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BDW opening!
Belgrade Design Week 2008 - Opening ceremony

PLACE: Hotel ZIRA, Ruzveltova 33
TIME: Monday, may 05, 2008. at 20h

The documentary film “CHANGE DESIGN” about the Belgrade Design Week 2007 premieres on May 5, 2008, at the newly-opened Hotel Zira.
The film, produced by the BDW team, directed and edited by Miodrag Ilic,
followed a brief ceremony, will officially open the the Belgrade Design Week 2008.
Ilic's movie features the most interesting lectures of the CHANGE2 conference and interviews with its stars: Rem Koolhaas, Ora Ito, Patricia Urquiola, Hella Jongerius, Mirko Ilic, Winka Dubbeldam, Marcus Fairs, Matali Crasset, Saša Vidakovic…

Milano in Belgrade
Product Service System Design (PSSD)
Workshop

2F
Exhibition of photography
Author Nebojsa Babic

PLACE: PROGRES gallery
Knez Mihailova 27
TIME: 28. april – 18. maj 2008.

Before us are photographs by Nebojsa Babic, which were taken during his ten day stay in Japan, in April 2008. This is an artist who is capable of recognizing, seeing and “recording” the world around him. These photographs become a true stimulus to the expansion of one's mental geography.

NEGATIVE + TAU + 60 CLOCKS

PLACE: Salon KUBO, Visnjiceva 10a
TIME: Opening ceremony at 18h
Duration: May 5–16, 2008

KUBO will be presenting its first products during this year's Belgrade Design Week in its furniture showroom, as well as Negative lamps by Ivan Erkic and Tau dishes by Milica Jovic. These products are the result of a collaboration between the company and young designers, whose initial ideas and prototypes were selected by Kubo at the BDW exhibition in 2007. The programme also features the works of second year students of the Faculty for Architecture, entitled 60 clocks, under the supervision of professor Branko Pavic.

TIME
Exhibition
Section of Ceramics
Association of Applied Artists and Designers of Serbia (ULUPUDS)

www.ulupuds.org.yu

PLACE: SINGIDUNUM Gallery
Knez Mihailova 40
TIME: Opening ceremony at 18h
Duration: May 5–16, 2008

Time, a concept a double meaning, at once a measure of transience and climate changes in nature, has inspired many areas of art. Ceramics is a perfect medium through which to explore this subject matter, because of its long history and presence in the artisitc scenes of times passed.

Time is for discovering. This is the central idea of our project, which includes a workshop and (video/DVD) presentation of the creative process behind the works presented at the exhibition, in order to acquaint the public with the smallest details of the media used, and help them to discover our take on the importance of time in art.

Book factory
Olivera Batajic and Jana Orsolic

PLACE: Graficki kolektiv gallery
Obilicev venac 27
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h
Duration: May 5–17, 2008

The exhibition features book cover designs by Olivera Batajic and Jana Orsolic which the two of them created for the Book factory publishing company. However, the exhibition concentrates on the actual creative process, from sketches to the final print of the editions, since the results of the designs (the actual book covers) can be seen in any nearby bookstore.

Aside from the design process, the exhibition reveals the personal stories of the authors and their relation to their work, making this an accessible exhibition not solely to design professionals but also to the public at large.

The exhibition also features a catalogue of publications from the Book Factory, for those visitors impressed enough to want to look over the designs in their own time.

Olivera Batajic
Graduated from the Faculty of the Applied Arts in Belgrade, department of applied graphics.
Specialising in graphic and web design, photography and typography, Olivera Batajic is currently doing postgraduate studies in typography at the Faculty of the Applied Arts in Belgrade. She has created book covers for Samizdat B92, Fabrika knjiga (Book factory), Lingva Franka, ACEP Lisboa, Serbian Film Center and the National Library of Serbia. In Lisboa she worked for news company P·blico and the SDesign agency. She created web pages for Cinema Rex, Galateia, B92, P·blico and took part in the redesigning of the daily newspaper Politika. Olivera is also one of the founders of the Tipometar web site, dedicated to typography and design.

Jana Orsolic
Jana works in graphic design creating fonts, book design and illustration. She is an assistant in the Faculty of the Applied Arts - typography class. She is also one of the founders and authors of the web project tipometar.org, as well as being art director at Coba&associates.

