The project "Collection of Rivers" by the Belgrade artist Vera Stevanović started in 1992 and has been appearing in cycles, in different areas, circumstances and situations. The main idea of this many-year project is that water means life and that those who are carrying water are bona fide travellers who transfer these flows with their personal hallmark. Rivers, cities, parks, time, space, personal samples, and towns in movement are flowing through their rivers, in bottles from all over the world. They are pouring into the "Collection of Rivers"/the Danube river basin. The project already includes seas, which have been arriving in bottles as well, from all meridians. River net/ Sea net – Aqua net/ People net networking of people through rivers and networking of rivers through people water, the link of everything and everyone... the life...

Vera Stevanović

Vera Stevanović was born in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she also obtained her master’s degree. She has been exhibiting since 1981 and up to now she had some fifteen individual exhibitions in museums and galleries of Belgrade and the former Yugoslavia; she also exhibited at many domestic and foreign group exhibitions and events. She is the winner of the annual award of ULUS and the buying-off award of the Ministry of Culture (1998), as well as the award for small plastic at the Sixth Biennale of Drawings and Small Plastic (2003).

Selected individual exhibitions:

• 2006 – Time Loop, Visual Arts Gallery of KCB, Belgrade
• 1999 – Collection of Rivers – Asylum Danube, Gallery of the Old Harbour Master’s Office, BELEF, Zemun
• 1995 – Matisse Passage, project "On Experiences of Memory", National Museum, Belgrade
• 1994 – A View at the Wall, Studio B92, Belgrade
• 1989 – Gallery of the Youth Centre, Sarajevo

Selected group exhibitions:

• 2006 – Troubled Water, De Veemvloer Gallery, Amsterdam
• 2005 – Photograph of the Play of an Aesthetic Moment , ULUS Gallery, Belgrade
• 2005 – On Normality, Art in Serbia 1989-2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
• 2001 – The Closed System 2, project by Johan Kendl, Vienna
• 1997 – Visible – Invisible, Thessalonica European Capital of Culture, Thessalonica
• 1990 - Artists , Peintres et Sculpteurs Slaves, Gallery CNB, Paris