Ana Ereš and Ivan Petrović

Ana Ereš (1984) is a senior research fellow at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She specialises in the study of modernism, the history of exhibitions and the Yugoslav art space in the 20th century. She has published the following monographs and edited volumes: Mrđan Bajić: skulptotektura (2013); Sculpture: Medium, Method, Social Practice vols. 1 and 2 (2016; 2021, co-editor with S. Vuksanović); Marko Čelebonović (2017 and 2018, co-author); Yugoslavia at the Venice Biennial (1938–1990): Cultural and Exhibition Policies (Jugoslavija na Venecijanskom bijenalu (1938–1990): kulturne politike i politike izložbe, 2020), Memorial Sculpture Dedicated to the National Liberation Struggle in Yugoslavia 1945–1991 (2023; co-editor with S. Vuksanović), Vasa Pomorišac: painter of modernity and continuity (2024). She received the “Lazar Trifunović” Award for critical writing on art (2017) and the “Pavle Vasić” Award for a book on Yugoslav exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (2020).

Ivan Petrović (Kruševac, 1973), graduated in 2002 from the “Braća Karić” Academy of Arts in Belgrade, Department of Photography. His artistic practice is based on mutual relations between documentarism, appropriation and revaluing. By connecting two types of phenomena: the unstable nature of the photographic medium with the unharmonised cultural, social and political changes within Serbian society, his thematic interests are oriented toward the questions of history, heritage and discontinuity.
He is a co-founder and editor of the Centre for Photography (2011) in which he acts as a researcher, collector and curator. He edited the cycle of photography discussions entitled “Photo-forum” (2010/11) and authored the book Foto-forum, razgovori o fotografiji (Photo-forum, Conversations about Photography, 2016). He has initiated and authored the annual photographic exhibition Bliskost i razlike (Closeness and Difference, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, 2021–2024). In addition to photography which represents the main field of his artistic, researching and educational activity, he also engages in experimental film.
He received the “Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos” Award (2008) and the KulturKontakt scholarship in Vienna (2004). He teaches at the Šumatovačka Art Education Centre in Belgrade, where he is the editor of the photography programme. He is a member of the ULUS Association of Fine Artists of Serbia.

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