CITY THEATER BUDVA: POSTER – CONCEPT – TIME MACHINE

PLACE: Center for Modern Art gallery – STRATEGIE ART
Visegradska 25
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h
Duration: May 5–11, 2008

This exhibition was created in cooperation with the Budva festival, “City Theatre Budva” (European Theatre Festival). The exhibition is comprised of posters ranging thematically from theatre, music, literature and painting. The concept is a form of visual retrospection, and the posters range from the period of the former Yugoslavia, the USSR, the USA and European countries up to the present day.

This exhibition is a showcase of the evolution of graphic design over the past two decades.

FUTURE ARCHITECTURE/
COMMERCIAL-BUSINESS & RECREATIONAL CENTER

PLACE: Cultural center REX, 16 Jevrejska
TIME: Monday, May 3, 2008, 19h – opening!
Duration: May 5 to 11, 2008

The REX cultural centre located in the 62nd block in New Belgrade will house a new collection of student architectural work. The work links concepts which would usually seem an awkward juxtaposition, such as recreation and business activities, by presenting ideas for environments in which work and play are both possible. The end result is a balanced and happy working environment befitting this rapidly modernising area of the city.

Suzana Kovljanic, graduate at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, is one of the founders of the informal group from Pancevo, REFRact&on, participant of various domestic and international architectural workshops.

“VOTE” Poster Exhibition of AIGA Members

PLACE: Kuca Legata (The Belgrade Heritage House)
46 Knez Mihailova
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h
Duration: May 5-11, 2008

This poster exhibition has been organised by 25 renowned members of the American Institure of Graphic Arts (AIGA), which motivates citizens to vote in elections and thus influence the political system of their country. AIGA is one of the most influential organisations in the field of graphic design in the world, with over 25,000 members. The exhibition is organized by the FIA group in cooperation with the Secretariat for culture of the Belgrade City Assembly.

MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
A collection of original photographs by world’s greatest professional photographers

PLACE: Belgrade Cultural Center, Artget gallery
5 Trg republike
TIME: Opening ceremony at 20h
The exhibition is open until the end of May.
Working hours: 12 to 20 h, closed on Mondays

Collaborating with masters of photography such as Bresson, Riboud, Koudelka, Burri, Salgado, Bataglia and many others, Vojin Mitrovic has gathered an impressive collection of their most important works, including such iconic examples of 20th century photography as Rene Burri's Che Guevarra or Guillermo Davila's Frida Kahlo. With this excellent collection Vojin Mitrovic and Branimir Karanovic (current art director of the Artget gallery) showcase the unsurpassable beauty and high artistic value of black and white photography and its importance to modern art.

LIFE TOOLS
Artistic group TRAG, School for design

PLACE: Trg Republike
TIME: Opening ceremony at 20h
Duration: May 05–11, 2008

The "Life Tools“ project by the artistic group TRAG is aimed at communicating with a wider audience in order to inform, inspire, connect and incite change.
TRAG calls for competitiveness in the field of industrial products on our market by following contemporary world trends and bringing forth new ideas.
The works of the group, all in the domain of industrial design, are inspired by the theme of "modern living".
TRAG are: Ana Kosić, Anita Ilić, Sanja Ignjatović, Lazar Kundović, Andrej Borovac, Irinej Vasilijević, Lazar Jeremić and Boris Ignjatović.

Sanvila Porej

PLACE: Belgrade Cultural Center, Art gallery
Knez Mihailova 6
TIME: The exhibition is open until May 18.
Working hours: 12 to 20 h, closed on Mondays

Sanvila Porej is a painter who graduated from the Belgrade Faculty for Fine Arts and has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the last decade. Sanvila explores and experiments with the limits of perception and
intensity, the dimensions of objects in space, and the position and perspective of the artist and the observer.

SPACE THE NATURE

PLACE: FALCODESIGN studio
1/1 Karadjordjeva
TIME: Ceremonial closing and cocktail: Sunday, May 11 at 19h
Duration: May 5-11, 2008 / every day from13-19h

Bojana Rankovic and Dragana Pajkovic Dodig use their expertise to create space and light in their furniture designs.

