Multimedia Art & Performance Art – Republic of Serbia

What about visiting an exhibition on how collective action can transform art and society?

The exhibition “Collective Intimacy” by visual and performance artist Maja Bekan is running at the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, exploring current models of collective action and intimacy.

In this exhibition, the Serbia-born and currently Netherlands-based artist uses different media, such as video, objects and text-based installations, to create several stage-like settings and present approaches and strategies developed in collaboration with women's communities. These include women in New York who reflected on questions of connection, intimacy and friendship during the Covid-19 pandemic, and participants who experience social exclusion and prejudice due to their lifestyles or professional activities.

For this exhibition, Bekan has also invited local high school students to participate in collective readings and explorations of the lives of notable female political and social activists. Involving local young people is part of her long-term project, P for Performance, which uses performance as a tool for investigating collective intimacy and the productive space of new knowledge.

Through Collective Intimacy, Maja Bekan explores relationships and connections by introducing the concepts of collective intimacy and togetherness. Her performances often involve working with groups of women of different ages, professions and life experiences. Within each newly formed community, she addresses notions of self-organisation and self-empowerment, as well as care, friendship and solidarity. In her work with collectives, Bekan uses performance and dance as rhythmic forms through which participants can connect and explore ways of engaging jointly with personal histories, truths, and social, political, and economic realities.

For Bekan, this process creates space for new forms of knowledge and establishes innovative participatory practices, questioning the boundaries between private and public life.

So, if you are in Belgrade until 10 November 2025, don't miss the opportunity to visit this exhibition (free admission).

Sources: https://msub.org.rs/exhibition/maja-bekan-collective-intimacy/?lang=en

Photographs taken from:

https://framerframed.nl/en/mensen/maja-bekan/ 

https://msub.org.rs/exhibition/maja-bekan-collective-intimacy/?lang=en

Photograph No 2: Maja Bekan, P for Performance: Twisting, Turning, Bending, (staged rehearsal), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2023, foto: Felix Grünscholß

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