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Photo by: Jiye Lee

Nevena Savić (b. 1990, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of research, storytelling, and sensory experience. With a background in political science, design, and fine arts, her practice engages with the social and political entanglements of technology, power, and communication. She explores how these forces shape lived experience, creating works that merge analytical inquiry with intuitive, narrative-driven approaches.

Her work takes the form of installations, video, and participatory events, offering ways to experience complex societal dynamics beyond intellectual abstraction. She is particularly interested in challenging dominant discourses and translating them into tangible, embodied encounters—making them accessible through both individual and collective engagement.

Her work has been shown at institutions such as the Städtische Galerie Bremen and Kunstverein Hannover, and screened at film festivals including the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Max Ophüls Preis. She was also an artist-in-residence at Circa106.

Alongside her artistic practice, she works as a filmmaker and editor, bringing a cinematic sensitivity to her exploration of memory, social structures, and human interconnection. She has conducted social science research on human trafficking in the Balkans and the encampment of refugees in Nakivale, Uganda.

Artist's website and Instagram.

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1. Still from short film „Ničiji Dom – No One’s Home“, 2018, 2.-3. Installation view „bleibt ein Ohr immer frei“, 2021, photo by: Jiye Lee; 4.-5. Installation view „Krinoscope“, 2022, photo by: Franziska von den Driesch; 6.-7. „We don’t need you to type at all“, 2022, photo by: Franziska von den Driesch; 8. Screenshot from web-documentation of „Some things are hidden inside and some are very visible, like power“, collaboration with Liudmila Savelyeva, 2021; 9. Installation view „Some things are hidden inside and some are very visible, like power“, collaboration with Liudmila Savelyeva, 2021, photo by: Jiye Lee
Artist statement

In my practice, I explore the social implications and material manifestations of the interplay between communication, technology and power. I am interested in the tensions these structures produce, both collectively and individually. To approach the themes I engage with, I combine an analytical perspective – rooted in research and observation – with storytelling and intuitive translation. This approach mostly leads me to work with installation, film, media art, and participatory formats. Rather than providing fixed narratives, my work creates conditions for experience, negotiation, and transformation—inviting audiences to critically and physically engage with the systems that shape our realities. Addressing the tensions that define our contemporary world, I create situations in which disembodied discourses are reconnected with the tangible realities of the body. In most of my works, I use storytelling as a vehicle to evoke emotional resonance, foster empathy, memory, and connection—elements that help us shape our understanding of ourselves and others in relation to our surroundings and circumstances.

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