The Serbian pavilion is a

national pavilion The national pavilions host each participant nation's official representation during the Venice Biennale, an international art biennial exhibition held in Venice, Italy. Some countries own pavilion buildings in the Giardini della Biennale while ...

of the

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arts festivals. It houses

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's national representation.

Background

Organization and building

The pavilion was originally designed by Italian architect

Brenno Del Giudice Brenno Del Giudice (23 November 1888 – 6 December 1957) was an Italian rower who became a prominent architect. Family Del Giudice was born on 23 November 1888 in Venice; the rower Scipione Del Giudice was his twin brother. Their parents were ...

in 1932 and built in 1938 as part of a new expansion of the complex on the Giardini's Sant'Elena Island. Two buildings were built next to each other, originally allocated to Sweden and Greece, but were later permanently transferred to Yugoslavia and Romania. The pavilion has the inscription "JUGOSLAVIA" ("Yugoslavia" in Italian) in large block letters above the entrance. Artists from the

former Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

participated in the Biennale from 1938 to 1990. Following the breakup of the country in the early 1990s, four new countries which declared independence (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia) began exhibiting separately, and the pavilion was inherited by

Serbia and Montenegro The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro or simply Serbia and Montenegro, known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and commonly referred to as FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Southeast Europe locate ...

(2003 and 2005) and after that by Serbia.

Representation by year

Art

* 2003 - Milica Tomić (Curators: Branislav Dimitrijević and Dejan Sretenović) * 2012 — Marija Miković, Marija Strajnić, Olga Lazarević, Janko Tadić, Nebojša Stevanović, Miloš Živković, Aleksandar Ristović, Nikola Andonov, Milan Dragić, and Marko Marović * 2015 — Ivan Grubanov (Curator: Lidija Merenik) * 2017 — Milena Dragičević, Vladislav Šćepanović, and Dragan Zdravković (Curator: Nikola Šuica) * 2022 — Vladimir Nikolić (Curator: Biljana Ćirić) * 2024 —

Aleksandar Denić Aleksandar Denić (born 31 October 1963, in Belgrade) (outside Serbia frequently spelt Aleksandar Denic) is a Serbian visual artist, stage designer and film production designer. He is known as a scenographer of feature films, as well as for his wor ...

Background

Organization and building

Representation by year

Art

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