Zepter Museum — Attraction in City of Belgrade

The Zepter Museum is a museum of contemporary art, in the heart of Belgrade, the former capital of Yugoslavia and the capital of Serbia, which contains modern, for different periods and movements of art, works by avant-garde creators, you can even notice some retrospective of the development of this art in local culture, 2 floors, many halls, Yes, the museum itself is decorated in a certain style, which emphasizes its avant-garde features. I myself am not a supporter or lover of cubism, symbolism, abstractionism and other trends of modern self-expression of the last hundred years. But I am a photographer and I perfectly understand the creative mood and desire to express my thoughts, feelings, understanding, vision of the world, through transformation, for the observer. Therefore, I believe that the museum deserves attention, there are quite interesting works, and I would say even very significant works, relative to some periods of the development of contemporary art, and by the way, at one time influenced and changed the perspective of perception. And by the way, the museum is very authentic)

By the way, these few streets in old Belgrade resemble the Moscow Arbat, but believe an old Muscovite, the Arbat is a little inferior, because the Arbat is a street with branches and alleys, a whole history, of course, a worthy historical object, but it’s like a river with rivulets, and here there are several intersecting streets in this style and much more interesting houses with varied architecture. And Belgrade, of course, is the king among places where the most different types, types and trends in architecture are collected... and they are collected so harmoniously that they do not interfere with each other or come...

In my yearly trips to Belgrade I always visit this fine private collection, nicely housed in a renovated building in a lively pedestrian street. To me, Serbian art since the Second World War has been more original and more searching than the much-desired art created between the two world wars; Zepter Museum supports this view. Although galleries are smallish, adapted from a former bank, the unconventional space creates an intimate atmosphere befitting a private collection. Kudos to the curators for acquiring works by emerging as well as established and eminent artists. Besides exhibiting art, the museum publishes relevant books and is trying with educational activities. At the time when the two largest public museums in Belgrade have been closed for years, this growing private institution is partly filling the great void in the cultural life of the city and the country.

I recommend Zepter Museum to all visitors. Even hostel dwellers will easily afford its minimal...

The museum has two storeys worth of modern and contemporary Serbian art. The selection of artists is rather haphazard to my opinion (and that is only my opinion, feel free to disagree) and might not meet an expectation of covering the full spectrum of modern and contemporary art from Serbia. That said, curators have still made good choices, and, as one would expect, the socialist realism is mostly absent.

The building hosting the museum is well worth seeing as well. However, it is getting too small for the growing collection on display. More than occasionally you'll find yourself staring at a wall-sized piece at arm's length in a narrow corridor.

For some odd reason the speaker system in every room of the museum will play what I can only assume to be a Serbian top-10 pop music list. The volume of pop seems to vary wildly and probably depends on who happens...