1922 The magazine Putevi (Roads) is published in Belgrade, and its editors and contributors are: Milan Dedinac, Dusan Timotijevic, Marko Ristic, Milos Crnjanski, Rastko Petrovic, Stanislav Vinaver, Dusan Matic, Todor Manojlovic, Bosko Tokin, Aleksandar Vuco and others. Rastko Petrovic publishes the book Otkrovenje (The Revelation). Dragan Aleksic publishes in Zagreb the Dada reviews Dada tank and Dada jazz, and Branko Ve Poljanski Dadajok. Rade Drainac starts the magazine Hipnos (Hypnos) its collaborators, among others, being Monny de Boully and Rastko Petrovic.

1923 The performance Hiljadu druga noc (The Thousand and Second Night) is held in the Belgrade Kasina. The posters were designed by Dusan Jankovic, and the lyrics and music for the futurist ballet Sluziteljeva metla (The Janitor’s Broom) were written by Marko Ristic and Miloje Milojevic, and the choreographer was Klavdije Isacenko. Ljubomir Micic publishes the manifesto Zenithism as the Balkan Totalizer of New Life in his magazine Zenit (Zenith) and organizes the first zenithist soirées in Belgrade and Zagreb. Slobodan Micic Palezanski is the editor of the Sabac avant-garde magazine Venturaementes (The Coming Spirits), two issues of which came out.

1924 The magazine Svedocanstva (Testimonies) was published in Belgrade until 1925, and its editors and contributors were: Milan Dedinac, Mladen Dimitrijevic, Dusan Matic, Rastko Petrovic, Marko Ristic, Aleksandar Vuco and others. The illustrations are: a drawing by Pablo Picasso, drawings by mentally ill people and photographs of tattooages. Monny de Boully publishes the almanac Crno na belo (In Black and White), Branko Kovacevic Almanah Branka Radicevica (The Almanac of Branko Radicevic) with photographs, and Dusan Jerkovic and Desimir Blagojevic the magazine Umetnost (Art). The First Zenith International Exhibition of New Art is staged in Belgrade.

1925 Marko Ristic publishes Od srece i od sna (Out of Happiness and Out of Dreams), a volume of poetry, and Monny de Boully Textes surréalistes in the Parisian magazine La Révolution surréaliste (No. 5). Monny de Boully and Dusan Matic are among the signatories of the Surrealist declaration La révolution d’abord et toujours published in the Parisian paper Clarté. New magazines are started: Okno (The Pane), editor Djordje Jovanovic, Bela revija (The White Review), editors Risto Ratkovic and B. Jovanovic, Film (Film), editors Maksim Goranovic and Bosko Tokin, the almanac Casa vode (A Glass of Water), editor Risto Ratkovic. Ljubomir Micic publishes the long poem Aeroplan bez motora (Aeroplane Without an Engine).

1926 The magazine Vecnost (Eternity) brings together Risto Ratkovic, Monny de Boully, Dragan Aleksic, Dusan Jerkovic, Desimir Blagojevic and other young poets. Nikola Vuco in Paris, and Vane Zivadinovic Bor in Vrnjacka Banja shoot the first series of Surrealist photographs. Marko Ristic meets Breton and the French Surrealists during his stay in Paris and starts to work on the La vie mobile cycle of collages. Milan Dedinac publishes Javna ptica (The Public Bird), a long poem with photomontages. Poetry books are published by: Aleksandar Vuco - Krov nad prozorom (The Roof Above the Window), Monny de Boully - Krilato zlato (Winged Gold), Branko Ve Poljanski - Tumbe (Topsy-Turvy). The artist group Oblik (Form) is founded in Belgrade. Ljubomir Micic’s magazine Zenith, published in Zagreb and Belgrade since 1921, is banned.

1927 Marko and Seva Ristic bring Max Ernst’s painting Sova (Ptica u kavezu)/The Owl (Bird in a Cage) from Paris to Belgrade (Marko Ristic’s Legacy at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade). Monny de Boully publishes Antena smrti (The Antenna of Death) and, with Risto Ratkovic Leviatan (The Leviathan), a collection of poetry. Rastko Petrovic publishes the novel Sa silama nemirljivim (With Forces Intransigent), and Stanislav Vinaver Zenidba Vrapca Podunavca (The Marriage of the Danubian Sparrow), a long poem. Monny de Boully, Risto Ratkovi' and others contribute to the almanac Novi istok (The New East).

