Building a Sustainable and Inclusive Cooperative for Visual Artists in Europe

Out Now! Shared Visions: Cooperativism in the Visual Arts / Zajedničke vizije: zadrugarstvo u vizuelnim umetnostima

This online publication collects experiences and insights from the start-up phase of the Shared Visions project. It tells the story of four seminars in Serbia on the topics of art workers’ precarity, ecosystems of solidarity, cooperative governance, and alternative economies. The lessons of these gatherings are combined into a strategic plan: the foundation of a real, functional, international artists’ cooperative headquartered in former Yugoslavia.

Ova online publikacija sakuplja iskustva i uvide iz početne faze projekta „Zajedničke vizije“. Ona priča o četiri seminara u Srbiji na teme prekarnosti umetničkih radnika, ekosistema solidarnosti, kooperativnog upravljanja i alternativnih ekonomija. Lekcije sa ovih okupljanja su kombinovane u strateški plan: osnivanje prave, funkcionalne, međunarodne umetničke zadruge koja će okupiti aktere iz zemalja bivše Jugoslavije.

Contributors/Saradnici: Dina Gligo, Nevana Ostojić, Dušan Ivić, Radisav Stijović, Dražen Crnomat, Milan Đorđević, Tijana Cvetković, and Noa Treister. Editors/Urednici: Noa Treister, Milan Đorđević, Tijana Cvetković Design and layout/Dizajn i prelom: Tijana Cvetković Photos/Fotografije: Dragiša Trujkić – PAFF (3 works/3 rada)

Published by Samizdat Shared Visions (Belgrade), 2025. / Izdavač: Samizdat Zajedničke vizije (Beograd), 2025.

Get the publication Download ‘Shared Visions: Cooperativism in the Visual Arts’ for free here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ynLE4t4xHAqQOsjzslbWgAUcEkaRZ74Z/view?usp=sharing

Preuzmite publikaciju besplatno – Zajedničke vizije: zadrugarstvo u vizuelnim umetnostima, sa linka: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VbTtcOXgxYZj0ad_K4Foqo259iQM9YVZ/view?usp=sharing