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Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (MNMA) |
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35000 Jagodina, Serbia
Boška Đuričića 10 |
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Phone: (+381 35) 8223 419
info@naiveart.rs |
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MUSEUM OF NAÏVE
AND MARGINAL ART
Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (MNMA), Jagodina, is a
specialized institution, unique in our country, with a special
programme of museum protection of the works of naïve and
marginal art by collecting, studying, exhibiting, publishing and
systematizing museum documentation. The Museum was founded in
1960 in Jagodina, firstly as Gallery of Self-Taught Artists; in
1985 it received the name Museum of Naïve Art to be renamed into
Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art in 2007.
Museum has been systematically working on protection of the works of
naïve art, primarily Serbian and Yugoslav, to which international
works were added in 1994.
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The mission of MNMA was to provide integral patronage over the
works of naïve and marginal art, thus disseminating the true idea of
its essence and real artistic value, separating it from other forms
of non-academic work, the field of amateurism and dilettantism. The
most significant result of long lasting efforts and activities of
MNMA is the fact that many deep-rooted dilemmas and illusions about
the specific field of naïve and marginal art have been explained.
Nowadays, wider artistic audience is obviously more aware of the
extraordinary artistic potentials, high artistic achievements and
truly creative energy of its most valuable works while naïve and
marginal art is properly viewed among the professional circles, and
evaluated as a constituent of contemporary, equal to academic art.
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Collection of MNMA
The Collection of MNMA is international in its character with
more than 3000 works (paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphics)
and about 350 artists from 1930s to the present day. There are works
from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro,
Macedonia, the Republic of Srpska, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany,
Italy, Cyprus, Slovakia, Belarus, Sweden, Turkey and Brazil, among
which are numerous
representative works of
our and worldly classics of naïve and
marginal art.
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In addition to representative permanent
display, including the most significant works from the collection of
MNMA, the exhibiting activity of the Museum includes numerous
independent, retrospective, group, thematic, study and international
exhibitions in the Museum, other cities of Serbia and abroad. Since
its foundation, the Museum has organized more than 500 exhibitions.
Within its rich international cooperation, the Museum has organized
numerous representative exhibitions (Vienna, Lausanne, Martigny,
Paris, Sofia, Budapest, Bratislava, Prague etc.). Museum also
organizes significant international events, Biennial and Colony of
Naïve and Marginal Art, as one of the best ways to follow up, study
and promote the development of naïve and marginal art in wider,
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Documentation centre
of Naïve and marginal art
Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art is a unique documentation centre
in this field of artistic creativity. Wealth of documentation
resources, systematized in several units through research and
archiving, including inventory book, card and photo catalogues,
library, archives, CDs and DVDs, records of exhibitions and authors
as well as electronic documentation serves as an important basis for
professional work and research, and the study of naive and marginal
art as a whole or in segments. |
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In addition to accompanying elements of exhibiting activities
such as bilingual catalogues and other advertising materials
(posters, invitation cards, picture post cards etc.), the publishing
activity of MNMA includes other publications: monographs,
miscellaneous collections, graphic maps, calendars. Since 2000, the
publishing activity has included electronic editions.
MNMA web site is www.mnmu.rs. Web
presentation of the Museum was edited in 1998. |
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Oto Bihalji-Merin
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Salon Oto Bihalji-Merin in Belgrade
It was founded in Belgrade in 2013 as a small
institute for studying, documentary centre and place of meeting of
artists, collectors and colleagues from other similar institutions
in the country and abroad. Marijana Bihalji, Oto Bihalji’s daughter
and Gerhard Shoenberner, her husband, donated the flat where Oto
Bihalji spent his last years to the Museum in order to continue the
mission to which, among other progressive ideas, this writer and
publicist was devoted.
Salon MNMA acts as a portal of mother institution, where, in
addition to permanent display exhibition of the works of domestic
and international naïve and marginal artists worldwide, numerous
multimedia programs such as workshops, seminars and scientific
meetings, as well as multimedia, thematic, education and study
exhibitions of the internationally most prominent artists are held. |
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Salon Oto Bihalji-Merin in Belgrade
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