The Faculty of Arts and Design of UVT is present within the international INTERRACOTTA Project at the exhibition of teachers and students participating in Campus 2024 - Terra Center for Fine and Applied Arts in Kikinda, Serbia.
The exhibition was opened on Friday, January 10, 2025 at the Kazamat Gallery of the Cultural Center of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists. This traveling exhibition was organized in partnership with three art institutions: the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, the Academy of Arts and Culture Osijek, Croatia, and the Faculty of Arts and Design of the West University of Timisoara,
The works were exhibited at the Gallery of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in November 2024, and the Interracotta exhibition at Kazamat remains open until January 22, 2025.
This project was established during the conference of university teaching staff at the Terra Kikinda Museum within the activities of the "Terra International Masterclass 2024" program where representatives of the Ceramics and Sculpture study programs from the university centers in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Cetinje, Timisoara, Tirana participated , Rijeka and Osijek. Conceived as a multi-day international conference, "Campus Terra 2024" brought together students and teachers of Fine and Applied Arts, Architecture and other related disciplines to work and exchange knowledge and experiences during their time in Kikinda.
The purpose of this activity was to strengthen the artistic production of young people, to support the participation and common vision of all participants and to strengthen their experience and create new connections, future collaborations.
From the West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Arts and Design, students participated: Haiduc Maria, Bongiu Alexandra, Ulici Rebeca. Coordinated by the teaching staff of the Decorative Arts specialization of the Department of Design and Applied Arts, associate professor Dr. Gloria Grati and associate lecturer Dr. Nicolae Moldovan.
The students from Novi Sad Academy of Arts participated: Ana Beronja, Anđela Milutinović, Marina Ilić, Marija Kiš, Dragutin Rajković, Milica Čongradac, Nevena Stefanović, Laura Iličić and teachers, associates: Slavko Živanović, Mirjana Blagojev, Igor Smiljanić, Jovan Blat . And students from the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek participated: Petra Marjanović, Tin Krupilnicki
and the teachers: Margareta Lekić, Josipa Stojanović.
This project has been operating and developing for almost two decades of collaboration between the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and the Terra Center for Fine and Applied Arts in Kikinda. For over ten years, this workshop has had an international quality, reflected in the joint work of teachers and students from the Academy of Arts and other partner academies. Inside the Terra studio in Kikinda, participants in the international workshop collaborate on works made from this material, typical of the Vojvodina region, and exchange experiences related to artistic and educational processes carried out in different European countries.
This further enhances the existing regional cooperation between these institutions and promotes terracotta as a material that truly deserves an important place in contemporary artistic practice. The variety of expressions in the works highlights the diverse possibilities of working with this material, while also underlining the importance of collaboration and exchange of experience for the development of art.
This international project is to take place within the Faculty of Arts and Design at the Mansarda Gallery in March 2025.
Univ. Assoc. Dr. Gloria Grati
