Jusuf Hadzifejzovic
Kunst-Werke, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cinema Arsenal
Jusuf Hadzifejzovic started to make his “depots” in 1984 in Sarajevo, where he lived before the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina began. The series of installations—each named after the city in which they took place (Sarajevo, Belgrade, Dubrovnik, and many other sites in former Yugoslavia; and Berlin, Cracow, Graz, Milan, and Antwerp where the artist now lives)—is intended to expose the state-run “art system” in former Yugoslavia and to examine the economic and political situation. Hadzifejzovic entered the museum’s vault to show what was preserved in this “forbidden zone.” By exhibiting works that