Current exhibitions
Through a variety of themes and narratives, the exhibitions convey a variety of messages from artworks and educate us about art, as well as their creators.
Sport in Art. The Art of Sport
The exhibition Sport in Art.The Art of Sport includes over 40 artworks and items created in the period between 1858 and 2018. The exhibition will feature selected pieces from the collection of the Gallery of Matica srpska, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, the Museum of Yugoslavia, the “Sava Šumanović” Art Gallery in Šid, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Heritage House in Belgrade. The selected works are signed by artists Sava Šumanović, Ivan Radović, Petar Dobrović, Ivan Tabaković, Steva Todorović, Petar Omčikus, Dušan Todorović, Bojan Bem, Uroš Đurić, and Tomislav Peternek, as well as Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gottfried Helnwein, and James Rosenquist. The public will also have the chance to see sports equipment, medals and photographs from the collection of the Museum of Yugoslavia, and artistic photographs from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, which testify to the participation of Serbian and Yugoslav athletes in previous Olympic Games and the organization of the leading sporting events in the former state.
Opening date:
May 16, 2025
Closing date:
August 24, 2025
Venue:
The Gallery of Matica Srpska
Nobility in Serbian Visual Culture of the 18th Century
The exhibition Nobility in Serbian Visual Culture of the 18thCentury came about as the result of the doctoral dissertation and years of research by Dr. Aleksandra Čelovski, curator of the Gallery of Matica Srpska. The audience will be introduced to the life of the nobility gathered under the patronage of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci during the 18th century through several thematic sections: As part of the representative public, Blue blood and virtue: Types of nobility, Education as a privilege, Patrons and benefactors, Family gallery: Marriage strategies of the nobility, Nobility and endowment. Through over 80 works of art, items, and archival materials, the exhibition examines the phenomenon of nobility from various perspectives, including the acquisition of noble status, adaptation of an individual’s personal identity to the demands of the representative public through portrait commissions, contributions to the Church and endowment activities, patronage of arts and culture, the construction of luxurious mansions and castles, and the selection of burial sites.
Opening date:
February 14, 2025
Closing date:
June 1, 2025
Venue:
The Gallery of Matica Srpska
