The Green Box re-imagined
Artist talk and activation by Nevena Delić on silencing and bottom-up commemorative practices
23 MAY 2026 / 17:00
ZK/U BerlinSiemensstr. 27, 10551, Berlin, Germany
Nevena Delićs research departs from Yugoslav architect Bogdan Bogdanovićs „Green Box“, a device intended to combat self-censorship, and re-imagines it in the discourses around silencing, memory culture and state-censorship connected to the peace statue „Ari“. As he witnessed his work becoming increasingly silenced, censured and targeted by the regime, Bogdanović devised of a box to hold his writings which was never to be opened, although eventually being taken apart in order for its contents to follow him into political exile in 1993.
The original Green Box is taken as a prompt and critically reimagined in today’s context in relation to censorship, revisionism and anticipatory obedience as dominant forms of silencing of and their accomplices, with special regard to the removal of the peace statue in Berlin and elsewhere.
In an artist talk, Nevena will explore parallels between those two artworks and speak about bottom-up commemorative practices. Finally, the newly devised boxes will be activated and taken to the former location of the statue.
Nevena Delić is a visual artist and researcher living in Berlin. Her work explores trajectories of knowledge production and dissemination – such as games, workshops, lecture-performances, delegated action, and interventions. Her practice uses political imagination as the ability to imagine and act otherwise. Through her work with communities, Nevena tackles the questions of authorship, agency, and the border between artistic practice and mediation. She is currently pursuing the postgraduate program “Art in Context” at UdK Berlin.
An event by ZK/U in cooperation with Körber-Stiftung.