• Upcycling radionica sa umetnikom Edijem Eketeom (DR Kongo) održana od 24.09. do 29.09. u Galeriji ULUS

30.09. završnI događaj “Umetnost kao privremena slobodna teritorija” u Umetničkom paviljonu “Cvijeta Zuzorić”, u 19h.

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U prisustvu umetnika ćemo razgovarati o njegovoj umetničkoj praksi, važnosti dekolonijalizacije DR Konga od evropskog i lokalnog đubreta kroz umetnikovo aktivno delovanje, kao i o radovima koje apsajkling aktivnosti Edija Eketea i kolektiva koje okuplja oko sebe, inspirišu, a kroz čiju utilitarnost možemo pokušati zamišljati bolje, neistražene svetove koje nam isuviše potrebne oaze mogu ponuditi. Podsetimo, Edi Ekete je već učestvovao u diskurzivnom programu Bijenala mladih, Raspričavanje, u decembru prošle godine, a ovo je povod više da se sa umetnikom i celim timom (Belgija/Srbija) upoznate i uživo kao i da proširite saznanja sa drugim učesnicima ovog razgovora. 

U razgovoru “Umetnost kao privremena slobodna teritorija” učestvuju: 

• Edi Ekete, vizuelni umetnik, edukator i aktivista, osnivač kolektiva Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle i festivala Kinact; 
• Selija Šarkaui, kustoskinja Kraljevskog muzeja Centralne Afrike u Briselu (istražuje ekstraktivizam i dekolonijalne politike kroz primer DR Konga); 
• Mirna Udovčić, arhitektkinja iz Zagreba (autorka mobilnih oaza tj. plastenika inspirisanih Eketovim kostimima izvedenih tokom proleća 2025. godine u Oranžeriji Bijerbe); 
• Ivana Momčilović, dramaturškinja i eskperimentatorka, osnivačica internacionalne platforme PhD in One Night/Gerila Univerzitet i koordinatorka/koosnivačica umetničkog i rezidencijalnog programa u Oranžeriji Bijerbe/Laboratorija Radikalnog Mira;
• Martin van der Belen, radnik u kulturi, fotograf i videasta, osnivač nomadske Fondacije La Nacelle i koosnivač Oranžerije Bijerbe;
• Ljubomir Jakić, koordinator socio-kulturnih aktivnosti PhD In One Night/Orangeries de Bierbais. 

Razgovor moderira Tane_Tanja Laketić, kustoskinja segmenta Oaze ovogodišnjeg Bijenala mladih. 

Tokom razgovora biće premijerno predstavljen kompletan opus kostima koje je tokom poslednje dve decenije inicirao Edi Ekete, uključujući i njegov prvi kostim iz 2009. godine, a koji su inspirisali i osnažili mnoge amaterske stvaraoce u kolektivnom kulturnom centru Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle u Kinšasi. Ovaj centar (p)ostaje primer uspešnog samorganizovanja i društveno osvešćenih umetničko-aktivističkih praksi i mnogo dalje od afričkog kontinenta.

Dokument koji objedinjuje ovu produkciju najoriginalnijih kostima/skulptura od otpada, priredili su članovi Bijenala mladih (Viktor Cvejić, Jovana Stefanović i Tane_Tanja Laketić) u saradnji sa Ivanom Momčilović, PhD in One Night i Oranžerijom Bijerbe tokom 2024. i 2025. godine. 

• Performans Washing the flag je izveo Edi Ekete ističući solidarnost sa borbama u Srbiji, Palestini i Kongu

Edi Ekete je indisciplinarni umetnik koji živi i stvara između Kinšase, Pariza i Brisela. Nakon što je diplomirao na Akademiji likovnih umetnosti u Kinšasi, upisuje Školu dekorativnih umetnosti u Strazburu, gde 2008. godine stiče diplomu DNSEP (Nacionalni postdiplomski diploma iz vizuelnih umetnosti). Godine 2024. bio je među umetnicima iz Konga izabranim da predstavljaju Demokratsku Republiku Kongo na Bijenalu u Veneciji. 

Međunarodno je prepoznat po svojim performansima “Čovek limenka” (Homme canette), a njegova vizuelna i performativna umetnost nastaje u direktnoj vezi sa okruženjem u kojem stvara. Njegov rad deluje kao ogledalo, odražavajući devijacije savremenog društva, s kojima se igra kroz višeznačna i polimorfna dela koja kombinuju narodnu formu i savremene materijale. 

