Organizational partner: MOL

Art Market Budapest created its program titled GUEST BALKAN presenting the art of the Western Balkan countries, with a good reason. Attention to the art of the region by international professionals has become an ever-expanding trend. Western interest is increasingly aroused by the area’s artistic content, which reflects on political and social issues in traditionally sensitive and critical manner. But is there such a thing as Western Balkan regional art, or is this merely a simplistic interpretation by the outside world? Are we, in fact, witnessing the ‘explosion’ of an art region to the international scene? Does the common socio-political past connect, or, instead, divide those in the art scene of the area?