Fiction Reconstructed: 2002 Exhibition Revives Anonymous 1980s Avant-Garde Reconstructions

In January 2002, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade hosted Fiction Reconstructed: The Last Futurist Exhibition, which was initially created by Slovenia's Gallery Skuc and the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Celje. This exhibition revisited anonymous projects from the 1980s that aimed to recreate historic avant-garde displays. Kasimir Malevich's Last Futurist Exhibition was first showcased in a Belgrade apartment between December 1985 and February 1986, later moving to Gallery Skuc in March 1986. The International Exhibition of Modern Art, curated by B. Mijuskovic, included replicas from the 1913 New York exhibition. A lecture on Walter Benjamin presented posthumous artworks, while Salon de Fleurus reimagined Gertrude Stein's collection from 1992-1993, selected by Lawrence Rinder for the Whitney Biennial 2002, which explored the concept of originality through systematic reproduction.