Belgrade Artist in Residence

Belgrade Artist in Residence Belgrade Artist in Residence is a program as part of the Center424 non-profit artist-run organization

Belgrade Artist in Residence is a program as part of the Center424 non-profit artist-run organization, taking place in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It was founded in 2012, and has since hosted various artists from all over the world. Moreover, the program established artist residencies and exchange programs with Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden, with Homesession in Barcelona, Spain, and La Es

cocessa in Barcelona, Spain. The programs aim to foster cultural exchange between artists from different disciplines, create a dialogue and promote possible collaboration. We offer short term residency programs in Belgrade, Serbia. We welcome all artistic disciplines and encourage the exchange of ideas between residents and local artists. Art gallery, museum and inter-studio visits will be arranged to facilitate the interaction of international and local art practitioners. We are looking to collaborate with other like-minded arts organizations in the world. This sustainable partnership could lead to joint art projects and foster the mobility of local talents by way of exchange and promotion abroad/locally.

What do artists love about Belgrade?We asked — they answered. This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real w...
22/05/2026

What do artists love about Belgrade?
We asked — they answered.

This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real words from artists who lived, made work, and fell a little in love with this city.

Here’s what Juan Pablo Meneses
couldn’t stop thinking about after her residency at BAIR

Belgrade, an incredible city. I like the connection with Mexico. The color of the sky is very different, less vibrant.
In the nineties, the audiovisual production of Mexican telenovelas had a significant impact in Belgrade.

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What do artists love about Belgrade?We asked — they answered. This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real w...
06/05/2026

What do artists love about Belgrade?
We asked — they answered.

This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real words from artists who lived, made work, and fell a little in love with this city.

Here’s what Sabine Wedege
couldn’t stop thinking about after her residency at BAIR

Difficult to only find 3 things. Been to Belgrade several times, both visiting and living there. One of my favorite cities!

1.        DIY culture, both in relation to art production, but also music, printing and publishing, art markets, workshops and community. Want to highlight the squatted cultural space Kvaka 22.

2.        Folklore, an interest of mine, especially the similarities between Nordic and Slavic mythology, Lepenski Vir with its weird alien-like sculptures (even have a tattoo of one of them). Want to highlight Rtanj mountain, a pyramid-shaped mountain I visited - drinking the Rtanj tea, trying the energy field, and meeting this mysterious man who could heal, we ofc drank rakija after the healing. So not only rooted in Belgrade.

3.        Wandering around the city, finding new hang-out spot, discovering new shops and restaurants, seeing brutalist buildings sand sculptures, encountering oddly liminal spaces - old shopping malls, small underground shops etc. I even found a nightclub underground, only went there once and could never find it again, made it feel very much like a clubbing-dreamy pseudo-memory. Want to highlight “go underground!” and the bookshop Utopia, got to hang out with the owner Gigi sometimes because I lived close by where we spoke about art and music, and his time in New York in the 70’s with CBGB, Chelsea Hotel and all that!

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Marianna Feher is a Swedish-Serbian artist based in Stockholm, working primarily with installation, text, sound, perfor...
30/04/2026

Marianna Feher
is a Swedish-Serbian artist based in Stockholm, working primarily with installation, text, sound, performance, printed matter, collaborative processes and public gatherings. By bridging research with practice, she examines how subjectivities are formed in relation to memory, belonging, language, gender, solidarity, and friendship. By investigating microhistories and fragmentations, Feher places emphasis on how narratives can question or expand beyond their fixed materiality, often by weaving together archival material, personal accounts, and fiction. This methodology echoes an archeological process – exploring the notion of site specificity, while not restricting site to a designated location, but expanding it through the notion of time and displacement. Working within this threshold, she seeks to give image and body to that which time and distance has obscured.
 
During her residency, she will develop her ongoing project “Passers” (working title) which reflects on Dan mladosti (Youth Day) – the national celebration of president Tito’s birthday, held annually on May 25th from 1945 to 1988 in Yugoslavia. A symbolic relay moved across the country, honoring youth, vitality, and unity – culminating in a mass performance at the JNA stadium in Belgrade. The project departs from her mother’s participation in the event in 1967. What was once a synchronized ritual now lingers only as fragments. “Passers” does not seek to reconstruct the spectacle, but to inhabit its absence – allowing archival voids to become spaces for mourning, recollection, and imagination. Ultimately, the project is about movement – between generations, between memory and forgetting, between bodies and objects.
 
