Exhibition "City Space - Nature Space"

The exhibition "City Space - Nature Space" presents protected areas of Belgrade, selected examples of dendroflora, natural monuments, and landscapes of exceptional characteristics interpreted in the form of video works, photographs, and texts, as well as an eco figure made of secondary raw materials on the topic of protected animal species inhabiting the space of our capital city.

The city and nature intertwine and permeate each other. Besides the ecological significance that is most commonly recognized, the natural values of distinctive features in the composition of the urban landscape are inseparable from urban, historical, and cultural toponyms. The development of urban space represents the conquering of natural space, while the preservation of natural resources is simultaneously a necessary condition for survival. The contemporary inhabitant of urban space forgets the original connection with the natural environment, a whole without which he himself loses his natural, human face, thus neglecting one of the essential needs of human beings to be in permanent communication and touch with nature.

Through the exhibition "City Space - Nature Space", the Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia brings living monuments of Belgrade closer to the audience, as witnesses of the past with which we are connected through history, memories, recollections, traditions, and myths. The exhibition aims to introduce the public to protected areas - green oases of Belgrade, selected specimens of protected dendroflora, and animal species of Belgrade in the context of preservation, valorization, and interpretation of the natural heritage of the urban space.