Miner

Serbia is a country on southeast Europe’s Balkan peninsula with vast northern plateaus and mountains with ski resorts to the south. The capital city Belgrade is home to Communist-era architecture and Kalemegdan Park, site of an ancient fortress held successively by the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.   The Serbian art scene of the last ten years developed in a specific social and political context: the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989; the collapse of the Eastern bloc; the fall of the communist political and economic system; the disintegration of former Yugoslavia; the civil wars of the 1990s; the international isolation of the country in the same decade; and finally, after 2000, the process of social democratization and the neo-liberal transition. These circumstances left a lasting …[read more]