IMPORT/EXPORT
WORKSHOPS, LECTURES & COMMUNITY GATHERINGS
6 – 8 OCTOBER 2025
U10 Art Space · Goethe-Institut
Artget Gallery (Belgrade Cultural Center)
ACTIVITIES ARE FREE-OF-CHARGE AND OPEN TO ALL
Workshops require a reservation
Performance as an Act of Transgression and Resistance
a lecture by Ivana Ranisavjlević
MONDAY 6/10, 17:15 - 18:30
📍Goethe-Institut
In Serbian
Performance art has never been just an artistic expression but also a space of transgression – of crossing boundaries, unveiling taboos, and confronting social norms. It displaces us from comfort zones and opens questions about the body, power, and freedom.
In this lecture, I will speak from the position of an artist who uses performance as a strategy of resistance and provocation, connecting it with the contemporary social context and the protests in Serbia. I will highlight artists who, similar to my own sensibility, find in performance a space of vulnerability, struggle, and transformation.
Finally, I will address the personal dimension – why I choose a transgressive approach, how stepping out of the comfort zone shapes my practice, and why performance, for me, is a space of liberation and resistance.
Ivana Ranisavljević is a Belgrade-based visual and performance artist exploring body, consciousness, and identity through radical practices of endurance and transgression. Holding a DA (doctoral art) in New Media Art, her work engages feminism, trauma, and human rights, spanning body art, site-specific performances, and installations. She has exhibited internationally, collaborated with renowned artists, and is developing a residency in rural Serbia that merges performance, sustainable living, and community.
📸 Filip Stefanović
Festival
a performative reading by Darius Bogdanowicz
MONDAY 6/10, 19:00 - 20:00
📍U10 Art Space
In English
Author and performer Darius Bogdanowicz is based in Brussels. He works across literature, expanded publishing, and performance, with a particular focus on transdisciplinary formats and experimental writing. His recent works explore the intersections between migration, political imagination and the role of speculative fiction in shaping contemporary subjectivities.
📸 Marco Ambrosini
a performance workshop by Marina Marković
TUESDAY 7/10, 15:00 - 18:00
📍U10 Art Space
In English and/or Serbian
This one-day performance workshop is structured around five tasks that engage the body not as metaphor, but as a site of tension, inscription, and negotiation. Each task frames a situation, defined by spatial, temporal, or procedural conditions, within which participants are invited to work from their own physical, emotional, or political positions.
The focus is on how corporeality emerges under constraint, through repetition, proximity, duration, or interruption. The structure offers a space for action that is both defined and open, allowing for individual responses without prescribing outcome.
Corporeality here is concrete, situated, and marked: by history, gender, discipline, and desire. The workshop is intended for artists and researchers interested in embodiment as a critical and experiential field.
Marina Marković (Belgrade, 1983) is a visual artist whose practice is grounded in corporeality and explores how coercion, discipline, pleasure, and resistance shape the female body. She is pursuing a PhD in New Media and teaches Performance Studies at FMK. Her work has been widely exhibited and is part of major public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Young Visual Artist Award, among other honors, and currently lives between Belgrade and Paris.
PARTICIPATION IN THE WORKSHOP IS FREE OF CHARGE, TO REGISTER SEND AN EMAIL WITH EXPORT - CORPOREALITY AS A SUBJECT TO INFO@IMPORTEXPORTPERFORMANCE.COM
📸 Marina Marković
Short history of performance art as a history of resistance
a lecture by Ana Simona Zelenović
TUESDAY 7/10, 18:00 - 19:30
📍Artget Gallery (Belgrade Cultural Center)
In English
This lecture examines the genealogy of performance art in Serbia from its emergence in the late 1960s to contemporary practices, with particular attention to the Belgrade art scene. It situates performance within the socio-political and cultural framework of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, foregrounding the role of cultural policy, geopolitics, and institutional conditions in shaping new artistic practices. The lecture underscores the significance of Student Cultural Centers and other alternative spaces as experimental platforms that enabled the articulation of neo-avant-garde strategies and critical artistic discourses. It further addresses the transformations of performance art during the 1990s and 2000s, when political crisis, nationalism, and social disintegration fostered practices of resistance, activism, and embodied critique. By juxtaposing these trajectories with European and Anglo-American developments, the lecture maps specificities of the Serbian context and traces the enduring legacy of performance art in informing contemporary artistic production.
Ana Simona Zelenović (1993) is an art historian, curator, and psychotherapist based in Belgrade. A doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Belgrade, her research focuses on feminist performance art in Yugoslavia and Serbia. She was art director of Galerija Novembar (2021–24) and curated Montenegro’s Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale. She co-founded SELFI Magazine, writes for Numéro and Fräulein, and is a member of the Global Fund for Women’s Artist Changemaker Council.
📸 Ana Simona Zelenović
Restroy
a workshop by Maja Simišić
WEDNESDAY 8/10 · 13:00 - 19:00
📍U10 Art Space
In English and/or Serbian
In her workshop Restroy, the visual artist Maja Simišić will share with participants her personal methodology for creating art while navigating – and using – the system we live in. Restroy means: you take a tradition, a topic, a ritual, or part of everyday life that bothers you, that you reject — and you destroy it. From its ashes, you build something new: a new concept, a new form of the old.
This new form plays with the aesthetics of the uncanny valley, appearing familiar at first glance, yet unsettling upon closer look. Participants will be introduced to Simišić’s work and will develop their own methodologies through communal word play, presenting their results at the end of this one-day workshop, part of the EXPORT program at IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade.
The goal of the workshop is not only to share experience and talk about methodologies but also to break the wall of unreachable high art and bring it closer to the public. It aims to help artists work on their methodologies, while welcoming anyone interested in exploring these processes. Everyone is welcome.
Participants are asked to bring their laptops or iPads (paper will be provided if needed). The workshop will be held in English (Serbo-Croatian and German are also possible). Extra props, especially unusual objects, are welcome too.
Maja Simišić is a multimedia artist focusing on everyday battles, and finding ways to turn them on their head. The model she uses to overthrow existing gender and class struggles in her work is built by analysing the expectations put on us by modern societal structures and historical narratives. As a female from the Balkans, living and working in the western world, her artistic practice is deeply influenced by, on the one hand, the perception of the eastern European in western society, and on the other, the way in which people in the Balkans are raised, their fundamental beliefs, and the role of women in both these contexts.
PARTICIPATION IN THE WORKSHOP IS FREE OF CHARGE, TO REGISTER SEND AN EMAIL WITH EXPORT - RESTROY AS A SUBJECT TO INFO@IMPORTEXPORTPERFORMANCE.COM
Afterhours
MONDAY 6/10 · 19:30 - 21:30
TUESDAY 7/10 · 19:30 - 21:30
WEDNESDAY 8/10 · 19:30 - 21:30
📍U10 Art Space
Every evening of the export week, upon conclusion of daily events, we open the space to the local and international community to continue the exchange and sharing of experiences. All are welcome!
📸 Nina Ivanović
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