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– The most important event in our
organization is the Summer Salon of
“Štab” Gallery. It is a group exhibition that
brings together prominent artists of the
younger generation. In addition to artists
who express themselves in traditional
media, painting and sculpture, the Summer
Salon also present those who work
in new media, such as audio-visual installations
and experimental music. We are
especially proud of the exhibitions within
“Saturday under Brankica”, which shows
in the best possible light our idea of a new
way of presenting arts. The new concept
shows that the arts and entertainment
very much overlap and it is impossible
not to bring them together. For people
who come at the opening on Saturday we
prepare good entertainment, with the best
music from the 1970’s and 1980’s. In this
way we try to promote love and culture,
as well as some good old values that have
been, unfortunately, lost in these strange
times – they say in “Štab”.
In addition to the Summer Salon and
“Saturday under Brankica”, “Štab” also organizes
“Art Dragstor”, “Industrial Design
Weekend”, Wine “Štab”, “Night of Museums”,
“Mixer Festival”...
“NOVA ISKRA”
Savamala is also home to “Nova Iskra”,
the first coworking space in Serbia and one
of the first in the South Slavic region.
– Coworking is one of the major sectors
within “Nova Iskra” and we are really
proud of the results over the last three
years. Our members are freelancers, designers,
architects, entrepreneurs, consultants,
small companies and startups. All
members separately rent the space and it is
primarily their working space, but we have
many examples of cooperation, which is
one of the benefits of working in such a
place – they explain in “Iskra”.
In addition to the basic mission of
“Iskra” – offering a quality workspace for
creative professionals – since its establishment
in 2012, until today, more than two
hundred educational programs have taken
place here, aimed at young designers and
students from different areas of design, as
well as logistical and educational support
from idea to realization.
– Our main goal from the beginning
was to strengthen this place as an
educational and research platform. That
is why we constantly organize lectures,
workshops, study visits, residencies. Most
of these programs were related to topics
and lecturers in the field of design, architecture,
startups, business, art direction,
communication strategies, branding, legal
and administrative issues, intellectual
property rights, establishment of companies
and other important topics. Programs
have also been harmonized with
topics and areas that are less or not at all
represented in our education system, and
this kind of lectures and workshops has
the most numerous audience.
This is only a fraction of what a beautiful
Sava slope of Belgrade is hiding behind
their fences and windows, just an
incentive to start discovering a part of
town that is slowly awakening, a call to
further reconstruct it through some new
creative stories. Because, Savamala only
exists when there is something going on
in it. s
Mural by Swiss
duo “Nevercrew”
above “Mixer
House”
“Mixer Design
Market”, up close
An evening in
“Zavod”
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