Short Life Story
Breda Beban
24.12.1952. Novi Sad – 23.04.2012. London

Breda Beban was an artist, filmmaker, and curator/creative producer whose work explored contemporary notions of subjectivity and emotion, often situated at the margins of dominant narratives of geography, politics, and love. Her films, photographs, and installations are recognised for their intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional authenticity.
Born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia, Breda Beban was a second child of Avgust Šosterič, a mining engineer born in Slovenia who, at the time of her birth, was working on the construction of a cement plant in Beočin, in the Vojvodina region. He was later posted to a cement plant in Skopje, Macedonia. Her mother, Vera Šosterič, born in Vojvodina, was a professor.
Breda grew up in Macedonia and later moved with her family to Croatia. She studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, completed postgraduate studies in Painting at Majstorska Radionica in Zagreb, led by Ljubo Ivančić and Nikola Reiser, and continued her postgraduate education in Fine Arts at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin on a DAAD grant.
She began her career as a painter and quickly established a significant presence in the Croatian art scene. In the early 1980s, her work reflected the influence of the nova slika, New Image Painting movement and the Croatian Trans-Avantgarde. Her paintings were exhibited at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and at the Salon mladih (The Youth Salon) where her paintings were selected for the 5th Biennale of Sydney in 1984. Later, following her participation in the art colony Sopoćanska viđenja, her work was shaped by Byzantine and Serbian medieval art traditions.
During the mid-1980s, Beban expanded her practice into performance art and collaborative, site-specific projects. She was among the participants of Autorski izlog (Author’s Showcase) in 1983 and Dućani culture (Culture Shops) in 1985, innovative public art initiatives that sought direct engagement with visitors. Her first performance, PLAN, was held in Zagreb in 1985.
From the late 1980s onwards, Breda Beban increasingly focused on film, video, and photography. Together with film director Hrvoje Horvatić, she produced and directed approximately thirty television documentaries on the contemporary art scene in the former Yugoslavia between 1986 and 1990. Following the outbreak of war in 1991, they lived in exile, first in Italy, then in Stockholm, where they taught at the Royal Institute of Art in 1992/1993, before settling in London, where they continued working together until Hrvoje Horvatić’s premature death in 1997.
Working independently and in collaboration with other artists and filmmakers, Breda Beban developed a diverse body of work exhibited at major contemporary art institutions worldwide. Her first solo exhibition in the UK, STILL (Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2000), was an autobiographical and deeply personal presentation of photographic and video works.
Her photographic practice has been featured in key publications, including Charlotte Cotton’s The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, World of Art, 2004) and Sally O’Reilly’s The Body in Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, World of Art, 2009).
Alongside her artistic practice, Beban worked extensively as a curator and creative producer. Her projects include Imaginary Balkans (2002–2003), IAA – imagine art after (2007–2010) and The Endless School (2010).
Breda Beban lived and worked in London and Sheffield, where she was Professor of Visual Arts and Reader in Media at Sheffield Hallam University. She passed away in London in 2012.
In September 2012, the tribute exhibition The Adventure of the Real was held at Studio Tommaseo – Trieste Contemporanea. Since then, numerous solo and group exhibitions of her work have been organised internationally.
AWARDS
- 1983 Grand Prix, Yugoslav Biennial, Rijeka
- 1987 Special Jury Award, Video Festival Sarajevo
- 1988 Grand Prize, Yugoslav Triennial, Maribor
- 1990 Special Jury Award, Videonalle, Bonn
- 1991 Ontario Arts Council Award
- 1992 Experimenta, Arts Council of Great Britain and Chanel 4 TV Award
- 1993 Ontario Arts Council Award; Prema Arts Centre Time Being Video Award, UK
- 1998 Silver Award for Performance in Music Film & Video, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival
