MoCAB - The Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art

artists: Jacek Malinowski, Agnieszka Polska, Karolina Breguła, Assaf Gruber, and Dušan Otašević.
exhibition curator: Una Popović, a curator of the Salon of the MoCAB.

The international exhibition entitled It Happened Tomorrow is a result of the collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. This collaboration includes the realisation of two exhibitions, the first one at the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art curated by Una Popovic (9 November – 4 December 2016) and the second one at the Zachęta Project Room / Miejsce Projektów Zachęty, proceeded by the curator’s -Magda Kardasz, research in Serbia. It is planned for February – March 2017. The two exhibitions differ conceptually and are centred around the curatorial exploration of foreign art scene as well as the discerning of artistic and productive peculiarities.

The exhibition It Happened Tomorrow aims at representing an art fiction, a possible illogical deviation within an event, i.e. a fiction with basically realistic narration and appearance, as stressed in the linguistic syntax of the title itself. The selection of works tends to offer an interpretation of a genre such as the pseudo-document in art.

Alongside Polish artists, to a great extent productive in the medium of film and involved in complex artistic works that could be described also as multi-tiered orchestrations of diverse elements and meanings (Agnieszka Polska, Karolina Breguła, Jacek Malinowski), and an Israeli author living in Germany, Assaf Gruber, this exhibition spotlights the well known Serbian author Dušan Otašević, with the objects from his series on the fictional character Ilija Dimić.

The Museum of Contemporary Art is grateful to all of the artists, and also the Trajković Collection, for the works they kindly borrowed.

Our partner in this project: Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.