You are cordially invited to the opening of the AVA017 annual exhibition, on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025, at 7:00 PM, at AVA – Academy of Visual Arts.

The exhibition will be on view until June 30th 2025, every day between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM.

Authors: Alevtina Ainutdinova, Špela Arnoj, Taida Čamdžić, Jakob Grižonič (Grisho), Anne Gueugneau, Varvara Korneeva, Simeona Kovačević, Yulia Kuznetsova, Tara Medjo, Lana Mrak Gašparič, Ajda Opara, Anastasiia Sanzhara, Rüveyda Şentürk, Anja Spirković, Vladimir Stanišević, Ivana Todić Curk, Dita Tolaj, Ula Uršula Tušek

The graduation exhibition is not merely a presentation of finished works – it is a manifestation of intellectual and emotional journeys, of missteps, risks, research, and creative boldness. At AVA, we believe that art is neither a service industry nor a tool for aestheticising social comfort. Rather, it is a means of understanding the world, of raising questions, reflecting, and at times, resisting. This openness to the unknown, the uncomfortable, and the ambiguous forms the foundation of our pedagogical practice.

The academic year behind us brought many achievements as well as challenges. Our students participated in exhibitions both at home and abroad, developed independent projects, collaborated with diverse communities, created interventions in public space, and courageously addressed questions of identity, politics, ideology, religion, ecology, memory, the body, and media reality. At the same time, together with the academic staff, they continually struggled to secure the basic conditions necessary to function in an environment where art and artistic education are all too often marginalised.