Aktivitet: 100 Years Of Surrealism

The exhibition Aktivitet: 100 Years of Surrealism at the Museum of Contemporary Art introduces both local and international audiences to the breadth of our surrealist production, emphasizing its interplay with global surrealist movements and its significance for 20th and 21st century art. The exhibition aims to comprehensively present the full spectrum of surrealist works, spanning various media. It will include select pieces from the long surrealist century –works by artists of the Belgrade Surrealist Circle, produced before, during, and after the period of collective action, as well as those by artists significantly influenced by, or in dialogue with, surrealism. A small number of carefully curated contemporary responses to local surrealist production will also be featured. The "aktivitets" of our surrealists, whose international visibility continues to grow, encompass a wide range of individual and group practices across diverse media, artistic forms, and discursive strategies: paintings, collages, objects, installations, group proclamations, participatory social actions, interventions, photographs and photograms, philosophical treatises, children’s literature, multimedia poem-paintings, anti-novels, fanzines, magazines, surveys, cadavre exquis, polemical writings, and many other creative expressions and artifacts. The Museum of Contemporary Art houses the largest collection of works by our surrealists, as well as extensive documentation of their activities in various forms and media, serving as a regional center for research and documentation in this field.