- 2001 Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts, UK; Golden Sphinx Award, International Video Festival; Medea, Novi Sad
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
- Art Council of England
- Culture Centre Novi Zagreb, Gallery Vladimir Bužančić, Zagreb
- LUX, London
- Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
- Museum of Contemporary Art – MSU, Zagreb
- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – MMSU, Rijeka
- Museum of Contemporary Art – MSUB, Belgrade
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- Pazin City Museum, Pazin
- Speed Art Museum, Louisville
- Tate Britain, London
- Weltkunst Foundation, Zürich
- Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Exhibitions 1976-1999
Breda Beban solo & art duo exhibitions, video installations (Breda Beban&Hrvoje Horvatić) 1976-1999
1981
- Moj rad – slike, Galerija proširenih medija, Zagreb
1982
- Dvije slike, Studio Galerije suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
- Galerija SC – Galerija studentskog centra, Zagreb
1983
- Galerija Koprivnica, Koprivnica
- Galerija proširenih medija, Zagreb
1985
- Zaboravljeni jezik, Prostor proširenih medija, Zagreb
- Hrvatski dom likovnih umjetnika, Zagreb
1986
- Salon Muzeja savremene umetnosti, Beograd
- SKC – Studentski kulturni centar, Beograd
1987
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić:
- Plan, Meta, Galerije suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
- Studio d’arte Nadia Bassanese, Trieste
1988
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić:
- Salon Muzeja za savremenu umetnost, Beograd
- DAAD Galerie, Berlin
- Centar mladih, Slavonski Brod
- Galerija Amam, Skopje
- Riverside Studios, London
1989
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić:
- House – video instalalacija, Prostor proširenih medija, Zagreb
- Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd
- Alternativa ASKC, Beograd
1990
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić
- Geography – video instalacija, Zagrebački salon, Galerija Karas, Zagreb
1991
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić:
- Geography 2 – video installation, Videopositive, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1992
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić
- The Shape of Pain – video installation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1993
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić,
- Before the Kiss – video installation, Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloss
- Video & Intermedia Avdelningen, Stockholm
1994
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić
- The Shape of Pain – video installation Impakt, Ekko House, Utrecht
- Taking on a Name, Videotapes 1986-94, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
- Taking on a Name, Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
1995
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić
- ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientehnologie, Karlsruhe
- 11 O’Clock High, Carlton Region
1998
- It May be Art but is Film?, Watershed Gallery, Bristol
- Ja u njima ti u meni da budu sasvim jedno, Retrospektiva video radova Hrvoja Horvatića i Brede Beban, Zetski Dom, Kraljevsko pozorište, Cetinje
1999
- Otvoreno drušvo, Zagreb
Group exhibitions solo & art duo exhibitions (Breda Beban&Hrvoje Horvatić) since 1976
1976
- 8. Salon mladih, Zagreb
1979
- 11. Salon mladih, Zagreb
1980
- 12. Salon mladih, Zagreb
1981
- 16. Zagrebački Salon, Zagreb
- 1. Svibanjski Salon Mladih, Šibenik
- 13. Salon mladih, Zagreb
- Nova slika: Osamdeseta leta. Primeri iz sodobnega hrvaškega slikarstva, Galerija Loža, Koper
- 11. Biennale mladih (Youth Biennial), Rijeka
1981-1982
- Podobe / Immagini (1981/1982), Galerija Meduza, Koper
1982
- Novi Obrat – Slikarstvo, Zagreb
- Mlada hrvaška umetnost, Maribor
- Mlada jugoslavenska umjetnost, Budapest, Poznan
- Novi Obrat – Slikarstvo, Beograd
1983
- 17. Mednarodni slikarski tedni v Avstriji, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
- Junge Mahler aus Zagreb (Young painters from Zagreb), Mainz
- Pejzaž, Salon Muzeja za savremenu umetnost, Belgrade
- 12. Biennale mladih, Rijeka
- 15. Salon mladih, Zagreb
- Autorski izlog, knjižara “August Šenoa”, izdavačka kuća Znanje, Zagreb
- Motovunski likovni susreti, međunarodni susreti vizualnih umjetnika 1972-1984, Motovun
1984
- The Fifth Biennale of Sydney
- 19. Zagrebački Salon, Zagreb
- 3 situacije, Varaždin, Čakovec, Koprivnica
- Slika/crtež osamdedestih godina, Savremena galerija, Subotica
1985
