ABSTRACT
After the war in Bosna and Herzegovina, in 1996, the Soros Center for Contemporary Art was founded in Sarajevo as one of the last to be opened in a network of some 20 centers in Central and East European countries which housed the Open Society Fund. In 1997 SCCA Sarajevo organized the First Annual Exhibition Meeting Point. The exhibition, in the broadest sense, indicated a shift in art production and affirmation of social and political aspects of artistic engagement. Meeting Point marked a significant change of artistic and exhibiting practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which traditional forms were replaced by using public art practices such as site-specific, context-specific, collaborative, or participatory art. Site-specific projects represented one of the key strategies for the reconquest of war-devastated public space, while “new” art practices in public space were a priori aimed against the institutionalization of art which occurred in the post-war period.
