On Friday, 4 April 2025, in the presence of a large number of visitors, the 46th Collective Exhibition was officially opened in the Collegium Artisticum Gallery, where over 200 works of the members of the Association of Fine Artists of Applied Arts and Designers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Association of Fine Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Association of Architects in Bosnia and Herzegovina were presented.
By the decision of the expert jury, the award for sculpture went to the employee of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sports, the academic sculptor Marko Francešević, to whom Minister Sanja Vlaisavljević sent a congratulatory message on this occasion:
“Dear Marko, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sports, I can say with certainty that we are all sincerely proud of your success and look forward to it as if it were our own. This valuable recognition of the expert jury, I’m sure, went to the right person because your dedication to art and the creation of unusual works of art is visible even to those who are not as passionate about art as you are. We believe in you and your great successes in the future as well,” Minister Vlaisavljević said.
The tradition of gathering artists on the occasion of 6 April, the Day of the City of Sarajevo, has been held since 1975, when the exhibition “Collegium Artisticum 1975” was held and the current exhibition space of the Gallery opened.
