Kulturni element · 2011 — 2026

The Fifteenth Anniversary Season

Fifteen years of concerts, performances, exhibitions, talks and cultural heritage projects — in museums, theatres, historic buildings and places where art is least expected. Most of those evenings were free for the audience. Thank you to everyone who shared them with us.

100+projects
900+artists and collaborators
22competition editions
40+partners

Fifteen years in moments

A selection from the Kulturni element archive

2011

Founded

Professionals from the performing arts, music and cultural heritage found the Kulturni element association.

2013
Awakening of Culture

Awakening of Culture

The first Kulturni element project — a performance in Knez Mihailova Street on 27 June 2013. The same year we begin donating more than 600 archival BITEF publications to libraries, theatres and universities.

2015
Trace of Generations · A Piano as a Gift

Trace of Generations · A Piano as a Gift

An exhibition of family heirlooms from more than thirty families at the Residence of Princess Ljubica, a semi-concert grand piano donated to the Gornji Milanovac Cultural Centre, and the start of the Musical Vaults of Belgrade series.

2016
Quod Fatum

Quod Fatum

A concert-performance about the life of Tchaikovsky in the Musical Vaults of Belgrade series.

2017
Amadeus · Letters of the Shot

Amadeus · Letters of the Shot

A concert-performance about Mozart at the Residence of Princess Ljubica and a concert-performance dedicated to the victims of the Second World War at the Banjica Concentration Camp Museum. Opera for Beginners and We Give Art begin the same year.

2018
Cases · La Bohème

Cases · La Bohème

A play after Daniil Kharms, co-produced with Madlenianum, and a concert performance of La Bohème with the Opera Pannonica ensemble from Osijek.

2019
Portrait — Andrić

Portrait — Andrić

A concert-performance dedicated to Ivo Andrić at the Ivo Andrić Museum, and the founding of the Serbian Regional Cultural Association (SRKA).

2020
Serbian Historical Corpus

Serbian Historical Corpus

A network of digital platforms preserving national identity — Serbian Heraldry, Serbian Endowments and Serbian Cultural Heritage.

2021
Pirot Fairy Tale · Historic Ships Network

Pirot Fairy Tale · Historic Ships Network

A choreodrama inspired by Serbian tradition in the sixth season of Musical Vaults, and the founding of the international Historic Ships Network.

2022
XIX “Lazar Jovanović” Competition

XIX “Lazar Jovanović” Competition

The nineteenth International Solo Singing Competition and a solo recital by Olivera Gočanin.

2023
XX “Lazar Jovanović” Competition

XX “Lazar Jovanović” Competition

The twentieth edition of the largest opera competition in the region, and solo recitals by young singers.

2024
Letters of the Shot in Beijing

Letters of the Shot in Beijing

A performance at the Serbian Cultural Centre in Beijing and the Art of Success lecture tour.

2025
Corpus Dramaticum

Corpus Dramaticum

A digital platform dedicated to preserving and analysing the great works of dramatic literature.

2026
Fifteen years

Fifteen years

The Discovering Art performance at the first Belgrade Legacy Ball, the XXII “Lazar Jovanović” Competition at the National Theatre with a musical category for the first time — and the start of the anniversary season.

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