KotorArt
International festival
Tuesday, July 21
Mazarović Palace, Perast, 9:00 p.m.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR PAST?
The Past in Space – Risks of Heritage Musealization
Participants:
Dr. TATJANA KOPRIVICA, art historian, Historical Institute, University of Montenegro
PREDRAG KRSTIĆ, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
STEVAN KORDIĆ, mathematician and photographer
Moderator: PAULA PETRIČEVIĆ, philosophy teacher at the Kotor Grammar School
Program
July 21, 2026
“The second panel discussion is about how to care for our historicity, how to understand heritage, and how to preserve it appropriately. Can we preserve not only the form, but also the living essence of heritage, especially in an era of overt commodification? How present, meaningful, and relevant are the inherited forms and artefacts that we have archived in museums and placed on postcards today? The natural and cultural-historical region of Kotor is particularly instructive in this regard, as its status as a UNESCO World Heritage site makes the question especially urgent – can we live from heritage without destroying it in the process? Can we preserve tradition without fossilizing it? And finally, perhaps above all else – what is the role and stake of knowledge and education in this context? Does it still have a place, and does it retain the capacity to enable, or at least assist us in understanding, our own and collective temporal structuring?”
Paula Petričević
Participants
Tatjana Koprivica completed primary school and gymnasium in her hometown of Nikšić, and earned her BA, MA, and PhD in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Historical Institute of the University of Montenegro and a Professor of Art History at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Montenegro. She furthered her academic training at Sapienza University of Rome and at the National Research Council of Italy in Rome. She is a co-author of the following books: A. Čilikov, T. Koprivica, Č. Marković, Istorija Umjetnosti Crne Gore, Vol. 1 (2021); S. Brajović, T. Koprivica, Vizuelna Kultura Mediteranske Crne Gore od 15. do 20. Vijeka, (2021); R. Raspopović, T. Koprivica, S. Burzanović, Marubi i Crna Gora (2022); and T. Koprivica et al., Rimski Grad Dokleja (2022). Tatjana Koprivica has participated in more than 20 national and international research projects in the field of cultural heritage, in collaboration with institutions from Italy, Austria, France, China, Slovenia, and Croatia.
Predrag Krstić received his PhD in 2014 from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, defending a dissertation entitled The Enlightenment Dispute: History and Modernity of a Controversy. In the academic year 1992/1993, he worked as a Research Assistant at the same faculty. He has been engaged in teaching since 1993, first as a Professor of Philosophy at the Gymnasium in Mladenovac and at the Sixth Belgrade Gymnasium. From 2006–2016, he was employed at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, where he advanced through the academic ranks from Research Assistant to Research Associate to Senior Research Associate. Predrag Krstić is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University. He is also a permanent collaborator of the Third Program of Radio Belgrade. In addition to numerous authored and co-authored articles, translations, and editorial projects published in domestic and international academic journals, as well as eighteen monographs, he is also the author of two poetry collections and one novel. He is the recipient of the Nikola Milošević Award (2008).
Stevan Kordić, is employed at the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Kotor, University of Montenegro, as an Assistant Professor in the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science. He has worked as an independent photographer for more than twenty years. His primary photographic interests include historical architecture, ships, and coastal landscapes. His work has been published in numerous print publications, advertising projects, academic studies, books, historical exhibitions, and web-based projects. He has exhibited in Kotor, Tivat, Podgorica, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Berlin, Termoli, and Rome. As a photographer, Stevan Kordić has collaborated with numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations dedicated to the protection and preservation of cultural heritage in Montenegro and abroad, as well as with religious institutions and reputable companies. He participated in the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2009, contributing to the installation and catalogue of the Montenegrin exhibition entitled Transform – From Arsenal to Porto Montenegro. One of the most significant historical exhibitions in which he took part, organized in collaboration with the Diocese of Kotor, was held in 2009 to mark the 1,200th anniversary of the transfer of the relics of Saint Tryphon from Constantinople to Kotor. He has held ten solo exhibitions of artistic and documentary photography.
