The Avala house, in which studio 511 is a portion, is a family-run household carefully architecturally preserved and adorned in academic classicism. The house is within the region of Avala, 25 min. from the center of Belgrade’s capital by car. The house has a level garden and is situated on the outskirts of the forest of the national park of Avala.
As a practicing artist, the founder of Studio 511, Filip Matic, lives in the house using ground-floor premises as his working space. Studio 511 functions as an art space and art residency program, aiming at projects and networks within the framework of contemporary art practice. The art residency is organized on the 2-floor apartment turned into a studio with an ample working space divided into two rooms, a dormitory and a fully functional sanitary and kitchen space.
The studio offers a professionally organized working space with an art gallery feel; its layout is also suitable for open studios and exhibition arrangements, to which studio 511 is dedicated to serving a purpose.
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