The Municipality of Belcista

The village Belcista, the seat of the newly established municipality with the same name, is located at a distance of about 25-km from Ohrid. This year, 1998, as 14 times before that, the village was the host of the traditional annual art colony. This colony is famous for being one of the few that take place in rural settlements.

Up to now, more than 150 artists from Macedonia and abroad have taken part in the Colony, giving birth to more than 300 works of art from various artistic fields. Each year, at the end of the event, their works are presented to the Macedonian public.

The Serafim Gallery & Studio

Kuzman Kapidan 94

Phone ++389 96 25 414

In 1979 the academic sculptor Tome Serafimoski, opened his gallery beneath Plaosnik (Imaret). He was educated at the School for Applied Arts in Split, and is a graduate of the Fine Arts Academy in Zagreb (Croatia) in the class of Antun Avgustincic. He is a member of MANU (The Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts).

The main motif of Serafimoski's works are human beings or, as one of his chroniclers wrote, his gallery is the place "where all outstanding people under this Macedonian sky are lined up one after the other".

Serafimoski is the author of a monumental sculpture of the Slavonic educators Ss. Cyril and Methodius located in Ohrid.

The "Ohridska porta" Gallery

29-ti Noemvri 3

Phone ++389 96 22 755

On the 33rd anniversary of Vangel Naumoski's first individual exhibition, in 1985, the artist opened his gallery "Ohridska Porta". Although Naumoski does not posses any academic education, he has grown into one of the most important artists in Macedonia who has been welcomed in the most prominent galleries in Europe and worldwide.

For a long time Naumoski was treated as "naive artist". However, the verification of his painting is history because his name is present in all arts reviews in Macedonia and worldwide.

He reached his culmination with the cycle "Obsession With Nature".

The Upevce Gallery

7- mi Noemvri 10

Phone ++389 96 21 897

For more than 25 years the artist Slavko Upevce is a chronicler of Ohrid and its surroundings. He is, above all, an artist of Ohrid in permanent quest for a new, unseen corner for depicting the town (the object) in a new dimension.

According to the words of a reviewer who knows his artistic expression, the works of Upevce denote "a distinctive artistic chronicle of contemporary times. This artist has been depicting Ohrid for a long time, by diligently recording all the features of the time in the body or the soul of the given symbols of the town".

The Zivko Pejoski Studio -Gallery

Car Samuil 52

Phone ++389 96 37 591

The gallery of the artist Zivko Pejoski was opened in 1984. His works are predominately ambient motifs, and he also works with shallow relief plastics and souvenirs. When summarizing the engagements of this esteemed artist, one of the reviewers wrote: "Through his work Pejoski depicts the authentic national presence of the ethnic group he belongs to".

The Simonce Gallery

Kliment Ohridski 144

Phone ++389 96 22 679

Jone Simonce is about to celebrate a rare jubilee - 50 years of active engagement in the field of arts. Educated in his youth in the fields of art, icon painting, carving, and scenography, he has nevertheless remained devoted to the colours.

In his gallery the beauty of Ohrid can be seen. The architecture, the Lake, the fishnets, and the fishermen will remind you of the past, but also of the life of Ohrid as it is today. Simonce is a cult devotee. In one occasion he said: "I wish I could paint the entire history of the Ohrid rowboat. Mind you, we are talking about 300 years of tradition".

The Rezonansa Gallery

Straso Pindzur 4

Phone ++389 96 21 581

The multimedia project "Tremble", performed by a peculiar man from Ohrid, Dragan Spaseski-Ohridski in his gallery actually consists of the exhibition of his works of art ("antrophomorfic painting with emphasized iconography that seems realistic only at first glance"; Manneristic reshaping - styling of forms and figures of some mythological and Medieval Byzantine-Gothic spurs"). We can see aquarelles and sculptures. Dr. Spaseski-Ohridski has proclaimed himself an artist.

The Rezonansa gallery (1996) has several floors.