Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
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| Established | 1958 |
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| Location | Belgrade |
| Type | contemporary art museum |
| Website | http://www.msub.org.rs/ |
Museum of Contemporary Art (Serbian: Музеј савремене уметности/Muzej savremene umetnosti) in Belgrade is an art institution which collects and displays work produced since in 1900 in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. The museum also organizes international exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It was founded in 1958 as the Museum of Modern Art and was the first Contemporary Art museum in Europe.[1] The building is a masterpiece of Ivan Antić, one of the former Yugoslavia's most prominent post-war architects. The permanent exhibition numbers more than 35,000 works of art.
Departments
The museum has several departments and collections:
- Collection of Paintings before 1945
- Collection of Paintings after 1945
- Collection of Graphics, Prints and foreign Paintings
- The foreign art collection has 323 works,mostly graphics and drawings.
- Graphic works are from Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Joan Miró, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Jacques Villon, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Vasarely, Hans Hartung, James Rosenquist, Josef Albers, Albert Gleizes, Max Bill, Lucio Fontana, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Frank Stella, Antoni Tàpies, Richard Hamilton (artist) ...
- Drawings works from : Fritz Wotruba,
- Paintings from Max Ernst, Andre Masson
- The foreign art collection has 323 works,mostly graphics and drawings.
- Collection of Sculptures
- There are 752 sculptures by Ivan Meštrović, Antun Augustinčić, Toma Rosandić, Walter S. Arnold, ...
- Collection of New Art Media
- Collection has works of Marina Abramović, Ken Friedman, George Maciunas, Hannah Wilke etc.
- Library and catalogue library - over 4,800 books and 23,000 catalogues
- Hemeroteque - more than 350,000 press clippings
- Photo library
Departmants:
- Department of General Affairs
- Department of Finance
- Studio for Conservation and Restoration
The museum also operates the Salon of the MoCAB, located in old town Belgrade. It was opened in 1961.
The museum building is located near the confluence of the river Sava into the Danube, in Ušće park of Novi Beograd municipality. It was designed by Ivan Antić and Ivanka Raspopović in 1960. The building was constructed between 1960 and 1965. The architects received the October Prize of the City of Belgrade on October 20, 1965, the day of the opening of the Museum.
The museum is currently undergoing an €8 million renovation.
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Coordinates: 44°49′10″N 20°26′32″E / 44.81944°N 20.44222°E