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About the Project
Sarajevo Under Siege: A Visual Art Archive
Planning Grant
Najveći uspjeh projekta je kreiranje multiinstitucionalnog inventara vizuelnih umjetnosti proizvedenih tokom opsade Sarajeva, koji će pružiti osnovu za digitalizovanu online arhivu i olakšati istraživanje na ovu temu. Kombinirajući različite materijale u sedam privatnih i javnih institucija, zbirka sadrži informacije o lokaciji i dostupnosti kataloga izložbi, postera, brošura, novinskih članaka i originalnih umjetničkih djela na tu temu. Ova vrsta "vodiča za pronalaženje" bit će od neprocjenjive vrijednosti istraživačima, historičarima umjetnosti, umjetnicima i svakoj zainteresiranoj javnosti u učenju višestruke prirode ratne umjetničke produkcije, poticanju istraživanja o nedovoljno proučenom, ali kritičnom trenutku u bosanskoj historiji umjetnosti, te predstavljati osnovu za potpuno digitalizovana javno dostupna arhiva.
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This project successfully created a multi-institutional inventory pertaining to visual arts produced during the siege of Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1992-1995). Combining a variety of materials across seven private and public institutions, the collection contains information on the location and accessibility of exhibition catalogs, posters, brochures, newspaper articles and original artworks on the subject. These resources are invaluable for researchers, art historians, artists and any interested public in learning about the multifaceted nature of wartime artistic production, encouraging research on an understudied yet critical moment in Bosnian art history, and provide the basis for a fully digitized publicly accessible archive.
Project Leads
- Elma Hašimbegović, History Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Elma Hodžić, History Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Ewa Kumelowski, CETOBaC - EHESS Paris.
Host Institution
Historijski Muzej Bosne i Hercegovine
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Users are encouraged to interact with the documentation in a variety of ways: to study specific facets of Sarajevan wartime art, to explore the production of specific artists, or to look at the visual arts scene as a whole through the prism of the largest unified collection of documentation on the subject. These inventories will be useful for researchers and art professionals, but also those who were simply interested in learning more about the art scene during the siege of Sarajevo.
We encourage potential archival partners to connect with us and to contribute their holdings to this ongoing archival project.
Collection inventories are now available for the holdings from seven cultural institutions in Sarajevo:
- Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo (ALU)(opens in a new tab)
Out of all the objects included in the archive, the collection of graphic works held at the Academy of Fine Arts must be one of the most impactful. The collection, which consists of some 50 individual graphic prints produced in yearly cycles throughout the conflict, offers an acutely intimate visual representation of the experiences of the artists who produced them. While many of the works are attributed to well-known figures, the collection includes the works by lesser-known artists, whose work has been overlooked in the art history of the period. - Galerija Paleta(opens in a new tab)
- Historical Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina(opens in a new tab)
- Collegium Artisticum(opens in a new tab)
- Kamerni Teatar '55(opens in a new tab)
- National and University Library(opens in a new tab)
- Oslobođenje(opens in a new tab)