++++ Branislav Dimitrijevic, born 1967 in Belgrade, is art historian, writer and curator. He currently holds the position of Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
He graduated in Art History at the University of Belgrade and in 1995 received his MA degree in History and Theory of Art at the University of Kent under Professor Stephen Bann.
He has written on visual culture and contemporary art and politics in Serbia for local and international magazines and catalogues, and edited a book on interpretations of popular imagery, 'Pop Vision' in 1996. He has written essays for catalogues of artists including Zoran Naskovski, Milica Tomic, Zdravko Joksimovic, pRT and others.
With Branislava Andjelkovic he curated exhibitions and edited catalogues including 'Map Room' (1995) and 'Murder1' (1997), as well as 'Beauty and Terror' (1998) and 'Overground' (1998). His most recent curatorial project is 'Konverzacija' (2001, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade).
He is one of the founders of the School for History and Theory of Images at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade where he teaches courses on Conceptual Art and Reading the Image. He has lectured and participated in conferences and panel discussions in Canterbury, Stockholm, Innsbruck, Ljubljana, Skopje, Oslo, Moscow, Graz, Vienna, Cape Town, etc.
He is the President of the Board of the International Contemporary Art Network (ICAN). He received the Lazar Trifunovic award for art crticism in 1997 and the Dusan Stojanovic award for film theory in 1999.

++++ THE CROWDED VOID: LOCATING AND THINKING VISUAL ART IN CONTEMPORARY SERBIA (AND WHAT FOR?) (working title) / The talk explores the institutional and non-institutional treatment of visual art in post-Milosevic Serbia. The aim is to map the current situation and on-going projects and efforts that attempt to create a relevant and critical public space in a conservative and impoverished social ambience. The examples will range from high profile international projects (such is the exhibition 'Konverzacija' in the Museum of Contemporary Art) to artistic projects in non-artistic environments (such is the project 'Flux' carried out in suburbs and favelas around Belgrade).