2026

Charlaama Depot at the Venice Biennale

As part of the parallel programmes of the 60th Venice Biennale, Bosnian-Herzegovinian artist Jusuf Hadžifejzović presented his performance and artistic project The Store of Emptiness on April 19, 2024, at Spacio Punch in Venice. The programme was organized in collaboration with Nine Dragon Heads, an international art association from Korea that has been continuously present within the Biennale’s parallel programmes for many years.

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2026

Jusuf Hadžifejzović: "Knowing how to do something for the Western world is art, and art has nothing to do with skill."

In Russian, the word for art means 'experience,' while in English, an 'artist' is like a tightrope walker. This implies that for the Western world, art is about knowing how to do something—a skill—but I believe that skill has nothing to do with art. There are so many skillful people who are terrible artists, and there are people who lack the skill of painting but are phenomenal artists. When you see a work by someone like Kožarić, for example, you realize that the work hits you," says Hadžifejzović.

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2026

A Performance to Remember: The Last Supper in East Sarajevo

Through the series “Stories from Charlama”, DEPO Portal revisits some of the most significant events in the history of this cult Sarajevo gallery, while also bringing audiences closer to the contemporary art scene—both local and international

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2026

Wim Wenders Visits CKA Charlama in Skenderija

Renowned German filmmaker Wim Wenders visited the Charlama Depot gallery in Sarajevo’s Skenderija complex, where he was introduced to the work of the Center for Cultural Activities Charlama and its ongoing projects.

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2025

Renate Graf:"I am fascinated by the resilience of the women and men of Sarajevo against all the catastrophes they have survived in the past."

In the intimate atmosphere of the Charlama Depot Gallery on Saturday, Jasmin Duraković, director of the International Biennial of Visual Arts 'SubDocumenta Sarajevo '25,' hosted Austrian photographer Renate Graf as part of the Artist Talk program.

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2025

Music Through the Exhibition: A Sound Essay on SubDocumenta Sarajevo '25

The SA Sinfonietta string quartet, taking the "SubDokumenta Sarajevo '25" exhibition as its starting point, conceived the concert as a series of musical reflections on eight selected works, whereby sound became a means of interpreting and expanding their meanings. An introductory presentation on the exhibition's concept was delivered by Jasmin Duraković, the director of the biennale, who emphasized its multi-layered narrative structure.

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2025

"Subdokumenta" in Sarajevo, a subversive artistic offensive in Skenderija that endured

In the Sarajevo contemporary art gallery Charlama, located in the Skenderija Shopping Center, twenty different exhibitions by artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Europe were opened simultaneously on October 5, 2009, as part of the "Subdokumenta" art project. The visionary creator and organizer of "Subdokumenta" was the renowned Bosnian artist Jusuf Hadžifejzović, who, along with a group of artists, occupied abandoned shops in the Shopping Center and filled them with artworks.

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2023

"We must connect... It seemed logical to me to artistically link Sarajevo and Rijeka and to try to create something new."

The Rijeka-based culture portal Art kvart presents an interview with Jasmin Duraković, the author of the documentary film "The Last Yu Dokumenta," which will soon be presented to the audience—one of the topics covered in this conversation..

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