is a visual artist who completed her Bachelor's degree in Photography at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2024. She has exhibited in group exhibitions and participated in several photography workshops. Her work primarily focuses on documentary photography, archival materials, and mixed media.As part of the PATINA project, she engages with past and contemporary social discourses in Serbia, capturing them through photography to create an installation.

is a visual artist exploring urban transformation, standardization, and collective memory. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His sculptural practice includes architectural models and functional reproductions, often relating to large-scale prefabricated housing districts of the former GDR. As part of PATINA, he collects »found objects« such as photographs, maps, and everyday artifacts to build an archival installation, that reflects on the PATINA bus journey.

is an architect and PhD researcher at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Her academic work focuses on documenting abandoned sites across the former Yugoslavia and exploring their potential for revitalization. Her research has been presented and published at international conferences in Helsinki, Budapest, and Niš.
For PATINA, she is conducting research on the Monument to the Fallen Bulgarian Fighters in Niš. Her findings will be published in an article in the forthcoming publication.

is an architect and researcher specializing in the history, theory and preservation of modernist architecture, particularly in Serbia. She is co-founder of Grupa arhitekata, program coordinator at DOCOMOMO Serbia, and has coordinated the project (In)appropriate Monuments. She has been curating exhibitions and writing about Yugoslav architecture, and is closely involved with projects documenting the legacy of Bogdan Bogdanović.
For PATINA she is contributing with a historical overview of the monument’s production in Yugoslavia.

is a graphic designer working with a conceptual approach, developing visual identities and graphic systems for cultural institutions and small businesses. She understands design as a tool for communication that creates visibility and expresses identity. Her master’s thesis examined patriarchal structures embedded in typographic systems, an inquiry that continues to inform her feminist approach to design.
For PATINA, Katharina is developing a typeface inspired by the original lettering of Bogdan Bogdanović. In addition, she designed the visual identity, this website and the forthcoming book and exhibition graphics on the PATINA project.

is an artist and filmmaker who studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts and the University of Arts in Belgrade. He is a Meisterschüler of Nicole Vögele and a participant in the Berlin Program for Artists. Working with film, sound, 3D tools and archival materials, he explores intersections of representation, memory, labor, and digital infrastructures.
As part of PATINA, he is developing a fictional travel blog that guides viewers on a video-based journey to a Yugoslav memorial site in Berlin.

studied Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and KU Leuven. He is currently a postgraduate student at the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation at KU Leuven. He has worked as a field archaeologist in the United Kingdom and Belgium, among other countries, and is involved in the mapping of memorial sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In June 2025, he took part in a panel discussion at the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade as part of the PATINA project; the transcription of the talk will be published in the forthcoming book.

is a researcher and journalist. He studied Political Science, Sociology, and Gender Studies. As a journalist, he worked in Berlin, Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Vienna, with a particular focus on refugees along the Balkan route. Together with Danijel Majić, he hosts the podcast Neues vom Ballaballa-Balkan, focussing on political and social developments in Southeast Europe.
After the PATINA journey, they recorded the podcast episode »Spomeniks – Yugoslavia's Monumental Culture of Remembrance«, part of which will be featured in the publication as a transcript.

is a visual artist. He studied Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts. His research-based practice investigates architectural remnants and conducts imaginative topographical studies of former concentration camp sites. In his ongoing series Fundament, he documents preserved architectural structures from the National Socialist period and reconstructs their original spatial volumes.
As part of PATINA, he explores the Jasenovac Memorial through his artistic practice, responding to Bogdan Bogdanović’s topographical interventions.

is a journalist whose work focuses on the former Yugoslavia, right-wing extremism, and racist continuities in Germany. Since 2016, together with Krsto Lazarević, he produces and hosts the podcast Neues vom Ballaballa-Balkan, for which they were awarded the Journalism Prize of the Southeast Europe Association Munich in 2022.
As part of the PATIN project, he was involved in producing the podcast episode »Spomeniks – Yugoslavia's Monumental Culture of Remembrance«, the content of which will be featured in the forthcoming publication.

is an artist and spatial researcher with a B.A. in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts. He recently graduated from the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. His work examines power structures embedded in urban planning and architecture. To communicate these dynamics, he develops site-specific personas – such as tour guides, architects, or investigative journalists – which he embodies in performances and performative lectures.
For the PATINA project, he studies the figure of Bogdan Bogdanović in order to evoke the architect’s presence.

