After a thorough review, consideration, and discussion, the jury – comprising artist Marko Šajn, last year’s winner Petra Berčan, Špela Pečjak, and ZINE VITRINE programme curators Maša Žekš and Ema Kobal – selected the project 4MGPX BeGe by Manuel Brajnik for the exhibition at Kino Šiška and for zine co-production in 2026.

The following zine authors are invited to hold solo exhibitions within the ZINE VITRINE programme at the DobraVaga gallery in 2026:

• Eva Klymiuk: It was a late summer eve when I died on a dried wheat Field
• Arek ‘’Klej’’ Barankiewice: preLOVEium, Dwa00zera: Nothing Dries Faster Than Tears
• Custodio Maxime: Mud Ball pt. 2
• Lav Mrenović: I Feel Like Contemporary Art Is Over
• Lucijan Prelog: Temple of Asentra
• Lara Deotto Bat: Da se boš vedno spomnila
• Teodor Kopicl: Raw Youth

We sincerely thank all participants for sharing their new, old, and intriguing projects with us, offering a glimpse into their creative worlds. All submitted zines will be archived and available for browsing in our ZINE VITRINE reading nook at the DobraVaga gallery. Welcome!

Jury explanation: 4MGPX BeGe, Manuel Brajnik, 2025

The zine functions as an homage, a kind of visual diary capturing a first-person experience of Belgrade. Created using colour screen printing, it features images of everyday life, ordinary urban scenes, and liminal spaces that lend the large-format, bold, and vividly coloured zine a subtle atmosphere of transience, resistance, and constant transformation. It is defined by abstract forms and visual fragments from photographs taken around the city. The author reshaped, distorted, and adapted these using mixed media, both digital and analogue video equipment, and collage techniques, transferring the final result to paper through screen printing in vibrant shades of purple, orange, and fluorescent hues.

The zine 4MGPX BeGe impressed the jury with its strong visual expression, rawness, intensity, dynamism, chromatic chaos, layered screen-printing, and the creation of a recurring glitch effect. In a way, it captures the spirit of the Serbian capital, while even more vividly reflecting the intensity, boldness, freedom, and collective energy embodied by Belgrade’s art scene. At the same time, its very form returns to the ideology and roots of the zine as a medium – handmade, reproducible, accepting of imperfections, playful yet daring, assertive, and unapologetic. It reflects an affinity for diverse artistic techniques, the blending of analogue and digital methods, and a keen attention to tactility and the reader’s experience.