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IMPORT/EXPORT Performance, Belgrade (2026)

18/06/2026

Sharon Estacio Sharon Estacio presented “Amerkána” at SULUJ, an interactive performance where she invited the audience to join her in peaceful acts of revolution through word games. The piece offered visitors a space for conversation, contemplation, and collective creation. The overall light and fun evolution of the happening generated a constellation of terms, phrases and discourses on walls, tables and other artifacts. At the end of the evening, Estacio concluded the piece by resetting the empty space and painting its walls back to white, highlighting the transitory nature of memory and communal knowledge, as well as the fragility of what a community can lose: undocumented narratives, erased perspectives, forgotten vocabularies.

IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade was a unique, kaleidoscopic event happening across Belgrade, co-created by the joint force of the IMPORT/EXPORT core group of artists (Aleksander Zain Aleksander Zain, Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio Sharon Estacio, Enrico l’Abbate Rilaben performance intuition, Darius Bogdanowicz Da Rius, Maria Novella Tattanelli ), U10 Art Collective U10 (Sanda Kalebić Санда, Jana Jovašević Jana Jovasevic, Maša Obradović Maša ⌫) and the team of curators heading the creation of the IMPORT/EXPORT handbook (Jovana Trifuljesko , Bojana Jovanović Bojana Jovanović , Maja Petrović maja , Dunja Belić , Ana Simona Zelenović zelenovicas).

Co-funded by Creative Europe. Additional support from the Cultural Center of Belgrade Kulturni centar Beograda, SULUJ Gallery SULUJ, Goethe Institut of Belgrade Goethe-Institut Belgrad and Cultural Center Magacin KC Magacin

Consortium partners mo-wan, & U10

📸 Credits: Tanja Drobnjak

06/06/2026

At Flower Square in the city center of Belgrade, Darius Bogdanowicz performed “WHITE SHEET (Street Poetry on Passive Body)”, in collaboration with . Standing still in the busy square, the artist offered his body as a surface for pause and expression, holding markers for passers-by to write their emotions, desires and dreams. Remaining silent and without reaction, Bogdanowicz allowed the public to shape the work entirely through their gestures and words. Over time, his body became a living page, a cadavre exquis. A collective poem assembled through spontaneous encounters in Belgrade’s charged urban space.

IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade was a unique, kaleidoscopic event happening across Belgrade, co-created by the joint force of the IMPORT/EXPORT core group of artists (Aleksander Zain , Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio , Enrico l’Abbate , Darius Bogdanowicz , Maria Novella Tattanelli ), U10 Art Collective (Sanda Kalebić , Jana Jovašević , Maša Obradović .obradovic_) and the team of curators heading the creation of the IMPORT/EXPORT handbook (Jovana Trifuljesko , Bojana Jovanović , Maja Petrović , Dunja Belić , Ana Simona Zelenović ).

Co-funded by Creative Europe. Additional support from the Cultural Center of Belgrade , SULUJ Gallery , Goethe Institut of Belgrade and Cultural Center Magacin .

Consortium partners &

📸 Credits: .cam

28/04/2026

“There and Back” by Tiina Lehtimäki unfolded as a travelling performance
along the central Kralja Milana street, starting from Flower Square, turning at
and finishing back at Flower Square. The artist moved a found sofa, inviting passersby to
share its weight, sit, rest, chat, or simply be.
In its own way, the sofa willed the piece.
Conversations remained unscripted, and the journey unfolded at its own pace, open to
detours and the rhythms of the participants who, (un)surprisingly, were very eager to help.

IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade was a unique, kaleidoscopic event happening across Belgrade,
co-created by the joint force of the IMPORT/EXPORT core group of artists (Aleksander Zain
, Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio , Enrico
l’Abbate , Darius Bogdanowicz , Maria Novella Tattanelli
), U10 Art Collective (Sanda Kalebić ,
Jana Jovašević , Maša Obradović .obradovic_) and the team of curators
heading the creation of the IMPORT/EXPORT handbook (Jovana Trifuljesko ,
Bojana Jovanović , Maja Petrović , Dunja Belić ,
Ana Simona Zelenović ).