is a visual artist and photographer. She holds an M.A. in Fine Arts, and her photographic work explores memory, symbolism, and the cultural weight of space. She is a lecturer in photography at the International Burch University in Sarajevo. Currently she directs a documentary film on the symbolism of the fist in Yugoslav memory culture.
As part of PATINA, she creates a series of photographic sculptures that transform images of Yugoslav memorials into shattered cyanotype glass, exploring fragility, abstraction, and interpretive multiplicity.

is an art historian, who has been a curator at the Museum of Yugoslav History, now the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, since 2005. She has developed numerous exhibitions focusing on the history and popular culture of Socialist Yugoslavia. She was awarded the Mihailo Valtrović Prize by the Museum Association of Serbia and the Best Exhibition Award from the Association of Art Historians of Serbia.
In June 2025, she took part in a panel discussion at the Museum of Yugoslavia as part of the PATINA project; the transcription of the talk will be published in the forthcoming book.

is an architect and PhD researcher at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. Her research explores the interplay of architecture, space, and identity, as well as the role of architectural heritage in social and journalistic contexts in former Yugoslavia. For her master’s thesis she received the Berlin Heritage Award and was listed among the 100 Minds of Capital Science by Tagesspiegel for her engagement in heritage preservation.
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studied in religious institutions and attended a rabbinical seminar in his youth before he began studying at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. His work focuses on the fine details of symbolism and aesthetics in Judaism. Through the sometimes arbitrary use of religious motifs, he liberates symbols from fixed meanings and opens them to the public.
As part of the PATINA project, he is developing the two-channel video work Blut und Boden, which portrays the landscapes and people surrounding memorial sites.

 is a senior research associate at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She has published widely on 20th-century architectural history, including studies on World War II monuments in Yugoslavia and a PhD thesis on Sokol Halls. Her book Residential Architecture of Belgrade (1918–1941) was awarded by the Belgrade Salon of Architecture.
In June 2025, she took part in a panel discussion at the Museum of Yugoslavia as part of the PATINA project; the transcription of the talk will be published in the forthcoming book.

is an art historian, curator, and writer working in public arts and culture. Her research is situated at the intersection of 20th-century avant-garde and Critical Theory, alongside contemporary forms of political aesthetics. In 2017, she co-founded +FEM collective and has been a member of Synnika e.V. since 2019, with both of which she has developed and curated numerous exhibitions.
For the forthcoming book on the PATINA project, she serves as co-editor and contributes an essay analyzing the aesthetic intentionality embedded in the materiality of the memorial sites.

is a multidisciplinary artist whose video works and large-scale installations explore collective memory. Recent projects have focused on traditions of mourning through the lens of meat production in post-war Germany. In 2024, she was a fellow at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Together with various institutions, she developed discursive formats such as guided tours or film programs.
During the PATINA journey, she conducted detailed close-up studies of the memorials for a video installation, bringing the viewer into an intimate engagement with their surfaces.

studied Political Science and Political Theory in Munich, Limerick and Frankfurt/Main. She works as a social media creator and editor in political education, focusing on democracy, remembrance culture, antisemitism, racism and right-wing extremism. She started the TikTok channel Erinnern im Täterland, informing about marginalized aspects of German remembrance culture.
In context of the PATINA project, she created content about the history and remembrance practices in former Yugoslavia and will write about social media engagement with this topic for the project's book.

is a curator and writer. She holds a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Curatorial Studies. Her practice encompasses exhibitions in Romania and Germany, often engaging with contested heritage, alternative forms of resistance, and the multivocality of remembrance cultures. She contributes critical writing to a range of international art and culture platforms.
For PATINA, she is writing an article on two monuments commemorating World War II atrocities in Serbia and Croatia, reflecting on their design, symbolism, and contemporary reception.

is an artist working in sculpture, installation, and collaborative projects on sociopolitical themes. He studied at Offenbach University of Art and Design and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and has participated in international artist-in-residence programs, including a 2024 research stay in Belgrade focused on Yugoslav memorial architecture.
He initiated the PATINA project and co-edits its publication. During the journey, he documented wild plants at memorial sites, which he now cultivates in flower pots made from recycled concrete.