Slobodanka Danka Pribaković Kostić

The reason for organizing a large retrospective exhibition of Slobodanka Danka Pribaković Kostić of the author Nadica Lišanin, senior curator of the National Museum Kraljevo, are works that the institution took over for safekeeping after her death in 2020. The decision to keep and protect Danka’s legacy in the institution where she spent 40 years as the first conservator, symbolically realized the famous phrase preserved in anecdotes by which Danka informed her colleagues about leaving the museum building: “I’m going and coming back!”. In a symbolic sense, Danka returned to the Museum, but this time not as a guardian of heritage, but as a heritage that is preserved. In addition to being one of the first professionals in the museum profession in our city, Danka was also the first academically educated painter, as well as the first member of Association of Fine Artists of Serbia in Kraljevo. Fifteen years after the retrospective exhibition organized at the National Museum in Kraljevo on the occasion of her retirement in 2006, after the artist’s death, there is an opportunity to make another attempt to explain, understand and present her creative work, since she has occupied an important and indispensable place art scene.