Lessons on Defense, series of four digital prints, 2020 Book Lessons on Defense published by KURS and Büchs’n’Books – Art and Knowledge Production in Context, 2020 This series of graphics is final part of long term research about culture within People’s Liberation Movement in Yugoslavia during the WWII. Photographs, archival […]
Putujuće izložbe: sredstvo za narodno prosvećivanje, 2020, ofset štampa, 22 x 27cm, tiraž 200 komada. Autori: KURS – Mirjana Radovanović, Miloš Miletić Izdavač: [BLOK] | Lokalna baza za osvježavanje kulture Urednice: Ana Kutleša, Ivana Hanaček, Vesna Vuković Iz uvoda Radeći na istraživanju o kulturnim aktivnostima u Narodno-oslobodilačkom pokretu, a čiji […]
Lessons on Defense: Cultural Activities of the People’s Liberation Movement, 2020, offset print, 23,5 x 16,5cm, print run 200. Authors: KURS- Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović Publishers: KURS and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Editors: Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović Co-editor: Andrei Siclodi The book includes 39 archival documents. Preface The book Lessons […]
What Do We Know About Solidarity? - (Im)Possible examples from the past is an artwork within The Lasting Effect exhibition in Ramallah, a part of Qalandiya International Biennale in Palestine. The work is comprised of a mural in the historical part of Ramallah and Wall Newspaper.
From Text To Exhibition Didascalies: How To Visualize Research KURS’s primary task was to translate the theoretical, analytical and archive content, produced and gathered during the course of researches conducted for the exhibition „We built cities for you“, into visual language and a coherent representational whole. A collage approach was […]
“Do not lead the revolution to write songs about them. Both songs and revolutions are born in order to preserve the dignity of man, his basic human right to peace, freedom and creativity.” Juro Kaštelan The “Notes on Struggle” is the collective artwork of the KURS and Bojan Krivokapić. The […]
The work* consists of a song “The Great Humanity” of the famous Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, and illustrations of peoples collective dance. Nazim Hikmet was convicted and expelled from Turkey as a communist. He was rehabilitated in 2009, 46 years after his death. Although the work is composed of two […]
KURS and Spanish Fighters Association 1936-1939 launched a joint initiative in 2016 for painting a mural to celebrate the 80th anniversary of founding of the International Brigades in Spain. In the defense of Spanish Republic, 35-40,000 interbrigadists, volunteers of freedom from more than fifty countries from all parts of the […]
Presentcion of KURS works at School of Visual Arts of Universidad de Concepción. At the invitation of the curator Ignacio Szmulewicz, in collaboration with Casa Poli, residency program (Oscar Concha & Leslie Fernández) / MA Art and Heritage and School of Visual Arts of Universidad de Concepción. The aim of […]
BLOK curators’ collective from Zagreb, invited KURS to take part in Urban Festival 13. Within the festival, KURS painted the mural in the factory ITAS-Prvomajska By painting a mural at ITAS Prvomajska factory in Ivanec, we primarily wanted to support the workers’ organization and struggle, which resists the logic of […]
Mural “20th of October” is painted to commemorate the seventy years of liberation of Belgrade. The occupation of the capital of Yugoslavia was ended after 1287 days. The mural is painted on the facade of the Institute for Mental Health in the city center. Besides recording a significant date in […]
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 1st of July, 2014 opened international exhibition titled Politicization of Friendship. At the invitation of the curator Bojana Piškur, KURS took part in the exhibition with the work Lessons in defense. This work is the first part of the research on […]
On the fourth of April, 2014 KURS association presented the mural titled Fight, Knowledge, Equality at Gospodar Jevremova street No. 31 About the mural Fight, Knowledge, Equality After conducted the research of the history of Belgrade murals in 2011/12 the most important conclusions was that there were neither left oriented […]
From 2013 KURS is a partner in the project Artyčok.tv (Close-up: creative tools for new criticism) which was launched at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Close-up: creative tools for new criticism is a collaborative initiative by six contemporary art centers from Central and Eastern Europe to establish a […]