We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year The Croatian/Austrian design collective of Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzler and Nikola Radeljkovic are well-known for their Tape installations – kilometers of transparent sticky…
We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year Why Oknai? Because his beats are fatter than Dwight Schrute’s. Because his wobble is funky and he knows how to write an actual…
Easterndaze is a project exploring the best new music from Central and Eastern Europe through a variety of channels. Their 2010 audio odyssey through Serbia was finally aired last week on London’s Resonance FM and you can now grab it…
The song you’re about to hear is probably a historic one. It’s the first attempt to try and transfer the authentic Balkan-style turbo folk emotion into French language. The only problem we have is that we cannot understand the lyrics.…
Slovenian art duo Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak presenting their new work Activists, completed during a residency at the OCAT in Shenzhen, China. Activists are mobile robots that occupy spaces and perform different actions, stepping up for a better society.…
Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Latvian cities are leading the way in Europe’s broadband speed, according to research conducted by Pando Networks. London lags behind and Paris barely makes it to the top 20. The only Western European cities in the…
This just might be the best piece of gay advertising we’ve seen lately, hitting the core of Balkan homophobia. Montenegrin Center for Civic Education (CGO) and LGBT Forum Progress have produced a charming yet of course, ‘controversial’ video titled “We…
Ukrainian disguised as the Star Wars villain stormed Odessa City Hall demanding to be granted a plot of land to park his spaceship. “I am Darth Vader” he told the guards at the entrance. “I hear that land is being…
“Beograd film”, the Serbian state-owned chain of 14 cinemas was privatized back in 2007, and since then, cinemas in Belgrade have been closed. The only ones you can find today are large multiplexes, mostly in big shopping malls. While it’s…
Bulgarian prom day Yes, prom is that special event in your life when you celebrate the useless years you spent in high school getting drunk, cheating on ma...
The real Croatian hipsters (Split 1980s) A piece of street history from Split, Croatia 1985 showing a high awareness of popular fashion of the time. Not much different from what...
The real Balkan prom Bulgarians know how to get to the point
Yes, prom is that special event in your life when you celebrate the useless years you spent i...
McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans
In March...
