05.06.2025
if walls could tell continues in Čačak
2025/06/05 - 06/30 I Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovic, Čačak /SRB
The transnational project if walls could tell questions art institutions in terms of their permeability to broader social groups within a community. Over a period of two to four weeks, three symbolic museum walls will be installed in public spaces in various cities in South Eastern Europe, where they will serve as an accessible and temporary stage for the inhabitants. Like a filter, these walls will catch all “traces” of cultural and urban expressions in the midst of people's urban lives, away from the cultural institutions to which they refer. Once marked by the environment and the people, the stage will then return to its institutional context to secure or further inscribe the traces left behind.
The process will be repeated in all partner cities, starting in August 2024 with the Ars Aevi in Sarajevor, then at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest, followed by Skopje, Kraljevica, Bihać, Ljubljana, Chișinău and Čačak in 2025. In each of the partner cities, the walls will return to the museum or gallery after their installation in the public space, where panel discussions will be held to address the impact of participatory public art in their specific context. The project will end at the WELTKUNSTZIMMER in Düsseldorf, where the final discussion with all partners will take place.
On June 5, 2025, the project started its last run for the time being with a launch in Čačak, in cooperation with the Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovic and the Goethe Institute Belgrade.
Projektpartners
Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
RIZOM [ K ] - Frankopan Castle, Kraljevica
Center for Contemporary Art [KSA:K] with Galeria Plai, Chișinău
MGML – Match Gallery, Ljubljana
Art Gallery “Nadežda Petrović”, Čačak
WELTKUNSTZIMMER, Düsseldorf
Mischa Kuball, if walls could tell, Cacak, 2025 (c) VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2025, Archiv Studio Mischa Kuball