- Proljeće u Novom Zagrebu – Dućani kulture, CKZ- Centar za kulturu Novi Zagreb, Zagreb
- Senza Arte né Parte, Torino
- Artisti di Yugoslavia a Terracina, Terracina
1986
- Mlada jugoslavenska umjetnost, Graz
- Zagrebški kritik izbira avtorje, Ljubljana
- Junge Kunst aus Jugoslawien, Graz, Vienna, Salzburg
1987
- 22. Zagrebački Salon, Zagreb
- 14. Biennale mladih jugoslavenskih likovnih umjetnika, Rijeka
- 6. Beogradski triennale jugoslavenskih likovnih umetnika, Beograd
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić:
- 3rd International Biennale CD, Ljubljana
- Deconstruction, Quotation & Subversion, Artists Space, New York
- Künstlerhaus, Zürich
1988
- art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić:
- EKO 3 / Jugoslavenski trienale umetnosti in okolje, Umetnostna galerija, Maribor
- Video in der Daadgalerie, Berlin
- World Views, ICA, London
1990
- 25. Zagrebački salon, Zagreb
- Hrvatska umjetnost u 80-im godinama, Sarajevo
- Mortal Signs, art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić: Film and Video Umbrella, London
- Art duo Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatić:
1991
- ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Osnabruck, Skopje
1992
- Committed Visions, MoMA, New York
- Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
- Taking on a Name, FVU Film and Video Umbrella, To Camera, touring programme, UK
- The Left Hand Should Know, FVU Film and Video Umbrella, Seeing in the Dark, touring programme, UK
1993
- Tate Events, Film and Video, London
- Before the Kiss, Prema Arts Centre, Uley
1994
- Hundred Years of Avant-garde in Europe, Bonn
- Taking on a Name, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
- Taking o a Name, Whitechapel, London
1995
- Minima Media, Leipzig
- Cornerhouse, Artists’ Videotapes 1975-1995, a Selection by Andrew Stones, London
1996
- FVU Film and Video Umbrella, London
- Artists' Film and Video, Tate Gallery
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Electronic Undercurrents, Copenhagen
1997
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1998
- Vancouver Art Gallery, Destabilized Landscape, Vancouver
1999
- Moderna Museet, After the Wall, Stockholm
Exhibitions since 2000
Solo exhibitions 2000-2014
2000 -2001
- Still, Site Gallery, Sheffield and touring Lux Gallery, London; Kunstmuseum Thun; Stills, Edinburgh, Melkveg Media, Amsterdam; Lux Gallery, London
2003
- For One Night Only, 38 Langham St. Gallery, London
- Touchdown, Peer at St. Augustine’s Tower, London
- Little Films to Cry To, Peer Gallery, London
- I Can’t Make You Love Me, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and touring to Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands; Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2004
- Mario Flecha Gallery, Jafre
2006
- Breda Beban, Mali Salon Muzeja za modernu i suvremenu umjetnost, Rijeka
2007
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha – Part One, Nuova Icona, Venice,
- Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris
- New Centre of Contemporary Art, Louisville, Kentucky
- Salon Galić, Split
2008
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha – Part Two, Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha – Part One, Lightbox, Tate Britain, London
- Things to do in Buenos Aires, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste Contemporanea,Trieste
- Beautiful Exile, Duino Bay, Duino
- Breda Beban Nights, Visningsrommet USF, Bergen
- Footage, El Basilisco, Buenos Aires
2009
- How to Change Your Life in a Day, Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris
2010
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha – Part One, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
- My Funeral Song, Camden Art Centre, London
2011
- Complicity of Gestures, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
Homage 2012
- The Adventure of the Real, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste
2013
- The adventure of the Real, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
- The Adventure of the Real, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka
- The Adventure of the Real, Gallery Kazamat, Osijek
- Musical for the Senses, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana
2014
- Let's Call it Love, KCB – Kulturni centar, Beograd
- Let's Call it Love, MSUV – Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad
- Let's Call it Love, MSURS – Muzej savremene umjetnosti Republike Srpske, Banja Luka
Group exhibitions 1999-2024
1999/2000
