Timisoara: Exhibition of the Gallery of Matica Srpska opened

29. Jul 2021.
The Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Romania, Stefan Tomašević, and the Consul General in Timisoara, Vladan Tadić, attended the opening of the exhibition "European Phenomena" in the collection of the Gallery of Matica Srpska at the National Museum of Art in Timisoara, opened by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Information, Maja Gojković.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Information, Maja Gojković, explained that the exhibition, with its rich content and messages, speaks not only about the European dimensions of cultural heritage and good cooperation between two cultural institutions from Serbia and Romania, but also about traditional friendship between the two peoples and two countries.

The exhibition was realized on the basis of the protocol on cooperation between the Gallery of Matica Srpska from Novi Sad and the National Museum of Art in Timisoara, and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia and the Provincial Government of Vojvodina.

The exhibition includes more than 70 works by Serbian painters (Sava Šumanović, Milan Konjović, Paja Jovanović, Petar Dobrović, Anastas Jovanović, etc.), conceptually arranged through 4 themes (freedom, progress, heritage and diversity), which represent the basic values ​​on which the development of European society is based, and which are now presented to the public through the Serbian national cultural heritage, as a confirmation of nurturing of those same values ​​by the Serbian people throughout its entire history.

The special value of this cultural event is given by the fact that the public will be able to see part of the fund of the Gallery of Matica Srpska whose headquarters are in Novi Sad, the European Capital of Culture for 2022, as well as the fact that the exhibition takes place in Timisoara, which will get this prestigious title in 2023.