1928 Aleksandar Vuco publishes the novel Koren vida (The Root of Vision), and Marko Ristic his antinovel Bez mere (Without Measure). Djordje Kostic, Oskar Davico and Djordje Jovanovic start the magazine Tragovi (Trails), and Zvezdan Vujadinovic 50 u Evropi (50 in Europe), which was published until 1933, to which contribute Slobodan Kusic, Branko Milovanovic, Dragan Aleksic and others. Vane Bor enters the circle of the French Surrealists, and, inspired by Ernst’s work, experiments with nonpainting materials. Vane Bor and Marko Ristic begin explorations in the photogram technique. Rastko Petrovic travels to Africa, where he makes a series of drawings and photographs and writes the travelogue Afrika (Africa, 1930). Oto Bihalji Merin and Pavle Bihali publish the magazine Nova literatura (New Literature) and found the Nolit Publishing House.

1929 Djordje Kostic, Djordje Jovanovic, Oskar Davico and Dusan Matic seek to rally the Belgrade group of Surrealists. Nikola Vuco creates a new series of photographs in Paris and Belgrade which he donated to the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1990. André Thirion, a French Surrealist, stays with Lula and Aleksandar Vuco as a house guest and a series of le cadavre exquis is the result. Visiting the Surrealists in Belgrade is also André Germain, the editor of the magazine La revue européenne. Books of poetry are published by Aleksandar Vuco, Ako se jos jednom setim ili nacelo (If I Remember Once Again or the Tenet) and Djordje Jovanovic, Djordje Kostic and Oskar Davico found the magazine Cetiri strane itd. (The Four Sides etc). Together with French artists, Koca Popovic and Vane Bor sign the protest Covek od ukusa (A Man of Taste) in the Paris magazine Revue Du Cinéma (No. 3), and Monny de Boully joins the Le Grand Jeu (The Big Game) group, and, together with Dido de Majo and other poets, starts the magazine Discontinuité in Paris of which only one issue came out.

1930 The almanac Nemoguce-L’impossible (The Impossible) is started in Belgrade featuring the Surrealists’ manifesto signed by the thirteen members of the group: Aleksandar Vuco, Oskar Davico, Milan Dedinac, Mladen Dimitrijevic, Vane Zivadinovic Bor, Radojica Zivanovic Noe, Djordje Jovanovic, Djordje Kostic, Dusan Matic, Branko Milovanovic, Koca Popovic, Petar Popovic and Marko Ristic. Apart from the Belgrade group of Surrealists, the following also contribute to the almanac: Breton, Eluard, Péret, Aragon, Char and Thirion. The first issue of the magazine of the French Surrealists, La surréalisme au service de la révolution, carries a text devoted to the founding of the Belgrade group and its manifesto. Jean-Paul Dreyfus dedicates to Vane Bor a review of a film by Fritz Lang published in the Parisian Revue Du Cinéma. Oskar Davico and Djordje Kostic create a series of drawings. Aleksandar Vuco and Dusan Matic make the assemblage Urnebesni kliker (The Frenzied Marble), and, together with Lula Vuco the collage Une atmosphère du printemps et de jeunesse. Vane Bor does a series of photomontages. Ljubisa Jocic publishes his first book of poetry San ili biljka (A Dream or a Plant).

1931 The magazine Nadrealizam danas i ovde (Surrealism Here and Now) is published in Belgrade, and the contributors are: A. Vuco, O. Davico, Dj. Jovanovic, Vane Bor, R. Zivanovic Noe, M. Ristic, D. Mati', Dj. Kostic, K. Popovic, P. Popovic, and from France: S. Dali, A. Breton, R. Char, R. Crevel, P. Eluard, M. Ernst, Y. Tanguy, T. Tzara. Art works by the following are published: Radojica Zivanovic Noe, Dusan Matic, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró. Marko Ristic and Dusan Matic publish Pozicija nadrealizma (The Position of Surrealism) which was not signed by all the members of the group. In Paris Vane Bor meets Salvador Dali with whom he will correspond for several years. Under the title “Belgrade, 23 décembre 1930”, the magazine La surréalisme au service de la révolution (No. 3) carries The Position of Surrealism which starts with the following statement: “Tout un monde contre tout un monde”. The signatories are: Davico, Dedinac, Vane Bor, Zivanovic Noe, Jovanovic, Kostic, Matic, K. Popovic, P. Popovic, Ristic and Aleksandar Vuco. Marko Ristic and Koca Popovic publish the book Nacrt za jednu fenomenologiju iracionalnog (Outline for A Phenomenology of the Irrational), and Petar Popovic the long poem Necu, testera stvarnosti (I Will Not, the Saw of Reality) with a photomontage. Misunderstandings between the Surrealists and representatives of social literature, i.e., between the editors of the magazines Surrealism Here and Now and Stozer (The Pivot) begin to crop up. Marko Ristic spent some time with the French Surrealists, at No. 14, Rue de Château, Montparnasse.

