{"id":122296,"date":"2024-02-09T10:48:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unirufa.it\/?p=122296"},"modified":"2024-02-09T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T13:51:42","slug":"lesperienza-erasmus-a-belgrado-di-claudia-evangelista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unirufa.it\/en\/2024\/02\/09\/lesperienza-erasmus-a-belgrado-di-claudia-evangelista\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus programme: Claudia Evangelista’s experience in Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fine Arts<\/a> student Claudia Evangelista<\/a> has just completed a wonderful internship experience in Belgrade as part of the Erasmus+ programme<\/a>, which is an integral part of education at RUFA.<\/h4>\n

 
\nThe six-month internship in the Serbian capital was carried out at Galerija12 HUB (G12HUB)<\/a><\/strong>, centre for art and technology dedicated to the promotion and development of inter-media arts and performance.<\/strong> The association’s programme combines exhibitions, live performances, debates, presentations and workshops with the aim of promoting cross-media and trans-disciplinary approaches to art production and interpretation.
\nThroughout the experience, the student was guided and supported by the tutor Marta Jovanovi\u0107<\/a>, artist and RUFA coordinator of the School of Visual Arts.
\nWe interviewed Claudia on her return to learn more about her point of view, and to find out how this experience has helped her grow as an artist and as a professional.
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Tell us about your experience in Belgrade, both from a cultural and artistic point of view.<\/h4>\n

Thanks to the Erasmus+ project, I had the opportunity to live and work in Belgrade with an internship at G12HUB, a Belgrade-based association that promotes the development of interdisciplinary artistic media. I got to know the association thanks to my tutor Marta Jovanovi\u0107, who followed me, helped me integrate and got to know artists and gallerists in the city. Thanks to her I never felt alone.<\/em><\/p>\n

I did not initially think that this experience could be so important for me, I did not expect to meet people and see places that could be rich in development and full of possibilities for me coming from two cities as rich in history as Naples and Rome.
\nYet everything was disproved from the very first encounter with the city. I started my life in Belgrade in the middle of June, with long sunny days, lots of outdoor caf\u00e9s and ‘pekara’ where I could buy all the pastry products that bring together the city’s historical multiculturalism.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Belgrade does not have a single, compact identity, it is full of facets, pain and misunderstandings. Walking around the city, one feels the various dominations that have affected the area through the centuries, from Viennese architecture in the centre to the most famous buildings in the Brutalist style, in the customs and food then one feels the centuries when the Turkish empire occupied the country. What is striking is that everything is ‘adapted’ in their style, such as the ‘Balkan coffee’ or ‘Bosnian coffee’ which has its roots in Turkish coffee.
\nI spent the first few months settling in and learning the language with an intensive course in New Belgrade, trying to thin out the language barrier and integrate as best I could.<\/em><\/p>\n

The most important meeting I had, however, was the second month I was there, again in order to develop my research I was put in contact with gallery owner Mirko Lubarda, owner and founder of the ‘Non Canonico’ gallery with whom I then started a relationship not only of work but also of friendship, working with Mirko in the gallery is definitely the reason why I am happy to have had this experience and I am delighted to be able to continue working with him even now that the Erasmus+ experience has ended. The Non canonical gallery is a unique space where the selection of artists is always careful down to the smallest detail, the conceptual and formal level is exalted in the space that evolves for every need.
\nIn short, it can be said that I am satisfied with this project, certainly the difficulties were not few, but there were some people I met that I know will be part of my life forever.<\/em><\/p>\n