Mira Brtka: Reflections

Mira Brtka is an important name in contemporary art, who received her education in Belgrade and built her artistic career in Rome. She left behind a large artistic oeuvre, part of which we had the opportunity to see during the Reflections exhibition, in the Museum of the City of Belgrade, in 2021.

REFLECTIONS allow us to view the diverse and multimedia work of the multidisciplinary contemporary artist and cultural activist, Mira Brtka, impartially and in the spirit of the new times, from the time distance of fifty years, from her first independent performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad and the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade in 1971.

REFLECTIONS present an overview of her production, from 1964, the "Roman period", to 2012, through various cycles that bring us closer to the transformation of her artistic identity, from practitioners of post-formalist experiences, to representatives of new tendencies in contemporary European art, from representatives of Arganova ( Giulio Carlo Argan's) idea of ​​the project and Menna's (Filiberto Menna's) attitude "that art has the right to privacy, not to stand out, but to be a model for other knowledge and practices", to Oliva's (Achille Bonito Oliva) approach to the concept of the transavant-garde according to which is "the fabric of new art imbued with a significant dose of subjectivism and sensitivity, which should not be understood only as an autobiographical and private syndrome, but as a harmony of art and individual motives purified by the use of conscious and controlled language".

REFLECTIONS can and should indicate the influence of new trends in contemporary European art on the trends of Yugoslav-Serbian art in the second half of the last century.