Yugoslav Socialist Design Exhibition Challenges Modernist Aesthetic Clichés

By Steven Heller · Print Magazine · 2026-06-30

Print Magazine highlights a new exhibition curated by Dejan Kršić that examines the visual language of Yugoslav socialism during the 1950s and 1960s. The showcase, titled Design, Socialism, Modernism: Didactic Exhibition, utilizes posters and graphic artifacts to illustrate how c

Print Magazine highlights a new exhibition curated by Dejan Kršić that examines the visual language of Yugoslav socialism during the 1950s and 1960s. The showcase, titled Design, Socialism, Modernism: Didactic Exhibition, utilizes posters and graphic artifacts to illustrate how c