Goethe Institute stages Tito's photo archive exhibition

BELGRADE - The exhibition dubbed “Traveling Communique”, a trans-disciplinary project of the Goethe Institute, will open at the Museum of Yugoslav History on Tuesday evening.

The project represents an insight into the photo archives of Josip Broz Tito, lifelong president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ), with a focus on the first conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade in 1961.

On the occasion of the exhibition, which will be open by August 15, a news conference on Monday was addressed by Goethe Institute Director Matthias Muller-Wieferig, curator of the Museum of Yugoslav History and art historian Ivan Manojlovic, and authors of the project Armin Linke (Germany/Italy), Doreen Mende (Germany) and Milica Tomic (born in SFRJ).

The exhibition includes over 50 works by 60 authors from 32 countries in various media: video essays, photos, collage, wallpaper photos, films, texts, lectures.

Muller-Wieferig said that he was interested by the idea to open the private archive of the SFRJ president for the first time in history and to reconsider its possible use in future.

He underlined that this is the largest international project organized by the Institute to date in cooperation with the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the co-producers of the project were the Dutch Institute and the Netsa Art Village from Addis Ababa.

A total of 140,000 photos have been considered for this exhibition out of 300,000 at the Museum of Yugoslav History, Manojlovic said.

Authors of the project Linke, Meende and Tomic believe that the new generations should view the Non-Aligned Movement as the third arena of emancipation and...