rpt Maja Bekan
Maja Bekan is a performance and visual artist based in Rotterdam and Den Haag. Bekan’s work explores and questions mediation and delegation of artwork production. The protagonists of Bekan’s work are often women: artists, activists, students, retirees, and people seeking a place for them- selves in difficult circumstances. She is interested in a collaborative and social approach to explore personal histories, truths, economies and social relations. The protagonists of Bekan’s work are often women: artists, activists, students, retirees, and people seeking a place for themselves in difficult circumstances. 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 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 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.
