Monthly Archives: November 2019

Workshop of project writing: Stepping onto the international scene – possibilities and challenges

Kolarac Foundation, Friday 8th November at 10 o’clock

The workshop has the aim of familiarising participants with the topic of international cultural cooperation, and especially with specific possibilities for development of organisations through positioning on the international scene. The workshop is comprised of the introductory lecture (30 minutes); work in groups on concept creation and development of chosen project ideas the aim of which should be international positioning and development of international cooperation (1h 30 minutes); presentation of projects (30 minutes); discussion and comments (30 minutes).

Group will be formed with regards to the type of institution workshop participants come from (museums, libraries, archives, cultural centres …).

Who is it for?

The workshop is intended for programme editors of city cultural institutions: museums, galleries, libraries, cultural centres, archives and other.

What kind of knowledge and skills will participants acquire?

Participants will have an opportunity to improve knowledge in terms of creating concepts of international cooperation projects and development of strategic thinking in culture.

How to apply to participate?

In order to apply to participate it is necessary to send an idea for an international cooperation project (text of up to 300 words) which will contain: name of the project; project aims, content (activities), and also justification of potentials of the idea for development of international cooperation. Applications should be sent to the email address radionice.kreativnaevropa@gmail.com until 25th October at noon.

The number of participants is limited to 25 people. Up to 5 projects will be selected to work on within the workshop, while other participants will be able to ask questions in relation to their own project ideas.

Who will lead the workshop?

Dr Milena Dragićević Šešić is a university professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Director of the Institute for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television of FDA and Head of UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Dragićević Šešić performed the position of the Rector of the University of Arts in Belgrade (2000-2004) and a member of the Board for the European Diploma in Managing Cultural Projects (Foundation Marcel Hicter, Brussels); Cultural awards for researching policy (ECF, Amsterdam) etc. She is engaged as a guest lecturer on numerous universities in Europe and the world. She published 16 books and numerous essays (Culture of resistance; Art management in turbulent circumstances; Culture: management, animation, marketing; Intercultural mediation in the Balkans; Neofolk culture; Art and alternative; Urban spectacle; Reading horizons …), which were translate into 17 languages. She was a member of the National Council for Science and Technology (2006-2010), and also Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academikues (2003).

Workshop in the field of electronic music: How to create your own live set?

Kolarac Foundation, Friday 8th November at 10 o’clock

The fundamental aim of the workshop is to direct and train participants interested in professional development in the domain electronic music including applying knowledge from the field of contemporary management in music. Workshop primarily deals with live sets of performers – from designing the identity and recognisability of the artist, through performing your own compositions to promotion and positioning on the international scene.

Who is it for?

The workshop is intended for artists dealing with music who want to develop a professional career on the local and the international plan. Also, we invite all those without professional artistic experience who are dealing with music and are interested in performing, producing an developing a career in the field of music.

What kind of knowledge and skills will participants acquire?

Participants will be familiarised with synthesizers, rhythm machines, effects, sequences, mixing consoles and the “Ableton LIVE” programme. Also, they will receive advice on how to turn their home PC in the simplest way into a tool which will create music form. They will be trained to use “Ableton LIVE” software to create music and perform live, have an opportunity to learn what a “MIDI” signal is, how to manage it and how to initiate a specific instrument; they will be able to create their LIVE setup which allow them creative expression and creation; they will get familiar with the entire process of music representation – from creating a name to branding oneself as an artist on social networks and music platforms.

How to apply to participate?

You can apply to participate by sending an application to the email address: kreativnaevropa@gmail.com, until Friday, 25th October 2019. The application should contain:

– first and last name of the applicant;

– occupation and name of the institution or organisation they represent (if this is the case);

– short description of the project you want to improve through this workshop.

The number of participants is limited to 14 people, and the list of participants will be published on our website after the application deadline.

Who will lead the workshop?

The workshop will be led by Nemanja Stojanović and Jelena Stanković with the aim to transfer knowledge, experiences and skills they acquired through past work in the domain of music creation, management in culture and public performances in the country and abroad.


Nemanja Stojanović is a contemporary audio/visual artist currently living and working in Subotica where from the position of an Art Director he creates the programme of the independent art platform “Šablon”. Nemanja has 10 years of active work in culture behind him and he was included in production of big festivals such as “Exit” Festival and “Mad In Belgrade”, he cooperated with the Slovenian art group “Dont Make New People” and also the Croatian “Ciko Ramom”, Belgian “Perfekt Funktion” and numerous other organisations that required his idea creation and organisational abilities.

Artistic profiles he signs with his name, and with which he performed throughout Europe are YusYus and Neomodern.

Jelena Stanković is a contemporary audio/visual artist currently living and working in Belgrade. Jelena is the owner of the domestic label Chorbika through which she publishes on vinyl, and she is at the same time the promoter of parties she is organising in Belgrade with most varied and exciting artists. Jelena is a resident of the Belgrade club “KC Grad”, and apart from music she is also dealing with education and organising public workshops of audio production in KC Lab (Novi Sad).

