arts and design. With its curriculum, and along with the preservation of cultural inheritance and traditional techniques, the School cherishes individuality in art expressions, as well as constant following of new technologies and trends.

The School of Design
Krupanjska 3, Belgrade
www.dizajnerska.edu.yu

STUDIO 91

The establishment of the artistic group STUDIO 91 has commenced along with the need to encompass individual creativity into the common research of technology and shaping of artistic ceramics.
Although everybody within STUDIO 91 shares the same principles, the emphasis is placed on specific features of individual, designating art expression. STUDIO 91 thoroughly explores the possibilities offered by ceramics, starting from the ancient, almost forgotten techniques to the modern ones.

STUDIO 91
Bulevar Despota Stefana 7, Belgrade

SUPERSPACE

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 / The Concrete Hall
The Sava Docks
Karadjordjeva br. 2, Belgrade

UNITED STUDENTS OF DESIGN

UNITED STUDENTS OF DESIGN is a project that brings together Belgrade students of faculties and high schools in all fields of design (Faculty of Design, Faculty for Applied Arts and Design, Polytechnic High School...)