Figure it Out: The Art of Living Through System Failures explores practices and phenomena in which systems and institutions fail specific communities and populations. Trapped within constraining situations, these people are starting to develop strategies of lying, cheating and stealing to counter their limitations and powerlessness vis-à-vis these systems.

What is democracy today, what does it imply and what are the most important inscribed concepts without which democracy cannot function? Is democracy possible? Is there an alternative to democracy? What is the optimal form of democracy? These questions are fundamental for the project Performing Democracy which is motivated by our need to discuss these issues, creating a space for a dialogue as broad as possible on the state of democracy.

Can we talk about migration using concepts such are care, solidarity, and collective action as basic preconditions for building a sustainable and developmental living environment? Can we extend the subject of migrations to the domain of ecological awareness and interdependence of the entire living world inhabiting this planet? These questions mark the starting point of The Garden project that is developing through dialogues between the inhabitants of the Banat village Belo Blato and artists involved in the project.

Project Yugoslavia explores the ideas that once were constituted within the concept of Yugoslavia, their relevance to the current moment and their potential for understanding and shaping our future, while involving hundred and one participants of various ages, histories and backgrounds from the region of the former joint country.

Project archive will be available soon

Through conversations with artists and curators who actively contributed to the development of the new artistic climate after the students’ protests of 1968 these interviews aim to enable new insights into artistic developments of this period.

The project Fiery Greetings was conceived as a reexamination of the socialist Yugoslavia, its structure, character and legacy, through the prism of construction of the socialist childhood, which is revealed in the photographs from albums sent to Josip Broz Tito.

Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Age presents exciting, inspiring, sensual old age. Contemporary art is changing taboos about old age and relocating them from the area of stereotypes, marginalization and discrimination, revealing at the same time so much more than just the ways how senior citizen can improve the quality of their own life.

Museum of Objects is an initiative to collect, present and archive personal memories of the Serbian citizens related to period of the 1990s that in Serbia were marked by permanent political and economic crises.

The exhibition is based on new artistic productions examining space, history and the present condition of the Belgrade Cooperative building.

As a starting point, curators chose the phenomena of the Youth Day celebrations and its closing ceremony – Slet. The concept the exhibition explores is the nature of collective memory and the perception of historical heritage.

In the form of participatory art project Family Album is researching family narratives of Roma families living in today's Serbia and Montenegro through their private photo-albums and interviews.

Project Art and madness aims to open the dialog on the topic of mental health in Serbia through art production. At the same time, it is pointing to the relation that the wider community has toward notions such as illness, otherness, difference, isolation, fear, disobedience and prejudice.

Project Displacements was realized as program of National Pavilion of the Republic of Serbia on the Prague Quadrennial 2011. After Prague, the project was exhibited in the Art Gallery of Belgrade Cultural Centre. Displacements is a collaborative project that aims to explore the principal aspects of contemporary art production and live performance within a newly built platform, which is in essence, an interactive and interdisciplinary physical interface for live holographic performance video streaming.

Kiosk Dialogues is the project conceived as a communication platform that is aiming to establish the dialogue with the large number of young participants while creating participatory art work where they act as co-creators, and not just the passive observers in this process.

Project archive will be available soon

The Festival's visual program concept carries on the initiative from BELEF 08 and continues to explore the possibilities of contemporary art production in public spaces. The city remains the focus of the Festival as a theme, an element on which an art intervention is performed, a field of research and interpretation.

The project represents an initiative for reviving the idea of art in public space in Serbia while supporting the process of decentralization of contemporary art scene in the country.

Undisguised preoccupation of BELEF 08 is how to change the visible countenance of the city through artistic intervention and leave the marks in everyday customary paths of passers-by, transforming them into permanent artistic exhibits.

Showing the wide spectrum of themes - from the childhood memories, family stories, intimate and less intimate, lives of others, region, cultural phenomena - exhibition is showcasing a circle of ideas and topics present on the Serbian contemporary art scene through the medium of photography.

The Communication project is conceived as a creative educational platform that employs photographic medium as a tool for establishing a dialogue and communication between young people coming from different and often conflicted ethnic backgrounds.

Searching for the nature of contemporary art, the authors were discussing this subject with 81 people, each of them providing their answer to the very same question: “What does art mean for you?” Their answers have been accompanied by the photographs where our interlocutors presented a single object of their possession considered to be a work of art, according to each and everyone’s respective taste and choice.

The project initiated by the curators Milica Pekić, Milena Grabačić and Katarina Mitrović was dealing with the perception of the past and transformation of images from the memory within the artistic interpretation.