THE NIGHT OF MUSEUMS 2012: EGYPT
		Saturday May 19, from 18-02h

We would like to invite you to spend part of the Museum Night 2012 at the, for this occasion specially re-created spaces of The Museum of African Art: the Garden, Permanent Exhibition and Dome. By using unique audio and visual motifs inspired by eternal Egyptian symbols, the MAA will bring closer to its visitors ancient and modern Egypt.

LIVE ACT

The backbone of the evening, in the MAA Dome, will consist of the live painting performance through which one of the oldest and most famous symbols of Egypt: "The Eye of Horus" will be completed in situ by Belgrade artist Milica Josimov. The musical counterpart will consist of a DJ-set with periodic vocal improvisations by Belgrade poet from the band "Lovers."

Special activities

Throughout the event, based on the body-art technique, you can ask one of the MAA’s artist-demonstrators to paint an Egyptian motif on your body; at the same time various educational and creative activities will also be organised for children, who have not been forgotten in the Museum Night. As a result of the active collaboration between the MAA and the Embassy of the Republic of Egypt in Belgrade, a special information stand with accompanying visual content will be set-up depicting contemporary Egypt.

		April-June 2012 Centre for Culture Grocka and the Museum of African Art in Belgrade visiting exhibition South of the Sahara Photographs by Marli Shamir
		Thursday, April 26th at 1 p.m. exhibition opening at the “Nikola Tesla” Primary School in Vinča Monday, May 14th, the exhibition will move to the “Aleksa Šantić” Primary School in Kaluđerica

General info:

As part of the Museum of African Art special program of visiting exhibitions in alternative spaces and the collaboration with the Centre for Culture Grocka, the “South of the Sahara: photos by Marli Shamir” exhibition will be presented from April to June 2012. The exhibition will first be opened in the “Nikola Tesla” Primary School in Vinča and then move to the Primary School "Aleksa Šantić“ in Kaluđerica. Through such activities the Museum wishes to emphasize the educational potential of its collections besides the existing permanent and thematic exhibitions located in the main Museum building, as well as to make the collections more accessible and intellectually and creatively stimulating particularly to pupils of elementary and students of secondary schools.

The exhibition is produced in collaboration of the Museum of African Art with the Cultural Center of Grocka, and with the support of the municipality of Savski venac.

Exhibition info:

		On Heat by Katarina Radović
		December 22nd 2011 - May 17th, 2012

The “On Heat” exhibition is a photographic record of the "meeting of cultures" marked by a wedding ceremony, first in Belgium and then in Burkina Faso. Katarina Radović’s photographs are the outcome of examining the complex phenomenon of marriage in which that which is private and personal (actually most intimate) on the one hand, and that which, on the other hand, is public and includes norms, the collective, the ritual and symbolic, collide in their extremes and ambivalence of created relationship.