nKA / ICA

nKA - Nezavisna Kulturna Asocijacija / iCA - Independent Cultural Association – Belgrade has been established on 17^th of March 2000 in Belgrade  by  Federal Ministry of Justice FRJ.

Mission

nKA/ICA as independent and non profit association of professionally trained art historians and curators whose mission is oriented towards organisation of cultural events, exhibitions, lectures.

With it’s activity nKA / ICA is:

1)  Promoting intercultural strategies

2)  Developing border-crossing connections between local, regional, European and global cultural context

3)  Structuring innovative dimensions of artistic presentations and experimental curating

4)  Upgrading levels of local cultural policy

5) Opening new channels of communication and collaboration between public and private structures operating currently in cultural and social field.

The main activities of NKA / ICA organisation are concentrated on the curating and organisation of several types of cultural events: exhibitions, art presentations in the public space, seminars and conferences, workshops for emerging generations of artists. This activities are orientated towards practices that goes beyond traditional frameworks of art presentations, that are interdisciplinary, inter-medial and inclined towards expansion and enlargement of artistic branches and fields of study. Therefore we might consider our activity as unconventionally educational and didactic when we are working with young artists and art students and innovative when working with professional artists and curators. This activity should lead to the establishing of new interdisciplinary and multicultural institute of arts in the future.

nKA / ICA association is structured in following terms:

Direction and coordination: three permanent members / and occasional collaborations with young experts, whose number varies from project to project (from 2 to 20).

The board consist the experts from different cultural and media fields as consultative and collaborative team whose vocation is to work on the original, experimental and significant projects ideated to highlight our basic conceptual positions verged to attribute cultural values, qualities and dynamism to the context within which we are operating.

Biljana Tomic is art historian and independent curator, presently director of nKA / ICA – Belgrade. Her involvement and active participation in the Belgrade cultural milieu dates from late ‘60s and since than she introduced some of the most important artists and art critics, affirmed internationally, to the Belgrade art scene. From 1974 to 2001 she has been director of Visual Art Program of Students Cultural Centre, and has been curator and co-curator of numerous Yugoslavian presentations abroad, and selector and curatorial partner of numerous exhibitions and art events organised in important museums and art institutions, as well as manifestations like Venice Biennial (1986, 1993, 1997) and Documenta in Kassel (1987).

Dobrila Denegri is art historian and independent curator, involved as artistic director in nKA / ICA and associated as independent curator to the MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. In 2001 was deputy commissioner for the Pavilion of Serbia and Montenegro at the Venice Biennial. Her activity as curator and writer starts on the beginning of ‘90s, since when she curated and co-curated series of exhibitions, video screenings, lectures and conferences in Serbia and Montenegro, Italy, as well as other countries.