The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad was founded as a Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art on February 1, 1966, by the decision of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina with art historian Slobodan Sanader as its director. The first exhibition was held on March 6, 1969, in the Matica Srpska Gallery. The Gallery's public activity took place on the premises of other institutions in Novi Sad until 1984 - the Workers' University, the Youth Tribune and the House of the JNA (1969–1984).
During the following period (1984–1999), the Gallery used the space rented in the "Sports and Business Center of Vojvodina", where it was possible to realize some programs, activities and activities that correspond to the function, scope and character of the work of the museum of contemporary art: the first museum exhibition of art of the 20th century in Vojvodina, art fund, museum documentation and library were organized, numerous museological and curatorial research, collection and interpretation of historical and artistic materials fundamental for the study of art of the 20th century in Vojvodina - Fine art in Vojvodina 1944-1954 were carried out. (1980), Sculpture in Vojvodina 1895–1980. (1985), Graphics in Vojvodina 1900–1985. (1985), Painting in Vojvodina 1955–1972. (1989), Painting in Vojvodina 1900-1944. (1991), Current Affairs in Vojvodina Painting 1973–1993. (1994) and a number of other monographic presentations of group or individual artistic practices.
In the mid-1990s, systematic researches of Vojvodina modernisms, avant-gardes and neo-avant-gardes were started: Group KÔD, (϶ and (϶-KÔD (1995), Verbumprogram (1995), then Central European aspects of Vojvodina avant-gardes 1920-2000. (2002), and these researches were completed with the capital edition European Art Contexts of the 20th Century in Vojvodina (2008). After the Gallery was moved out of the "Sports and Business Center of Vojvodina" in November 1999, exhibitions were held in the Gallery of the SAN Branch and the Museum of the Socialist Revolution. In May 2009, the provincial government made a decision to give the Museum exhibition and work spaces in the building of the former Museum of the Socialist Revolution at Dunavska 37. Since September 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina has been carrying out all its activities in this space.
During that period, the museum was staffed for the most demanding institutional obligations and tasks, the basic and program activities were extended to almost all areas of contemporary art, and the mission of the museum was designed to offer a developed and fundamental curatorial, scientific and theoretical-critical practice of collecting, exhibiting and interpretations of modern, avant-garde, neo-avant-garde, postmodern and, above all, contemporary art in Vojvodina, Serbia and the region.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina is directed towards the systematic study and revaluation of the art history of the second half of the 20th and 21st centuries in Vojvodina, Serbia and the region, through many studies, problem, retrospective and monographic projects, which, through new approaches and work methods, affirm significant historical artistic phenomena and personalities, with simultaneous continuous work on educating the audience. In addition to establishing contacts and cooperation with many institutions from Serbia, the region of the former Yugoslavia and the wider international space, the task of the museum is also to point out insufficiently affirmed approaches, marginal or alternative flows from the artistic past, while at the same time encouraging contemporary production and practice by engaging its actors through thematic and independent exhibitions, actions, speaking programs, workshops, film screenings, musical events and the like, intended for professionals and the general public.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina takes a museological-research approach to the preservation and exhibition presentation of works of contemporary art from the second half of the 20th and 21st centuries, connecting the local art scene with the international one. The museum collection contains art collections of paintings, sculptures, objects and installations, graphics and drawings, conceptual art, film, video and photography, intermediate and digital works, architecture, urban planning and design from the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century in Vojvodina, Serbia, but also the works of foreign artists and art groups. In addition, the Museum collects, systematizes and preserves rich library and documentary-archival materials about all protagonists and phenomena relevant to the history of Vojvodina art.
At the 54th international art exhibition in Venice in 2011, MSUV realized Dragoljub Raša Todosijević's exhibition, "Light and Darkness of Symbols", in the Pavilion of the Republic of Serbia, for which he received the prestigious Uni Credit award.
The museum actively participates in European projects that affirm contemporary visual culture and creativity since 2007. Some of the more important projects are: Digitization of ideas - Culture Program (2007-2013) of the European Union; Asymmetrical Europe, part of the complex transnational project Europe n (2011–2012); Performing the Museum, support program of the European Commission - Creative Europe (2014-2016); Risk Changes - Creative Europe sub-program Culture (2014-2020).
Slobodan Sanader (1966–1991) | Danica Živkov (v.d. direktora 1991/1992) | Dragomir Ugren (1992–2003) | Branislav Jovanović (v.d. direktora 2003) | (Suzana Vuksanović (v.d. direktora 2003/2004) | Radmila Savčić (2004/2005) | Živko Grozdanić (2005–2011) | Vladimir Kopicl (2011/2012) | Vladimir Mitrović (v.d. direktora (2012/2013) | Sanja Kojić Mladenov (2013–2016) | Radovan Jokić (2016–2020) | Branislava Sekulić (2020–).
Ljiljana Ivanović | Miloš Arsić | Grozdana Šarčević | Suzana Vuksanović | Nebojša Milenković | Slađana Varagić | Dragomir Ugren | Kristijan Lukić | Sanja Kojić Mladenov | Gordana Nikolić | Vladimir Mitrović | Svetlana Mladenov | Ljubica Milović Mastilović | Danijela Halda | Jovana Trifuljesko.
Tuesday - Sunday: 10 - 18h
Dunavska 37
21101 Novi Sad
Serbia