The unique, multipurpose "60 in one" leather table has 60 different adjustable positions for maximum usability, and like all the other products in the range is constructed from a combination of light and heavy materials (ranging from aluminium to wood to iron). Attention to detail and finish make these objects modern, warm and totally personal.

www.falcodesignstudio.com
www.aodesign.co.yu

PR T-¡-PORTER
Exhibition of designers from Serbia

PLACE: Great gallery of Student Cultural Center/SKC
TIME: May 5-6, 2008 from17-21 h

The PrÍt-·-porter project was conceived as a special link between fashion and art.
During 2007, six exhibitions were organized as a part of this project which gathered more than twenty designers from Serbia.
Following their work and taking into consideration their creativity and the quality of the work presented, the experimentation with the materials, form and cut, we selected ten designers and art groups whose work deserved focus of a wider audience.
The PrÍt-·-porter project is focused on creation, development and promotion of a scene which consists of young and innovative designers with progressive ideas.

ORIGIN
Danijela Mrsulja

PLACE: ZVONO gallery
Visnjiceva 5
TIME: Duration: 05-11 May, 2008

A thought provoking exploration of the complexity of the world, ORIGIN is a simple, geometrical exhibition using white plaster to show the purity of the world at its inception.

Danijela Mrsulja was born in the city of Kotor in 1979.
M.A. at Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, department of sculpture, professor Mrdjan Bajic.
Lives and works in Belgrade.

UNITY OF CULTURAL TRINITY - Bratislav Andjelkovic
Solo exhibition of paintings on stone, boards, cardboards and canvas.
Paints miniatures.

PLACE: Central Club of Serbian Armed Forces, Little gallery
Brace Jugovica 19
TIME: Opening ceremony at 18h

His work has been recognized by many art critics who emphasise his talent, the ability to combine different materials and skill to complete figurative experience outside of time that is dedicated to peculiarities of Christian teachings and the history of orthodox faith.

SUPERSERIOUS SUPERFICIAL
By Nenad Simic

Solo exhibition of conceptual works awarded at international architectural competitions.

PLACE: Faculty for Architecture in Belgrade
Bul. Kralja Aleksandra 73/II
TIME: May 05-11, 2008

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DESIGN PLAYGROUND
Technical school for wood-processing, interior decoration and landscape architecture exhibition

Concurrent exhibition programme
- award for the best work at the Design Playground

PLACE: Children’s cultural center Belgrade
Takovska 8
TIME: Opening ceremony at 18h
Duration: May 6-11, 2008

Design Playground is an exhibition of the youngest participants of Belgrade Design Week; students of the technical school for wood -processing, interior decoration and landscape architecture. The exhibition will feature drawings and furniture projects created in the theory of design and furniture modeling classes, as well as prototypes made in the school workshop. Participation of this school in the Belgrade Design Week was motivated by the desire to involve students aged from 15 to 18 to design furniture. Design Playground is the presentation of their first encounters with true, professional furniture design – from the drawings to the very realization.

COMMUNICATION ENERGY IN ADVERTISING, CULTURE, BUSINESS
– STUDENT IDEAS AND WORKS –
European University, Faculty of European Business and Marketing

PLACE: European University, Faculty of European Business and Marketing,
Vojvode Dobrnjca 15
TIME: Opening ceremony at 18h
Duration: May 6-11, 2008

The European University, as educational and scientific institution, together with its members realizes projects promoting peace, better standard of living and expansion of businesses worldwide.
Strategically, these projects prioritize euro Atlantic integrations and map the expansion of multinational companies.
Through different aspects we would like to present new and modern communication energy through following subjects: advertising and promotion, European cultural environment, business management, as well as different language learning.

HYPERBOREA
Ajla Selenic

PLACE: Galerija USUF
Uskocka 5
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h
Duration: May 6-15, 2008

Hyperborea is а creative project conceived in the boundary area of art and design. Begun as a study of material, its deployment and expressive qualities in design, it grew into an art work reflecting upon the essential meaning of a creative process and the ability of conveying the ontological and poetical qualities of form.

This is a continuous work on an abstract structural theme of transforming the linear element into surface, by inventing a special technique of manually bending the straight metal wire into the continuous transparent surfaces, several meters large. The structure spontaneously created as a consistent, systematic pattern of an unsystematic search for a free form, gave possibility to create three-dimensional spaces and various objects from miniature to the large scale.

