NÉA TÉCHNI Award Announces a New Video Art Festival & Category

This year, NÉA TÉCHNI Award is pleased to announce a new initiative: the launch of a Video Art Festival, which will serve as a prelude to the introduction of a new Video Art category within the NÉA TÉCHNI Award.

The festival will take place in early March 2026 at KC Grad, Belgrade, and will be curated by Alexandra Orlova, an independent curator whose work focuses on video art, memory, and narrative transformation.

Alexandra Orlova has previously curated Memoryscape, a video art project that explores the fluid and mutable nature of memory. The project examines how personal narratives evolve through oral retelling, gaps in documentation, and subjective interpretation, transforming memory into an ephemeral and malleable construct.

Through video art, Memoryscape created a reflective space for artists to engage with themes such as flashbacks, memory loss, vanishing landscapes, selective remembrance, and the experience of being “lost in translation.” These layered narratives collectively immersed the viewer in a shifting terrain of personal and collective memory.

Building on this curatorial approach, the upcoming Video Art Festival at KC Grad will introduce audiences to new perspectives in contemporary video art and mark an important expansion of the NÉA TÉCHNI Award’s program.

Location: KC Grad, Belgrade
Date: Early March 2026
Festival: NÉA TÉCHNI Video Art Festival
Curator: Alexandra Orlova