The Gallery of Contemporary Art project is a portable exhibition space founded by curator Kirill Eltsov in 2023 in Novi Sad, Serbia. 

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The core idea of the project is to create yet another “gallery in the expanded field” (borrowing the term from a series of exhibition projects including blip blip blip), offering an alternative mode of presenting and perceiving art beyond institutional boundaries. 

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The Gallery of Contemporary Art (GCA) is a gallery that can quite literally be carried around. Owing to its mobility, it moves freely through the city, entering a wide range of public and semi-public spaces — from cafés and shops to museums and art venues. In doing so, GCA appropriates attention and space, temporarily reserving it for the exhibition — whether it be a street corner, a park bench, or a coffee table. 

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The gallery can be worn over the shoulder or placed horizontally on the floor — in which position its potential for spatial appropriation becomes especially pronounced. 

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Since its inception, the project has taken shape through exhibitions of various formats: 
– outdoor displays in Futoški and Dunavski Parks (Novi Sad, 2023–2024), 
– exhibitions in cafés (Tischler and Izlet, 2023–2024), 
– participation in group shows, such as Sinteza at the Barka Cultural Center (2024), 
– and a number of mobile one-work exhibitions that appear spontaneously across diverse contexts. 

Each time, GCA redefines its own position — both within the art world and in public space — questioning the boundaries of art, its institutional frameworks, and its modes of presence. 

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The Gallery of Contemporary Art project is open to various forms of collaboration and is always interested in working with artists.  

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