Balkan Radikal

Balkan Radikal is an exhibition programme that presents and connects artistic positions and social practices that address radical, open, and collective-oriented ways of life in the Balkans and its diasporas.

Balkan Radikal ist ein Ausstellungsprogramm, das künstlerische Positionen und soziale Praktiken vorstellt und miteinander verbindet, die sich mit radikalen, offenen und kollektiv orientierten Lebensformen auf dem Balkan und in den Diasporas beschäftigen.

Artists / Künstler*innen: Dante Buu, Spyros Rennt, Artemis Xenious

Panel Participants / Teilnehmende am Panel: Maja Bogojević, Lejla Kalamujić, Spyros Rennt, N.N.

Curation / Kuration: Daphne Rüde, Nataša Vukajlović, László Rupp

Funding / Förderung: Migrationsrat ComE In, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

Opening / Eröffnung: FR, 13 SEP, 19.00 h

Exhibition / Ausstellung: 14 – 18 SEP

Opening Times / Öffnungszeiten
: 15.00 – 20.00 h

Panel Talk / Gespräch: SA, 14 SEP  16.00 h

Free entry / Eintritt frei

Balkan Radikal Initiative

The Balkan Radikal initiative foregrounds artistic, socio-cultural and critical approaches from the Balkans and the diaspora. Approaching the Balkans by geographical, cultural, and historical terms, we recognize its multifaceted and complex nature and hold to an understanding of the Balkans as a geographically concrete area shaped by numerous and diverse historical legacies (Todorva 2009: Imagining the Balkans). We initiate and realise projects with the aim of representing marginalised perspectives in contemporary society. Taking up the term “radical”, we want to challenge its meaning of extreme change and imagine what can be considered radical in opposition to the current political and societal climate. By looking at strategies that are rooted in connection, support, love, and intimacy, we want to open up imaginations for various forms of resisting patriarchal norms.

Balkan Radikal opposes racism, antisemitism, fascism, sexism, ableism, ageism, transphobia, homophobia, fatphobia, and all other forms of discrimination.