11.02.2016

Exhibition "When women became citizens" opened in the Central Military Club

In the Grand Gallery of the Central Military Club, the exhibition "When women became citizens" has opened today, organized by the Odbrana Media Centre and the Belgrade National Museum on the occasion of the Statehood Day.

The author of the exhibition, which includes 54 drawings and graphics of the Serbian artists who created through various stylistic epochs from the second half of the 19th to mid-20th century – from Anastas Jovanovic, Steva Todorovic, Paja Jovanovic and Uros Predic, Beta and Rista Vukanovic, Ljuba Ivanovic , Nadezda Petrovic, Kosta Milicevic, to Zora Petrovic, Desa Glisic, and others, is the museum advisor Gordana Stanisic.

Speaking about the exhibition in the context of another successful cooperation with the National Museum, Colonel Stevica Karapandzin, Director of the Odbrana Media Centre, pointed out that it is still very important to point out a large number of known and unknown women from the overall Serbian history.

- We should not forget that in the period from 1830 to 1930, many Serbian women were, no doubt, above the level of than practiced promotion of gender rights, and by their engagement they actively contributed to the struggle for national freedom, not waiting for someone to give them the right to do that, Karapandzin said and recalled, for example, of the great Serbian painter and a war heroine Nadezda Petrovic explaining that the exhibition with its artistic level of communication provides an authentic insight into how the status of women, as eternal inspiration of the artists, has changed over a century.

Presenting the exhibition, Bojana Boric Breskovic, the Director of the National Museum, said that the focus of our attention is on the role and importance of the Serbian woman gaining the rights and freedoms through various social structures.

- It is about the status and the emancipation of a woman citizen, and we can review here today this theme, shown through drawings and prints of distinguished Serbian artists, who created in different eras, the director of the National Museum said, adding that the exhibition testifies to the close historical ties of the historical events of that time and the transformation not only of the collective, but also the cultural and artistic creativity as well as the recognition of various female identities.

The exhibition, for which it was emphasized that it says more than just about the issue of "quite slow" emancipation of women, was opened by professor Simona Cupic. She invited visitors not to pay attention exclusively to works that were exposed but also on the frieze of reproductions and photographs that symbolically stand behind them and point out the context from which they derive.

The visitors will be able to see the exhibition, complemented by reproduced photo material which additionally documents the time and lifestyle of women in the 19th and 20th centuries, in the Grand Gallery of the Serbian Armed Forces until 17 March, every day except Sundays, from 11 am to 7 pm.