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 […]
Wall newspapers were launched in November 2013 within the campaign "Culture in Protest" of Association Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia. Wall newspapers are visual-informative project, which is easy to multiply and divide, and display on the walls of local cultural institutions, organizations of the independent scene and other public spaces, […]
In September 2013 Kontekst collective from Belgrade invited KURS to take part at the show Unexpected Encounters in the gallery Camera Austria in Graz. The exhibition was part of the festival Styrian Autumn (Steirischer herbst 2013) together with 0gms from Sofia (Bulgaria) and collective Beirut from Cairo (Egypt). In this […]
During the August 2012 members of KURS took part in GuestRoom Maribor artist in residence program in Maribor, Slovenia, which was part of bigger program European Cultural Capital Maribor 2012. The works made during the residency are conducted through the analyses of the legacy of WWII and one of the […]
Project Old spaces/New places is realised in 2012 and it was pointed towards the promotion and affirmation of art practice in public space. In this project much attention is given to consideration of the possibility of cooperation with local communities and residents. Within the project two actions of painting the […]
Istraživanje realizovali: Jovana Stojanović, Miloš Miletić i Mirjana Radovanović. Map of Belgrade Murals Gallery of Murals Painted in Belgrade Data base of Belgrade murals GODINA AUTOR LOKACIJA OPIS STANJE FOTO 1970 Lazar Vujaklija Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra Mural se nalazio na zidu male zanatske radnje u Bulevaru Kralja Aleksandra. Uništen 1977 […]
Within the AJDE festival in 2011 KURS had the workshop called “Art in Public Space”. During the three day workshop the participants were introduced with the technique of stencil making. The composition is made from those stencils and painted on the unfinished building in the center of Krusevac.
Expedition Inex film started in 2011 by a group of associations and individuals with the goal of using the abandoned space for the contemporary collective knowledge production and exchange, cultural and activist content. In the second action in Inex film KURS took part with action called Gallery 8 walls. The […]
In august 2010 first project of KURS assocoation is realised in public space. The mural is painted on the building in Djure Jaksica street number 7. It was the bigining of longterm project “Art reconstruction”. The financial support of the project was provided by Munucipality of Stari Grad and paint […]