BalkanKult - Balkan Cultural Co-Operation

SMALL MUSEUMS IN THE SERBIA FORMED FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

New project

Serbian Bread Museum - Jeremija The Balkankult Foundation is partner of Iwano Project Foundation in the realization of the project: "Development of small private museums as a family business". The reasons for collecting art can vary as widely as the personalities and passions of collectors themselves. As the Viennese writer Stefan Zweig once remarked, ‘In collecting, taste itself can be creative. Those for whom the written word falls short can express their character as value and their taste in concrete form through a collection of art, and in this way leave their mark’. It is important to assign cultural facilities with a higher prominence in order to promote their attractiveness and to heighten the role of the local actors and private collectors. Through the exchange of experiences we aim to specify the role of ‘New Museums’ in social cohesion and local development.

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MINES OF CULTURE

New project supprted by ECF

Art & Architecture – from rationalistic up ground to futuristic underground

Project is aiming to preservation and revalorization of industrial heritage of numerous ex-mines in the states of the former Yugoslavia by inducing local communities towards reuse of existing industrial, architectural and historical resources and conversion of ex-mines into self-sustained cultural public complexes. In order to improve visibility of mining heritage in the region, the project consists of: research on the state of ex-mines; education of all social actors on necessity of protection of mining heritage as well as on available tools, models and strategies, including transfer of know how; advocacy and media campaign; production of mobile exhibition, documentary film and book. Mines of Culture is a multilateral interdisciplinary cultural cooperation project between Labin Art Express XXI (HR), Association Manifest (BA), NGO Tera Nostra (ME), Balkankult (RS), IRGO – Institute for Mining, Geotechnology and Environment (SI) and Polygon – Centre for Cultural Research and Project Development (HR).

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