Njegova promišljanja o mestu umetnosti u savremenom društvu jasno su vidljiva kako u njegovim radovima, tako i u izložbama za koje je angažovan kao kustos. Godine 2025. bio je ko-kustos izložbe “Univerzalna ekologija” u Francuskom institutu u Kinšasi, višeslojno postavljena izložba koja transformiše prostor i svedoči o angažovanju umetničkog kolektiva Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle za ekološku i poetsku umetnost u srcu problema sa kojima se suočavaju stanovnici Kinšase. Godine 2019., za izložbu “Megalopolis: Glasovi Kinšase” u Grassi muzeju u Lajpcigu, bio je ko-kustos zajedno sa Fredijem Tsimbom. Tom prilikom su pokrenuli kritičku refleksiju o prisustvu kongoležanskih umetničkih dela u evropskim muzejima i njihovoj povezanosti sa savremenom umetnošću u Kongu. 

Za Edija Eketea, umetnost otkriva savremene izazove. Vođen uverenjem da umetnost može biti sredstvo za građansku osvešćenost, aktivno učestvuje u kolektivima u kojima je umetnost u središtu emancipatorske prakse. Još 2003. godine u Kinšasi, bio je suosnivač kolektiva Ezapossibles, a 2009. godine deo umetničke zadruge La Semencerie u Strazburu. Godine 2015. suosniva Međunarodne susrete u Kinšasi – KinAct (skraćeno od „delovati u Kinšasi”), a 2018. godine i Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, kulturni centar i umetničku zadrugu u popularnoj i simboličnoj četvrti Matonge u Kinšasi. Od 2017. godine, KinAct i Ndaku vodi udruženje TOYE, za koje razvija zahtevnu umetničku direkciju, gde su umetnička praksa, ekologija, stvaralaštvo i društvena transformacija neraskidivo povezani.  Edi Ekete u umetničkoj rezidenciji Oranžeriji Bijerbe (Orangeries de Bierbais), pripremajući se za učešće u prvom paviljonu DR Konga na Bijenalu u Veneciji 2024, april 2024. (Ljubaznošću Martina van der Belena)

PhD in One Night je samoorganizovan i samofinansiran umetnički kolektiv koji od 2007. godine radi na oblicima estetskog obrazovanja i eksperimentisanja za sve. Od kontinuiranog rada sa filozofom Žakom Ransijerom i njegovim idejama, do saradnje sa Fakultetom političkih nauka i Odeljenjem za kritičku istoriju Slobodnog univerziteta u Briselu (ULB), uz učešće 1200 studenata, njegovi članovi deluju u brojnim obrazovnim institucijama (Akademija lepih umetnosti u Briselu i Helsinkiju, Uniarts Helsinki, Pravni fakultet u Helsinkiju, Aalto University Helsinki), u osnovnim školama u Briselu, srednjoj školi u Helsinkiju, sa predškolskom i školskom decom na ostrvu Vis, kao i sa avganistanskim i sirijskim migrantima u Briselu i Beogradu. Godine 2020., PhD In One Night je inicirao Guerilla University u saradnji sa Kurdskim univerzitetom Rožava (severna Sirija), a trenutno koordinira istraživačku/umetničku rezidenciju Laboratoriju radikalnog mira u Orangeries de Bierbais. 

Oranžerija Bijerbe (Orangeries de Bierbais) (1828), odnosno istočni deo parka odvojen je od Dvorca Bierbais još krajem 1980-ih, ali je i dalje poznat kao Les Orangeries de Bierbais. Park i ostatci kristalne palate/tropskog staklenika orhideja i egzotičnog bilja je u procesu rekonfiguracije i dekolonizacije ka svojevrsnom “trećem mestu” kroz solidarnost, umetnost, permakulturu otvarajući vrata umetnicima_ama, istraživačima_cama i eksperimentatorima_kama u rezidencijalnom boravku. Vrt, kao laboratorija i samo-obrazovni proces, postavlja hipotezu o novoj rekonfiguraciji sveta — o mogućem i nemogućem, novom odnosu između čoveka i društva, kao i odnosu između čoveka i prirode. Vrt postaje slobodna privremena teritorija, stvarajući prelazni prostor prekida i ponovnih povezivanja između čoveka, prirode i društva. 

