In front of the building of the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade, on Saturday, students unfurled a banner that read "Degenerate Art".
The caption is a comment on the current exhibition "A View to the Future", intended to show the student blockade as a degradation of society, an exhibition that was installed after exactly one month ago, the students were forcibly expelled from SKC.
Their goal is to remind that they were five months in SKC, and that during that time SKC was full of programs and audiences.
According to the SKC in the blockade, "the administration of that institution, in its attempt to frame the content of the student blockade as 'degenerate', consciously or unconsciously fell into a historical trap and practically created its own version of the infamous exhibition Entertete Kunst, one of the biggest embarrassments of a government in the history of art and culture."
They remind that the exhibition Entertete Kunst (Perverted/degenerate art) opened in 1937 in Munich, as part of the Nazi regime's propaganda campaign against modernist and avant-garde trends in art.
"The avant-garde scene disappeared from SKC for many years, not because it wasn't there in Belgrade, but because you unconsciously admitted that art can be dangerous. It can be dangerous for you, your armchairs and your incompetence," reads the statement of the blockaded SKC, with the message "be afraid of novelty, avant-garde, be afraid of art as such, because at some point it will also show your true face."
Source: FoNet