Belgrade Raw
Photography collective
Nada Pleskonjic,
Photographer and author in generative visual practices
Maja Stanković, full professor
Faculty of Media and Communications,
Department of Digital Arts
Una Popovic,
Art historian
Belgrade Raw is a photography collective founded in 2009 with the idea of exploring the social, urban and political aspects of life in the city and the state of the community through the medium of photography, actively recording everyday life in Belgrade. The collective exhibited at several independent exhibitions and as part of many events and festivals in Serbia and abroad. For five years in a row, Belgrade Raw was the organizer of the Photo Fair event in Belgrade, and for four consecutive years in Serbia, it organized a series of documentary photography workshops called Serbia Raw. In 2018, the collective publishes the photo book Serbia Raw, in which the workshops and materials created in 13 cities of Serbia are combined.
Nada Pleskonjić is a visual artist and photographer from Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Department of Camera, and for almost two decades she has been developing her authorial practice through photography, experimental processes and visual media research.
In its current generative phase, it focuses on transformations of emotion, body and identity in digital spaces. Her works combine the cold precision of machine systems with the vulnerability of human psychology, creating visuals that balance criticism, intimacy and ironic deviations.
Her work has been featured in AI & Architecture Magazine, creAtIva Magazine and on the AI-ARTS.org platform, where she was selected as one of the four leading AI artists of 2024. She won first prize at the Open Prompters competition.
He is currently developing his work through the SÉVOLTA studio as a separate author's entity, dedicated to researching the contemporary visual language created by the combination of creative experience and generative technologies.
Maja Stanković received her doctorate in art history at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Department of Modern Art (2013). She is a professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications, at the Department of Digital Arts. She is the author of numerous texts published in scientific journals, as well as catalogs of solo and group exhibitions and collections of texts on contemporary art. Her particular field of interest includes contemporary art, theory and digital humanities. He is one of the initiators of the first electronic magazine for contemporary art www.dipassage.org (2002-2008), the student electronic magazine on contemporary art and culture Propeller (2010-2019). He is also co-editor of the web platform on contemporary art and theory https:// www.studije-savremenosti.org (from 2017-). She has curated several exhibitions independently and in collaboration. She published the books Fluid Context (2015) and Networked Image (2022). Since 2008, he has been a member of the international association of art critics AICA (International Association of Art Critics). She is the winner of the "Lazar Trifunović" award, the highest domestic recognition in the field of history and criticism in contemporary art, for the year 2018.
Speaks:
Una Popović , art historian and editor
Portrait politics: portrait of politics
About the legacy of the photographer Goranka Matić and the work on the monograph "Goranka"
At the end of November, the Museum of Contemporary Art hosted a promotion of a monograph dedicated to the photographer Goranka Matić. The monograph is a co-publishing venture of RTS, the Official Gazette, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Srđan Šaper and Novembar gallery, Popbox - the society of popular culture lovers. The editors of the publication are Una Popović and Nebojša Grujičić. The promotion event was also marked by a documentary film about Goranka Matić by Boris Miljković.
The photographic opus of Goranka Matić, about photographs of the new wave of the 80s, student protests and demonstrations of the 90s, will be presented by Una Popović who is the editor of the publication and curator of Goranka's retrospective exhibition "Experience in the Crowd" (2021, MSU). How much photographs are a document of a time, what can be learned from them and about the photographic medium of the 80s, how much they are from this position a reminder and a warning in relation to today or some future moment, you can hear on Thursday 11.12. at 7 p.m.
Goranka Matić (1949 – 2025) was present on the art and photography scene for more than 40 years. From the very beginning, in the eighties of the last century, her work took place in parallel in the domains of newspaper, reportage and artistic photography. During her rich career, for the needs of various reportages and campaigns, Goranka Matić had the opportunity to photograph the protagonists of the contemporary artistic and cultural scene - artists, writers, actors, directors - as well as numerous politicians.
Una Popović is the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is indirectly related to research in the field of contemporary art, from historical conceptualism to today's practices. She achieved significant cooperation with the regional and international scene and organized international projects. Currently in the position of manager of the Photography, Film, Video Collection at MSU.