- Art Weekend u Dubrovniku, Institut otvoreno drušvo – Hrvatska & Art radionica Lazaretti, Dubrovnik
2000/2001
- Video Medeja, Novi Sad
2001
- Let’s Call it Love, Konverzacija, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd
2002
- Gewaltbilder, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna and Touring Museum Bellerive, Zürich
- Frame by Frame, Retrospektiva hrvatske jednokanalne video umjetnosti, Rijeka
2003
- Artists’ Film & Video Programme, Tate Britain, London
- Artists’ Film & Video Programme, Site Gallery, London
2004
- Strangers to Ourselves, London
- Slika, gesta, materija, MMSU – Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, Rijeka
2005
- Insert, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
- Premieres, Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
- Migrations, Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast
- National Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid
2005-2006
- The British Art Show, touring exhibition, Newcastle, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol
2006
- Migrations, Belfast Exposed Photography
2007
- Videospritz, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste
- Peer at Zoo Art Fair, Royal Academy of Art, London
- 3rd Biennial de Jafre, Girona
- Woman at the Crossroad of Ideologies, Split
2008
- Artisterium *08, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi
- IAA – imagine art after, Things to do in Buenos Aires, Videospritz 3, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste
2008-2009
- Borders and Beyond, Taidehalli Kunsthalle Helsinki
2009
- Contemporary Video Art, Pennsylvanian Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia
- Alüminium 4 Baki, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Baku
2010
- Tatton Park Biennial, Knutsford, Chesire
- This is All Film!, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
2012
- Armory Show in New York, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
2013
- 12. Dani performansa, Varaždin
- Lovely days – International Video days on the Island of Brač
2014
- Cargo East Project – Subdued Extistence, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City
- Zipped Worlds – Photography in a Pubblic Domain, photon galerija, Ljubljana; UGM Studio, Maribor
2015 – 2016
- Let's Call it Love, Faces of Disappearance, H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg
2019
- Whiplash, Site Gallery, London
2020
- So-called Reality, Centar Savremene umetnosti Crne Gore, Dvorac Petrovića, Podgorica
- Skok i zaron – diskursi o rodu u umetnosti, U10 Art Space, Beograd
- Zagreb, grad umjetnica – djela hrvatskih umjetnica od kraja 19. do 21. Stoljeća, Umjetnički paviljon, Zagreb
2021
- Zagabria, la citta delle artiste, Museo Revoltella, Trieste
- Beyond Art Groups – The New Art Apparatus, P 74 Gallery, Ljubljana
2023
- Vidljive – The Visible Ones, MSU – Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
- Sa svakim nešto dijeliš – Dani srpske kulture, SKD Prosvjeta; Galerija Forum, Zagreb
2024
- Festival savremene umetnosti – Dunavski dijalozi, Novi Sad
- 21. Bijenale umetnosti u Pančevu, Pančevo
Events
Festivals, cinema screenings, video installations, presentations
Breda Beban & art duo (Breda Beban&Hrvoje Horvatić) 1986-1997:
1986
- Video festival, Beograd
- Video festival , Skopje
1987
- Alternative Film Video Festival, Beograd
- Eighth Festival International d’Art Video, Locarno
- Rozario, Dubrovnik
- Spazio Arte, Trieste
- Video festival 8, Beograd
- Video festival Sarajevo
- Yu Video, Künstlerhaus, Zürich
- Yu Documenta, Sarajevo
- Mednarodni video festival VIDEO CD, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
- Elektronske slike, V Video Susret – screening, Galerija Kulturnog centra, TV Galerija TVB, Belgrade
1988
- Alternative Flm Video, Belgrade
- Aspect de la Video Yugoslavie, Geneve
- Edge 88, London
- Entry Video, Galerie Weltnotiz, Hamburg
- ICA, Boston
- Medienkunst Festival, Osnabrück
- World Wide Video Festival, Het Kijkhuis, Den Haag
- Video festival, Slavonski Brod
- World Views, ICA, London
1989
- Kino Studentski centar – individual screening, Zagreb
- London Film Makers – individual screening, London
- ICA – individual screening, London
- Artist Space, New York
- 3e Semaine Internationale de Video, Geneve
- The 3rd Fukui International Biennial, Fukui
- World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag
- Video Festival, Sarajevo
- Video Festival, Belgrade
1990
- Impact – individual screening, Utrecht
- Whitechapel Art Gallery – individual screening, London
