Ivan Medenica
Artistic Director and Curator of the Bitef Festival
Ivan Medenica, BITEF Artistic Director
The World Is At A Tipping Point
“Although I would maintain that dramatic and choreographic performances represent equally valuable and relevant forms of contemporary performing...
Artistic director, curator and selector BITEF
Ivan Medenica: On The Edge Of The Future
“We considered it necessary to give our all to nonetheless create a sample of the festival this year,...
Ivan Medenica, Artistic Director and Selector of Bitef
It Is Important To Conserve Energy
The state is obliged not to bury its head in the sand, but rather to simultaneously develop several...
Ivan Medenica, BITEF Artistic Director and Selector
Let’s Start Love Over
“Bitef wants to save what can be saved, because it was never just an artistic review, but rather also a platform for the social struggle in favour of progressive values, and those are today the most basic, human values: normalcy, goodness, love.”
BITEF Hosts 2nd Donor Dinner Party
The second donor dinner of the Bitef Festival was held at Hotel Square Nine, with the support of...
52nd Bitef Opens
The 52nd Bitef was officially opened under the slogan "The World Without Men".
Before the opening ceremony of the...
Ivan Medenica, Bitef Artistic Director and Selector
Living in a Dangerous World
“The task of this year’s BITEF is to reconcile us with the fact that we are living in a troublingly dangerous world, to prompt us to ask whether and how theatre and art can counteract that, and to jolt us out of our aesthetic prejudices.”
Ivan Medenica, Artistic Director Of BITEF
Is BITEF Returning To The World Scene?
“Opening Bitef with none other than the play Mount Olympus, which is currently one of the most famous...
French Order Of Merit Awarded
The French Embassy hosted a ceremony to present the prestigious recognition of the French Order of Arts and Letters in the rank of knight to pianist Jovanka Višekruna Janković, Bitef art director and selector Ivan Medenica, and Milan Savić, director of the Belgrade SAXperience festival
Mira Trailović Grand Prix And Politika Award Presented
Double laureate was the play Hilarious darkness directed by Dušan David Pařízek
German Embassy Honours 50th BITEF
H.E. German Ambassador Axel Dittmann organised a reception at his ambassadorial residence to honour the 50th BITEF and...
Ivan Medenica, Artistic Director and Curator of the Bitef Festival
BITEF Meeting Point of World Cultures
BITEF Festival marks this year its 50th anniversary
This year, the Belgrade International Theatre Festival (BITEF) marks a great...
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