The 2022 edition of AVANT explores the Yugoslav avant-garde from the 60s and 70s and its legacies. AVANT opens at Kristinehamn Art Museum on Friday, September 23rd at 6.30 PM with three events. An exhibition of Slobodan Šijan’s film leaflets from 1976-79, Hrvoje Spudić’s installation for two 16 mm projectors, Rotoprojector 2, and a screening of Šijan’s film A Song for Tom (2010), the last film with Tomislav Gotovac, which is followed by artists talks with Slobodan Šijan and Dejan Sretenovic, and Hrvoje Spudić and Martin Grennberger.

The program continues in Karlstad on Saturday at 10 AM at the cinema Arenan with films by Tomislav Gotovac and Slobodan Šijan, as well as a program curated by Branka Benčić and Aleksandra Sekulić presenting film and video by women artists, amateurs and filmmakers from 1960s and 1970s Yugoslavia.

Link to the complete program: http://www.avantfilm.se/avant-2022-yugoslavia-and-more/

The screenings at AVANT are free of charge but booking is mandatory. There is a limited number of tickets. For booking: [email protected]. For information and inquiries: [email protected].