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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