Miodrag Živković, Monument to the Battle of Sutjeska, 1965-71, Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina. View of the western exposure. Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York ...

Thirty years after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, the traces of the regime seem increasingly few and far between. Among the still existing monuments, conditions are mixed: some remain pristine, ...

Rare photographs show the construction and unveiling of some of the famous monuments built during Yugoslavia's socialist era. The unearthly memorials known as "Spomeniks" (the Serbo-Croatian word for ...

"Call this decay? I could take a picture of some council flats in Doncaster and they'd say more about decay." A moody punter is standing in front of Jan Kempenaers's photograph Spomenik #11 at the ...

These images by Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers document a series of ruined World War Two monuments dotted across the landscape of the former Yugoslavian territories. Constructed during the 1960s ...

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To honour the sacrifices made during the Second World War, concrete sculptures were erected across what was then Yugoslavia. Today they stand as stark reminders of a history that must not be repeated.