The publication “Courtyard” is a retrospective of the production of a group of artists from the younger generation, who lived and worked in Belgrade after 2000.

During the past years, artists have been involved together in numerous activities, different artistic projects and actions, often staying outside of institutional bounds. They have organized events in private houses and courtyards around residential buildings, published their works on Internet and organized video projections in local bars and exhibitions in squatted houses.

Individual collaborations of artists with art theoreticians and young curators have resulted in theoretical texts about their individual and collective works. The decision to pour this material into a book which includes a critical reflection on the artistic practice, its political and social aspects and presence on the local scene, is an important step in the valorization of this production.

Artists that are presented in this book come from different backgrounds – applied art, photography, mathematics, architecture; they work in diverse media using almost all forms of contemporary artistic expression. They form a group that has no defined limits or criteria of belonging. The whole of the group is built on mutual relations, on the fact that they have been in a close and intensive contact during the period of the presented individual and collective artistic activity.

download the pdf here Dvoriste zgrade / Courtyard

artists: Nenad Jeremic, Ivan Petrovic, Vukašin Nedeljkovic, Vladan Jeremic, Oliver Veljkovic, Dušan Jevtovic and Selena Savic.
authors of texts: Jovan Cekic, Marija Djorgovic, Marija Konjikušic, Ksenija Marinkovic, Vladan Radovanovic, Lazar Stojnovic, Nikola Šuica, Miško Šuvakovic and Slavko Timotijevic
design: Dušica Dražic
publishers: G.L.O.R.I.A. & SONDA