During the traditional Digital November event organized by the French Institute in Serbia, two exhibitions of street art in Virtual Reality in French will be shown in Belgrade, which were researched and set up by curator Ljiljana Radošević as part of Street Art Belgrade.
From November 7 to 21, exhibitions in the virtual space will be available for viewing using VR equipment in the Gallery of the French Institute in Knez Mihailova.
The exhibition “TRACES: Street Art of Serbia and France 1995 – 2022” follows the development of street art in the relationship between Serbia and France and the influence of France and French artists on the domestic scene from 1995 to 2022. In the virtual space on the VR-All-Art platform, over 70 works created in Serbia and France are displayed, which show the relations between these two countries in the field of street art. The goal of the exhibition is to make the first comprehensive presentation of the impact of French creativity in the field of graffiti and street art on the domestic art scene, as well as the creation of Serbian artists in France, through innovative and new technologies made possible by virtual spaces.
In addition to this exhibition, the public will be presented with the virtual exhibition “Loving Street art Belgrade” from 2020, translated into French, where there are over 40 works created by local and foreign authors on the streets of Belgrade. Both are author’s exhibitions of SABG curator Ljiljana Radošević.
During the duration of the program, the public will access the exhibitions using VR equipment, and the most notable works of Serbian and French artists will be exhibited in the space of the center.
One of the first cities to embrace graffiti culture in Europe was Paris. Misha Jens, the first official Belgrade graffiti artist, brought a new style from the streets of Paris to Belgrade in the mid-90s, so we can say that the influence of the French scene on the domestic and relations in the field of graffiti and street art has lasted for more than two decades. Famous French artists visited Serbia and left their works of art on the walls as part of major festivals such as Belef (Blek le Rat, REMED) as well as in cooperation with the French Institute, and many Serbian artists (Aleksandra Petković TKV, duo Sobekcis, Nikola Mihailović , Wuper et al.) spent time in France where they created and received inspiration for further work.
The members of Street Art Belgrade have been researching, documenting and popularizing street art and graffiti for over two decades. As a result of that work, two exhibitions were created in virtual reality. The project was realized with the support of the French Institute in Serbia, the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia and the company VR-ALL-ART.
Photo © Bogdan Gligorić