Bijenale mladih je umetnički događaj pod okriljem Udruženja likovnih umetnika Srbije u okviru kojeg se organizuje međunarodna izložba savremene umetnosti mladih, radionice produkcije radova sa timom kustosa iz Srbije i regiona, kao i višenedeljni diskurzivni program. Inicijativa za ponovno pokretanje Bijenala, kao kulturnog okvira u kojem su vizuelni umetnici udruživali svoj rad, oslanja se na jugoslovensku baštinu Fonda mladih (1972-1990) koja je poverena ULUS-u na čuvanje, a proistekla iz Fonda mladih “Moše Pijade”. Takođe, širi okvir ovog poduhvata je tradicija organizovanja Bijenala mladih na našim prostorima, izložbe koja se pune tri decenije održavala u Rijeci (1960-1991), a potom u Vršcu (1994-2004). 

Selija Šarkaui je arheološkinja i antropološkinja specijalizovana za (post)kolonijalna pitanja i dinamike moći koje deluju unutar diskursa kulturnog nasleđa. Obrazovana je u oblasti istorije umetnosti, arheologije i konzervacije kulturnog nasleđa (Paris VIII, ULB, Roma Tre), a od 2022. godine koordinira međunarodne istraživačke projekte u Kraljevskom muzeju Centralne Afrike, u Briselu (Tervuren). Njen rad povezuje istraživanje porekla artefakata, očuvanje kongoležanskog nasleđa i umetničku medijaciju, u bliskoj saradnji sa institucijama u Demokratskoj Republici Kongo. Kao suosnivačica nevladine organizacije TalaTala, zalaže se za kritičku, inkluzivnu i dekolonijalnu muzeologiju, kroz inovativne formate koji kombinuju građansko učešće, memorijsku pravdu i savremeno stvaralaštvo. Već nekoliko godina intenzivno sarađuje sa Eketeom i kolektivom Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle u Kinshasi. 

Mirna Udovčić je arhitektica koja deluje u rubnom području arhitekture. Diplomirala je 2015. godine na Arhitektonskom fakultetu u Zagrebu. U svom radu istražuje mogućnosti arhitekture izvan okvira uobičajenih alata i rutina.  Kroz interdisciplinarni pristup daje glas marginalnim i kontroverznim prostornim fenomenima: samoniklim vrtovima, ilegalnoj gradnji, alternativnoj fizici zgrada i virtualnim prostorima arhitektonskih softvera. Učestvuje na brojnim grupnim i samostalnim izložbama te je dobitnica više strukovnih nagrada za svoj rad. Članica je neformalnog umetničkog kolektiva m28. Živi i radi u Zagrebu. U aprilu 2025. godine bila je u umetničkoj rezidenciji u Oranžeriji Bijerbe, od kada nastavlja saradnju sa PhD In One Night, Edijem Eketom i Oranžerijom. 

Ivana Momčilović je jugoslovenska dramaturškinja, pesnikinja i istraživačica, koja živi u Belgiji ali i svuda gde radi. Njena praksa je usmerena na izmeštanje filozofije i umetnosti u različite sfere svakodnevnog života poput obrazovanja, migrantskih pokreta, baštovanstva i perma-Kulture, kao i na redefinisanje pojmova nepostojećeg, nemogućeg i slobodnih privremenih teritorija, te njihove primene u polju savremene estetike i politike. Istražuje odnos između fikcije i ideologije, kao i između estetike, politike i „amaterskog’ pristupa znanju i oblika kolektivne inteligencije. Inicijatorka je i aktivna članica nekoliko kolektiva: Collective EI-Migrative Art; Edicija Jugoslavija (samizdat), PhD In One Night — platforme za estetsko eksperimentisanje svih, Laboratorija radikalnog mira. U okviru Phd In One Night deluje od 2005, gde je u oblasti estetske edukacije kreirala različite metode deljenja znanja kao kolektivne umetničke kreacije, namenjene kako samoorganizovanim grupama, tako i deci, đacima i studentima i istraživačima svih uzrasta. 

Martin van der Belen je tokom 1990-ih, nakon koordinacije Erasmus programa u Parizu, postao rukovodilac Studentskog festivala u Luvan-la-Nevu, gde je sarađivao sa jugoslovenskim studentima tokom ratnog perioda. Nakon toga je godinama volontirao, a zatim postao direktor belgijske nevladine organizacije Quinoa koja od 1990. godine šalje hiljade volontera u različite zemlje sveta i ima za cilj da podigne svest mladih o globalizaciji, promovišući vrednosti, solidarnosti, tolerancije i suživota sa različitim populacijama kroz mikroprojekte u saradnji sa organizacijama Globalnog Juga. Martin van der Belen je i fotograf, videasta i producent dokumentarnih filmova, kao i koordinator organizacije La Nacelle (belgijska fondacija za umetnost, životnu sredinu i solidarnost), gde blisko sarađuje sa migrantskim zajednicama. Takođe je, zajedno sa Ivanom Momčilović, administrator Orangeries de Bierbais. 

