During May and June 2025, three cities—Belgrade, Rijeka, and Trbovlje—will host exhibitions that explore Southeast Europe’s industrial heritage in contemporary and innovative ways. Artists from Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia will present works which use digital interpretations, sound installations, 3D mapping and interactive projections to offer fresh and deeper insights into industrial sites.
Exhibition openings and venues
22 May — Museum of Science and Technology (Muzej nauke i tehnike), Belgrade
22 May — Delavski dom, Trbovlje (Slovenia)
10 June — Assembly Hall of the Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka (Croatia)
The featured works focus on three landmark industrial sites: Belgrade’s Snaga i svetlost thermal power plant, Rijeka’s Hartera paper mill, and the Trbovlje Thermal Power Plant. Once symbols of industrial progress, these spaces are now gaining new life through art.
The exhibitions are organized as part of the international project FASIH – Future Art Science Industrial Heritage, which aims to understand, preserve, and document the region’s industrial heritage.
As Project Manager Dobrivoje Lale Erić notes, the ten art&science productions on display—created through open calls and international collaboration—are the result of two years of work by teams from the three countries. The exhibitions’ goal is not only artistic expression but also reflection on the history, identity, and future of these sites through a unique synthesis of science, art, and technology.
The crowning event of the project will be the final conference “Industrial Heritage through Art & Science Lenses,” to be held on 13 June 2025 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka. Bringing together researchers, artists, experts from diverse fields and other stakeholders, the conference will provide an opportunity to exchange experiences, present the project’s methodology and results, and lay the foundations for new collaborations in preserving industrial heritage.
Attendance at the conference is free, but registration via this link is required; registration remains open until 31 May 2025. The detailed conference program is available at the following link.
The FASIH project, launched in February 2023, is supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe program. It is led by the Center for the Promotion of Science, with partners including the Museum of Science and Technology in Belgrade, Delavski dom in Trbovlje, the University of Rijeka, the Academy of Applied Arts Rijeka, and the Natural History Museum Rijeka.
