The partners of the Biennial of Young Artists are: FIST – Festival of International Student Theatre, an international platform for aesthetic education and experimentation for all, PhD in One Night, and the artistic-research residency Orangeries de Bierbais.
BIJENALE MLADIH 2025
UMETNOST KAO samoORGANIZOVANA STVARNOST
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10. septembar - 1. oktobar 2025.
Umetnički paviljon "Cvijeta Zuzorić" / Galerija SULUJ / prostor ispred Galerije ULUS
Više ne znamo da li je ovo izložba, akcija, protest ili samo predah između dve runde. Zato ovo Bijenale mladih ne počinje samo jednom temom, niti singularnom formom – počinje stvarnošću.
Poslednjih deset meseci u Srbiji obeležili su samoorganizovani studentski pokret i masovni protesti širom zemlje protiv korupcije i nasilja nad svima koji se protive turbo-kapitalističkoj diktaturi pod maskom demokratije.
U takvoj atmosferi i uprkos potpunom izostanku budžeta od države, Bijenale mladih ne odustaje i zajedno sa svojim partnerima pruža podršku borbi kroz kolektivni i solidarni angažman mladih.
Umetnost danas nastaje iz prekida i praznina - između neobjavljenih konkursa, ugašenih prostora, privremenih i povremenih ugovora, svakodnevice koja pritiska. Scena se pojavljuje u krhotinama i tragovima.
I upravo u toj pukotini – između onog što propada i onog što još ne postoji – dešava se ovo Bijenale. Ne da bi tek prikazalo umetnost, već da bi je upisalo u stvarnost.
Oaze nastaju tamo gde se čini da je sve zauzeto. Na betonu fakulteta pod blokadom niče slobodna privremena teritorija, bez vođe, bez dozvole. Politika počinje redistribucijom osetilnog, a naši prostori i radovi su upravo takvi akti premeštanja granica čulnog.
Okupacije su tu gde umetnički gest prelazi u političku taktiku. Privremena autonomna zona više nije teorija – ona se dešava, u hodnicima ustanova, na stepeništu ministarstava, u prašini iza bine.
Ma Lagano razotkriva paradoks pasivnog otpora: u sistemu koji očekuje bučnu poslušnost, gde ćutnja postaje najradikalniji govor. To je strategija „kontra-vladavine“ – odbijanje da se uopšte učestvuje u jeziku moći.
Oaze, Okupacije, Ma Lagano – tri načina da se odbije; da se složi; da se krene.
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Na ovom Bijenalu nema gotovih rešenja.
Na delu je kolektivna imaginacija u službi borbe, solidarnosti i preobražaja.
Sve je u pokretu – protokoli, skice, akcije, greške, fragmenti.
A kako prikazati ono što beži od forme izložbe?
Paviljon je logistički štab.
Radionice su poligoni borbenih vežbi.
Završni radovi? Tragovi borbe, mapiranje mogućeg, signali u haosu.
Zato ovaj tekst nije tu da stvar objasnimo, nego da se zajedno uključimo.
Bijenale mladih 2025 je proces - gde se umetnička imaginacija i kolektivna borba spajaju u nove forme samoorganizovane stvarnosti.
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U ovogodišnjem Bijenalu učestvuju umetnici iz Austrije, Belgije, Crne Gore, Severne Makedonije, Demokratske Republike Kongo, Hrvatske, Holandije, Kine, Nemačke, Rusije, Švajcarske i Srbije: Tatjana Marticki Cvejin, Lora Abci, Una Mladenović, Manuela Pauk, Eddy Ekete, Mina Rakidžić Dostanić, Teodora Nešković, Nemanja Lukić, Olga Stanojević, Sara Bogdanov, Zorana Stevanović, Krsto Gligorjadis, Mirna Udovčić, Marija Vidović, Dejana Sekulić, Katarina Petrović, Mia Ćuk, Karina Kottová, studenti Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu, Denise Lee, Yasaman Tamizkar & Lizzy Zaanen, Elisabetta Cuccaro, Kosta Jakić, Lily Pellaud, Anina Mueller, Tatjana Vall, Yao Wang, Angelina Pajković, Loti Milošević, Luka Joksimović, Anamarija Marinković, Anđelija Stančulović, Jana Stojanović, Marija Mladenović, Milan Radomirović, Taisija Filatova, Max Rainer, Teodora Rakidžić, Karlo Štefanek, Milo Masoničić, Sara Apostolović, Jana Milenković, Ana Stojković, Sofija Stevanović, Jelena Rendulić, Sanja Lazić, Bojan Milenković.
Radu Organizacionog tima u toku 2023-2025. godine doprineli su: Dunja Janicijević, Ilija Stojković, Nikolina Radaković, Nevena Tešić, Anđelija Stanković, Aleksandra Mećava, Sofija Bošković, Natalija Stamenković, Valerija Mirceski, Mina Zečević, Nikolina Nikolić, Ksenija Petranović, Ljubica Crnobrnja, Sanja Vasić, Natalija Simić, Boris Dugonjić, Taisija Filatova, Isidora Žarković, Anja Nedeljković, Anja Jocić, Jovana Stefanović, Viktor Cvejić, Andrijana Vukićević, Anđela Šuštarić Saladi, Ivan Preda, Ivana Bodiš, Ksenija Erjavec, Nevena Eremić, Jelena Siljevski, Ana Simić, Nikolina Nikolić, Boris Dugonjić, Teodora Šćepanović i drugi.