Ljubomir Jakić je imao život pun iznenađenja, a prema ovoj indisciplinarnoj biografiji: master diplomu stekao je na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu u Beogradu – Odsek za geografiju i turizam. Pored toga, završio je i školu za preradu drveta, postdiplomske studije na Univerzitetu Kolumbija, kao i različita zanimanja i poslove. Od glavnog izvršnog koordinatora Studentskog kulturnog centra u Beogradu 1970-ih, statiste u pozorištu, člana nacionalne reprezentacije Jugoslavije u ronjenju, simultanog prevodioca na Institutu za novinarstvo i Školi Ujedinjenih nacija za obrazovanje novinara iz nesvrstanih i zemalja u razvoju, profesora maternjeg jezika u školi Berlitz itd. Već 30 godina, glavni je tehnički koordinator kolektiva Migrative Art, samizdatskog projekta Edicija Jugoslavija, platforme PhD in One Night i Laboratorije za radikalni mir. 

Tane_Tanja Laketić je istraživačica i radnica u kulturi sa završenim Interdisciplinarnim master studijama na UNESCO Katedri za kulturnu politiku i menadžment Univerziteta umetnosti u Beogradu. Za sobom ima održane tri samostalne izložbe, preko deset grupnih i dve međunarodne konferencije. Njena dosadašnja umetnička praksa uključivala je tekstil i crtež, a interesuje se za tekst, zvuk i perfomans. Od 2022. godine je deo Organizacionog tima Bijenala mladih, a 2024. predlaže svoj prvi kustoski koncept “Oaze” koji će se razvijati u kontinuitetu.

• Zahvaljujemo se portalu Danas na objavljivanju teksta o ovom značajnom gostovanju u okviru ovogodišnjeg programa Bijenala mladih  Od otpada do umetnosti: Pionir apsajklinga Edi Ekete na Bijenalu mladih u Beogradu

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• Drugi performans Edija Eketea zajedno sa mladom umetnicom Taisijom Filatovom, koja je nosila kostim kreiran tokom petodnevne radionice reciklaže sa Edijem Eketeom

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• Upcycling workshop with artist Eddy Ekete (DR Congo), held from September 24 to 29 at the ULUS Gallery

September 30 for the final event "Art as a Temporary Free Territory" at the Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, starting at 7 PM.

1. LINK FOR THE TALK

In the presence of the artist, we will discuss his artistic practice, the importance of decolonizing the Democratic Republic of the Congo from both European and local waste through his active engagement, as well as the works inspired by Eddy Ekete’s upcycling activities and the collectives he brings together. Through their utilitarian approach, we are invited to envision better, unexplored worlds — worlds that the urgently needed oases might offer us. 

Eddy Ekete previously contributed to the Aftertalks discursive programme of the Youth Biennial last December, and now invites you to meet him and the team (Belgium/Serbia) in person, along with other panelists.

Participants in the conversation include: 

• Eddy Ekete, visual artist, educator, activist, co-founder of Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle and the KinAct Festival 
• Célia Charkaoui, curator at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (researching extractivism and decolonial politics through the lens of DR Congo) 
• Mirna Udovčić, architect from Zagreb (creator of mobile greenhouses — mini oasis-inspired structures based on Ekete’s costume designs, built in spring 2025 at Orangeries de Bierbais) 
• Ivana Momčilović, dramaturge and experimenter, founder of the international platform PhD in One Night/Guerilla University and coordinator of the Oases and Laboratory of Radical Peace program at Orangeries de Bierbais 
• Martin van der Belen, cultural worker, photographer, videographer, founder of the nomadic La Nacelle Foundation, and co-founder of Orangeries de Bierbais 
• Ljubomir Jakić, coordinator of socio-cultural activities of PhD In One Night/Orangeries de Bierbais 

Moderation by Tane_Tanja Laketić, curator of the Oases segment for this year’s Youth Biennial. 

During the conversation, the complete body of costumes initiated by Eddy Ekete over the past two decades will be presented for the first time, including his very first costume from 2009. These works have inspired and empowered numerous amateur creators within the Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle cultural collective center in Kinshasa. This center has become a model of successful self-organization and socially engaged artistic-activist practices, resonating far beyond the African continent. 

