Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Since July 2018, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has hosted an exhibition exploring the architecture of the former Yugoslavia. “Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980” became the first major US exhibition to study the subject, through over 400 drawings, models, photographs, and films.
The monuments were originally designed to convey the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. They were created to commemorate events of WWII in Yugoslavia. The sites that they were located were places where battles took place, such as Kozara, or where concentration camps had once stood, Jasenovac and Niš...However after the Yugoslav Republic collapsed during the Third Balkan War of 1991-2001, they were abandoned. Forgotten to the history of a country that no longer existed.