Workshop in the field of literary publishing: Editor in publishing today

Kolarac Foundation, Friday 8th November at 10 o’clock

The programme of the workshop is designed so it answers the question: which skills and knowledge are required for an editor of a publishing house today? Before, an editor was responsible only for the creative process of selecting books, creating the publishing concept, working on an authored text or a translation. However, today, due to the lack of funds, the profession of an editor covers several positions, and also the array of their interests and knowledge has to be significantly wider. Therefore, it is necessary to redefine the notion of an editor in publishing today.

The workshop familiarises participants with the process of perfecting oneself on several levels:

1) The level of general knowledge: flawless familiarity with the matter which is editor’s narrower specialty (e.g. world, domestic literature, language, psychology, philosophy), and general education (pop culture, politics, history…).

2) The level of specific skills: basic control over skills editor’s expert associates consider their specialist profession (grammar and spelling; text formatting and design; foreign languages; social networks and marketing; familiarity with and implementation of new business models; communication and negotiation with authors and agents.

3) Skills of applying for domestic and international grants: an editor must know how to design the concept of the project they want to offer to foreign partners, to justify and present it well, and also in the end to put it into action in accordance with the project: precisely, in a timely manner and with high quality.

In the first part of the workshop leaders will go through all three listed levels which would offer workshop participants an insight and a solid basis in further education for holding the position of an editor in a publishing house, but also a project manager for foreign grants.

Who is it for?

The workshop is intended for cultural professionals working in the field of literary publishing, and especially those who plan to initiate or have recently established a publishing house. Moreover, organisations dealing with publishing activities, like universities and libraries, which were not active in this field can also apply.
What kind of knowledge and skills will participants acquire?

Within the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to get familiar with the basics of the editing process in literary publishing; basics of communication with foreign agents; basics of applying for foreign and domestic grants.

How to apply to participate?

You can apply to participate by sending an application to the email address: kreativnaevropa.izdavaci@gmail.com, until Friday 25th October 2019. The application should contain:

– first and last name of the applicant;

– occupation and name of the organisation they represent;

Who will lead the workshop?

Aleksandar Šurbatović graduated from the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He has fifteen years of experience as an editor, and for the past six years he was the responsible editor in the Publishing House Dereta. He signed circa 300 titles as the editor. He works as a project management or a consultant in 6 Creative Europe projects and received support for/won/ secured funds? U originalu kaze I dobio za isto toliko, ne znam sta je dobio, sredstva? Podrsku? just as many. Also, he is the winner of around forty grants for different publishing houses in Serbia. In 2019 he founded his own publishing house and book editing agency “Blum”. He is especially proud of his team of expert associates whom he mostly personally prepared and empowered for editorial and proofreading work. He is the author of three collections of poems and one novel.

Tijana Petković graduated from Serbian language and literature as the best in class. She completed master studies in 2018 in the course of Serbian philology with the topic “The concept of sin in modern Serbian language”. She is the winner of “Dositejeva” scholarship of the Fund for Young Talents, and also the “Radmila Milentijević” Award for the best master thesis. She worked as a proof reader and then as an executive director in the Publishing house Dereta, and currently she is working in the Publishing house Blum performing the same position.

Some of the more important references:

– Alienation and Identity in Contemporary European Literature – 8 Books To Be Translated Into Serbian – for Dereta ltd, 2016 – project manager and issue editor;

– (In)Tolerance – Seven Awarded European Writers – for Dereta ltd, 2016 – project manager and issue editor;

– The Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2016 – lecturer and participant of the match-making programme;

– Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, 2014; 2017 – lecturer and participant of the match-making programme;

– Tempo di Libri, Milan 2018 – lecturer and participant of the match-making programme;

– Designing and realising the marketing campaign “Da li je knjiga skupa” (Is a book expensive), where 8 publishing houses participated with over three hundred billboards throughout Serbia;

– Around 300 edited and signed issues in Serbian publishing;

– More than 20 international book fairs;

Daily communication with foreign copyright agents.

Workshop from the field of visual arts: world of art from a personal perspective

Kolarac Foundation, Friday 8th November at 10 o’clock

This workshop has the aim of developing personal referential maps of the world of visual art from the meeting points of personal habitus of attendees and the structure of the field of art, the type that was drawn as early as the beginning of the twentieth century by artists such as Marinetti and Picabia, and also during the end of 20th century curators such as René Block and Harold Zeman.


The introductory lecture will present strategies of cognitive mapping and the history of mapping the field of visual art. Following this, practical work will be directed towards reshaping presented maps and generating visual displays of the field of art as the framework of personal acting.
The result of the first work block of two hours will be schematic displays of the world of art from personal positions of attendees in the form of maps and graphs. In the second work block they will be discussed, compared with one another and somewhat made visually uniform.
At the end, with the help of visual artist Šejma Fere these will be placed into the framework of a fanzine type collage publication, the copies of which will be made through photo-copying.

