The Centre for Cultural Decontamination (Serbian: Центар за културну деконтаминацију, Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju) is an independent cultural institution located at 21 Birčaninova Street in Belgrade, Serbia.
Set in a building that was previously, until 1941, the Veljković Family House's courtyard art pavilion,[1] the centre works against "nationalism, xenophobia, intolerance, hatred and fear."
It was founded by Borka Pavićević, previously a principal of the Yugoslav Drama Theater.
[2] The centre's foreign funding was criticised by journalist Ranko Munitić in 2005, during Serbian political talk show Utisak nedelje on TV channel B92: What I was saying was directed at one type of people that I passionately, frankly cannot stand, not them personally, but the job they do, these centers for decontamination, where I ask the question of who has the right to put oneself in the role of some decontaminator, [to decontaminate] let's say me.
Anyway, had I done what was expected from a large part of my profession, the so-called colleagues and so on, had I done what they [decontaminators] almost requested from me, somewhere in '94, '95, '96, and that was to return to Zagreb where I came from, today I would have been welcomed on the red carpet from those ladies and gentlemen who decontaminate this situation.