Top lista nadrealista (‘The Top List of Surrealists’), renamed in 2007 to Nadreality Show, was one of the most influential satirical television programmes in late Yugoslavia, its distinctive style shaping an entire generation. Launched initially as a radio programme in Sarajevo in the early 1980s, it was broadcast on Yugoslav television (JRT) between 1984 and 1991. The core team in front of the camera included Zenit Đozić, Branko Đurić, and Nenad Janković aka Nele Dr. Karajlić. Đozić and Janković were also among the founders of the cult Sarajevo movement Novi primitivizam (New Primitivism), which dominated the cultural scene of Yugoslavia in the 1980s. The programme combined political and social commentary with gallows humour, surrealism, and a keen eye for the absurdities of everyday life. Using elements of Dadaism and whimsical comedy, it interrogated power structures, bureaucracy, nationalism, militarism, and the contradictions of the socialist system, before the collapse of Yugoslavia. In an increasingly tense political climate, Top lista nadrealista became a critical mirror of society, using poetic and satirical language to tackle topics that were often officially taboo. Their work remains a powerful example of how satire can have a subversive effect and provoke public debate in authoritarian and uncertain times.

Works in the exhibition:
Top lista nadrealista: Sarajevski zid [The Sarajevo wall] (season 2/1988), 3' 46"; Hepek u Parlamentu BiH [The gadget (Hepek) in the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina] (season 3/1991), 10' 17"; Skrivena kamera – Poziv u vojsku [Candid camera—militari draft] (season 3/1991), 4' 57"; Ujedinjena Evropa, razjedinjena Jugoslavija [United Europe, divided Yugoslavia] (season 3/1991), 6' 6"; Porodica Popušlić [The Blowić family] (season 3/1991), 6' 31"; Snajperska raskrsnica Olimpiska disciplina trčanje s karnisterima [War-time Nadrealisti—sniper intersection / Olympic sport: Running with water canisters] (season 4/1993–94), 2' 7", 1-channel videos, colour, sound. Courtesy of Audio and Video Media Agency Top lista nadrealista (TLN) and BHRT (Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Nadreality Show: Neobična zanimanja – Prekrajač istorije [Unusual professions—the history rewriter] (season 1/2007), 2' 49". 1-channel videos, colour, sound. Courtesy of Audio and Video Media Agency Top lista nadrealista (TLN)