Co-funded by Creative Europe. Additional support from the Cultural Center of Belgrade
, SULUJ Gallery , Goethe Institut of Belgrade
and Cultural Center Magacin

📸 Credits: .cam

01/04/2026

In “Autonomous Agent”, presented at , Alma Gačanin oscillated between the archetypal personas of the Service Worker and the Remembering Self, positioning the audience as “clients” within a corporate-sterile environment. Her choreography of voice and calculated silences explored current hot topics, bringing a state of tension in the audience between conformity and interiority. Participants were gradually drawn into mirroring gestures and imperative dialogue, exposing how capitalist systems train bodies to perform compliance even as personal narratives unravel inside. With this ambiguity, the artist explored the mechanized emotional labor of client-care and exposed the vulnerability of a woman tracing her metamorphosis from childhood to societal womanhood.

IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade was a unique, kaleidoscopic event happening across Belgrade, co-created by the joint force of the IMPORT/EXPORT core group of artists (Aleksander Zain , Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio , Enrico l’Abbate , Darius Bogdanowicz , Maria Novella Tattanelli ), U10 Art Collective (Sanda Kalebić , Jana Jovašević , Maša Obradović .obradovic_) and the team of curators heading the creation of the IMPORT/EXPORT handbook (Jovana Trifuljesko , Bojana Jovanović , Maja Petrović , Dunja Belić , Ana Simona Zelenović ).
Co-funded by Creative Europe. Additional support from the Cultural Center of Belgrade , SULUJ Gallery , Goethe Institut of Belgrade and Cultural Center Magacin

📸 Credits: .cam

17/11/2025

Belgrade, thank you ❤️

A month has passed since the 2025 edition of IMPORT/EXPORT, and we are still holding the faces, bodies, gestures and encounters that filled those days. This trailer by .cam is an absolute tribute to you.

Returning to Serbia -where this project was first imagined- carried a special resonance for us. In such an intense moment for the country, the warmth and openness we received from artists, collaborators and audiences reminded us why we do this work: to build spaces of exchange, care and collective imagination across borders.

Belgrade marked the third year of our nomadic journey — three years of learning, failing, rebuilding and growing together.

And this chapter continues. For now, no more events are on the horizon, but a book:

"The IMPORT/EXPORT Handbook: A Guide Through Performance Art Documentation, Curation and Space", by the curatorial team selected by U10: Jovana Trifuljesko , Bojana Jovanović , Maja Petrović , Ana Simona Zelenović and Dunja Belić . Reflections, tools and traces from Livorno, Berlin and Belgrade, mapping what remains after performance: gestures, relationships across time, and the desire to keep moving together.
Where to next?
Time will tell.

For now: thank you, Belgrade.
And stay tuned — more is coming.
💙 Love, care, action, performance art

The IMPORT/EXPORT team
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Main consortium partner (prod. & org.):

Partners:
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With the support of:

Artists, collaborators and contributors:
Anastasija Pavić .pavic · Alma Gačanin · Maria Novella Tattanelli & Laura Sgherri · Aleksandar Zain · Darius Bogdanowicz · Tiina Lehtimäki · Sharon Estacio · Tijana Petrović · Katarina Čvorović · Ana Stojković & Ivanja Todorović · Enrico L’Abbate aka Rilaben & Tina Salvadori Paz · Dragana Žarevac · Marina Marković · Maja Simišić · Ana Simona Zelenović · Ivana Ranisavljević .performanceart

13/10/2025

It’s a wrap!

On Saturday we closed this unique event called IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade with strong, loud, playful performances. Dragana Žarevac faced an unmovable wall, raising a cry of resistance in solidarity with the student protests in Serbia. Darius Bogdanowicz’s videos travelled across the border between Turkey and Greece, while Aleksander Zain’s moved between the east and west of Italy in a profound, rhythmical reflection. Alma Gačanin guided us through a provocative choreography of service and selfhood, and Sharon Estacio invited us into the participatory Amerkána, an evolving and fragile community built through games of legal and illegal words.

It all ended, as it always does, with a wall painted white again, ready to start anew.

That’s how we closed IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade, and that’s how we move on to our next steps in this nomadic journey.

More about that very soon. Stay tuned.

📸 Photos by Tanja Drobnjak .cam and Filip Olćan

11/10/2025

Yesterday we wrote love and revolution on skin at Flower Square, carried a damn heavy sofa through Kralja Milana, remembered our darkest pasts and speculated about our darkest futures, walked from the east to the west of Italy, and read poems at the border with Hungary.

That was quite a first evening for our IMPORT program.

And today there is more! Last chance to see it — do not miss this... it’s ephemeral!

