Conference SLOVAK NATIONAL MINORITY – CULTURE AND SIGNIFICANCE
Monday, October 3, 1 p.m.
It is with great pleasure that the Institute organizes the conference SLOVAK NATIONAL MINORITY CULTURE AND SIGNIFICANCE on October 3, 2022 at 1 p.m. in the Gallery of the Institute , on the occasion of the First Festival of Slovak Naive Art in Serbia
The conference program includes the most important issues of cultural policy, cultural diplomacy, cooperation between the Serbian and Slovak peoples, and the creativity of the Slovak national minority in Serbia. With this conference, the Republic’s institution of culture, the INSTITUTE, wants to highlight all aspects of its long-term activity in the field of culture, especially highlighting this topic as important in the cultural policy of our country.
Participating:
Alma Rizvanović, special advisor, Ministry of Culture and Information
Goran Milašinović, president of the National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO
Predrag Marković, director of the Institute for Contemporary History
Obšust Kristijan, Archive of Vojvodina – Center for Serbo-Slovak Themes
Pavol Ribar, President of the Committee for the Development, Presentation and Protection of Slovak Naive Painting in Serbia of the Babka Kovačica Foundation
Pavel Babka, founder of the Babka Kovačica foundation
Welcome speech: Monika Podsklanova Šuhajdova, Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Belgrade, Deputy Ambassador
Marko Krstić, director of the Institute for the Study of Cultural Development
As part of the Conference in the Gallery of the Institute
EXHIBITION
SLOVAK NAIVE PAINTING IN SERBIA
October 3-17, 2022
When it comes to Slovak naive painting in Serbia, the first association is Kovačica. Pictures from everyday life, customs, stories about village life, plenty of details, life cycles, depictions of the village, often not as it is now, but as it once was. The Slovak national minority in naive painting is a source for studying the ethnic and cultural identity of Slovaks in Serbia, and painters from Kovačica certainly have a special place. With the exhibition SLOVAK NAIVE PAINTING IN SERBIA, we present only a part of their creativity. We dedicate a special place within this exhibition to Eva Husarikova. She has been painting since 1969. Her painting “Blacksmith’s Girl” has visited most galleries and museums in the world. In her honor, the Institute for the Study of Cultural Development issued a personalized postage stamp with the intention of drawing public attention to the cultural significance of the Slovak national minority in Serbia.