- Electronic Imaginaries, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- European Media Festival, Osnabrück
- Heure Equise, Mons-en-Baroeul
- International Video, Adelaide
- London Film Festival, London
- 4th Videonale, Bonn
- Mortal Signs, ICA, London
- Queerspur, Linz
- The Observatory, Edge 90, Newcastle
1991
- EM Media – individual screening, Calgary
- Fasst Media, Dortmund
- Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong
- International Film Festival, Oberhausen
- London Film Festival, London
- London Film Makers Co-op, London
- Videopositive, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1992
- London Film Makers Co-op. – individual screening, London
- London Film Festival – individual screening, London
- Global Video, The 7th Australian International Video Festival, Art Gallery New South Wales
- International Film Festival, Rotterdam
- Medienoperative, Berlin
- Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
- World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag
1993
- Clore Gallery at Tate Britain – individual screening, London
- La Fonderie – individual screening , Le Mans
- Impakt, Utrecht
- Internationel Video Konst, Stockholm
- International Film Festival, Rotterdam
- World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag
1994
- X Works – individual screening, Paris
- Medienbiennale, Leipzig
- Bookworks, The Reading Room, London, Glasgow, Oxford
- IMPAKT Festival voor experimentele kunst, Utrecht
1995
- Impakt, Festival voor Experimentele Kunst, Utrecht
- SESC Pompeia, Video Brasil, Sao Paulo
- World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag
- 11 O’Clock High, Carlton TV
- Saint-Gervais Vidéo, Genève
Breda Beban:
1998
- World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
- Lux Cinema, London
- National Film Theatre, London
- CineMart, International Film Festival, Rotterdam
2000
- World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
- Lux Cinema, London
- Cinema Rex, Belgrade
- Video Lisboa, Lisbon
2001
- London Film Festival, London
- Lux Cinema, London
- Melkweg Media, Amsterdam
- Rex Cinema, Belgrade
- Video Brasil, Sao Paulo
- VideoLisboa, Lisbon
- Trasmission Series- Spatiality, Homelessness&Anxiety, Performativity, Artists’ Talks, Site Gallery, 2001
- World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
2002
- Gewalt und Ästhetik Symposium, Museum Bellerive, Zürich
2003
- National Film Theatre, London
- Cinema Zuid, Amsterdam
- Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca
- VideoLisboa, Galeria Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon
- The Possibility of Seeing, Cardif
- 38 Langham Street : For One Night Only, London
2005
- I Mille Occhi International Film Festival, Trieste
- National Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid
- Tate Britain & Tate Modern, Courses and Workshops, Across Borders: Documentary and the Moving Image, London
- Walk of Three Chairs – screening, MoMA, Film and Media Exhibitions, New York
2006
- Cinemateque, Split
2007
- Eksperimentalni utorak u kinu Tuškanac – cinema screening, Zagreb
- Zoo Art Fair, London
- Video DUMBO, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Centre, New York
- Continental Breakfast – The 3rd CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, Presentation of the Project IAA – imagine art after, Venezia
- Drawing 2007 Biennial Fundraiser, London
2008
- I Mille Occhi International Film Festival, Trieste
- International Festival Sarajevska zima, Sarajevo
2009
- David Cotterrell: Transmission Series, Artists’ Talks, Sheffield Hallam University, Site Gallery
2011
- Continental Breakfast, The 5th CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, Presentation of the project The Endless School, Venezia
2012
- I Mille Occhi International Film Festival, Trieste
2013
- Peer Gallery – screening, London
- Picturehouse – screening, London
- Cinema Tuškanac – cinema screening, Zagreb
2014
- Film and Video Umbrella – screening, London
- Picturehouse, screening video selection Breda Beban &Hrvoje Horvatić, London
- Walk of Three Chairs – screening, Peer Gallery, London
Catalogues
Information to follow.
Books
Information to follow.
Bibliography
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- Darke, Chris: “Everything is Connected”, Sight and Sound, No. 46, pp. 28-31, February 1995
- Darke, Chris: “Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatic”, Film and Video Umbrella, 1996
- Steele, Lisa and Tomczak, Kim: “The Destabilized Landscape”, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1996
