Tents were placed, with numerous attractions: panoptikum or collections of curios, okular ("funny" ocular lenses), magicians, fortune tellers, illusionists, etc.

Joined by the composer Miloje Milojević, painter Branko Popović and writer Todor Manojlović, he threw in the conversation an idea of forming an artistic female society and construction of an art pavilion.

With the aim of collecting donations for the construction of the art pavilion, in February 1923, the ball called “Thousand and Second Night” was organized in the Hotel "Kasina" by Nušić.

[4] Two years later, at the end of 1925, the Art Division of the Ministry of Education announced the competition for the construction of the new exhibition space.

[2][4] The pavilion was opened on 23 December 1928 in the presence of Prince Pavle and his wife Olga, Patriarch Dimitrije and the representatives of the Academy, government, Belgrade Municipality, University etc.

[2] Some of the most important names of Belgrade artistic scene appeared at the exhibition, such as Beta Vukanović, Milena Pavlović-Barili, Vasa Pomorišac, Uroš Predić, Petar Palavičini, Тоma Rosandić and others.

Among the first manifestations held in the pavilion was the Salon of Architecture, the exhibition prepared by newly founded Group of Architect of Modern Movement.

A combined artistic-documentary exhibition "Historical moments from the life of the Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić 1928-1945", from December 2018 to January 2019, marked the 90th anniversary of the gallery.

[10] After the design of the architect Gradimir Medaković, in 1975 a major reconstruction of the interior was undertaken, a new gallery was built, and the old glass roof was removed.

Named the "Awakening" and sculptured by Dragomir Arambašić, it is in the form of the naked female figure, standing on the pedestal between the pigeons, with water streams pouring from their beaks.

[1] Until the big reconstruction of the Pavilion in the 1930s, above the main door there was the allegoric representation of the art, done in the stained glass technique, the work of the painter Vasa Pomorišac.