SATURDAY 11/10

17:00 - 22:00 ACTA DISTANTIAE, a video performance by Aleksander Zain📍SULUJ Gallery

17:00 - 22:00 SALVANDO LAS DISTANCIAS & WHITE SHEET
video documentation of two performances by Darius Bogdanowicz
📍Flower Square

18:00 - 19:00
AM I TALKING TO A WALL?
performance by Dragana Žarevac
📍U10 Art Space

19:00 - 20:00
AUTONOMOUS AGENT
performance by Alma Gačanin
📍U10 Art Space

19:00 - 22:00
AMERKÁNA
performance by Sharon Estacio
📍SULUJ Gallery

All activities are free and open to all. Join us before it vanishes in the realms of photo and video documentation — it’s action-based, energetic art!

📸 Photos by Tanja Drobnjak .cam

11/10/2025

Yesterday we wrote love and revolution on skin at Flower Square, carried a damn heavy sofa through Kralja Milana, remembered our darkest pasts and speculated about our darkest futures, walked from the east to the west of Italy, stalked at beauty and time, and read poems at the border with Hungary.

That was quite a first evening for our IMPORT program.

And today there is more! Last chance to see it, do not miss this... it’s ephemeral!

SATURDAY 11/10

17:00 - 22:00 ACTA DISTANTIAE, a video performance by Aleksander Zain
📍SULUJ Gallery

17:00 - 22:00 SALVANDO LAS DISTANCIAS & WHITE SHEET
video documentation of two performances by Darius Bogdanowicz
📍Flower Square

18:00 - 19:00
AM I TALKING TO A WALL?
performance by Dragana Žarevac
📍U10 Art Space

19:00 - 20:00
AUTONOMOUS AGENT
performance by Alma Gačanin
📍U10 Art Space

19:00 - 22:00
AMERKÁNA
performance by Sharon Estacio
📍SULUJ Gallery

All activities are free and open to all. Join us before it vanishes in the realms of documentation — it’s action-based, energetic art!

📸 Photos by Tanja Drobnjak .cam

10/10/2025

From a mastered and hypnotic canvas to the pitiless torture of the body, yesterday we had an exquisite appetizer for what is to come this very weekend. Maria Novella Tattanelli@marianovellatattanelli_mnt performed her ACT II of Eclissi Urbane / Urban Eclipses within her exhibition in collaboration with Laura Sgherri , questioning how beauty, time, and transformation are perceived by the spectators.

Today is one of our biggest days! 5 performances, 3 videos, 1 exhibition.

FRIDAY 10/10

17:00 - 18:00 WHITE SHEET (Street Poetry on Passive Body)
performance by Darius Bogdanowicz
📍Flower Square

17:00 - 22:00 ACTA DISTANTIAE
video performance by Aleksander Zain
📍SULUJ Gallery

17:00 - 22:00
ECLISSI URBANE / URBAN ECLIPSES
exhibition by Maria Novella Tattanelli and Laura Sgherri
📍SULUJ Gallery

18:00 - ? THERE AND BACK
performance by Tiina Lehtimäki
📍Travelling performance along Kralja Milana Street. Starting point: Flower Square

18:00 - 20:00 DEAR LUCY
performance by Rilaben and Tina Salvadori Paz
📍U10 Art Space

18:00 - 22:00 SALVANDO LAS DISTANCIAS & WHITE SHEET
video documentation of two performances by Darius Bogdanowicz
📍Flower Square

20:00 - 20:30 4EVER CONNECTED
performance by Anastasija Pavić
📍U10 Art Space

20:30 - 21:30 CONTROL OUT OF CONTROL
performance by Tijana Petrović, Katarina Čvorović, Ana Stojković and Ivanja Todorović
📍U10 Art Space
All activities are free and open to all! Join us — do not miss it, it’s ephemeral art!

📸 Photos by Tanja Drobnjak .cam

09/10/2025

Yesterday we closed our EXPORT program with the fun, mindful, and action-packed workshop by Maja Simišić “Destroy”. We also kick-started IMPORT with the opening of the exhibition by Maria Novella Tattanelli and Laura Sgherri , “Eclissi Urbane / Urban Eclipses.”

As an appetizer for what’s to come over the weekend, the exhibition will remain open today from 12:00 to 20:00. And most importantly, will REPERFORM ACT II of her project AT 18:00.

Come and join us for a unique, hypnotizing moment of beauty and time perception.

📸Photos by Tanja Drobnjak (.cam)

Link in bio for the full a weekend program full of live artworks, videos and exhibitions!

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