Breda Beban
Breda Beban (1952–2012) was a Yugoslavian film and video artist. Beban was born in Novi Sad and studied art in Zagreb. She moved to Britain in 1991.
Also recorded as Breda Baban
Breda Beban
- Born
- 1952 · Novi Sad.
- Died
- 2012 · London.
- Nationality
- Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- video artist · photographer · filmmaker · film director
- Languages
- Croatian
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Breda Beban (1952–2012) was a Yugoslavian film and video artist. Beban was born in Novi Sad and studied art in Zagreb. She moved to Britain in 1991.
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Breda Beban (1952–2012) was a film director, filmmaker and photographer, among other activities, of Yugoslav nationality. The film director was born in Novi Sad and died in London.
Languages used include Croatian. Works are held at Tate, Vtape and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
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Career
Between 1986 and 1994 she made films and video works collaboratively with Hrvoje Horvatic. In 1992 she was part of the exhibition Committed Visions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 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. In 2001, she was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for visual artists. In 2010, her project the Endless School was presented at the Tatton Park Biennial. Her works were exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in the exhibition The Visible Ones from June 15 till November 1.
Videography
Videography
• All Our Secrets Are Contained In An Image, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1987) • Taking On A Name, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1987) • Geography, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1989) • The Left Hand Should Know The Right Hand, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1993) • Absence She Said, with Hrvoje Horvatic (1994) • Walk of the Three Chairs (2003) • The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha (2007)
Identity
Identity
Breda Beban is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded with the occupation video artist. Recorded as video artist, photographer, filmmaker and film director.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1952
Breda Beban was born on 24 December 1952.
2012
Breda Beban died on 23 April 2012.
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Novi Sad.
Birth place
London.
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Collections
Collections
Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the ZKM, the Arts Council Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb and the Tate Museum and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.
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- 1.The Biennale. The Fifth Biennale of Sydney: Private Symbol, Social Metaphor, 11 April-17 June 1984. 16 May 1984. 9780959661934.
- 2.Sherwin, Skye. Artist of the week 102: Breda Beban. 25 August 2010.
- 3."Breda Beban 1952-2012" by Walsh, Maria - Art Monthly, Issue 357, June 2012.
- 4.Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic - Videobrasil.
- 5.Committed Visions.
- 6.A video that asks, "Who's teasing whom?". 2007-11-14.
- 7.Searle, Adrian. Adrian Searle on what the Venice Biennale has to teach us. 12 June 2007.
- 8.Previous recipients.
- 9.Breda Beban.
- 10.Zagreb, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti. The Visible Ones. www.msu.hr.
- 11.All Our Secrets Are Contained In An Image. LUX.
- 12.Curtis, David. A directory of British film & video artists. John Libbey Media, Faculty of Humanities, University of Luton. 28 May 1996. 9781860200038.
- 13.British Artists Moving Image Database - Artists and Titles - Detailed Results. www.studycollection.co.uk.
- 14.Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatić | Geography | 1989 | ZKM.
- 15.Elwes, Catherine. Installation and the Moving Image. 2015-05-12. 9780231850803.
- 16.The Left Hand Should Know the Right Hand.
- 17.Luxonline.
- 18.Manz, Stefan. Refugees and Cultural Transfer to Britain. 2013-10-18. 9781317965930.
- 19.Breda Beban. www.gallery.ca.
- 20.Breda Beban - ZKM. zkm.de.
- 21.Walk of Three Chairs | Arts Council Collection.
- 22.Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb.
- 23.Tate. Breda Beban 1952-2012.
- 24.Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatić - Absence She Said - n.b.k. - Video-Forum.
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