Ten years of the festival "Days of Urban Culture"
At the Silosi Cultural Center, the retrospective exhibition DUK 2015 × 2025 was held to mark ten years of the Days of Urban Culture (DUK) festival—one of the most important street art festivals in the region. The exhibition offered an overview of the decade during which DUK grew from a local initiative into a powerful cultural movement that permanently changed the visual identity of the city of Čačak.
Photo by Jovan Zornić
The display functioned as a festival time capsule, presenting artworks, documentation, and testimonies that trace the development of DUK from its beginnings to the present day. Through anecdotes, behind-the-scenes stories, and citizens’ reactions, the exhibition highlighted the impact of murals on the urban space and the community, as well as the energy of enthusiasm from which the festival was born.
Photo by Jovan Zornić
A special segment of the exhibition was dedicated to a monograph in the making, prepared for the festival’s tenth anniversary. The monograph brings together photographs of all completed murals, interviews with artists from Serbia and abroad, stories about the festival’s beginnings, exchanges among artists from different continents, as well as accounts of how neglected city spaces became open-air art galleries. Festival merch was also available to visitors.
Photo by Jovan Zornić
Over ten years, the DUK festival has brought together more than one hundred artists from around the world—from Europe to Asia and South America—who painted the façades of Čačak and created a network of over 120 murals, now recognized as a unique open-air gallery. Alongside murals, the festival has included music programs, skate events, and numerous socio-cultural activities, building a space for meeting, creating, and exchange.
Photo by Jovan Zornić
The exhibition DUK 2015 × 2025 at Silosi was a tribute to a decade of collective work, art in public space, and the idea that a city can be a canvas, and culture the driving force of change.
