Tolerance Posters

On Thursday, May 21, the Tolerance Poster Show opened at the LKC plateau in Leskovac, Serbia. The opening was attended by the Mayor of Leskovac, representatives of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Delegation of the European Union in Serbia. These are links to some of the press releases about the opening: https://stav.life/putujuca-izlozba-plakata-iz-celog.../ https://resetka.rs/otvorena-izlozba-tolerancija-u.../ http://dnevnikjuga.rs/izlozba-tolerancija-otvorena-u.../ https://fonet.rs/.../izlozba-o-znacaju-tolerancije.html https://rominfomedia.rs/.../otvorena-izlozba-tolerancija.../ https://www.tv4s.rs/izlozba-tolerancija-otvorena-u.../ https://jugpress.com/otvorena-izlozba-tolerancija-u.../ https://dnevnikjuga.rs/izlozba-tolerancija-otvorena-u.../

On September 18, 2025, we held the opening of a beautifully displayed Tolerance Poster Show at Belgrade Fortress   (Kalemegdan) in Belgrade, Serbia. The show was a part of the broader Tolerance Campaign — a joint initiative of the United Nations and the Council of Europe launched earlier this year to promote inclusion and counter hate speech. The exhibition underscores efforts to use art, education, and public engagement to challenge prejudice and strengthen solidarity. But that didn’t last long. After being hung, the posters of Andrzej Pagowski of Poland, Blazo Kovacevic of Montenegro, and Levente Bendek of Romania were soon vandalized. The poster of Levente Bendek was vandalized repeatedly. First, somebody drew a skinhead symbol and scratched homophobic slurs. Then, someone ripped the rainbow flag depicted in the poster. After that, even more hateful messages and symbols were drawn over a rainbow flag that continues to be torn. So much for tolerance. Unfortunately, this happens ...

And the show goes on. We had the Tolerance Poster Show in Belo Blato in Serbia on April 23, 2023. I visited Belo Blato recently and I noticed that remnants of the Tolerance Poster Show are still there.   Here you can see some photos of show from April 23th.    

I am happy to share with you that on April 23rd, 2023, I held a lecture in the exhibition hall of the National Museum of Zrenjanin in Serbia entitled " Design Activism " , accompanying the Tolerance Poster Show in Belo Blato, a small village near Zrenjanin. The lecture is about the necessity of freedom of expression and the need for artistic activism. The organizer of the lecture at the National Museum of Zrenjanin was curator and art historian Dejan Vorgić with the support of Marta Aničić (AirMarta) and Salaš Lujza , who are the organizers of the Tolerance Poster Show in Belo Blato. Photos by the Nationa Museum of Zrenjanin .    

My interview in this month's Harper's Bazaar, Serbian edition. If you can't read it because you don't speak the language, don't worry, you are not missing much. 

In celebration of Human Rights Day, Kuća ljudskih prava Beograd / Human Rights House Belgrade in Serbia organized voluntary blood donation in the Big Hall at their headquarters. For this occasion, they decided to decorate the Big Hall with 30 Tolerance posters. And to celebrate their 10th anniversary, which is in this December, the Tolerance Poster Show will be on display throughout December. Human Rights House Belgrade is an organization that is committed to building a democratic and open society based on respect for human rights and the rule of law.    

On September 21st as a part of celebration of the United Nations holiday, International Day of Peace ,  the Tolerance poster show was opened in Novi Sad, Serbia. Posters were displayed in a few different outdoor locations in the city, among others, on the building of the Novi Sad Synagogue, Ballet High School, and on the walls of the Youth Center CK13 . The show is organized and made possible by the efforts of Silvana Zivkovic and Youth Center CK13. Here you can see videos of the show on TV Novi Sad and on TV Vojvodina (the Tolerance poster segment starts at 6:45)  

On Friday, February 21st the Tolerance Poster Show opened in and in front of the National Museum in Zrenjanin, Serbia. The show is going to stay on display until April 3rd 2020. This show was made possible with the dedicated effort of Dejan Vorgic.

On December 10th, for the third time , the Tolerance Poster Show opened at the Liberation Square in Novi Sad, Serbia.  December 10th, is the International Day of Human Rights, and the show coordinates with that event.  The show is going to stay on display till December 29th 2019. We are grateful to Robert Coban for his dedicated efforts, without which, the show would not have been possible.