The 8th issue of the contemporary art magazine Artelier, published by the National Museum of Contemporary Art and the International Center for Contemporary Art, explores a term that has, in the last two years, been heard insistently on the European art scene: 'contemporary art from the Balkans'.
Artists, theorists and curators were invited to position themselves in relation to this framework, to question its legitimacy and its claims to homogenous representation.
A variety of projects are presented in the magazine, ranging from the large-scale exhibitions, organized works around a metaphoric vision of the Balkans, to projects that were less ambitious in scope but also less affected by the principles of geo-aesthetics.

read the Foreword by Ruxandra Balaci.

Contributors:
Marina Abramovic, Dan Acostioaiei, Azra Aksamija, Husseyin Bahri Alptekin, Zdenka Badovinac Matei Bejenaru, Nada Beros, Dusan Bjelic, Dunja Blazevic, Rene Block, Barbara Borcic, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Geta Bratescu, Sabine Breitwieser, Nicolae Comanescu, Roger Connover, Dobrila Denegri, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Ivaylo Ditchev, Uros Djuric, Zoran Eric, Daniel Gontz, Teodor Graur, Ion Grigorescu, Marina Grzinic, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Kinema Ikon, Iosif Kiraly, Labin Art Express, Julia Meltzer, Dan Mihaltianu, Suzana Milevska, Aleksandra Mircic, Rastko Mocnik, Edi Muka, Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Yesim Oszoy, Adrian Paci, Zarko Paic, Livia Paldi, Elena Panayotova, Srdja Pavlovici, Vincent Pécoil, Nataša Petrešin, Maja Petric, Problemarket.com (Davide Grassi, Igor Stromajer), Dan Popescu, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Gezim Qendro, Marco Scotini, Walter Seidl, Biljana Tomic, Nina Vagic, Adela Vaetisi, Raluca Velisar, Stevan Vukovic

read articles by:

Dusan I. Bjelic
_The Balkans: Europe's Cesspool

Branislav Dimitrijevic
_Works-of-Art vs. Artefacts
(Blood, honey, guns'n'pumpkins: Exhibiting the Balkans)