Who is it for?

We expect applications from cultural professionals whose activity is partly or completely taking place within the field of contemporary visual art. The number of participants is limited to 15 persons, and the list of participants will be published on our website after the deadline for applications.

What kind of knowledge and skills will participants acquire?

Workshop participants will acquire skills related to 1) the application of the principle of cognitive mapping in practice, 2) differential determining of personal position within the structure of the field of art, 3) referencing one’s own position through selection of relevant references for it, 4) visualising the created cognitive scheme, 5) interpretation and comparison of such historical visual displays.

How to apply to participate?

You can apply to participate by sending an application to the email address: reg.kreativnaevropa@gmail.com, until Friday, 25th October 2019. The application should contain:

– first and last name of the applicant;

– occupation and name of the institution or organization they represent (if that is the case);

– previous experience in the domain of artistic creativity or production in the field of art (up to four sentences);

– motivation to participate in the workshop (up to four sentences);

Who is leading the workshop?

The workshop will be led by artists Šejma Fere and Tijana Savatić and curator Stevan Vuković.

Šejma Fere is a visual artist. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, theory of art and media during Interdisciplinary studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, and graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade. She was a student resident at the Mis Baltazar laboratory in Vienna in 2015, participated in the programme of Luis
Adelantado Gallery in Valencia in 2016, and also the Summer Art Academy in Saltsburg in 2017. She has been exhibiting independently since 2005. One of the main media she realizes her work in are collages which she has been exhibiting since the exhibition called Reciklokolaži, that took place in Stara Kapetanija Gallery in Zemun in 2015. Currently she is preparing an exhibition called Trikolaža, which will take place near the end of this year in the Gallery of the Student Cultural Centre Kragujevac. She formats her collages, and also frequently works of other artists created on workshops, such as the Biennial in Ostavinska Gallery 2017, into the framework of fanzines. Some of her fanzines will also be presented during October of the current year at an exhibition offering an overview of independent art projects in the form of books, within the publishing platform Art Encounters of the Timisoara Biennial, in the section managed by Tijana Savatić and Stevan Vuković.

Tijana Savatić is a poet and author of projects taking place as workshops. She is studying at the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory of the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Her poems were published in a collection of regional poetry Rukopisi iz Pančeva in 2018, and the publication (Ne)vidljiva književnost – Beogradska alternativna scena, of the Zagreb based magazine Tema, this year, as well as on the Pancevo.city website and private blogs during previous years. She was included in the work of the festival Čitam Čitaš in Belgrade, and is one of the founders of the multimedia project Pročitaj me, in Pančevo. She is the author of the project Essay on Reflexive Feminine Lyric Poetry, taking place in the form of workshops of public poetry reading of female authors from the current scene in Belgrade and the surrounding areas, which has the product of a series of performing events and a series of publication. The first of them, entitled Žedne preko sobe, was realised during September of current year. Since September 2018, she is leading a curatorial workshop with Stevan Vuković, entitled Izložbotvornica, for students of art history, which will result in exhibitions authored by workshop attendees in Belgrade galleries during December 2019. She is a member of the author team designing and hosting the radio show Sceniranje, offering an overview of events of the independent cultural scene of Serbia to listeners on Radioparat in Belgrade. Alongside Stevan Vuković she is working on an exhibition offering an overview of independent art projects in book format, as a part of the publishing platform Art Encounters of the Timisoara Biennial.

Stevan Vuković is an art historian and curator. He graduated in philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, attended postgraduate studies at the same department, and also studies of art theory at the Jan van Eyck Aakademie in Maastricht and art studies in the public space at Bahaus Dessau. He is a winner of the Lazar Trifunović Award for a text on visual art published in Serbia in 1998 and the Award of the Art History Society for the best exhibition in Serbi in 2003 (for the exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade he designed and realized in cooperation with Zoran Erić). Since 1996, he has been working as an independent curator. He realised numerous authored and co-authored exhibitions, among which the most prominent ones are: “Drugo jugoslovensko bijenale mladih”, Konkordija, Vršac (1996) , “Balkan Konzulat: Misija Beograd”, Rotor Gallery, Graz (2002), “Urban Fog of Belgrade” Urban Drift, Berlin, (2003.), “Belgrade Art Inc.” Secession, Vienna (2004), “A Dogumentary Approach”, Kunstverein München (2004), “Kada otvorim oči vidim film”, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, (2010/11), “Poslednja mladost u Jugoslaviji”, Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade (2011/12), “Pred sudom”, Gallery Nadežda Petrović, Čačak (2016). He led gallery programmes in Remont, the Youth Centre, O3ONE, and SCC. His work within workshops was described as a list of projects within which specific knowledge transferred here was developed.