THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PAVLE BELJANSKI MEMORIAL COLLECTION AWARD

The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award will be presented on Friday, 17 October 2025, at 1 p.m., to the best master’s thesis in national art history defended at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. The Award for the 2024/25 academic year goes to two papers: Art in the Time of the Vojislavljević Dynasty by Antonija Jovičić, defended under the mentorship of Prof. Dr Dragana Pavlović, and The Student Cultural Centre in Belgrade and Its International Activity in the 1970s by Veronika Podrjadova, defended under the mentorship of Prof. Dr Lidija Merenik.

The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award, established by the Gift Agreement with Pavle Beljanski sixty years ago (1965), is being presented for the 58th time. Throughout its long tradition, this is the seventh occasion on which the Award goes to two recipients. The Award is presented to the best master’s thesis in national art history defended at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.

As part of the ceremony, a chamber exhibition titled The Award and Art will be opened, marking two important anniversaries: 60 years since the establishment of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award and 170 years since the birth of Vlaho Bukovac (4 July 1855 – 23 April 1922) The main link between these two anniversaries is Bukovac’s artwork Le Grande Iza (1882) which occupies a central place in the Pavle Beljanski Memorial. In this way, Pavle Beljanski’s legacy has become a recognizable institution associated with Vlaho Bukovac, which resulted in a significant acquisition in 2020. The Memorial Collection received Bukovac’s painting Portrait of Marija Vučetić (née Banac) (1885) as a gift, and it will be premiered to the visitors on this occasion