About Breda Beban
Lived 1952 – 2012 (aged 59). Breda Beban was a Yugoslav video artist, photographer, filmmaker and film director.
Breda Beban (1952–2012) was a Yugoslavian film and video artist.
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 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) The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha (2007) 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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Who was Breda Beban?
Serbian filmmaker and artist (1952-2012)
When was Breda Beban born?
Breda Beban was born on 24 December 1952 in Novi Sad.
When did Breda Beban die?
Breda Beban died on 23 April 2012 in London.
What was Breda Beban's occupation?
Breda Beban was a video artist, photographer, filmmaker and film director.
What nationality was Breda Beban?
Breda Beban was Yugoslav.
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