All of the works made within Hyperborea project are unique, emphasizing the distinctive value of the hand work and its unparalleled content of given energy, devotedness and consecration. The use of this special handwork technique which demands great patience and consistency, as well the time consuming working process are a statement of deliberate rejection of the imposition of speed in contemporary society.
This work is suggesting a more complex perspective relating to the notion of "contemporary" or "modern", focusing our attention toward the integrity of opinions and choices, and particularly towards the immaterial values.

Ajla Selenic is Serbian architect, designer and artist born 1960 in Split. She studied architecture, graduated at the Belgrade University in 1986 and continued to work as independent architect in Belgrade untill 1990.

Since 1990 Ajla Selenic is living in Finland, Helsinki, where she established her own office for architecture and design in 1995. She is working continuously on diverse architectural, design and art projects both in Finland and in her home country.

www.selenic.eu

“Hello. My name is Logo”
book promotion

PLACE: Magacin u Kraljevica Marka
Kraljevica Marka 4
TIME: Promotion on May 6, 2008 at 19h

”Hello. My name is Logo” book is the newest edition of Futro Books.
The book comprises 100 best logotypes by Slavimir Stojanovic and his design and branding agency Futro ICB.
Logotypes and their applications are shown on over 220 pages, as well as short info on every project involved. The book is the collection of the visual identities created in the last two decades, from the first logotype designed in 1986. to the last one created in 2008.

PRETTYPRETTY
Dejana Kabiljo

PLACE: ZAD Gallery, Museum of Applied Arts
Vuka Karadzica 18
TIME: Opening ceremony at 20h
Duration: May 6-11, 2008

PRETTYPRETTY, bar stools
Pretty heads to sit on explore the nicely regulated erotic allure that surrounds us, tracing out the customary grammar of desire.
`You don`t just fall out of the shower looking like that, pale champagne streaks in ash blonde hair reflect the flattering look of soft shading. Hair falls freely in a deep tumble of
waves, pale blonde tendrils... Dizzying swirls of color."
These beauties, angelic and gracious, radiate self assurance, yet: “what shall we do with all this useless beauty?” D.P. Mc Manus

Kabiljo Inc. designs and produces objects for all of us with little fetishes, bad habits and compulsive actions.

www.kabiljo.com

WHITE HOUSE PROJECT
Djordje Joksimovic

PLACE: O3ONE Gallery
12 Andricev venac
TIME: Opening ceremony at 21h
Duration: May 6-10, 2008

The WHP Project brings photography of architecture and design together in a systematic and categorized format through socio-geographical mapping and alteration of urban space planning. On a deeper note the project celebrates design as an experience and architecture, in a set environment, as an interactive part of everyday life.

Each theme captures different time interval of the city’s colourful life span with no set criteria for intervention. The only rule to make city’s experience memorable is by setting a personal dérive to examine urban drama.

ABSENCE, TOTAL WAR 1, OLYMPIC LANDSCAPE, TOTAL WAR 2, TAKE A BREATH, WAS I BORED?, CAMPING OUT, MORE FORMAL, CONSTANT PLAYGROUND, UNTITLED PUBLIC MEMORY.

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“RECYCLED MATERIAL RAMP – Belgrade 2008”,

PLACE: Pedagogical Museum
Uzun Mirkova 14
TIME: Workshop and presentation from 12-19h

• Presentation and lecture on following topic: “Design for disabled persons”
• Workshop with students of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Speaking of modern life and its challenges, one cannot escape the notion of dynamic development which opened new issues of responsibility of human activities within the boundaries that do not threaten the environment.
Modern life in Serbia – only 10% of materials are recycled.
When we speak of modern life, we speak of equal rights of all men in all areas of life.
Modern life in Belgrade – 170 000 citizens of Belgrade do not have equal opportunity to attend the various cultural events.
We wish to address precisely this problem of modern life through the project of recycled materials ramp construction for disabled persons.

Fashion revolution

PLACE: Museum of cars
Majke Jevrosime 30
TIME: Opening ceremony at 16h
Duration: May 7th and 8th, from 16h

The Fashion Revolution project was designed to give incentive and opportunity to our young creatives to present and promote their ideas to the public. The organisers of the project, the citizens’ association “Free Belgrade Spirit” (SBD), hope that this challenge will encourage our younger fashion designers to develop their creative processes and receive attention and advice from the older generation.

A selection of the most promising works were selected by fashion designers Jelena Nikolic and Bojana Simic for the project.