- Elwes, Catherine: “The Pursuit of the Personal in British Video Art”, Paradoxa online, issue 5, November 1997
- The CineMart: Presentation by Keith Griffith of the Screenplay Moneystains, Rotterdam, 1998
- Decia, Patricia: “Videos discutem identitade e memoria”, Folha de St. Paulo, p.1, 30.9.1998
- Twiston Davies, Bess: “Pick of the Day, Millennial Fever”, The Daily Telegraph, Sunday, 6 December, 1998
- Mullen, Lisa: “Ends and Meaning”, Time Out, 1998
- Curator’s text, Video Brasil, 1998
- Darke, Chris:” Fragments for H”: A Personal Tribute to Hrvoje Horvatic, Vertigo, Volume 1, 1998
- Turković, Hrvoje: Experimental cinema in Croatia, Alpe Adria Cinema Catalogue, Trieste, 1998/1999
- Searle, Adrian: “Someone Slept Oblivious”, exhibition” Still”, Site Gallery Catalogue, pp .2-4; 2000
- Darke, Chris: “After Effect”, exhibition “Still”, Site Gallery catalogue, pp. 37-40, 2000
- Briers, David: “Breda Beban”, Art Monthly, No. 238, pp. 35-36, July/August 2000
- Donald, Ann: “Acting on Instinct”, The Herald, 28 September 2000
- Marjanović, Milena: “Breda Beban, Volim kad čovek zapeva”, Blic, Beograd, str. 11, 12. decembar 2000
- Purešević, Danijela: “Komedija, a ne drama”, Vreme, Beograd, str. 42, 14 decembar 2000
- Purešević, Danijela: “Breda Beban, Video Medeja, Remont Art Magazine, Novi Sad, br.2, str.7, 2000/2001
- Cork, Richard: “Richard Cork’s Five Best London Exhibitions”, The Times, 27 January 2001
- Glover, Izi: “Breda Beban Lux Gallery Photography”, Time Out, UK, 7-14 February 2001
- Schlup, Murrielle: “Das Visuele Tagebuch einer Flucht“, Berner Woche, No. 219, September 2001
- Henry, Marcel: “Sparsame Bilder spiegeln Odyssee“, Berner Zeitung, p. 27, 22/23 September 2001
- Anliker, Peter: “Stills, Stille und Unruhe“, Fueilleton, 26 September 2001
- Basting, Barbara: “Dasse von Novi Sad eingefangen“, Tages-Anzeiger, p. 6, 27 September 2001
- Greub, Thierry: “Zimmer mit Aussichten“, Basler Magazine / Basler Zeitung, No. 239, 13 October 2001
- Schuppli, Madeleine: “Still”, solo exhibition catalogue Kunstmuseum Thun, p. 2-6, 2001
- Gerbert, Elisabeth: “Breda Beban im Kunstmuseum Thun“, Kunst Bulletin, p. 46, November 2001
- Darke, Chris: “A Complex Kind of Joy”, Chris Darke in conversation with Breda Beban, “Imaginary Balkans” catalogue, pp. 23-26, Site Gallery Sheffield, 2002
- Kivland, Sharon, Sanderson, Lesley: “Transmission Speaking & Listening”, vol. 1, Sheffield Hallam University and Site Gallery, 2002
- Welsh, Jeremy: “Exploding, Plastic and Inevitable”, HZ Journal, Exhibition “Video Works” at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 2002
- Stohler, Peter: “Zwischen Faszination und Denunzation“, Gewaltbilder exibition catalogue, Museum Bellerive, p. 28-41, 2002
- M.D. “Stilvoll sterben“, Neue Züricher Zeitung, 18 März 2002
- Horny, Henriette: “Gaskammern und Nato-Bomber“, Kurier, Austria, p. 27, 25. Juli 2002
- HG Handwerker Gallery: “Global Video Art: Talking with Breda Beban”, Ithaca College, Volume 5, No. 1, Spring 2003
- Herbert, Martin: “Breda Beban”, Art Monthly 266, pp. 28-29, March 2003
- Vincent, Martin:”Imaginary Balkans”, Art Monthly, No. 265, pp. 18-19, April 2003
- Wolverhampton:” I Can’t Make You Love Me”, The Guardian, July 2003
- M.B.: “Breda Beban: I Can’t Make You Love Me”, Modern Painters, pp. 117-118, autumn 2003
- Macnab, Geoffrey: “Beyond the Multiplex”, The Guardian, p. 12, 28 November 2003
- Mitrović, Siniša: “Breda Beban at St. Augustin Tower and 99 Hoxton Street”, Circa, 106, pp. 89-90, Winter 2003
- Toro Magazine editor: “Beautiful Exile”, editor’s interview with Breda Beban, Toronto, 2003
- Betterton, Rosemary: “Spaces of Memory: Photographic Practices of Home and Exile in the work of Breda Beban”, Paradoxa, No. 13, pp. 22-28, January 2004
- Cotton, Charlotte: “The Photograph as Contemporary Art”, Thames and Hudson World of Art, 2004
- Rotas, Alex:”Is ‘Refugee Art’ Possible?”, Routledge, Tylor & Francis Group, UK; Third Text, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 56, 2004
- Perry, Gill; Wood, Paul: “Themes in Contemporary Art”, Yale University Press, p. 36, 2005
- British Art Show 6, Catalogue Hayward Gallery, pp. 146-152, 186-189, 2005
- Matthews, Virginia: “Home is Where the Art is”, The Guardian, Independent, Diversity V, p. 5, 11 August 2005
- Searl, Adrian: “State of the Art”, The Guardian, pp. 18-19, 27 September 2005
- Dickson, Andrew: “The alchemy of arts coverage made visual, audible and active”, The Guardian Editor’s Week, p. 36, November 2005
