Skopje gets first-ever Museum of Illusions
The Museum of Illusions - the first of its kind in Macedonia - was opened Wednesday. Following months of preparations in an original museum concept, it is located in downtown Skopje in three-level, 550-square meter premises. The museum is the largest of its kind in the country's surrounding, Blagica Ilic, museum's representative, told a news conference on Wednesday. Not only children and youngsters, but also adults are the target group, according to her. " Some thirty items and over 60 pictures offer an unreal-looking…
"Comic Strip in Stip", exhibit of Aleksandar Stevanov
First solo show of comic strip works upon the texts by screenwriter Aleksandar Stevanov, who recently scooped award "Ljupco Filipov" for development and promotion of comic strip in Macedonia, will open in Stip-based university library "Goce Delcev" on Wednesday. The display includes about 50 comic strip-boards by several illustrators. The exhibit will run through by mid-December.
Hungary - country in focus at Skopje Design Week 2017
In the frameworks of Skopje Design Week 2017 (SDW) which will be held on Nov. 22-26, the country in focus is Hungary featuring the travelling exhibition “Shaping Hungary: Design in the 21st Century.” The exhibition as well as the manifestation Skopje Design Week titled ‘Sound of Materials’ will open Wednesday evening in the Public Room – center for design and innovation in Skopje. Twenty-five contemporary young industrial designers, inventors and engineers will be presented at the exhibition which as organiser underlined, confirm …
Crowdfunding Makes Macedonian Board Game an International Hit
How does a group of young people in a small impoverished country fulfill its dream of selling a board game on the international market? For at least two Macedonian start-ups, the answer in 2016 was the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Archona Games raised more than 33,000 Australian dollars (USD $25,300) to manufacture its sci-fi-themed board game “Small Star Empires,” and Final Frontier Games collected more than USD $107,000 to release its fantasy-themed game “Cavern Tavern.” Both companies beat their fundraising goals considerably…
Oliver Musovik holds solo exhibition
Solo exhibition by Oliver Musovik titled “Corrupt Landscapes” will open Thursday evening at Mobile Gallery of the Contemporary Art Center in the Park of Francophone in Skopje. Musovik’s exhibition will feature several new, never exhibited works-photographic series that reveal spatial practices of corruption and corrosion of the economic and civic order in Macedonia-illegal construction, corruption in construction. Oliver Musovik was born in 1971 in Skopje. He completed undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department …
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