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This article is part of research on the role of artistic practices in creating and defining regional identity in the Balkans. The author’s interest focuses on the neo-avant-garde movement formed in the period of socialist Yugoslavia in the multi-ethnic region of Vojvodina, where Central European and Balkan influences intersect. The cities of Novi Sad, Subotica, and Zrenjanin became the natural environment for the development of this formation. Although the artists who created it (Serbs, Hungarians, Jews, Croats, etc.), working in such groups as Kôd, Bosch+Bosch, Januar and Februar, enjoyed much greater independence than artists in the countries of the Eastern Bloc, they nevertheless clashed with the communist authorities of Yugoslavia, giving rise to the ethics of civil resistance. The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: how is the lesson of Vojvodina neo-avant-garde art being updated nowadays as a practice of social self-understanding, and according to what principles can it participate at present in shaping the regional distinctiveness and the cultural and artistic idiom of Vojvodina?