1932 Radojica Zivanovic Noe stages a Surrealist paintings and editions exhibition at the Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion in Belgrade. Marko Ristic and Vane Bor publish the book Antizid (Anti-Wall), and Aleksandar Vuco books of poetry Humor zaspalo (Humor Asleep), Nemenikuce, Cirilo i Metodije (Cyril and Methodius). Dusan Matic, Oskar Davico and Djordje Kostic publish the book Polozaj nadrealizma u drustvenom procesu (The Position of Surrealism in the Social Process), and Bosko Tokin, Terazije (Terazije Street), a novel with photomontage. The magazine Surrealism Here and Now stopped coming out after the third issue. Oskar Davico is arrested in Bihac, and Djordje Jovanovic and Koca Popovic in Belgrade. Monny de Boully moves to Paris.

1933 For their revolutionary and Surrealist activities, Oskar Davico, Djordje Jovanovic and Koca Popovic are sent to prison in Sremska Mitrovica, and some of them will remain there for a couple of years. Writing about this in his text “Des surréalistes yougoslaves sont au bagne”, (Le surréalisme au service de la révolution, No. 6), René Crevel describes in detail their arrest and detention without a trial, warning of the advent of nazism and fascism in Europe. Marko Ristic’s L’humor est–il une, attitude morale and Zdenko Reich’s Préface à une étude sur la métaphore are published in the same issue of the magazine Le surréalisme au service de la révolution. Vane Bor’s personal letter to Salvador Dali sent on 31 December 1932 from Belgrade is also published in that, sixth, issue of this Surrealist magazine. In Belgrade, a children’s book with photomontages by Aleksandar Vuco and Dusan Matic, Podvizi druzine “Pet petlica” (The Exploits of the “Five Cockerels” Gang) is published.

1934 Among the collaborators of the new Belgrade magazine Danas (Today) (editors Milan Bogdanovic and Miroslav Krleza), are some members of the Surrealist group: Marko Ristic, Koca Popovic and Vane Bor. Milan Dedinac delivers a lecture entitled What is Surrealism and What Do the Surrealists Want. Ljubisa Jocic publishes a volume of poetry entitled Ljubav i sloboda (Love and Freedom). Radojica Zivanovic Noe joins the newly set up art group Zivot (Life).

1935 Vane Bor makes a series of photographs Jedan minut pre zlocina (A Minute Before the Crime). Aleksandar Vuco and Dusan Matic publish the long poem Marija Rucara. The first International Surrealist Exhibition is staged in Copenhagen, followed by similar exhibitions in London (1936), Paris (1938, 1947, 1960), Mexico (1940), New York (1942), Prague (1948), etc.

1936 The magazine Nasa stvarnost (Our Reality) is started in Belgrade, with Aleksandar Vuco its editor (until 1939). The contributors include R. Zivanovic Noe and Dj. Jovanovic. Vane Bor became a member of the Film Cultural Cooperative founded in Zemun, together with the composer Josip Slavenski and the art historian Jovan Djordjevic. In cooperation with the American producer Esther Johnson he makes a movie about Belgrade (not preserved). Djordje Kostic attends a performance by Salvador Dali at the opening of the International Exhibition of Surrealism in London.

1937 Marko Ristic publishes the essay Pablo Picasso in the newly-founded Zagreb magazine Ars (No. 2), and Milan Dedinac the book of poetry Jedan covek na prozoru (A Man at the Window). Marko and Seva Ristic are at the World Exhibition in Paris and visit Dali, Thirion, Breton and the Gradiva Gallery. Koca Popovic joins in the struggle of the International Brigades in Spain.

1938 Turpituda (Turpitude), “a paranoiac-didactic rhapsody” by Marko Ristic, with drawings by Krsto Hegedusic, was published in Zagreb and immediately confiscated and destroyed on the basis of the Law on the Protection of State Public Security and Order. Marko Ristic contributed to the Parisian magazine Minotaure (No. 3-4) in Enquête Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme. An International Exhibition of Surrealism was held in Paris, displaying works by seventy artists from fourteen countries: England, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, America, France, Italy, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Japan.

1939 Marko Ristic produces the Asamblaz (Assemblage) which is an integral part of the Surrealist art legacy in the Legacy of Marko Ristic, a 1993 gift from Marko, Seva i Mara Ristic to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.