- Mandić Mušćet, Jelena:” Doba pokretnih slika”, Vjesnik, str. 46, 19.11. 2005
- Mc Gregor, Sheila: “New Art on View; the Challenge of Collecting”, Scala Publishers No.18, 2006
- Franceschi, Branko: Katalog izložbe Breda Beban, Mali Salon Muzeja za Modernu i suvremenu umjetnost, Rijeka, rujan 2006
- Elezović, Nadežda:” Publiku opčinili kadrovi filma”, Novi list / Kultura, br. 66, 10. studenoga 2006
- Elezović, Nadežda: “Vizualna komunikacija postala jača od komunikacije abecedom”, Novi list – Mediteran, br. 593, str.1, 8-9, 26.studenoga 2006
- Orelj, Ksenija: “Novo lice nakon slike”, Vijenac, str. 7, prosinac, 2006
- Franceschi, Branko: “ Istraživanje mogućnosti zaljubljivanja”, Kontura magazine, str. 14-15, prosinac 2006
- Curtis, David: ”A History of Artists”, Film and Video in Britain, BFI Publishing, p. 268, 2006
- Rust, Chris: “Unstated Contributions – How Artistic Inquiry Can Inform Interdisciplinary Research”, International Journal of Design, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2007
- Peraica, Ana: katalog ŽENA Na raskrižju ideologije, Split, siječanj/veljača 2007
- Jerković, Ana: “Žena je i robinja i kraljica”, Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, 29.siječnja 2007
- Gearhart, Jessica: “Essay, an Introductory Exploration of the Concept of Balkan in Art”, Blesok no. 52, January/February 2007
- Redazione Il Piccolo: “ A Trieste, parte da Breda Beban il secondo Videospritz”, Il Piccolo, No. 46, 23 febbraio 2007
- Benedetti, Tiziana: “Breda, l’anima dei Balcani”, Zeno Magazine, pp. 38-39, Marzo 2007
- Godnik, Ivana: “Breda Beban, Emozioni in forma d’arte visiva”, Il Piccolo, p.3, 2 Marzo 2007
- Godnik, Ivana: “Breda Beban izziva čuvstva in sproza reakcije”, Primorski Dnevnik, p.5, 2. marec 2007
- Franceschi, Branko: “The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha”, Nuova Icona catalogue, June 2007
- Tolusso, May B.: “Continental breakfast: a Venezia curatori d’arte dal Centro-est Europa”, Il Piccolo, 1 Giugno 2007
- Searl, Adrian:” Venice Takes Flight”, The Guardian, pp. 24-28, 12 June, 2007
- “imagine art after”, Tate Britain, Bidoun, Arts and Culture from the Middle East, Fall 2007
- Veliu, Mohamed: “Në kërkim të kopshtit të gjyshes, Peshku paujë”, Tirana, 9. October 2007
- Marjanović, Mima Miroljub; Milosavljević, Vesna:” Imagine art after Brede Beban”, Seecult, Beograd, 4 oktobar 2007
- Van der List, Eline: “Breda Beban”, Modern Painters, p. 99, October 2007
- Holtom, Helen:” imagine art after”, Art Rabbit, 24 October 2007
- Glavan, Darko: “Potpuna redateljska emancipacija”, Jutarnji list, str. 32, 22. studenoga 2007
- Carver, Antonia: “imagine art after”, Bidoun, Fall 2007
- Helenman, Diane: “Short Film Seductive”, Courier Journal, November 2007
- Rittatore, Letizia: “imagine art after”, Amica, Novembre 2007
- Global Video Art: “Talking with Breda Beban”, Handweker Gallery Newsletter, 2008
- Morrison, Marcha: “Breda Beban”, Art Papers, p. 60, Jan/Feb 2008
- Jankowicz, Mia: “The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha”: Breda Beban in conversation with Mia Jankowicz, Untitled, pp. 4-9, Spring 2008
- Glavan, Darko:” Najljepša žena iz Guče u Londonu”, Jutarnji list, Zagreb, str. 87, 29.ožujka.2008
- Back, Louise: “On Gypsies and Orgasm”, Toro Magazine, August 2008
- Grando, Elisa:” I Mille Occhi riporta il passato a Trieste”, Il Piccolo, p. 14, 12. settembre 2008
- Grando, Elisa: “Cinque ritratti di Breda Beban primo evento dei Mille occhi”, Il Piccolo, Trieste, 18. settembre 2008
- Cherubini, Dubravka: “How I was Part of Beautiful Exile” ,catalogue I mille occhi, International Film Festival, Trieste, settembre 2008
- O’Reilly, Sally: “The Body in the Contemporary Art”, Thames and Hudson World of Art, 2009
- Cotterrell, David: Transmission Host, Sheffield Hallam University, 2009
- Morse, Jon: “Breda Beban”, Fallyrag Magazine, May 2010
- BB/WM for Octavia Hill National Trust: “The Endless School”, Tatton Park Biennial, May, 2010
- Milliard, Coline: “Breda Beban”, Artinfo, July 2010
- Rickett, Sophie: “Breda Beban: My Funeral Song”, Hotshoe, August 2010
- Revell, Irene: “Breda Beban: My Funeral Song”, The Wire, August 2010
- Sherwin, Skye: “Artist of the Week 102: Breda Beban”, The Guardian, 25 August 2010
- Marjanović, Mima Miroljub; Milosavljević, Vesna:” Moja pesma za sahranu”, Seecult, 11 oktobar 2010
- Van der Vlist, Eline: Catalogue Exibition Camden Centre, London, 2010
- Hodges, Jim: “Breda Beban at Camden Arts Centre”, by Alexfield, 2010