The chosen designers will be rewarded with a sponsored catwalk show, including the runway, lighting, sound, models, choreographers, set designers, hairstylists, make up artists, a press conference and their own custom logo.

This project will feature 22 fashion designers from Serbia as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria.

FREE BELGRADE SPIRIT

The citizens’ association “Free Belgrade Spirit” (SBD) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization who proudly support the “Fashion revolution” project exclusively through the unpaid work of enthusiasts, organization members and help from friends and associates.

www.slobodnibeogradskiduh.com

ART OF LIVING –DREAM HYPNOSIS!
Exhibition of collages and drawings
Ivana Jovanovic and Sladjana Bogicevic

PLACE: Café Status, Cukaricka padina
Stevana Djurdjevica Trosarinca 1
TIME: Opening ceremony at 17h
Duration: 2008 seconds

Collages are sometimes created as a precondition, unfinished dream of a painting. Sometimes they speak more than any painting, realized in time they follow changes and more easily adapt to them.

It is not only the world in black and white, but another world altogether, the art of living – dream hypnosis!

ARRHYTHMIA

PLACE: OTKLON (DIVERGENCE) Atelier
Decanska 21
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h
Duration: May 7-14, 2008

Nebojsa Joksimovic is an architect with over a decade’s worth of experience in interior design. Design to him is not only the external quality of object, but a way to spirituality in which form plays only the small part.

„Creating an object is a process nearing time rather than space. The author is more important than the object. Nevertheless, I try to make a simple utility object and not interfere between idea and materialization.“

Zeljko Milovic is a sculptor who entered the world of applied arts through interior design. He approaches each object as a sculpture, never losing sight of the purpose of the object which gives a clearly identifiable artistic style. He uses various materials for his work, this time concentrating on unique pieces of wooden furniture. By using natural finish instead of lacquer in the final stages of production, the natural quality of wood is preserved and, over time, the ageing process gives it more mature and ripe color.

IN SPACE
"Art of screens" - School for design

PLACE: Manak’s house
Gavrila Principa 5
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h
Duration: May 07-14, 2008

Modern business environments are frequently constructed from materials such as brass, plexiglass, marble and leather, leaving them monotonous and cold.
In order to make these spaces more accessible and pleasurable as well as aesthetically welcoming, students from the School for Design have decided to transform a selection of these spaces through the "art of screens", showing the modern business environment from a different perspective.
Fully aware of the visual influence the screens can have in transforming the space, the students combine various materials, forms and colors, thus giving the interior new and completely different visual identity.

Contessa – comfort revolution
Giugiaro Design

PLACE: New Moment Idea Gallery
Hilandarska 14
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h
Duration: May 7-14, 2008

Giugiaro Design, whose expertise in industrial design has landed contracts with Alfa Romeo, Audi, BMW, Bugatti, Lamborghini, DeLorean and Fiat, proudly present their latest project, the Contessa chair, in colaboration with Okamura Inc., one of the leading Japanese manufacturers of office furniture.

Offering uncompromised functionality and comfort the Contessa chair is a harmonious blend of style and practicality, and is accordingly crafted entirely from eco-friendly materials.

KAPRIC CASA

PLACE: Showroom KAPRIC CASA
Gracanicka 16
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h
Duration: May 5-11, 2008, from 12-19h

This year KAPRIC will present the concept – “for a life less ordinary” in the domains of production and furniture design. We like to think that people who play are the ones that survive, which is precisely why we chose to counterpoint the brands that dress everyone alike. Singularity of the objects, handcraftsmanship and old art-craft workmanship supporter, KAPRIC is only one face of beauty able to support the individuals who wish for themselves a distinct kind of aesthetic. And finally, there is only one kind of impression – nothing is more beautiful than the possiblity…

VERTIGO BIRD
Exhibiton

PLACE: Kuca Legata
Knez Mihailova 46
TIME: VERTIGO PARTY at 20h
Duration: May 5-11, 2008 from 12-20h

Vertigo Bird has no intention of hiding its underground roots or its high ambitions. Indeed, each individual product tells the story of how only authentic feeling for local space and place can give birth to an original sensation.
Each person who has a Vertigo Bird product lighting their space will hear the flapping of the wings of ambition, but will also feel respect for freethinking tradition.
And the meeting of these two – ambition and tradition – will give birth to new stories. Vertigo Bird narrates brilliant stories, stories only the light can tell.

