| Pop Art Festival | |
| Status: | active |
| Genre: | Art festival |
| Location: | Sarajevo |
| Country: | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Years Active: | 2017 - present |
| Founders: | --> |
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The Pop Art Festival is an annual art festival held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] [2] It was established in 2017 by the Sarajevo-based cultural association Pogon in cooperation with the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the iMTM Institute.[3] It is held in May and lasts for three days.[4]
The festival was founded with the goal of promoting pop cultural and pop artistic expressional forms, as well as promoting Sarajevan urban culture.[5] It runs programmes for design and comic book art, acting and puppetry, painting and statuary and electronic music production.[6] Each programme entails workshops and exhibitions, while the music production programme also hosts a DJ competition.[7]
The festival also showcases student theatre productions from the Academy of Performing Arts, a radio production seminar and organizes an annual exhibition and panel discussion on Hip-hop culture that is held in the Obala Open Scene.[8]