The Iwano Project - SILENT WOMEN WAS: The Iwano Project - SILENT WOMEN is selected international art exhibition with participate 36 women artist, from 16 countries, and three continents. Held in the most prominent art gallery in main street of Belgrade – capitol of Serbia on past October – November 2018. All artists use famous large size hand made Japanese paper „WASHI – Kumohada Mashi“, with intention to be on project creative line – making art interaction between Japanese far east culture and tradition, and our comon western cultural heritage, to make new cultiral product... Thru the time, I hope that this unique exhibition will also in some another place in the world... PARTICIPANTS: Belgium - Veronique Vanderhinste Bulgaria - Mina Krassimirova Decheva; Cvetelina Maksimova Croatia - Tea Bicic; Mirjana Grahovac; Vanja Zenzerovic Czech Republic - Michaela Nociarova France - Philomene Zeltz Germany - Babette Weidner Holland - Theodora Plas; Ellen van Toor Hungary – Anita Dorner Japan - Miku Fuino; Atsuko Kotaka; Juko Nagami; Zakuro Saoyama (Yumi Nakai) FYR Macedonia - Petra Jovanovska Austria - Manuela Hillebrand; Marie Neugebauer Romania - Diana Duta; - Lea Raszovsky Serbia - Marija Coban; Branka Jankovic Kneževic; Nataša Teofilovic; Nevenka Stojsavljevic Slovakia - Klaudia Kosziba; Martina Lacova Slovenia - Ksenija Cerce; Tanja Milharcic; Joni Zakonjšek, Mojca Zlokarnik Switzerland - Rebecca Porto United Kingdom - Sara Anne Barraclough USA - Julia Jerkov Kline; Kathy Schorr; Marija Tišma Link for downloading (printed) PDF cataloque
The Iwano Project RETROX The Iwano Project RETROX, a large retrospective the selected group international exhibition will be held from 14 - 24 February 2013. in Novi Sad (Serbia), the Museum of Contemporary Art.  The exhibition will be opened by H. E. Japanese Ambassador Toshio Tsunozaki in 7 PM.  Take part over 100 artists from 24 countries and four continents, curated by Nebojsa Milenkovic. Here you can download complete PDF catalog of the exhibition “The Iwano Project RETROX“
	H. E. Japanese Ambassador Toshio Tsunozaki
" The international retrospective exhibition RETRO X, which represents creative art pieces exhibited in the previous ten cycles of the project, witnesses the successful realization of the intercultural project IWANO, which over the past 12 years since its inception has promoted in a unique way the international cultural cooperation founded on Japanese culture and tradition materialized through the famous Japanese handmade paper in large scales. Artists originating from different countries from all over the world have given the original artistic visions through their unique personal styles joining them with the Japanese tradition. The Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Serbia supports the idea of intercultural dialogue which lies at the grounds of the IWANO project as well, and which we consider has a special value for development of all forms of international and intercultural cooperation",

Participants/Artists: The Iwano Project IX 2008/09 _____________________________________________
38 artists from 20 countries, with 76 art works

Austria Christian Egon Barnthaler Manuela Hillebrand Marie Neugebauer	Belgium Veronique Vanderhinste
Bosnia and Hercegovina Elvedina Sarajlić Nikola Zaklan	Bulgaria Bogdan Aleksandrov Christian Apostolov Lapchev Rumen Mihov Dimitrov
Swiss Albena Bendji Mihajlova	Deutchland Stefan Wehmeier
France Philomene Zeltz	Croatia Eugen Borkovsky Burhan Hadžialjević
Hungary Ákos Bánki Suzanne Kocsis Eszter Palik	Italy Giorgio Pahor Ljiljana Radičević
Japan Atsuya Hirane Atsuko Kataka Miku Fujino	FYR Macedonia Petra Jovanovska
Montenegro Tadija Janičić Katarina Švabić Đurašković	New Zeeland Jane Barbara Lind Walker
Slovenia Robert Caglic Katja Oblak	Slovakia Svetlana Mihalj
Romania Macovei Dani Costin Andrei Matei Banc	Serbia Slobodan Parežanin Srba Travanov Tatjana Milošević Dragan Živančević
United Kingdom Sara-Anne Barraclough Veselinka Beba McLarnon	United States Julia Yerkov Kline

From the opening ceremony of The Iwano Project IX in Belgrade. The exhibition was opened by H.E. Ambassador of Republic France Jean-François Terral in  Muzej 25. maj, December 22nd 2008.

The grand opening of the Internatsional artistic project “The Iwano Project VII” is scheduled for December the 20th, at 1 PM at the “Muzej 25. Maj”, Bulevar mira 92, in Dedinje area of Belgrade, Serbia. The exhibition shall bi opened until January the 15th 2007. At the exhibition there will be presentation of 42 paintings of twenty one artists from ten South European countries. The uniqueness of the exhibits lies in the fact that they were made on World renowned hand made Japanese paper, donated by Mr. Heizaburo Iwano.
- In addition to the paintings created within The Iwano Project VII, the artistic forms created within the “ Workshop 05” by participants of the fourth gathering of the colony, which took place in the Village of Cortanovci in the vicinity of Novi Sad.
- The opening of the coming exhibition “The Iwano Project VII” shall take place in Novi Sad, Serbia, on January the 16th at 7 PM within the premises of the “Muzej Vojvodine” in Dunavska 37 Street. This particular exhibition is planed to close on January the 29th, 2007.

Integral part of both exhibitions shall represent the presentation The Iwano Project VIII – “WORKSHOP 06”- 2006., which captured the true nature and the atmosphere of this International artistic colony, in which participation took eight artists from South Central European countries as well as our dear guests from Japan.
This indeed represents the first attempt of capturing the working atmosphere of this truly unique artistic colony, by means of most up to date A/V and IT technology.

The Iwano Project VII 2006 - 07. – Participants:

BiH RS - Tatjana Škrbic
BG - Emil Mirazchiev
BG - Marija Popova
BG - Yohanes Artinyan
HR - Igor Grgurevic
HR -Korana Lukic -Šuran
HR -Vinko Šaina
HU - Emese Gog
HU -Szófia Szemzö
IT - Liliana Radicevic
FYRM - Iva Josifova
FYRM -Monika Desoska
SRB - Ivana Mali Vukelic
SRB -Jelena Medjed
SRB -Šejma Prodanovic
SRB -Danijel Babic
SK - Martina Lacova
SK - Klaudia Kosziba
SLO - Irma Gnezda
SLO - Meta Adamic Bahl
RO - Spatariu Sabina

The next "The Iwano Project VIII - WORKSHOP 06" will be held from August 14th to 21th 2006 at the representative villa of the Provincial Government of Vojvodina in Cortanovci place near Novi Sad, overlooking the Danube. Participation is reserved to ten women artists who will be creating works of art on the exclusive Japanese hand-made paper, courtesy of Mr. Heizaburo Iwano. Interested woman artists can apply using the ENTRY FORM link at the web site www.iwano.org.rs. The applications will be evaluated by a special jury. We recommend that the applicants be suggested by former participants. [ More News... ]

The project was created in 1999. as a personal project and private initiative of Mr. Aleksandar Pedovic, designer and artist from Novi Sad.

The basis of the project is to be found in the interactive communication between two so different civilizations, the Japanese and ours, European civilization, which is manifested in an international group exhibition realized on hand-made Japanese paper produced by Mr. Heizaburo Iwano.