Vertigo Bird lighting combine unpredictable elegance with unexpected functionality.

www.vertigo-bird.com

JASEN – kick-off party

PLACE: Furniture showroom JASEN
corner of Juzni bulevar and Maksima Gorkog
TIME: Opening ceremony – 22h

For more than half a century JASEN company is the regional leader of pop culture. Armchairs in the foyer of “Jugoslavija” hotel, where BDW 2008 is being held, have marked an era and are still around, modern as in the time when they left the JASEN furniture factory.

Today, JASEN is the leader of the new wave of industrial design in Serbia. More than the furniture itself, JASEN brings about new spirit, creativity, refines the space and gives opportunity to the new and talented designers.

Young and anonymous designers are offered to present their models through JASEN range of products – living rooms, bedrooms, homes, hotels, offices as well as the exterior.

First official kick-off party at this year’s Belgrade Design Week will take place at the multifunctional JASEN showroom whose interior design was created by Vladimir Lojanica.

www.jasen.co.rs

UNITY OF CULTURAL TRINITY - Dragana Magovcevic Mitric “Dada”

PLACE: Central Club of Serbian Armed Forces, Big gallery
Brace Jugovica 19
TIME: Opening ceremony at 19h

Solo exhibition of collages in metal, drawings in combined technique and paintings (pastels and oil) on cardboard, paper, canvas etc.

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AGAPE EVENT IN BELGRADE

PLACE: Salon 89byQUANTUM
Krunska 89
TIME: Lecture at 17h
All information on: event@quantum.co.yu

Eng. Niccolò Bignardi, responsible Agape contract area. depicts his involvement in an excellent example of project management for one of the most prestigious hotel projects in 2008 – the bathroom areas of the Mandarin Hotel in Barcelona / Spain – featuring the tight cooperation with the designers in charge of the building architecture & interior, the proof of first drawings & inspirations, the attempt of turning these drawings into prototyping, the technical problems to solve, the development of the products, the final result, report & images.

re:MOVE the City

DESTATIC
interdisciplinary student group at the University of Arts in Belgrade

PLACE: Zeleni venac, Belgrade
TIME: all day

Belgrade is a city of changeable identity,
discontinued memory,
opposing influences,
always on the move.

The complexity of the present social situation provokes the questions of the relation towards all things modern, accepting and resisting the changes, the lack of communication, selective memory and identity issues; the fluctuating rhythms of the city (speeding up and slowing down); the problem of dehumanization and stripping of the aesthetics of living spaces, the inertia and negligence of the existing problem (lack of space). The need to reestablish urban legends and positive tradition arises, together with the need to rebuild the memory of the city by bringing to life the diverse points in the city while finding viable alternatives to the official approach to the same problem.

The re:MOVE the City (Grad u pokretu) project processes the activities of local urban spaces, brings up the larger picture of the specific microspaces in the city and redefines the routine approach in tackling our problems. Site-specific projects map the urban spaces of conflicting identities. The particular aspects of each space's character are analyzed (cultural, sociological, historical, aesthetical, functional), questions asked, city potentials pointed out and changes initiated.

Our site-specific approach to this problem has certain advantages over conventional art forms in that it directly speaks to different focus groups, among whom there are often less accessible and less artistic audiences. Our interdisciplinary approach takes into consideration the interpretation of collective memory and individual impressions. Likewise, direct contact with the spaces and personal approaches to them facilitates change in the local community.

Resources used in forming the eight separate artistic presentations include research of the modern use of the space and the relation of people to it, as well as examination of the area's history. Our research highlighted the problems of each of the eight chosen spaces and we respond with artistic interventions, including performance, installation, video art and exhibitions.

The results of these events will be presented through the READY, SET, GO project, pointing out the fast pace of life and the problems it creates. The Zeleni venac market is the good example of this. Picnic, poetry reading and chess playing are at the opposite end of the routine bustle of this grey area of Belgrade. The aim of these activities is to create contrasting atmosphere and provoke dramatic confrontation that motivates change.

The project is being staged in cooperation with the Four+Four Days in Motion international festival from Prague (www.ctyridny.cz), which gathers innovative theatrical projects, exhibitions, projections, concerts and other artistic exhibitions and independent artistic group MAMAPAPA (www.mamapapa.cz) from Prague whose objective is to connect innovative young artists and professional artistic projects.

