Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Art
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Art

Summary/Abstract: The economic crisis and political antagonisms of the 1980s in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, followed by the post-Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, not only instigated human rights violations but also inevitably affected all spheres of life, including art and culture. As Milena Dragićević-Šešić and Sanjin Dragojević pointed out in their discussion of the problems faced by the cultural sector in areas experiencing turbulence during the 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina experienced several conditions and cultural consequences of this unrest. These included interethnic and intercultural conflict, the ghettoization of culture, forced and controlled migration, absence of social and cultural cohesion, corruption, declining professional standards, disappearance of the middle class, and destruction of cultural heritage.

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