Exhibition ’Selections from the SASA Department of Arts’ in Trebinje

The exhibition titled ’Selections from the Department of Arts of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts’(Artworks by academician artists from the SASA Art Collection), authored by Jelena Mežinski Milovanović, opens on Friday, 27 June, at 8 p.m. at the Herzegovina Museum in Trebinje. The exhibition is co-organised by the Trebinje Museum and the SASA Gallery, and will be on display until 27 July. The exhibition will be opened by the President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academician Zoran Knežević.

At the heart of the exhibition are works by current academician artists, including Still Life for Ljubica Sokić by Dušan Otašević, Raven by Todor Stevanović, Tetrapak by Milica Stevanović, and Head by Sava Halugin, alongside fourteen works by earlier members of the Department of Arts. These pieces are taken from what could be described as a small ’art gallery’ formed within the premises of the Academy’s Department of Arts.

The public in Trebinje will get an opportunity to see a total of fifty-two works by academician artists featured in the collection, marking the most comprehensive exhibition to date from the holdings of the Academy’s Art Collection. This is the second occasion in which a part of the representative interior of the Palace of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts—where a curated selection of the collection is permanently exhibited—has been made accessible to the broader public outside Serbia. In this way, the exhibition offers a perspective on the institution’s history, life, and artistic legacy.

Through paintings carried out in various techniques, five graphic works, and twelve sculptures, the exhibition follows the development of the Serbian art scene and highlights the artistic movements favoured by members of the Academy in the sphere of artistic expression. Only those artists who were elected to the Academy—recognised for their exceptional contribution to Serbian visual art—are represented, spanning a period from the late 19th century to the first quarter of the 21st century.