Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 | MoMA LIVE

The Museum of Modern Art is exploring the architecture of the former Yugoslavia with "Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980," the first major US exhibition to study the remarkable body of work that sparked international interest during the 45 years of the country’s existence.
The exhibition will include more than 400 drawings, models, photographs, and film reels culled from an array of municipal archives, family-held collections, and museums across the region, introducing the exceptional built work of socialist Yugoslavia’s leading architects to an international audience for the first time.
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Organized by Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and Vladimir Kulić, guest curator, with Anna Kats, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
Generous funding for the exhibition is provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Additional support is provided by the Annual Exhibition Fund.
The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.
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[@deawill]

Excellent, well done, MoMA! Wish I was in NY to see this!

[@manajama]

There will never be similar exhibition at moma about any exyu new countries architecture

[@xxxxxsx4040]

Yugoslavia fell apart because of politics and not ethnic reasons. I mean there were ethnic tensions, but that was not as profound as people would like to believe. We could live in a unitary state to this day, were there no external political interests in breaking the thing apart. After the war however, there are ethnic tensions which were never as strong before... regretfully.

[@samokazem125]

It is a shame that this beauty, the "Monument to the Victory of the People of Slavonia" (in Kamenska, Croatia), another fascinating piece of work of the renowned sculptor Vojin Bakić, was destroyed during the last war: th-cam.com/video/u1R8IwtI9jE/w-d-xo.html
At the time of its opening, it was the largest post-modern sculpture in the world.
Like the "Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija" (in Vrginmost/Vojnić, Croatia), which is included in your exhibition (also Vojin Bakić's work), it celebrated the antifascist struggle of the people of those regions and commemorated the civilian victims of fascism and fallen partisans.

[@radazah]

Hello from Toronto

[@bibabalaz5711]

Why everything that is just and fair is called utopia.

[@solar979]

I was born, raised and still live in what was once Yugoslavia. I am not sure that we actually were behind the iron curtain because we had free flaw of people and information. In my home town during socialist period were built the tallest and largest buildings to this day, dozens of skyscrapers and building so huge we call them "The Great Wall of China". Their construction were financed by Yugoslav Army and were populated by the military personnel who were almost exclusively from just one of the ex. Yugoslav federal republics ie. the largest one.
Other apartments, not so great in construction quality, were financed by the pyramid scheme and the higher you were in the system the more likely you were to get the apartment to live in (it started collapsing during pre-war period). Today we all spend thousands of euros reconstructing our living spaces to something more human. We also get huge amounts of money from EU funds plus taking loans to insulate our buildings because there is no insulation on our bare concrete walls.

[@markosskace514]

Well, this exibition is very late. It would make sense, if it would be prepared 50 years ago, nowadays it only functions as a tool of American imperialist policy.