04 Mar Belgrade Irish Festival opens with the group exhibition “Siege in the Room,” inspired by the work of Samuel Beckett
The Belgrade Irish Festival (BIF) will open with a thematic visual arts exhibition inspired by the work and ideas of Samuel Beckett, a key figure of 20th-century Irish art and culture. Titled “Siege in the Room,” the exhibition will open on March 12 at Bioskop Balkan. Works emerging from the atmospheres of Beckett’s writings will be presented by prominent Serbian and regional artists: Vana Urošević and Zoran Todović, Marija Ćalić, Zoran Dimovski, Aleksandar Denić and Nikola Šuica. The exhibition will feature diverse forms and dimensions across media including drawing, silk embroidery, photo prints, acrylic transfer, transformed objects, and video. The curators are Nikola Šuica, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, and Ksenija Samardžija, director of the Saša Marčeta Foundation. “The selected works are by artists who have been immersed in Beckett’s evocative world for years and who carry forward his themes of existential collapse. Through both recent works and new, previously...