A Slow Burning Fire

Yugoslavia’s diverse and interconnected art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s, linked to the country’s experience with socialist self-management.

In Yugoslavia from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, state-supported Student Cultural Centers became incubators for new art. This era’s conceptual and performance art–known as Yugoslavia’s New Art Practice–emerged from a network of diverse and densely interconnected art scenes that nurtured the early work of Marina Abramović, Sanja Iveković…