- Gronlund, Melissa: ”Introductory Talk with Jim Hodges and Breda Beban”, Afterall, 2010
- Kiš, Patricia: “Baveći se temom požude i žena, bila je eksplicitnija i hrabrija od Tracey Emin”, Jutarnji list, Kultura, Zagreb, 25.travnja 2012
- Walsh, Maria:” Obituaries: Breda Beban”, Art Monthly, p.19, June 2012
- Marjanović, Mima Miroljub; Milosavljević, Vesna: “Omaž Bredi Beban u Trstu”, 23 august 2012
- Cherubini, Dubravka, Franceschi, Branko, catalogue Homage exhibition “The Adventure of the Real”, Trieste, settembre/ottobre 2012
- Gregori, Federica: “Breda Beban, la videocamera in punta di piedi”, Il Piccolo, p. 47, 16 settembre 2012
- Jureša, Jelena: “Who doesn’t Know How to Suffer, doesn’t Know How to Love”, Nova Misao, Novi Sad, oktobar/novembar, 2012
- Colner, Miha: Trasmission Radio Student, 9. November 2012
- Franceschi, Branko: “Avantura emocija”, Nova Misao, Novi Sad, oktobar/novembar, 2012
- Cherubini, Dubravka: “Avantura stvarnosti”, Nova Misao, Novi Sad, oktobar/novembar, 2012
- Nenadić, Diana:” Intimna geografija”, Kino Tuškanac, 26. veljače 2013
- Beja, Boris: “Poetic Eroticism at the Photon Gallery”, Siol.net, Ljubljana, 2013
- Ožegović, Nina: Intervju sa Brankom Franceschijem, TPortal, Zagreb, 9.srpnja 2013
- Bianchi, Giovanni: Ricerche di s/confine; Paolo Cardazzo e gli incontri a Motovun 1972-1984, 2013
- Manz, Stefan and Panayi, Panikos: Refugees and Cultural Transfer to Britain, Routledge Taylot and Francis Group, London and New York, p. 96, 2013
- Franceschi, Branko: izložba “Avantura emocije”, Galerija Kortil, Rijeka, prosinac 2013
- Valerjev Ogurlić, Nela: “Avantura stvarnog: U galeriji Kortil otvorena samostalna izložba Brede Beban”, Novi list, Rijeka 5.prosinca 2013
- Dobrić, Gordana, Svetlana Mladenov: “Male priče o ljubavi, smrti, politici i životu”, katalog izložbe “Let’s Call it Love, Beograd, Novi Sad, Banja Luka, 2014
- Cherubini, Dubravka, Franceschi, Branko: Catalogue Exhibition “Let’s call It Love”, Beograd, Novi Sad, Banja Luka, 2014
- Marjanović, Mima Miroljub; Milosavljević, Vesna: “Breda Beban u MSURS”, Seecult, Beograd, 29 juli 2014
- Marjanović, Mima Miroljub; Milosavljević, Vesna: “Posetom Derkona zatvorena izložba Brede Beban”, Seecult, Beograd, 24 august 2014
- Manz, Stefan: ”‘Irriducible Singularity’ of Breda Beban’s Walk of Three Chairs, in Stefan Manz ‘Refugees and Cultural Transfer to Britain”, London, Routledge, 2015
- Elwes, Catherine:” Installation and the Moving Image”, Walflower Press, London, New York, Columbia University Press, 2015
- Carbi Jesurun, Giuliana:” Breda’s Lesson”, Trieste, 2018
- Vukmir, Janka:” Legacy yet to be Explored”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Colner, Miha: “The Woman with a Photo Camera”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Munivrana, Martina:”In the Context of Feminist and Postcolonial Theory”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Čavić, Ana: “We Are the Stories that We Tell Ourselves”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Gandolfi, Fiora:” I First Met Breda in Venice”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Flecha, Mario: “The Presence of Absence”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Sosič, Marko: “Biography of Fugacity”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Cherubini, Dubravka: “Art Lover”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Vodopija, Ivan Berislav: “The Resting Place of Transience”, Breda’s Lesson, Trieste, 2018
- Tolusso, Mary B: “Breda Beban e Miela Reina Inaugurano Libraryline”, Il Piccolo, Trieste, p.28, 7 settembre 2022
- Šimičić, Darko:” Projekt galerija Ilica”, Večernji list, Zagreb, str. 22-23, 30. rujna 2022
- Vodopija, Ivan Berislav: “Book & Ništa”, Ex Libris, Zagreb, 2022
- Petrić, Jelena: “Berislav Vodopija”, portal Kodirani prostori, Zagreb, 2022
- Tumbas, Jasmina:“ I am Jugoslovenka“, Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 2023, Manchester University, 2023
- Munivrana, Martina: Treća, br. 1, Časopis Centra za ženske studije, 2023
- Stanić, Vesna: “Elektronski mediji i estetika u postfeminističkoj teoriji”, str. 78/-9, Arthea, Slavonski Brod, 2025
- Munivrana, Martina: “Hibridno tijelo izvedbe Breda Beban”, Diureux, MSU Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, 2026
- Jesurun Carbi, Giuliana: “Feelings of Togetherness, Trieste Contemporanea 1995-2025, Dialoghi dell’arte dell’Europa Centro-Orientale”, Trieste, settembre 2026
- Peritz Körbler, Romina: “Kako je umjetnica Breda1991. napustila Zagreb”, Jutarnji list, str.20-21, Zagreb, 17.rujna.2026