The exhibition Political Practices of (Post-)Yugoslav Art: RETROSPECTIVE 01 presents a cluster of independent researches that deal with the cultural heritage of socialist Yugoslavia through specific examples and concrete analyses of art practices within the institutional, political and social contexts in which they were being shaped. The common starting point of the exhibition – as a collective endeavor – is a counter-position vis-à-vis dominant historical representations of Yugoslav art and culture, as well as the socialist socio-political system in general.

Within today’s dominant discourse, which follows the creation of the “regional” art history, the representation of art from socialist Yugoslavia is articulated ...