April 2011.
ICOM COSTUME COMMITTEE ANNUAL MEETING
Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, September 25th-30th 2011.
Theme: IN BETWEEN – Culture of dress between the East and the West
Host: Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade
Short overview of exhibitions
Sunday, September 25th 2011.
6:00 - 7:00 PM, Belgrade, Kalemegdan Plaza: Japan Fashion Now (Photo exhibition).The Museum at
FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York City, USA.
Monday, September 26th 2011.
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Belgrade, Assembly Hall of Media Center Odbrana: Visiting the exhibitions and
poster presentations at the Gallery of Media Center Odbrana.
Conservation of textile at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade. The experts from the Museum will
present their work through the poster presentation of process of preserving textile and clothing items in the
last several years.
Poster presentation of works by participants in the Conference.
Tuesday, September 27th 2011.
09:00-10:30 AM, Belgrade, Visiting National Museum in Belgrade – Fresco Gallery.
Dress and jewelry in Middle Ages. This exhibition will include costumes of all hierarchical and social
groups. A special segment of this exhibition presents the dissenting foreign costume which is mirroring the
cultural exchange.
Town dress at Kosovo and Metohija in XIX and first half of XX Century. Richness, delicateness of
handiwork and luxuriant ornaments on the dress items characteristic for ethnically and confessionally
diverse town and village communities of Kosovo and Metohija will be presented by the museum experts
from Museum in Priština (relocated to Belgrade since 1999).
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12:00 noon - 2:00 PM, Visiting the exhibitions of Ethnographic Museum.
Traditional Culture of Serbs in XIX and early XX Century – permanent exhibition of EM. This
exhibition is an introduction to richness and typological diversity of folk dress in Serbs, developed during
the centuries of combining the autochthonous and Old Balkan tradition with the Byzantine, coastal and
western influences.
Traditional textile handiwork of Serbs. The goal of this exhibition is to present, document and promote
the basic characteristics of textile handiwork, as an important part of intangible cultural heritage of Serbs.
The textile handiwork will be presented through the procedures of processing the textile material and
associated artwork, as well as through the museum specimens.
Children’s dress in Serbia in XIX and early XX century. This exhibition will present the key points in
development of children’s dress from the traditional to the modern, western one.
With love, Evica gives you gloves. The many decades of cooperation between the Museum and the
Serbian designers will be presented in this exhibition of gloves by one of the best-known fashion
designers in Serbia. The traditional dress and embroidery patterns may be transferred to such an
important detail of dress as the hand gloves.
4:00-6:00 PM, Visiting History Museum of Serbia: Gallery at the Square of Nikola Pašić
Official dress in Serbia in XIX and XX century. During the two centuries of modern Serbian state,
official dress has represented the state character of Serbia and europeization of its institutions. This
exhibition shows the development of uniform, which was formed upon the base of autochthonous
elements but influenced by the leading western countries.
Wednesday, September 28th 2011.
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Novi Sad, City Museum of Novi Sad: Permanent exhibition
Costumes of women from Novi Sad in late XIX and early XX century . The women’s costumes and
fashion accessories, fashion magazines and portraits of ladies from Novi Sad in late XIX and early XX
century will be presented by specimens from the rich textile collection of City Museum of Novi Sad.
What do women want. Poster exhibition by the City Museum of Novi Sad, presenting the history of sale
announcements in this region from late XIX to first decades of XX century, with special inflection on
commercials targeting the population of women.
3:30-5:30 PM, Visiting Gallery of Matica Srpska and Museum of Vojvodina
Gallery of Matica Srpska: Importance and position of fashion in the visual construction of township
identity. In the period of intensive industrialization and modernization, fashion and dress have shaped the
town identity of Serbian society. The exhibition will follow the development of dress through the various
forms of visual arts.
Museum of Vojvodina: Dress and ethnic diversity in Vojvodina in XIX and early XX century and Old
city street in Vojvodina - permanent exhibitions by Museum of Vojvodina . The exhibited objects in
the permanent exhibition are a picturesque demonstration of folk culture in Vojvodina region in XIX and
XX century. A walk through the improvised street in a town from Vojvodina from the early XIX century will
introduce the visitors to the atmosphere of that period.
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6:00 PM, Sremski Karlovci, Exhibition of City Museum of Novi Sad and cocktail party with sale exhibition
Church robes from the collections of City Museum of Novi Sad. This exhibition will present the
valuable collection of church textile stored at the City Museum of Novi Sad: church robes and church
service textile. These objects were made in local workshops in the period of XVIII-XX century.
Embroidery in writing, writing in embroidery. Rich and diverse development of embroidery and
decorating in various ethnic groups of Vojvodina in XIX and early XX century is presented in this
particularly interesting exhibition by Novi Sad City Museum.
Thursday, September 29th 2011.
