Terra Museum

Center for Fine and Applied Arts Terra, Kikinda, Serbia

External appearance (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The manège building consists of two interconnected units – the main part of the building is higher and spatially more dominant in relation to the annexe, which is significantly lower, enabling the functional division of space.  

Entrance to the Museum (2022) by Vladimir Sretenović and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

At the initiative of the founder of the International Symposium of Large-Scale Terracotta Sculptures – Terra, professor and academic sculptor Slobodan Kojić, the Kikinda Municipality bought the old military barracks from the Serbian Armed Forces and changed their purpose.

Opening of the Museum (2022) by Vladimir Sretenović and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

In December 2017 Terra Museum in Kikinda was opened in the former manège building of the Kikinda military barracks. Due to its significance, the Kikinda manège is deserving of protection as an object of technical excellence. 

Interior, entrance (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The Terra collection is a unique world mosaic of styles, all expressed through the unity of materials, clay - terracotta. The collection provides a basis for gaining insight into all important phenomena, poetics, authors and works. 

Fundus, works of sculptors (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

Some of the works personify emblematic personalities of their time, as well as social themes. Moving across from figurative to abstraction, these are pieces that express the poetics of their time and the taste of a society troubled by aesthetic and cultural conflicts. 

Museum fund (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The complete, well-organized, architecturally attractive and compact manège space of about 2100 square meters, with good natural and adequate artificial lighting, was turned into an ideal museum space that is fully adequate for the uniqueness of terracotta sculptures. 

Permanent setting on the left (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The Terra Museum exhibition display is dominated by monumental sculptures.  Collection presents works by sculptors that marked the development of world art history in field of terracotta in last four decade. 

Permanent setting on the right (2022) by Vladimir Sretenović and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The works of gallery format alternate, gathered in the four corners of the Museum, with monumental and more intimate sculptures, placed on pedestals or directly on the ground, without being divided by generations or nationalities of the sculptors, without being grouped by topic 

Panoramic view of the permanent installation (2022) by Vladimir Sretenović and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

Panoramic view from the center of the permanent exhibition. 

Panoramic view on the right (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The exhibition "Terra - the Last YU Decade" was part of the 38th International Symposium of  Terra Sculpture. Sculptures of sculptors from all over the former country, created in the last, pre-war decade of the 20th century, show a slightly different sensibility of artists.  

Panoramic view from the left side (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The Museum’s rich collection of terracotta sculptures directly reflects its history, utilizing the extraordinary space of the manège, which enables a unique all-encompassing view of the entire exhibition. 

The Museum’s rich collection of terracotta sculptures directly reflects its history, utilizing the extraordinary space of the manège, which enables a unique all-encompassing view of the entire exhibition. 

The Museum’s rich collection of terracotta sculptures directly reflects its history, utilizing the extraordinary space of the manège, which enables a unique all-encompassing view of the entire exhibition. 

Salon (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

In the annexe of the building, right next to the main entrance, there is a small gallery space (about 70 square meters), the so-called Salon of the Terra Museum, intended for occasional autonomous exhibition. 

Bound – string work (2022) by Jelena Kovačević Vorgučin and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

Detail of the exhibition / installation by Jelena Kovačević Vorgučin, „String“ 2020.  The work "connection - bound - thread - string" conveys a personal, but also a universal story about the fragile threads of life.  

Fragile threads of life, weaving and unraveling (2022) by Jelena Kovačević Vorgučin and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

Author deals with the problem of the passage of time and the universal theme of tying, unwinding, tying, untying, separating and reuniting several generations within family, by a symbolic representation through threads of woolen ball. 

Binding and unbinding, passage of time (2022) by Jelena Kovačević Vorgučin and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The projection of the hands, the red thread and the woolen ball, is replaced by equally long and melancholic frames of the landscape scene of the seemingly calm stagnant water of the Danube, which is nevertheless hindered by unexpected movement. 

Workshop for children, Museum Night, Igor Grandić, Terra Kikinda, 2022, From the collection of: Museums of Serbia
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Workshop, Banat tradition, Igor Grandić, Terra Kikinda, 2022, From the collection of: Museums of Serbia
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Children's workshop of traditional Banat skills / games related to clay at the Museum Night. 

Museum night, games related to clay (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

Opening of the exhibition "Sculpture in terracotta from the Terra collection - figuration". 

Museum night, lecture (2022) by Igor Grandić and Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

The exhibition "Sculpture in terracotta from the Terra collection - figuration". 

Logo Terra Muzej (2022) by Terra KikindaMuseums of Serbia

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Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia 
Terra Museum
The narration was provided by Verica Nemet -  curator.

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