GHOST PROJECT 08: FOR REAL

PLACE: Magacin in Kraljevica Marka street
Kraljevica Marka 4
TIME: Opening ceremony at 22h
Duration: May 8 -15, 2008

Arising from the need to point out the ever-growing economical, social and cultural importance of industrial design today, in 2006. the MIKSER organization set up in motion Ghost Project whose symbolic title expressed criticism of the lack of this discipline in Serbia.

Owing to the full attention of the very authors and media alike, Ghost Project has grown from a “one-time” event to a work in progress – becoming a dynamic database on talents from Serbia.

This year, we go one step beyond.
Multimedia presentations of unrealized works of young designers become the integral part of the exhibition as inspiration, while the central setup of this year’s Ghost Project will show prototypes realized by the authors themselves, within school projects, or in cooperation with clients or potential furniture manufacturers.

Owing to enthusiasm and dedication of the Jasen company, eight different works of young designers will be produced as prototypes and thus come into existence. Select pieces will enter the factory trial run and, after the testing, those that pass the consumers’ strict demands will go into mass production and become part of Jasen company’s official line of furniture.

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“Serbia: My Case” - New European Generation
book singning and promotion
Author: Tatjana Dadić-Dinulović
Publishers: Clio and British Council

PLACE: Hotel Yugoslavia
TIME: At 17h

The British Council research in Europe, Russia and North America has shown that, among other things, young professionals share similar values and aspirations to a large extent, regardless of the country they live in. The purpose of this book, which emerged as a result of the “Serbia: My Case” project, is to present successful people in Serbia in different stages of their careers.

In “Actions” - the first part of the book - five projects were shown, presenting young professionals from the areas of music, sports, architecture, journalism and design - Aleksandra Kovač, Vanja Udovičić, Jelena Atanacković-Jeličić, Brankica Stanković and Mia David-Zarić. The second part of the book, „Essays“, contains texts by invited authors, people who have (in their fields) influenced the national environment in various ways or made it a part of a broader cultural context. Pages of the official British Council Serbia website where the activities, pieces of work and information about the participants were shown during the project’s life cycle are included with the book on a DVD.

IMAGINARY CITY
Olivera Milunovic
Exhibition of unique fashion accessories

PLACE: Botanička bašta “Jevremovac”
TIME: Opening ceremony at 16h
(if weather conditions allow, if not, day before or after)

In the open area of the botanical garden, unique fashion accessories and painted scarves by Olivera Milunovic will be presented in her IMAGINARY CITY exhibition.

The aim of this presentation is to join nature and natural materials in the very heart of the big city, and to explore the juxtaposition between urban Belgrade and the natural world.

A NEW FACE OF THE OCTOBER SALON
OSpace Matinee

PLACE: Belgrade Shop Window, Belgrade Cultural Centre
TIME: Promotion ceremony at 18h

OSpace has been designed as a space where new talents, young designers, artists, photographers, art historians and theoreticians can interact and react on the most important event in the domain of visual arts held in this region.

During OSpace Matinee, the October salon and magazine RLN are going to gather young creative people who will get a chance to show how they see the application of a new logo of the October Salon designed by Saatchi & Saatchi. This new logo has been recently promoted at this year's Berlin Biennial. A popular DJ duet, Braća Burazeri, will fill the Salon exhibition and its additional programme with their music.

www.oktobarskisalon.org
www.kcb.org.yu
www.beograd.co.yu

BOUROULLEC AND VITRA

PLACE: HAUS showroom
Kondina 20
TIME: Opening ceremony at 20h

Within this year’s Belgrade Design Week, NITEA company will organize an exhibition in honour of brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, at which the best known products made in cooperation of Bouroullec brothers and VITRA company will be showcased.

Audience will have the opportunity to revel in the Worknest chair, which gives the feeling of complete comfort due to its ergonomic adaptability.
From the Net’n’Nest programme, the Alcove Highback sofa will be showcased, as a sofa that set off standards of privacy and comfort in modern, spacious offices simultaneosly offering audio-visual isolation of the employees and clients.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to try out the latest of the products of Bouroullec brothers and VITRA company fruitful cooperation – Slow Chair.

