Jul 9, 2025

Macura Museum Belgrade

Avant-garde &a nature oasis

"Macura Museum outside Belgrade houses a peculiar collection of early 20th century Yugoslavian super-avant-garde art as expressed mainly by 'zenitism'..."

Almost a century ago, in a region far away (the Balkans), an endemic avant-garde movement emerged. Zenitism had its peak in the 1920s, in Zagreb & Belgrade, using almost all traditional art forms, in a not-so-traditional manner. Defined by one of its founders as “abstract metacosmic expressionism”, it fiercely promoted anti-nationalist/bourgeois/war principles.

Today, twenty kilometres from central Belgrade, an oasis of Zenitism and Danubian avant-garde resides in a museum on the banks of the Danube. Owned & operated by a peculiar art aficionado Vladimir Macura since 2007, the cubic dark building strikes the eyes of passers-by through Novi Banovci, tucked in the rare apple grove.

Besides Zenitism, its collection is focused on Yugo-dada, Russian and Polish constructivism, Belgrade surrealism, Gorgona, high modernism, Viennese actionism, minimalism... Represented through paintings, sculptures, designer chairs, installations and video works, photos, drawings, letters, and magazines.

Open from May to October, the museum has its vast depot, which is a place to see of its own, situated in a former wheat silage. It also includes a café where you can enjoy Macura’s signature lavender syrup drink and whatever food is available and get lost in the huge water and woods scenery below you while processing the impressions of the museum visit. The garden features other interesting constructions, such as a “glass palace” and a chapel dedicated to artist Kazimir Malevich with an intriguing mobile roof.

Interested in a (half)day trip? Call ahead and let them know you're coming. You can take buses 706 (from Zeleni venac) or 73 from New Belgrade/Zemun.

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