09:00-10:30 AM, Belgrade, Visiting the Yugoslav History Museum
Comrades A la Mode. Guest exhibition of Museum of Modern Arts from Zagreb, Croatia. This exhibition
presents the development of women’s fashion in the region of Former Yugoslavia from the 1960s until the
disbanding of country in late 1980s.
Golden album – Fashion pictures from the photographic album of Josip and Jovanka Broz, 1956—
1966. This exhibition will present 30-50 black-and-white photographs made by photographs on official
occasions, several official portraits in interior or exterior areas, as well as the photographs from the
everyday life of Broz couple. These photographs mostly pertain to the refined taste and esthetic
characteristics of human figure and ambient in the decade 1956 - 1966. The fashion was particularly
dignified, objects were perfectly processed and everything was characterized by moderate minimalism.
The photographs are following the information on elements of style, particularly pertaining to culture of
dress.
11:00 – 12:00, Belgrade, Visit to Hellenic Foundation of Culture.
Ground floor. Development of culture of dress in Serbia in XX century: a personal story. This
photographic exhibition will present a clear simple overview of development of culture of dress in Serbia in
XX century, and through the private story and dress of one person show the importance of process of
europeization in creating the general cultural model.
First floor. Fashion studio CLICK. Presenting the Serbian designers of the younger generation.
Friday, September 30th 2011,
09:00-11:30 AM, Belgrade, Visiting Museum of Applied Arts and Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church
Museum of Applied Arts: Wedding dresses from the collection of Serbian town dress at MAA. For the
first time the Museum will present the collection of wedding dresses made in the XIX and first decades of
XX century. The collection follows the process of transformation of Serbian town dress from the Oriental
type to the European fashion pattern.
Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church: Church and artistic embroidery in Serbian medieval state –
preserved specimens. The style and esthetic characteristics of embroidery developed in the Serbian
medieval state indicate the strong interconnections of Byzantine and Western European heritage.
6:30 PM, Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Intertwining. Author’s fashion show by Docent Ingrid
Huljev, Department of Costume, Atelier of Modern Clothing.
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8:00 PM, City Museum of Belgrade: Farewell dinner with exhibition.
Woman’s town dress of XIX century. This exhibition will be presented in the exhibition space of Konak,
pertaining to “Interiors of houses in Belgrade in XIX century”. The costumes will be presented in the rooms
arranged to match the period from 1830s to the end of century, from the Oriental (Turkish) influences until
the influences of the West. These clothes are stored at the Department for Applied Arts and Ethnology at
the Museum, and mostly used to belong to rich and famous ladies from Belgrade of the time.
Sunday, September 25th – Friday, September 30th 2011.
Several interesting exhibitions will take place at the locations with greatest traffic in the streets connecting
the hotels, the place of Conference and the Ethnographic Museum.
Works by professors and students from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade:
Heritage House and the Gallery of Faculty of Applied Arts
Myths of the Balkans – the cult and the tradition. Students from the Department of Costume at Atelier
for Stage Costume and Department of Camera at the Faculty of Drama Arts will present their vision of film
and theater costume, inspired by texts of Slavic mythology. Mentor: Ljiljana Petrović, Full Professor.
Balkan Heroines. Students from Department of Costume at Atelier for Stage Costume will present the
sketches and costumes inspired by real-life and imaginary female characters from national history and
literature, during their quest for their authentic author expression, twining together the past and the
present, the authentic and the imagination. Mentor: Svetlana – Lana Cvijanović, Docent.
Colors of the Balkans. Inspired by the richness of colors and ornamentation of folk dress from the Balkan
region, the students choose detail as the starting point in forming new, artistically enriched dress forms.
Mentor: Zora Mojsilović – Popović, Associate Professor.
Crossroads. Studies of ethnographic material from the region of western Balkans as the starting point in
formation of experimental dress forms and accessorial fashion details adapted to modern fashion trends.
Mentor: Ingrid Huljev, Docent.
Gallery ULUPUDS
Serbian town costume from XIX century – remains of time. Reconstruction of Serbian town costume
of XIX century has enabled the students to use specific methods and analysis of visual art sources and
original dress items of this period in order to learn more about the general characteristics of female dress
and ornamentation. Mentor: Maja Studen – Petrović, Docent.
Goethe Institute
Identity – Sorbs. This is an artistic costume exhibition – installation inspired by the folk dress of Sorbs.
The folk dress, as a visually expressed philosophy, as a psychology formed by visual arts, as a language
of its own, connected with the talking language by certain similarities, as a sign with an expressing form
pointing out the expressed. Author: Ljiljana Petrović, Full Professor.
Tourist Organization of Serbia
To Gustav Klimt. Exhibition of works by students from Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of Textile,
includes the visual art solutions in medium of scarves and on the topic of secession, inspired by the
paintings of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Mentor: M.A. Gordana Ćirić – Krstić, Associate Professor.
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