Original. 100 artists who made BJCEM original

"Original" is a document about the history of the last twenty years of the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, in the period between the last decades of the twentieth and the first decade of the twenty-first century, which testifies to the excellent artistic works of the generations which have been creating on the very spring of ancient and modern cultures and civilizations. The Biennials that took place in Barcelona in 1985 and 1987, in Thessaloniki 1986, in Bologna 1988, in Marseilles 1990, in Valencia 1992, in Lisbon 1994, in Turin 1997, in Rome 1999, in Sarajevo 2001, in Athens 2003, and the Biennial in Naples 2005 have promoted young artists whose works are today appreciated in modern art. Establishing, over two decades, diverse contacts among each other and a cultural network through which, disregarding political, geographical, and other differences and boundaries, the best ways of cooperation can be found. In July 2001, the artists created the International Association for the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean together with towns, art associations, local, national and international institutions and associations, ministries of culture and youth, regions and provinces. Currently, the association counts seventy-five key participants from all over Africa, Asia and Europe participating in the promotion of art dedicated to the affirmation of young artists and the dialogue of cultures and world civilizations. The way of selecting the participants for the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, through calls for the participants organized by the members of the association and also the theme selected together with the host of each Biennial, guarantee the supreme quality of the artwork of the artists selected to which testifies the choice of the artists in Original as well as their own affirmation in the art world. (Ibrahim Spahic, President of the Association of the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, 2001-2007)

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