MoCA receives Special Recognition for Creativity within Živa Award for Best Slavic Museum
Skopje, 19 November 2022 (MIA) – The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) - Skopje received Special Recognition for Creativity within the Živa Award for the Best Slavic Museum, awarded by the Forum of Slavic Cultures based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Many guests and museum delegations, as well as Chairperson of the Živa Award Jury, Neda Knežević, Director of the Museum of Yugoslavia – Belgrade, and Director of the Forum of Slavic Cultures, Andreja Rihter, attended the award ceremony held in Brežice, Slovenia, on Friday. North Macedonia’s national representative in the Forum of Slavic Cultures, Gordan Nikolov, received the recognition on behalf of MoCA – Skopje. “The new impetus given by the museum to the wide dissemination of art collections and to the importance of contemporary artistic expression, demonstrate progress and competitive spirit by investing extensively in the transformation of its spatial capacity, the presentation of collections and in socially responsible projects. The museum has grown on foundations of solidarity, marked by the regional and international donations of important art works that spurred the beginnings of the museum’s establishment in the Sixties,” said the jury panel on MoCA’s recognition. In recent years, it adds, this leading museum and the first in the area dedicated to modern and contemporary art has become an influential institution fostering intercultural dialogue, creativity and collaboration, both at home and abroad. It has succeeded in creating a cultural platform for artistic contemporary production both national and international, its promotion and research of the present and past identities that serve to mark changes in time. Virovitica City Museum in Croatia received the award for Best Slavic Museum, and several other recognitions were also awarded. The Živa Award for the Best Slavic Museum and for the Best Heritage Site in Slavic countries aims at identifying, encouraging, rewarding and promoting experiments, projects, practices in the museum sector within the specific cultural and geographical framework of the European countries of Slavic culture recognizing the peculiarities and specific values of the Slavic world with its story, its traditions, its heritage, its common and sometimes contradictory roots as well as its problems. A record number of 34 museums from ten Slavic countries have applied for the Živa Award 2022. The 8th edition of the Živa Award took place in Brežice, Slovenia, on November 16-19, 2022, organized by the Forum of Slavic Cultures in cooperation with the Posavje Museum Brežice and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia. The Forum of Slavic Cultures is an international foundation, a non-profit and non-government organization, whose idea emerged in the cultural circles at the turn of the 21th century. The FSK was officially founded in 2004, and today unites more than 300 million Slavs in 13 Slavic countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia and Ukraine.
