Culture Club - Activities

November 2022.

National Theatre Museum

November 2022.

Historical Museum of Serbia Visit

The first cultural activity of this new club year will be a special visit to the Historical Museum of Serbia! Join us for a guided tour to explore a fascinating range of collections displaying the rich Serbian history, including technical artefacts, rare books and manuscripts, numismatic treasures, ethnographic items, and much more. We'll have an English-speaking guide with us, ensuring everyone can fully enjoy and appreciate the exhibitions on ...

November 2022.

Mrđan Bajić Exhibition

September 2022.

LAGraffiti Exhibition

On our visit to the LAG gallery we learned about the history of street art in Serbia, the difference between graffiti, street art and murals and got to know a bit about each artist who took part in the collaborative project which resulted in the artwork on display at the LAGraffiti exhibition. On display were the individual works of 9 artists, co-authors and groups: Nikola Kori , Endo , Djuradje , Stefko , Jung & Hope , Das Drogen . ...

June 2022.

Exhibits & Sightseeing: Royal Compound and the White Palace

The Royal compound is a complex of residences built with the personal funds of King Alexander I for the Karađorđević royal family between 1924 and 1937. The compound is located in the Dedinje neighborhood, a prestigious area of Belgrade. It consists of two primary residences: The Royal Palace and the White Palace. The Royal Palace is a grand stucco villa in the Serbo-Byzantine style by architect Živojin Nikolić was built ...

May 2022.

Exhibits & Sightseeing: Erwin Wurm

Our group met on May 16th at the Museum of Contemporary Art for a guided tour about the works of famous Austrian artist, Erwin Wurm. Our extremely well-informed guid told us a bit about the history of the building - the first to be built solely for the purpose of being a museum in Belgrade - and then took us on a journey through the artworks displayed beginning with the fifth floor. We started with the “drinking sculptures” where we drank his art ...

May 2022.

Exhibits & Sightseeing: National Assembly

Sitting on a wide-open square just next to the city center, The National Assembly serves as the seat of the country's political activity and is considered one of the icons of Belgrade. Completed in 1938, this Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque building took 30 years to reach its final form due to the two Balkan Wars, World War I, and the Great Depression of 1929. The IWC went for a visit on May 10th to the interior of the building, saw frescoes from ...

April 2022.

Exhibits & Sightseeing: Palace of Serbia

The magnificent Yugoslavia stopped existing over two decades ago. However, you can still find a great number of symbols of what it used to be in its former capital. One of the most significant ones is without a doubt this palace. The building is located in New Belgrade, an urban municipality which started developing in the 1950s. This was one of the first objects ever built there. In 2013, along with all the art inside it, the Palace got on the list of ...

March 2022.

Exhibits & Sightseeing: Great Women of Serbia

The ladies of IWC visited the beautiful Jevrem Grujić house to visit the exhibition "Great Women of Serbia" celebrating the life and achievements of 18 famous Serbian women. These women who lived, created and strived in times when women's rights were not recognized as they are today were nurses, decorated soldiers, painters, writers, business women and social justice activists. They went on to leave their mark upon history and influenced the ...

March 2022.

Exhibits & Sightseeing: SANU Gallery - Collection "Like a mirror"

In one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings in Belgrade, the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts we visited the exhibition of ’Collection as a Mirror - Modernism in the Artworks from the Gallery of Matica Srpska’ on March 2nd. The exhibition displays 86 artworks - 75 paintings, 7 sculptures and 4 graphic prints - and illustrates not only the modernisms of the first half of the 20 th century, ...

February 2022.

Exhibits & Sightseeing: Sonja Lundin

The IWC members visited the exhibition of Sonja Lundin (the daughter of our ex-president Milica Lundin) on February 17th at Galerija 73. She provided a guided tour of her work and explained the roots of her inspiration to our members. Here is an excerpt from her concept: “ ...Sediment is the debris that culminates from entropy, later to be transported and spread out through various points of the ecosystem. It appears at the bottom of waterbeds and ...

November 2021.

Museums Section - Exhibition of Miraculous Icons and Holy Relics in the Balkan Countries

On November 18th, a group of IWC members were privileged to attend a specially arranged private tour of the Exhibition of Miraculous Icons and Holy Relics in the Balkan Countries. The event was hosted by the Bulgarian Embassy and Radosveta Doykova, spouse of the Bulgarian Ambassador to Serbia. The highlight of the visit was certainly the indomitable passion of the exhibition curator and author, Professor ...

November 2021.

Museums Section - Arte Gallery

On November 9th, IWC members were treated to a visit to Arte Gallery. Members viewed the private art collection of the Marijanovic family. A detailed history of each painting, and the personal relationship of the Marijanovic family with the artist, was described in a most beautiful manner by the owner and collector Jelena Marijanovic. We would like to thank our member Alexandra Grais for arranging this special viewing.

November 2021.

Museum & Sightseeing Group - Jovanka Broz

On November 2nd, a group of IWC members visited the exhibition called “Jovanka Broz in color”. As it was explained to us by our guide, the fashion designer Igor Todorović, the name for the exhibition was chosen mostly because in the 50’s and the 60’s the Yugoslav citizens could see the former first lady of the republic only in black and white photos and TV. Her presence as a spouse of then president of Yugoslavia Tito was mostly ...

October 2021.

Museums and Sightseeing Group - The Residence of Prince Milos

On Friday October 8th, sixteen members of IWC and some guests visited The Residence of Prince Milos. Located in the beautiful Topcider Park, this residence is a fascinating mix of neo-classical and Ottoman styles. Our English-speaking guide, Boris, was amazing and he showed us interesting items from the era, including paintings, traditional garments, and other artifacts. This Residence has been completely refurbished and is ...