Maja Bekan is artist based in Belgrade and The Hague.

By working with different mediums, she explores the notion of free time, the use of it, its initiation, establishment and ritualisation. Investigating questions of lack/fulfillment of desire produced by popular culture the work incorporates the language of amateur truths.

Recent exhibitions includes: Solarium (power point performance), Rotterdam Schouwburg, April 2008; Funeral (video installation), Villa Nuts, Den Haag, October 2007; Video installations, Museum of Herzegovina, Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2007; This is how it must feel to be there, July 2007, Rotterdam/ Event _Hotel New York. Inquiry in location. Art project developed by Gunndis Yr Finnbogadottir, Maja Bekan and Mirjana Stojadinovic; Healthy body, healthy mind (video installation), Filmhuis, The Hague, October 2006; Media Festival, Friesland, September 2006; Fourth International Student Triennial, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006; Media, Art and Gender, Romania, 2003; Intercultural Video art Exhibition, Video Generation from Europe & Japan, Tokyo 2002; Le festival des tres courts, Paris – Marseille – Nancy – Nantes, 2002.etc.

From 2000 till 2004 Maya was an active member of artistic project “Horkeskart”, initiated by SKART, art/design duo from Belgrade, Serbia