A document compiling this production of the most original waste-based costumes/sculptures was prepared by members of the Youth Biennial (Viktor Cvejić, Jovana Stefanović, and Tane_Tanja Laketić) in collaboration with Ivana Momčilović, PhD in One Night, and the Orangeries de Bierbais during 2024 and 2025. 

• The performance Washing the flag was performed by Eddy Ekete emphasising solidarity with the struggles in Serbia, Palestine and Congo

Eddy Ekete is an indisciplinary artist who lives and works between Kinshasa, Paris, and Brussels. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, he joined the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, where he obtained a DNSEP (National Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Arts) in 2008. In 2024, he was among the Congolese artists selected to represent the Democratic Republic of Congo at the Venice Biennale. 

Internationally recognized for his performances as the “Can Man” (Homme canette), his visual and performance artworks are conceived in direct connection with the environment in which he creates. His work acts as a mirror, reflecting the excesses of contemporary society, which he explores through polysemic and polymorphic works that blend vernacular forms with contemporary materials.

His reflections on the role of art in contemporary society are evident not only in his creations but also in exhibitions where he is invited to serve as curator. In 2025, he was the co-curator of “Universal Ecology” at the French Institute of Kinshasa, a multifaceted exhibition that transforms the space and highlights the work of the artist collective Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, which advocates for ecological and poetic art at the heart of issues faced by the people of Kinshasa. In 2019, for the exhibition “Megalopolis: The Voices of Kinshasa” at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, he co-curated with Freddy Tsimba. Together, they initiated a critical reflection on the presence of Congolese artworks in European museums and their relationship to contemporary Congolese art.  

For Eddy Ekete, art reveals contemporary challenges. Driven by the conviction that art can be a vehicle for civic awareness, he engages in collectives where art is central to emancipatory practice. In 2003, in Kinshasa, he co-founded the Ezapossibles collective, followed in 2009 by his involvement in La Semencerie, an artist cooperative in Strasbourg. In 2015, he co-founded the Kinshasa International Encounters, KinAct (short for “to act in Kinshasa”), and in 2018, Ndaku ya la vie est belle, a cultural center and artist cooperative located in the emblematic working-class neighborhood of Matonge, Kinshasa. 

Since 2017, KinAct and Ndaku have been run by the non-profit organization TOYE, for which he provides a rigorous artistic direction, where artistic practice, ecology, creativity, and social transformation are intrinsically linked. Eddie Ekete at the Orangeries de Bierbais artist residency, preparing to participate in DR Congo's first pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, April 2024. (Courtesy of Martin van der Belen) 

PhD in One Night is a self-organized and self-financed art collective that has been working on forms of aesthetic education and experimentation for all since 2007. From continuous collaboration with philosopher Jacques Rancière and his ideas, to partnerships with the Faculty of Political Science and the Department of Critical History at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), with the participation of over 1,200 students, its members have engaged with numerous educational institutions (Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and Helsinki, Uniarts Helsinki, Faculty of Law in Helsinki, Aalto University Helsinki), primary schools in Brussels, a high school in Helsinki, preschool and school children on the island of Vis, as well as Afghan and Syrian migrants in Brussels and Belgrade.  In 2020, PhD in One Night initiated the Guerilla University in collaboration with the Kurdish University of Rojava (northern Syria), and is currently coordinating the research/artistic residency Laboratory of Radical Peace at Orangeries de Bierbais. 

Orangeries de Bierbais (1828), that is, its eastern section of the park, has been separated from the Château de Bierbais since the late 1980s, but is still known as Les Orangeries de Bierbais. The park and the remains of the crystal palace/tropical greenhouse for orchids and exotic plants are currently undergoing a process of reconfiguration and decolonization into a kind of “third place” — through solidarity, art, and permaculture — opening its doors to artists, researchers, and experimenters in residence.  The garden, as a laboratory and a process of self-education, poses a hypothesis for a new reconfiguration of the world — of the possible and the impossible, of a new relationship between humans and society, as well as between humans and nature. The garden becomes a free temporary territory, creating a transitional space for rupture and reconnection between people, nature, and society. 

The Youth Biennial is an art event organized under the auspices of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS). It features an international exhibition of contemporary art by young artists, production workshops with a team of curators from Serbia and the region, and a multi-week discursive program. The initiative to revive the Biennial, as a cultural framework where visual artists joined forces through their work, draws on the Yugoslav legacy of the Youth Fund (1972–1990), which was entrusted to ULUS for safekeeping and originated from the “Moša Pijade” Youth Fund. The broader framework of this endeavor also includes the tradition of organizing Youth Biennials in our region, a format that was held for three decades in Rijeka (1960–1991) and later in Vršac (1994–2004). 

