Center for Cultural Decontamination
The Center for Cultural Decontamination (Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, CZKD) is a nonprofit cultural institution whose work is based on critical thinking, and cultural and artistic production. Through cultural and social engagement, which has included thousands of people, CZKD articulates initiatives of politization and repolitization of public space, culture and art.
Established in Belgrade at a time of war and transitional devastation, the Center has managed to develop into an institution of resistance. Opened at the “First Decontamination”, on January 1st 1995, with the firm belief that nationalism, xenophobia, and any kind of violence can be questioned in the same way that they are developed – through culture, art and public speech. Since then the Center has been an institution of critical thinking and the affirmation of the right to rebel, without separating human rights and justice, art, culture and truth. Since its foundation, CZKD has organized several thousand various programs: plays, performances, exhibitions, concerts, public discussions, film screenings, workshops, seminars, conferences, lectures and complex performance experiments. CZKD is a place of political and cultural dialogue, a public space that is open for both critique and affirmation.
Team: Borka Pavićević, Ana Miljanić, Slavica Vučetić, Dragan Škorić, Aleksandra Sekulić, Ana Ćosić, Lola Joksimović, Ivica Đorđević, Ana Isaković, Luna Đorđević, Adam Ranđelović, Danica Stojanović, Dejan Pantić, Aleksandar Obradović, Dejan Vasić, a.o. (2025)
- Publications
- Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Vladimir Kulic, "Nationalism and Catharsis. The Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade", Cabinet 2, Spring 2001. Conversation with Borka Pavićević and Ana Miljanić.
- Studije konteksta: diverzitet diverziteta, eds. Borka Pavićević, Saša Ćirić, and Aleksandra Sekulić, Belgrade: Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, 2014, 164 pp. (Serbian),(English)
- Borka Pavićević, Glava u torbi, Belgrade: Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, 2017, 543 pp. Collection of author's essays from 2013-2016. (Serbian)
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