Maja Bekan is a visual artist whose practice often involves long-term research-based projects, focusing on collaborative making, performance, and socially engaged processes.
The protagonists of Bekan’s work are often women: artists, activists, students, retirees, and individuals seeking a place for themselves in difficult circumstances. She is interested in a collaborative and social approach to explore personal histories, truths, economies, and social relations. Bekan works on long-term research-based projects that involve different levels of collaboration, presented to the public in the form of performances, site-specific environments, and video/audio/text-based installations. She was an artist in residence at ISCP New York, Delfina Foundation London, AIR Laboratory (U-jazdowski) Warsaw, IFP Beijing, China, and AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz. She has exhibited work at MoCAB, Belgrade; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Tent, Rotterdam; ISCP New York, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Kunsthaus, Graz; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Melly (former Witte de With) Rotterdam, Casco Art Institute, among others.
