Exhibition: Side-Effects, Belgrade, 24 Jan - 4 March 2004

Salon of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Pariska 14

EGOBOO.bits, Felix Gmelin, Igor Grubic, Sharon Hayes, Vlatka Horvat, Kristian Kozul, Andreja Kuluncic, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Serkan Ozkaya, Kirsten Pieroth, Bulent Sangar, Marko Tadic, VERSION curatorial team:

What, How and for Whom / WHW, Zagreb Annual exhibition of the Centre for Contemporary Arts - Belgrade

"Side-effects" takes place in the context of "In the Cities of the Balkans", the 2nd part of the "Balkans trilogy", a project initiated by the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. "Side-effects" presents works that deal with a broad spectrum of questions, which can be read in different contexts. But at the same time, all the works are concerned with certain unavoidable conflicting nods of "transition" toward liberal capitalism, whose "side-effects" are class divides, increase of unemployment and crime, cultural and spiritual impoverishment, lack of imagination, solidarity, safety, indifference, and lethargy.

"Side-effects" offers a conceptual frame, a certain standpoint from which the works presented can be understood on a background of lost illusions in the solutions offered by the "normalization" process and its idea of a gradual approach to the imagined ideal of liberal democracy and free market, while at the same leaving the dialogue between the artistic and curatorial position open. ...

WHW project is generously supported by: Kulturstiftung des Bundes Ministry of Culture of Serbia and Montenegro.