The collection of paintings is a heritage of various artistic ideas and tendencies that permeate modern and contemporary art both in the Vojvodina area and beyond. The earliest work in the collection is a painting by Ivan Tabaković, "Woman in an Armchair" from 1932, followed by the first post-war works of prominent founders of art colonies in Vojvodina such as Jožef Ač and Pal Petrik. The visualization of the psychological components of man explored by Milan Blanuša, the organic abstraction of Mira Brtka, the conflicts of horizontal and vertical in the depictions of Vojvodina landscapes by Bogumil Karlavaris represent the plurality of painting mediums within the collection. The collection includes key members of the phenomena that marked the second half of the twentieth century, starting with associative abstraction, enformel, new figuration, postmodern and up to current painting practices.
The collection of drawings and graphics is one of the most extensive in the fund. It includes over 1,850 works in various techniques and formats, from drawings, graphics, works on paper, and collages, to works made in combined painting techniques (gouache, watercolour, tempera). The dynamic and growing collection includes the works of Vojvodina, Yugoslav, Serbian, and foreign artists, present on the art scene in the period of the 60s. years of the 20th century until today. According to the collection's content, the works are based on different thematic representations, from landscapes, portraits, and figures, through abstract and associative representations and geometric compositions, including sketches, drawings and thematic maps. The Collection also includes individual works by international artists, such as Vazarelli, Soto, Peržovski, and Knifer, as well as local authors Soldatović, Trumić, Čubraković, Todorović, Vučinić, Rakić, etc.
The collection of conceptual art collects, affirms and presents the works of Vojvodina and Yugoslav neo-avant-garde and conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as echoes of that art through post and neo-conceptualist practices until today. It contains hundreds of works by artists including: Slavko Matković, Balint Sombati, Bogdanka Poznanović, Katalin Ladik, Slobodan Tišma, Bogdanka Poznanović, Slavko Bogdanović, Mirko Radojičić, Vladimir Kopicl, Vujica Rešin Tucić, Atila Černik, Čedomir Drča, Laslo Kerekeš, Laslo Salma, Božidar Mandić, Vojislav Despotov, Ratomir Kulić, Jaroslav Supek, Milica Mrđa, Ilija Šoškić, Slobodan Šijan and others. With the exhibition Examples of Invisible Art in 2012, most of the works were digitized and are available to a wider audience at: https://www.digitizing-ideas.org/
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina began exhibition activity in 1969. In the following decades, the Museum organized a large number of exhibitions of different characters - independent and collective, studio and programmatic, visiting for and from abroad, as well as thematic exhibitions from its collection. Exhibitions were generally announced with posters. Since then, the Museum has hired famous Novi Sad and Vojvodina designers - Ferenc Barat, Branislav Dobanovački, Boško Ševa, Miodrag Miša Nedeljković, Branislav Radošević, Dragan Višekruna, Radule Bošković, Slobodan Kuzmanović-Kuza, Ivan Lukić, Svetozar Tomić and others. At the same time, the collection of posters by authors began, so that currently MSUV owns about a thousand posters of the most prominent representatives of the Novi Sad cultural poster. The tradition of MSUV announcement posters has continued to this day.
The collection of film, video and photography was created as part of a museum platform that deals with the research, historicization, presentation and collecting of art practices in the field of film, video art, photography and installations that include these media. Numerous educational projects, exhibitions and publications have been realized through this platform, among which stand out: Technology for the people! Film and video in Vojvodina in the 20th and 21st centuries; Retrospective exhibitions: association Apsolutno – Absolutely Now: Death, Confusion, Sale, Aleksandar Davić - Last Dada Performance, Zoran Naskovski - Public Secrets, as well as other exhibitions, public talks and presentations of important authors and film/video initiatives from Serbia and the international context.
The collection of intermediate and digital art was formed through the museum platform with the aim of research, mapping, historicization and presentation of intermediate practices and digital culture through the introduction of interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies. In addition to collecting works of art and collecting archives of art documentation, the collection included a wide range of activities, such as: exhibitions, presentations, film screenings, discussions, workshops, etc. which include collaborators and institutions from the domestic and international context. Among the projects and exhibitions, the following stand out: WonderLab, RISK CHANGE, Milky Way, Feminist vanguard ‒ On the road to freedom, and publications: Skok i zaron. The identity of female artists in the field of new media, Bogdanka Pozanović: Contact Art, Feminism and visual art.
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