Breda Beban

Breda Beban (1952–2012) was a Yugoslavian film and video artist.[1] Beban was born in Novi Sad and studied art in Zagreb.[2][3] She moved to Britain in 1991.[4]

Career

Between 1986 and 1994 she made films and video works collaboratively with Hrvoje Horvatic.[5][6] In 1992 she was part of the exhibition Committed Visions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[7] Beban's two-screen video installation titled The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha was presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and later acquired for the Speed Art Museum permanent collection.[8][9] In 2001, she was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for visual artists.[10] In 2010, her project the Endless School was presented at the Tatton Park Biennial.[11] Her works were exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in the exhibition The Visible Ones from June 15 till November 1.[12]

Videography
  • All Our Secrets Are Contained In An Image, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1987)[13]
  • Taking On A Name, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1987)[14][15]
  • Geography, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1989)[16][17]
  • The Left Hand Should Know The Right Hand, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1993)[18]
  • Absence She Said, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1994)[19]
  • Walk of the Three Chairs (2003)[20][3]
  • The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha (2007)[9]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[21] the ZKM,[22] the Arts Council Collection,[23] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb[24] and the Tate Museum[1] and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.[19]

References
  1. Tate. "Breda Beban 1952-2012". Tate. Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  2. The Fifth Biennale of Sydney: Private Symbol, Social Metaphor, 11 April-17 June 1984. The Biennale. 16 May 1984. ISBN 9780959661934 – via Google Books.
  3. Manz, Stefan; Panayi, Panikos (2013-10-18). Refugees and Cultural Transfer to Britain. ISBN 9781317965930.
  4. Sherwin, Skye (25 August 2010). "Artist of the week 102: Breda Beban". Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  5. ""Breda Beban 1952-2012" by Walsh, Maria - Art Monthly, Issue 357, June 2012". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  6. "Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic - Videobrasil". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  7. "Committed Visions". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  8. "A video that asks, "Who's teasing whom?"". 2007-11-14.
  9. Searle, Adrian (12 June 2007). "Adrian Searle on what the Venice Biennale has to teach us". Archived from the original on 28 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  10. "Previous recipients". Archived from the original on 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  11. "Breda Beban". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  12. Zagreb, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti. "The Visible Ones". www.msu.hr. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  13. "All Our Secrets Are Contained In An Image". LUX. Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  14. Curtis, David; England, Arts Council of (28 May 1996). A directory of British film & video artists. John Libbey Media, Faculty of Humanities, University of Luton. ISBN 9781860200038 – via Google Books.
  15. "British Artists Moving Image Database - Artists and Titles - Detailed Results". www.studycollection.co.uk.
  16. "Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatić | Geography | 1989 | ZKM".
  17. Elwes, Catherine (2015-05-12). Installation and the Moving Image. ISBN 9780231850803.
  18. "The Left Hand Should Know the Right Hand". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  19. "Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatić - Absence She Said - n.b.k. - Video-Forum". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  20. "Luxonline". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  21. "Breda Beban". www.gallery.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  22. "Breda Beban - ZKM". zkm.de.
  23. "Walk of Three Chairs | Arts Council Collection". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  24. "Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb". Archived from the original on 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
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