"Applied Nostalgia" in Belgrade's Youth Center until December 30th

(Sanja Knežević)

Exhibition "Applied Nostalgia" has been opened in Youth Center in Belgrade in association with the Cultural Attache of the Embassy of the kingdom of Sweden to Belgrade and the Cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia Božidar Đelić to honor the end of Swedish European Union presidency. The exhibition will be open prior to December 30th.

The "Applied Nostalgia" project is conceived as a series of joint exhibitions of photographs by two eminent photographers - one from Serbia and one from the country that presides the EU. Since the kingdom of Sweden presides the EU in the period July 1st - December 31st, 2009, Stockholm will be the fourth city in Europe, after Lisbon, Paris and Prague, that the citizens of Serbia will be able to see in a special way.

(Sanja Knežević and Božidar Đelić)

The author from Serbia, Sanja Knežević, was staying for a week in Stockholm and taking photos of the places, events, scenes and people that remind her of Belgrade. The author from Sweden, Agnete Bretan, took the pictures of Belgrade when it looked similar to Stockholm. Every author selected 15 photos for exhibitions…

Sanja Knežević was born in 1984 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Belgrade, the Department of Photography, and she works as a documentary photographer. Her photos have been published in various magazines, including Serbia issue of National Geographic, NRC Holland, British Economist, as well as on various websites. She won awards at numerous exhibitions in Serbia (YU Press Photo 2007 and Republic exhibitions in 2006 and 2009). Her photos were presented at Balkan Film Festival in Amsterdam in October 2009.

Agnete Bretan was born in 1966 in Goetheborg, Sweden. She studied photography at the International Photography Center in New York and the School of Photography in Gamlebia, Spain. She works as a freelance photographer in Stockholm since 2000. She is a member of famous Swedish Photography Center, as well as photo-agencies Scanpix and Siver.

Dom omladine Beograda

Ambasada Kraljevine Švedske Beograd

Vlada Republike Srbije

Fakultet primenjenih umetnosti Beograd

Sanja Knežević

Applied Nostalgia

Božidar Đelić

Stockholm

Agnete Bretan

National Geographic

NRC Holland

British Economist

Scanpix

Siver