The exhibition “With Touch Through the Creations of Nadežda Petrović” emerged as a unique outcome of connections and collaborations formed during the commemoration of an important anniversary: the 150th anniversary of the prominent Serbian painter Nadežda Petrović’s birth. The National Museum of Serbia marked the jubilee by organising a significant exhibition titled “Modernity and Nation” on the basis of which Nadežda Petrović was named as a UNESCO Person of the Year. Furthermore, this exhibition brought together numerous museums in Serbia as well as the ones in the region, thus creating an opportunity to showcase this significant retrospective both in Serbia and abroad – in Božidar Jakac Art Museum in Kostanjevica na Krki and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka.
In an effort to present the renowned painter in the spirit of her innovative, communicative, productive, humanitarian and independent mind, the exhibition featured specially designed and enriched contents at each of its venues. Another distinctive extension of this idea was the exhibition “With Touch Through the Creations of Nadežda Petrović” at the Typhlological Museum in Zagreb. Originally conceived as an accompanying programme to the major retrospective on display in Banja Luka, it aimed to demonstrate outstanding examples of best practices and long-standing institutional cooperation between the Typhlological Museum in Zagreb and “Nadežda Petrović” Art Gallery in Čačak with the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska.
The exhibition included a dedicated section for blind and visually impaired visitors, featuring specially adapted tactile reproductions of four paintings from the permanent exhibition of the memorial room in “Nadežda Petrović” Art Gallery in Čačak.