Telenor collection of contemporary Serbian art
The collection has been chosen in cooperation with REMONT, the independent art association.

PLACE: The Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavillion
Mali Kalemegdan 1
TIME: Opening ceremony at 20h

The basis of the Telenor collection of contemporary Serbian art are works created from the year 2000 onwards, as well select older pieces from the Nineties. The exhibition at the Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavillion includes sculptures, installations, classic paintings, photographs and digital prints. The collection was conceptualised and built as a corporative art collection that “lives” in an office space but is also accessible to the public. The selection of pieces was based around the idea of integration into the everyday workplace - practical art not confined to the walls of people's homes. The collection brings together works that provoke, ask questions and, above all, affect people who use the space it occupies. Furthermore, it has a broader social impact, the selection of works representing an overview of the present Serbian art scene. The collection is a link to the already recognised values embodied in the works of renowned artists of the middle generation, such as Mrdjan Bajic, Gabriel Glid, Aleksandar Rafajlovic, Zdravko Joksimovic, Talent Factory, as well as the works of the younger generation led by Biljana Djurdjevic, Aleksandar Macasev, Petar Mirkovic, Hana Rajkovic and many others.

(Sasa Janjic, collection curator)

DESIGN ON SITE
LIGHTOLOGY Cocktail Party

PLACE: LIGHTOLOGY SHOWROOM
Simina 6
TIME: Cocktail Party at 22h

Aside from lots of fun at the cocktail party in the unconventional LIGHTOLOGY showroom, the visitors will get the chance to see the newest, latest products of FLOS lighting as well as always genuine Danish modern classics of FRITZ HANSEN furniture.

UNITY OF CULTURAL TRINITY - Weekend art colony

PLACE: Central Club of Serbian Armed Forces, “Sotra” Art Studio
Brace Jugovica 19
TIME: Opening ceremony at 13h

Weekend art colony at the terrace of the CC of SAF in cooperation with Art section where instructions and experiences are shared.

The aim of art colony is to exact comprehension out of city motifs, to extract the essence out of clashing geometries in order to recognize the world and to reinforce faith in culture and its nobility by discovering truth and origin, which we identify as the supernatural powers of hope and faith.

Emilija Mr. Nikolic, academic painter, director and professor at the “Sotra” art studio
Milorad D. Bubanja, academic painter/graphic artist, deputy for art section

povratak na vrh strane

ITALIAN LIGHT
1950-1980

PLACE: Superspace gallery
Karadjordjeva 2, Beton hala
TIME: Coctel party at 22h
Duration: May 6-18, 2008

Dedicated to the reconstruction and exploration of lighting production in all its incredible diversity, an exhibition of sixty lamps by some of the most important Italian designers (including Castiglioni, Martinelli, Aulenti, Sotsas, Magistretti, Scarpa, Mendini and Frattini) can be seen at the Superspace gallery.
These lamps are a study in function and form, and are beautiful examples of how light can be best exhibited in design.

Exhibition contrive:

Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Archeo900 di Ferrara
Bticino
Collezione Paolo Cortopassi

www.italian-light.it

“RECYCLED MATERIAL RAMP– Belgrade 2008”,
Exhibition of ramp prototypes produced from recycled material –solutions created by students, workshop participants

MESTO: Plato / Faculty of Philosophy
VREME: Opening ceremony at 12h

B I G
Young Architects Club / KMA

PLACE: Magacin in Kraljevica Marka street
Kraljevica Marka 6
TIME: Opening ceremony - May 15th, 2008 at 19h!
Duration: May 15-25, 2008

Created as a means of bringing together design students across Belgrade, BIG is the joint project of the Club of Young Architects and the Faculty for Architecture in Belgrade.

The project shows the viewing public the incredible amount of work that is produced by each student during their tenures at their respective schools before graduation; the hours of work and countless projects that are left unrealised and unappreciated by the wayside in the course of getting their diplomas. This exhibition is not just a celebration of the contributions these students will make to the future of our country, but also a recognition of what they have been through to earn these opportunities.

BIG Project: Tamara Brajović i Jelica Jovanović

BIG TIM: Alen Spahić, Marko Gavrilović, Vladimir Nećakov, Anđelka Cvetković, Aleksandra Ćeranić, Ivana Gajić, Marina Živković, Jovana Grujevska, Zorica Medjo, Marija Ratković

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