Célia Charkaoui is an archaeologist and anthropologist, specializing in (post)colonial issues and the power dynamics at play in heritage discourse. Trained in art history, archaeology, and heritage conservation (Paris VIII, ULB, Roma Tre), she has been coordinating international research projects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Tervuren) since 2022. Her work connects provenance research, the preservation of Congolese heritage, and artistic mediation, in close partnership with institutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As co-founder of the non-profit organization TalaTala, she advocates for a critical, inclusive, and decolonial museology through innovative formats that combine civic participation, memory justice, and contemporary creation. Shee has been intensively collaborating with Ekete and the Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle collective in Kinshasa for several years. 

Mirna Udovčić is an architect working on the margins of the architectural field. She graduated in 2015 from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. In her work, she explores the possibilities of architecture beyond the usual tools and routines. Through an interdisciplinary approach, she gives voice to marginal and controversial spatial phenomena: wild gardens, illegal construction, alternative building physics, and the virtual realms of architectural software. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and has received several professional awards for her work. She is a member of the informal art collective m28. She lives and works in Zagreb. In April 2025, she was in an artist residency at Orangeries de Bierbais and since then she has been continuing her collaboration with PhD In One Night, Eddy Ekete and Orangeries.

Ivana Momčilović is a Yugoslav dramaturge, poet, and researcher who lives in Belgium—but also wherever her work takes her. Her practice is focused on displacing philosophy and art into different spheres of everyday life such as education, migrant movements, gardening and permaculture, as well as on redefining the concepts of the nonexistent, the impossible, and free temporary territories, and applying them in the fields of contemporary aesthetics and politics. She explores the relationship between fiction and ideology, as well as between aesthetics, politics, and “amateur” approaches to knowledge and forms of collective intelligence. She is the initiator and active member of several collectives: Collective EI-Migrative Art; Edition Yugoslavia (samizdat); PhD in One Night — a platform for aesthetic experimentation for all; and the Laboratory of Radical Peace. Since 2005, she has been working within PhD in One Night, where she has developed various methods of knowledge-sharing as collective artistic creations, aimed at self-organized groups as well as children, pupils, students, and researchers of all ages. 

Martin van der Belen became the coordinator of the Student Festival in Louvain-la-Neuve in the 1990s after coordinating the Erasmus program in Paris, where he collaborated with Yugoslav students during the war. After that, he spent years volunteering and eventually became the director of the Belgian non-governmental organization Quinoa, which, since 1990, has sent thousands of volunteers to various countries around the world. Its aim is to raise young people’s awareness of globalization, promoting the values of solidarity, tolerance, and coexistence with diverse populations through micro-projects in cooperation with organizations from the Global South.  Martin van der Belen is also a photographer, videographer, and documentary film producer, as well as the coordinator of La Nacelle (a Belgian foundation for art, environment, and solidarity), where he closely collaborates with migrant communities. He is also, together with Ivana Momčilović, an administrator of Orangeries de Bierbais.

Ljubomir Jakić had a life full of surprises and according to this indisciplinary biography: a master’s degree from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Belgrade - Department of Geography and Tourism. In addition, there is also a finished wood-processing plant school, post-graduate studies at Columbia University as well as experience in various occupations and jobs. From the main executive coordinator of the Student Cultural Centre in Belgrade in 1970s, an extra in theatre, a member of the national diving team of Yugoslavia, a simultaneous translator at the Journalism Institute, the United Nations School for the Education of Journalists coming from countries in the non-aligned parts of the world and countries in development, a professor of the mother tongue at the Berlitz School etc. For 30 years, he has been the main technical coordinator of the Migrative Art Collective, the self-publishing Edition of Yugoslavia (Edicija Jugoslavija), the PhD in One Night platform and the Laboratory for Radical Peace. 

Tane_Tanja Laketić is a researcher and cultural worker who completed her Interdisciplinary Master’s studies at the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She has held three solo exhibitions, participated in over ten group shows, and contributed to two international conferences. Her artistic practice so far has involved textiles and drawing, while her interests also extend to text, sound, and performance. Since 2022, she has been part of the Organizing Team of the Youth Biennial, and in 2024, she proposed her first curatorial concept titled "Oases", which will continue to evolve over time.

• The second performance by Eddy Ekete together with young artist Taisija Filatova, who wore a costume created during the five-day upcycling workshop with Eddy Ekete