Muzej savremene umjetnosti<br />Republike Srpske

Museum of Contemporary Art
of Republic of Srpska

 

"Let’s Call It Love" by Breda Beban is the most comprehensive exhibition of the multimedia work by this famous Yugoslav and European artist.

The exhibition in Banja Luka showed the most important videos and films made by Breda Beban in the period between 1992 and 2012. It included a total of 17 videos, installations and art films, as well as two photography projects, the series "Arte Vivo" (2008 – 2011), containing 10 colour photographs, and "I lay on the bed waiting for his heart to stop beating", with 36 colour photographs taken from 1991 to 1997. The exhibits presented Breda Beban’s work after her departure from the war-torn Yugoslavia to the United Kingdom, until her premature death in April 2012.

Breda Beban received major awards and recognitions for her short films at prestigious film festivals around the world. In addition to her artwork and her many solo and collaborative exhibitions throughout the world, including the Venice Biennale, Breda Beban taught multimedia at the Art Academy in Stockholm and the prestigious Sheffield Hallam University. She also curated several art projects, among which the exhibition "Imaginary Balkans" (Sheffield, Edinburgh, Manchester, 2002) and "The Endless School" (2010), as well as the online project "Imagine Art After", a dialogue between artists who immigrated to Britain and their fellow artists and compatriots who chose to stay in their native countries. She died in 2012, leaving a number of unfinished projects.

Curators: Gordana Dobrić, Cultural Center of Belgrade and Svetlana Mladenov, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina

Curator of MSURS exhibition: Lana Pilipović

The exhibition was organized in collaboration with Cultural Center of Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad and SEEcult.org online platform for South-East European culture and art.