Kustosi: Ana Filipović - Ma lagano; Tane Laketić, Dušan Ivić - Oaze; Darko Vukić, Daria Jevtić, Jovana Marković - Okupacije.
Koordinatori: Danilo Prnjat, Tijana Cvetković, Milan Đorđević.
Partneri Bijenala mladih su: FIST - Festival internacionalnog studentskog teatra, internacionalna platforma za estetsko obrazovanje i eksperimentisane za sve, PhD in One Night i umetničko-istraživačka rezidencija Oranžerija Bijerbe (Orangeries de Bierbais).
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YOUTH BIENNIAL 2025
ART AS selfORGANISED REALITY
September 10 – October 1, 2025
Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić / SULUJ Gallery / The space in front of ULUS Gallery
We no longer know whether this is an exhibition, an action, a protest, or just a pause between two rounds. That is why this Youth Biennial does not begin with a single theme or a singular form – it begins with reality.
The past ten months in Serbia have been marked by a self-organized student movement and mass protests across the country against corruption and violence toward all who oppose the turbo-capitalist dictatorship masked as democracy.
In such an atmosphere, and despite the total absence of state funding, the Youth Biennial does not give up. Together with allies, it supports the struggle through the collective and solidarity-based engagement of youth.
Art today emerges out of breaks and voids – between unpublished calls, closed-down spaces, temporary and occasional contracts, the daily pressures of survival. The cultural scene appears in fragments and traces.
And precisely in that crack – between what is collapsing and what does not yet exist – this Biennial takes place. Not merely to present art, but to inscribe it into reality.
Oases arise where everything seems occupied. On the concrete of a blocked faculty, a free temporary territory sprouts – without leaders, without permission. Politics begins with the redistribution of the sensible, and our spaces and works are exactly such acts of shifting perceptual boundaries.
Occupations are where the artistic gesture turns into a political tactic. The temporary autonomous zone is no longer theory – it happens in the corridors of institutions, on ministry staircases, in the dust behind the stage.
Just chill reveals the paradox of passive resistance: in a system that demands noisy obedience, silence becomes the most radical speech. It is a strategy of “counter-sovereignty” – a refusal to participate at all in the language of power.
Oases, Occupations, Just chill – three ways to refuse; to assemble; to begin.
At this Biennial, there are no ready-made solutions.
What is at work is collective imagination in the service of struggle, solidarity, and transformation.
Everything is in motion – protocols, sketches, actions, mistakes, fragments.
And how to exhibit what escapes the form of exhibition?
The Pavilion is a logistics hub.
Workshops are training grounds.
Final works? Traces of struggle, maps of the possible, signals in the chaos.
That is why this text is not to explain the situation, but to join in together.
The Youth Biennial 2025 is a process – where artistic imagination and collective struggle merge into new forms of self-organized reality.
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This year’s Biennial features artists from Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, Montenegro, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland and Serbia: Tatjana Marticki Cvejin, Lora Abci, Una Mladenović, Manuela Pauk, Eddy Ekete, Mina Rakidžić Dostanić, Teodora Nešković, Nemanja Lukić, Olga Stanojević, Sara Bogdanov, Zorana Stevanović, Krsto Gligorjadis, Mirna Udovčić, Marija Vidović, Dejana Sekulić, Katarina Petrović, Mia Ćuk, Karina Kottová, studenti Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu, Denise Lee, Yasaman Tamizkar & Lizzy Zaanen, Elisabetta Cuccaro, Kosta Jakić, Lily Pellaud, Anina Mueller, Tatjana Vall, Yao Wang, Angelina Pajković, Loti Milošević, Luka Joksimović, Anamarija Marinković, Anđelija Stančulović, Jana Stojanović, Marija Mladenović, Milan Radomirović, Taisija Filatova, Max Rainer, Teodora Rakidžić, Karlo Štefanek, Milo Masoničić, Sara Apostolović, Jana Milenković, Ana Stojković, Sofija Stevanović, Jelena Rendulić, Sanja Lazić, Bojan Milenković.
The work of the Organizing Team in 2023–2025 was supported by: Dunja Janicijević, Ilija Stojković, Nikolina Radaković, Nevena Tešić, Anđelija Stanković, Aleksandra Mečava, Sofija Bošković, Natalija Stamenković, Valerija Mirceski, Mina Zečević, Nikolina Nikolić, Ksenija Petranović, Ljubica Crnobrnja, Sanja Vasić, Natalija Simić, Boris Dugonjić, Taisija Filatova, Isidora Žarković, Anja Nedeljković, Anja Jocić, Jovana Stefanović, Viktor Cvejić, Andrijana Vukićević, Anđela Šuštarić Saladi, Ivan Preda, Ivana Bodiš, Ksenija Erjavec, Nevena Eremić, Jelena Siljevski, Ana Simić, Nikolina Nikolić, Boris Dugonjić, and others.
Curators: Ana Filipović – Just chill , Tane Laketić, Dušan Ivić – Oases, Darko Vukić, Daria Jevtić, Jovana Marković – Occupations.
Coordinators: Danilo Prnjat, Tijana Cvetković, Milan Đorđević.
