Culture Is a Way of Life
1 SEP – 7 ОCT
CULTURE OF TOGETHERNESS
Five weeks and five arts, at iconic, new places for culture, in new, restored spaces, connect local and European scene and citizens, turning Novi Sad into a kaleidoscope city.
Architecture, literature, performing arts, visual and applied arts, find their way to their citizens of Novi Sad with numerous programmes and mark the end of summer in our city.
The Kaleidoscope of Culture, another legacy project, has been one of the most significant projects in the European Capital of Culture. Furthermore, the Kaleidoscope of Culture is one of the two programme arches of the European Capital of Culture along with Doček thanks to which Novi Sad also received the Award for the best European trend brand in the field of culture in November 2021 in Dresden.
As the largest art gathering in this part of Europe, the Kaleidoscope of Culture is bringing a performance by the famous Viennese Burgtheater, world-class contemporary dance, a performance by one of the world’s greatest violinists Julian Rachlin, a major exhibition dedicated to one of the most significant Serbian, and European, painters of the 20th century, Sava Šumanović, the first independent retrospective exhibition of Dragoljub Raša Teodosijević, a conceptualist and representative of Serbia at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, the art collective Plastique Fantastique from Berlin, which exhibited at the biggest art events, such as the Venice Biennale and the RINGdeLUXE La Rioja festival, as well as numerous other prestigious art programmes.
You can check out the programme book of the Kaleidoscope of Culture arch here, and the calendar of all events is available here.
PROGRAMME UNITS
ARCHITECTURE
Industrial heritage, scene design and modern architecture presented through exhibitions, but through other forms of artistic expression and modern technology as well.
PERFORMING ARTS
Concerts in the open, performances, theatre plays, contemporary dance.
LITERATURE
Public readings, conversations with authors and performances as deviations from the established forms of literary promotion.
VISUAL ARTS
New media art and contemporary expressions of visual arts.
APPLIED ARTS
New exhibiting practice introduces the biggest names of the world and local design.
7 OCT – 27 NOV
We are discovering different, alternative, marginalised, minority, and rebellious expressions by reassessing dominant values in European culture and art.
Some of the main programmes bring inclusive events with the focus on creative work by marginalised groups (Superpowerful), present new forms of comic books (The Comic Book City) and introduce rich alternative, minority, avant-garde genres, languages and terms.
Some of the currently announced names and programmes for the Other? Europe programme arch is the Typhlological Museum from Zagreb – one of the few museums in Europe that deals with accessibility, the Viennese Kunsthistorisches Museum – one of the most famous museums in the world, British percussionist with hearing impairment Evelyn Glennie – two-time Grammy winner in classical music and the Polar Music Prize winner, also called the ‘Nobel Prize for Music’, the famous German conceptual artist Frank Uwe Laysiepen – remembered as one of the pioneers of performance, body art and Polaroid photography, and is known for his long-term private and business relationship with Marina Abramović and Dutch director Michael Helmerhorst, who will direct a play about a famous comic book heroine Cat Claw by Bane Kerac.
You can check out the programme book of the Other? Europe arch here, and the calendar of all events is available here.
PROGRAMME UNITS
SUPERPOWERED
Equality in creating cultural content is encouraged through inclusion and accessibility, with emphasis on works by marginalised groups.
CITY OF COMICS
Novi Sad is becoming the centre of the ninth art, gathering some of the most significant comics artists, playing with this form of art and presenting its new models.
B SIDE
Revealing the richness of different avant-garde, minority and alternative expressions, genres and languages.
