Ivan Šuković completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, where he received his master's degree from the Department of Digital Arts and New Media, and his doctorate from the Department of Multimedia Arts. Through his artistic practice, he analyzes the meaning and processes of memory in attempts to re-establish closeness with something distant or lost in time and absent in material space, and for that purpose he uses archival material.
Exhibition is a joint project of the City Museum Subotica and the Museum of Science and Technology in Belgrade, which is realized with the support of the National Museum Kraljevo. The exhibition is about the popularity and golden age of gramophone records in Yugoslavia, an era that lasted several decades. The importance of one of the most important home appliances of the 20th century – His Majesty the Gramophone – has not been neglected.
The most important and oldest exhibition of children's art in our city is being organized for the 47th time in a row, as a result of a successfully realized competition. The goal of organizing the Children's May Art Salon is to publicly present the most successful works created in school classes, emphasize the importance of art education, evaluate the work of individual art pedagogues and recognize the creative potential of students. The theme of this year's Salon is “Motif from the Ibar”, according to the title of the painting by Miodrag B. Protić, whose centenary we are celebrating on May 10th.
The Department for the Protection of the People (OZNA) was founded on May 13th, 1944, and as secret police, with its ubiquitous ideology and cult of personality, it was the mainstay of the communist dictatorship at the time when revolutionary power was being established in Yugoslavia. The book published by Catena Mundi and the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade, authored by Srđan Cvetković, PhD and Nemanja Dević, PhD bring hitherto unknown and first published documents that reveal and reconstruct state repression during communism.
The program of the European Museum Night at the National Museum in Kraljevo this year was inspired by the exhibition “LP – History of the Gramophone and the Golden Age of Records”. In addition to the exhibition itself, the public can actively participate in the record exchange, on the Square in front of the museum building. Concerts of two rock groups and a performance by a popular DJ are being organized, who will “return to the audience by playing the gramophone” in the years of the biggest expansion of LP at 33 rpm.
The book by Radomir N. Ristić published by the Center for Culture “Gradac” from Raška presents to the scientific and public a document that has been rarely used so far – the Census of Haratch Heads for 1833.
The evening is organized within the exhibition “LP – History of the Gramophone and the Golden Age of Records”, in cooperation with the magazine “Sidža”. Guests of the evening Mile Martić and Dragan Trifunović Ginger, owners, and disc jockeys of the disco “Integral”, one of the favorite places to go out in Kraljevo from the mid-seventies to the early eighties, will revive the atmosphere of that time with their choice of records.