Supported by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
 
 
Photo credits images 1-8:
 
1. Jordana Loeb
2. Elísabet Anna Kristjánsdóttir
3. Elísabet Anna Kristjánsdóttir
4. Elísabet Anna Kristjánsdóttir
5. Lars Nordby
6. Lars Nordby
7. Lars Nordby
8. Courtesy of the artist

What do artists love about Belgrade?We asked — they answered. This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real w...
21/04/2026

What do artists love about Belgrade?
We asked — they answered.

This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real words from artists who lived, made work, and fell a little in love with this city.

Here’s what Noel Alonso Ginoris
couldn’t stop thinking about after her residency at BAIR

1. Pljeskavica (the god of the burgers)
2. ⁠Kafeterija (amazing coffee)
3. ⁠Weekends in Terazije !

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What do artists love about Belgrade?We asked — they answered. This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real w...
19/04/2026

What do artists love about Belgrade?
We asked — they answered.

This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real words from artists who lived, made work, and fell a little in love with this city.

Here’s what Radina Kordova
couldn’t stop thinking about after her residency at BAIR

“There are definitely more than three things I liked about Belgrade, but let say on top of the list was the feeling of familiarity. As a Bulgarian, living abroad for over a decade, reconnecting with Balkan culture, food and music was special. And the trees were blossoming, what a treat! 𓇢𓆸

I also spent a solid amount of time by the Danube 𓆜 and the Sava 𓆝 rivers. These water entities crossing the city were with me throughout my whole stay, guiding me and my work.

-`♡´- And of course, the people I met, my old classmate I reconnected with, and Jovanka’s guides around Zemun and the walnut rakia she welcomed me with. Best highlight.”

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What do artists love about Belgrade?We asked — they answered. This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real w...
18/04/2026

What do artists love about Belgrade?
We asked — they answered.

This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real words from artists who lived, made work, and fell a little in love with this city.

Here’s what Theresa Wilshusen .fine.arts artist and director of art residency in Valencia
couldn’t stop thinking about after her residency at BAIR

Graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti

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What do artists love about Belgrade?We asked — they answered. This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real w...
16/04/2026

What do artists love about Belgrade?
We asked — they answered.

This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real words from artists who lived, made work, and fell a little in love with this city.

Here’s what Annie Mo .ppt
couldn’t stop thinking about after her residency at BAIR

1. The people 💕
2. ⁠Kafanas aka the Serbian food even for a vegetarian 🥗
3. ⁠The art scene 👩‍🎨

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What do artists love about Belgrade?We asked — they answered. This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real w...
15/04/2026

What do artists love about Belgrade?
We asked — they answered.

This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real words from artists who lived, made work, and fell a little in love with this city.

Here’s what Seb Bradshaw
couldn’t stop thinking about after her residency at BAIR

My favourite things in Belgrade were,
1. the incredible Neolithic importance of sites nearby, which I experienced in the national museum, and by going to Vincha for the day!
2. The music scene! Especially at Bluz Pivo which hosts blues musicians several nights a week! I also saw some excellent DJS, including a Dub DJ that played alongside a percussionist and a violinist which was unexpectedly awesome.
3. ⁠The rivers. Something about the meeting point of the Danube and Sava rivers felt so magical and exciting to me, and watching the sunset over them from Kalmegdan with a cider was the perfect way to end a busy day!

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What do artists love about Belgrade?We asked — they answered. This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real w...
15/04/2026

What do artists love about Belgrade?
We asked — they answered.

This is part of our Belgrade Artist Voices series — real words from artists who lived, made work, and fell a little in love with this city.

Here’s what Rosie Hearne
couldn’t stop thinking about after her residency at BAIR


•The pastries

•The folklore

•The architecture

•The coffee

•The nightlife

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Seb Bradshaw is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator, exploring human occupation of land, and entangled relations...
03/04/2026

Seb Bradshaw is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator, exploring human occupation of land, and entangled relationships with nature. Drawing from English and Gaelic folklore, she is fascinated by the way myths tell the stories of a place and its people, adapting and changing as society does.

‘I am using my time in residence to create visual responses to the myth that some stone circles were once dancing women, punished for celebrating their own rites on the sabbath day. Myths can and should adapt over time, and whilst this myth may once have served as a moral assertion of Christianity, it reads now as a suppression of polytheistic practices which centred female agency and community. I am imagining ways to bring my favourite mythic women back to life, using playful reference images where I attempt to mimic the shapes real standing stones with my body, as if frozen in mid-movement. The aim is to create a new ending to the myth, and reanimate these ancient women into a world that will honour them, and dance with them!’

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