Goranka Matić, an art historian who devoted her life to photography, has died, leaving a striking image of a troubled, turbulent era and its heroes. As a photo editor, author and good spirit of the newsroom in difficult times, she made an immeasurable contribution to the weekly "Vreme", which forever remains her grateful debtor.
Originally from Gorski Kotar, born in Maribor on August 13, 1949, Goranka grew up in Slovenia, Macedonia (Kumanovo) and Belgrade, where her family moved in 1961. She graduated from the Tenth Gymnasium, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in the field of art history.
Goranka started to do photography professionally in 1980. Her portraits of writers, rock and pop musicians marked the contemporary trends and spirit of the musical New Wave and the artistic circle that gathered around the Student Cultural Center in the 1971s, where she was an art program assistant from 1978, then a professional associate and curator of the Happy New Art gallery . From 1980 to 45, she managed Gallery XNUMX in New Belgrade, where she organized more than twenty exhibitions. Before coming to "Vreme", where she has been since the foundation of our newspaper, she published photos in "Jubox", "Start", "Svijet", "Omladine novine", "Dugi", "Delo", "Polet", "Momento". ", "Beorami", "Ritmu", "New Momentu" and other newspapers and magazines.
From 1990 to 2006, Goranka was the photo editor of the weekly "Vreme", giving it a visual identity with an almost heroic feat. At the moment when, before the conclusion of the first January printed issue, we were hit by the news of her death, we must remember how at the beginning of the preparation of the first issue there were only a few photos available on the news desk, and how she, with her reputation and creative energy, made it possible to photo to be a striking part of the visual identity of our newspaper and to remain an impressive testimony of the culture of street protests of the nineties and the spirit of that time.
From 2006 to 2010, Goranka worked as a photo editor at "Politica", and from 2010 to 2015 at Radio-Television of Serbia. She taught photojournalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences and was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications, in the subjects of photojournalism and documentary photography.
Her retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2020 spoke impressively about the oeuvre of Goranka Matić. She published several books, among which stand out Days of pain and pride i Ten years against.
Goranka is the winner of many awards, including the October Salon award (1989), the "Conquest of Freedom" award (2002), Politikina's award (2004), the Annual ULUPUDS award (2005), the UNS Lifetime Achievement Award, the "Tanja Petrović" Foundation award (2021).
The news of the death reached the "Vremena" editorial office just before the end of the printed issue, and the editorial office sadly promises to publish a worthy tribute to our Goranka Matić in the next printed edition. Unfortunately, due to the force of circumstances and the newspaper's note, in this place, with only a few biographical data, we remind you of that dear person with a bright spirit and prolific author.
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It is really difficult to write a fitting text on the occasion of the passing of the one and only Goranka Matić. First of all, because Goranka was not there appropriate person on any basis. Then, because in her life and artistic ethics there was nothing flatteringly appropriate, falsely glamorous, artificial in words, merely bombastic, superficially pleasing to the eye. One then wonders with reason - isn't silence in this extremely haughty, and by all accounts unworthy and uncouth commotion, the only polite way to say goodbye to Goranka and bow before all her immortal crowds
