Curator: Docar Films (Jasper Meurer i Rocío Calzado), Andrea Arcese and Loris Luigi Perillo
Exhibition Setup: Andrea Arcese and Loris Luigi Perillo
Participants: Alberto Roncelli and Nicole Vettore; Giulio Galasso and Natalia Voroshilova; Isidora Koščica, Jana Čvertkov and Lana Jeremić; Maria Mendez; Nevena Delić; Sara Ramezani; Francesca Cocchiara and Sergios Strigklogiannis; Rebeka Bratož Gornik, Hana Cirman
Tuesday, 22 April 2025.
19.00 OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
(22.04–17.05.2025)
→ Podroom Gallery, The Republic Square 5/-1
EU PLATFORM FOR LEARNING, INTERACTING AND NETWORKING IN ARCHITETURE / LINA
LINA is a network connecting prominent cultural players with emerging practitioners and thinkers in architecture. Its goal is to steer the architectural sector towards sustainable, circular and clean practices, to link the existing efforts into a united LINA Architecture Programme presented through an international platform.
The LINA Architecture Programme is carried out by its members: architectural museums, universities, research networks, foundations, triennials, biennials, festivals and other high-profile European and Mediterranean architectural organisations. Each year, they offer the chance for LINA fellows to become part of their programmes, feature their work through lectures, workshops, mentorships, or other collaborative formats, and thus help their ideas reach further and gain an international audience.
More about LINA at lina.community
UNDERSTANDING CITY GROWTH
Residential programme
December 2024 – May 2025
The accelerated growth of the city, caused by a huge inflow of population as a consequence of political and social changes in the last thirty years, has led to great changes in Belgrade’s urban tissue. The capital’s citizens often talk about the jeopardised identity of the city, inadequate infrastructure and pollution. On the other hand we have some unquestionable qualities: 7000 years of the continuous urban history, the position at the confluence of two big navigable rivers, overlapping of a myriad of cultural influences, but also numerous destructions and reconstructions as a consequence of living on a border, having to endure the tumultuous history and the wartime ravaging repeated every 40-50 years on average. Belgrade’s urban identity is defined by the structures and edifices, as well as empty spaces separating them, created in all historical eras. To nurture the spirit of a place implies identification and designation of important memorial and material layers of a city.
What makes Belgrade recognisable today on the urban map of Europe is this very material testimony of its long continuous existence, consisting of the preserved fragments and traces, culminating in the interwar and post-war modernist heritage.
During the three years of the first cycle of the LINA platform (2023-2025), we invited representatives of young creatives to Belgrade to give insight into the development potential of Belgrade from their perspective through various media.
This year, four participants of the LINA public call from 2024, Andrea Arcese, Loris Luigi Perillo, Rocio Calzado and Jasper Meurer, will conceive and design an exhibition of works under the umbrella title “Understanding city grows”, which will present works created during the previous two years of residency in Belgrade. Through this exhibition, we want to present the complexity of the work of these young creators, because in addition to works inspired by Belgrade, works created in collaboration with other members of the LINA community will also be shown. The exhibition is an opportunity to point out the importance of networking and connecting various international institutions and organizations that, united in the LINA platform, help represent and empower young creators who are at the beginning of their professional careers.
