Branislav Dimitrijević
Branislav Dimitrijević (1967, Belgrade) is Professor of History and Theory of Art at the School for Art and Design and Nova Academia in Belgrade. He also teaches at the Curatorial Practice course at the Belgrade University of Arts (Erasmus Programme). Main field of his historical research is visual art, popular culture and film in socialist Yugoslavia. As a curator he explores “site-specificity” and “physical narrativity” in contemporary art and politics of display. His curatorial projects include: Murder1 (CZKD, Belgrade, 1997), Konverzacija (MOCAB, 2001), Situated Self: Confused, Compassionate, Conflictual (Helsinki City Museum; MOCAB, 2005), Breaking Step – Displacement, Compassion and Humour in recent art from Britain (MOCAB, 2007), FAQ Serbia (ACF, New York, 2010), No Network (D0 Nuclear bunker, Konjic, Bosnia, 2011), etc.
He has written and edited numerous books and catalogues including On Normality: Art in Serbia 1989-2001 (MOCA Belgrade, 2005), Good Life: Physical Narratives and Spatial Imagination (Belgrade Cultural Centre, 2012) and Goran Djordjević - Against Art (MOCA Belgrade, 2014). Since 2014 he regularly writes on political and cultural issues for “Peščanik” web portal. Dimitrijević holds an MA degree in History and Theory of Art from the University of Kent (UK), and has received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies from the University of Arts in Belgrade for the thesis on the emergence of consumer culture in the socialist Yugoslavia. (2015)
Publications[edit]
- O normalnosti. Umetnost u Srbiji 1989-2001 (editor, with Branislava Anđelković and Dejan Sretenović), Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 2005, 382 pp. Exh. held 11 Sep-20 Nov 2005. Contributors: Branislava Andelkovic, Branislav Dimitrijević, Dejan Sretenović, Vladimir Tupanjac, Aleksandra Mirčić, Kristian Lukić. Artists. Exh. review: Wash Times. [1] [2] (Serbian)
- On Normality. Art in Serbia 1989–2001, Belgrade: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005, 382 pp. (English)
- En Garde 20/21 (co-editor), Belgrade: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, and Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, 2016, 166 pp. (Serbian)
- Jugoslavija zašto i kako (editor, with Ildiko Erdei and Tatomir Toroman), Belgrade: Muzej Jugoslavije, 2019, 350 pp. Publisher. (Serbian)
- The Yugoslav Art Space: Ješa Denegri in the First Person (with Jelena Vesić), afterw. Boris Groys, Geneva: JRP|Editions, Dijon: Les presses du réel, with Vienna: Kontakt Collection, 2024, 409 pp. A survey of the life and work of Ješa Denegri.
