About Autokomanda
Autokomanda is a contemporary art space located in an off-center apartment in Belgrade.
Run by Voždovačka galerija (a Belgrade-based non-profit), it operates as a kunstverein, supported by members, patrons, and project-based financial and in-kind contributions.
The space mostly organizes duo exhibitions, treating dialogue as a core working method rather than a format. With three rooms, exhibitions often grapple with the instability of binaries: pairing practices, positions, or sensibilities that resist clean oppositions and instead unfold through tension, overlap, and conversation.
Autokomanda takes its name from a major crossroads in Belgrade—where the city’s center and periphery meet, and where the main Serbian highway merges into the European route E75, running from Norway to Greece. The name works as a double entendre: autokomanda refers both to traffic directions and to self-commanding—a self-directed structure that reflects how the space operates.
Conceptually, the programme engages questions of center and periphery across shifting geographies, from the Western Balkans and the EU to the Mediterranean and the post-Soviet space. Rather than addressing these relations abstractly, Autokomanda approaches them directly and materially, through artistic practice, exhibition making, and spatial constraints.
The project prioritizes practices that expand how art is looked at locally and read internationally, without relying on moral frameworks or didactic positions.
Credits, Thank-you notes
Our projects have, so far, been supported by BMKOES Austria, Austrian Kulturforum in Belgrade, The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Pro Helvetia, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poljski Institut Beograd, Normotic architecture bureau, and in-kind by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), as well as private patrons and members.
All exhibition documentation photos are by Bojana Janjić, except Show 1 (Violante Buonocore and Natalija Paunić) and Show 2 (Natalija Paunić).
All photos courtesy of Autokomanda and the artists, additionally for Show 3 Emanuel Layr, and for Show 6 Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Turnus.
Opening event photos (below): Katarina Šoškić (early spring), Natalija Paunić (early winter), Bojana Janjić (late summer). Food concept: Sandra Subić
