Exhibitions

Thinking and Building a Photobook
With Leo Simoes

An introduction to the photobook as a cultural, artistic, poetic and political medium: a space of paper where a visual discourse is articulated, expressed and communicated through images, texts, design, materiality and graphic production.

Leo Simoes is the director of Muga, an independent publishing house specialising in photography, and of LUR, an online platform that gives visibility to contemporary photographic creation and produces and disseminates critical thinking about images.

The talk will be in Spanish with simultaneous translation into Serbian.

When you self-publish a photobook, the question soon arises: how does the book actually reach readers?
Self-publishing offers plenty of opportunities and freedom – but you also have to take an active role in handling distribution and raising your profile.
Let’s discuss different approaches and new ways of making your publications accessible to a wider audience. 
By Thomas Licek
Reflektor
The talk will be conducted in English 
Event done thanks to the Austrijiski Kulturni Forum.

The presentation will be conducted in English 

As part of BPM Book Week 2026, we are pleased to invite you to an special event dedicated to photobooks and the stories they hold. This session brings together three photographers whose recent works are deeply connected to Belgrade, each offering a personal and distinct perspective on the city.

Join us for a series of presentations where image, memory, and place intertwine, opening up different ways of seeing and understanding Belgrade today.

We would like to invite you to como to one more sesion where 3 differents photographers they will present their last work…. highly connected to our city, Belgrade.

Konstantin Kondrukhov

Looking for safety and new opportunities in 2022, I found myself in Belgrade — a city I didn’t know much about before. My choice wasn’t random: friends of mine, concert organizers who had come a few months earlier, announced a music festival in Belgrade called Changeover. That festival became a bridge to a new reality and the beginning of my journey. Through photographs, I will share the story of the people, experiences and sounds that surrounded me during this challenging but amazing time. This will be a photobook about change and the invisible connection that brings us together through music in a new place. 

Ljuba Sorokina

Lyuba So (Sorokina, born 1986 in Leningrad, USSR) is a photographer based in Slovenia. Startred out as a street artist in 2006, the camera replaced a spray can over time, becoming her main medium and a way to engage with space, experience and personal perception.

For Sorokina, photography functions as a method of immersion rather than documentation. She is interested in environments that resist order and clarity and in how perception can be altered through framing, accumulation and sustained attention. Through her practice, she explores photography as a means of navigating unfamiliar contexts, allowing imagined layers to emerge from direct experience.

Blok 70 is a photographic project focused on the Chinese market in New Belgrade, approached as an already alien and visually saturated environment. The artist works with the market as a collection of spatial fragments –  shelves, signs, packaging, colours, improvised structures – paying attention to how the space is assembled and how it is experienced rather than how it is explained.

Xiaofu Wang 

Xiaofu Wang is a Chinese-Australian photographer based in Berlin. She completed a Bachelor’s in Media Arts and Production at UTS Sydney and graduated from the Ostkreuz School of Photography in 2023. Her work explores themes of history, place, and the intersections between collective and individual experiences. 

The Tower is part ode, part record, and part speculation about one of Belgrade’s most important buildings— Genex Tower, a symbol of the city and one of the most recognizable brutalist structures in the world. Situated at the edges of documentary photography, the photographs in the book were taken over nine separate trips to Belgrade with an analogue, medium-format camera between 2021 and 2024. 

The photographer searches for clues among the building’s memorabilia and debris—drawing Derrida’s concept of hauntology, Mark Fisher’s lost futures, and speculative history—trying to understand its legacy within the contemporary landscape and piece together a story that will always remain fragmentary. An accompanying essay by art historian Sonja Jankov situates the building in a concrete historical and architectural context, examining Yugoslav modernism and the rise and fall of Generaleksport. Finally, Maša Seničić’s texts offer a poetic and personal perspective, teasing out what complex feelings the building evokes in her as a native of Belgrade.