Curator: Irfan Hošić
Various locations, public spaces of the city of Bihać
10 May 2025 – 11 September 2025
Lecture: Nermin Duraković / Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 7 pm, KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture (Hamze Hume bb, Bihać)

The exhibition of the Bosnian-Danish artist Nermin Duraković, Our Border, is a commentary on the migration crisis caused by the state agencies of the European Union, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has been taking place in Bihać with full intensity since around 2018. The artist addresses his European fellow citizens, warning them of what is actually happening at the EU's external borders as part of a security agenda, supported materially and morally approved by these agencies. As the backbone of his work, Duraković uses the eponymous photograph and video from 2021, which depict the now-famous intervention by Croatian state agencies on the western slope of Mount Plješevica, where a forest strip approximately 100 meters wide and more than 2,000 meters long was radically, recklessly, and brutally destroyed in order to strengthen control over that part of the border.

The exhibition in Bihać features two posters, containing messages “Our/Your Border, Plješevica, Bosnia and Herzegovina – EU/Croatia, 2021” and “Refugee Camps Should be Illegal.” These posters are displayed in public spaces of the city, on commercial advertising surfaces, as a social commentary and a direct critique of Croatian security agencies sponsored by EU institutions and tacitly supported by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian authorities. According to the artist, “the refugee border is a mirror of a society that embraces the concept of a border.” Duraković's work remains vocal today, four years after it was created. Its relevance is reflected in the suspension of humane migration policies globally and the rise of right-wing ideas.

The artist conveys the voice of a European citizen who clearly disagrees with the official migration policy of Denmark and the EU. An important perspective and additional fact for understanding this act is his personal refugee experience from the 1990s when, as a child, he was forced to leave his hometown of Trebinje and seek safety in Denmark with his family.

Our Border was previously shown as part of the exhibition In Search of 'Other' Space of Belonging held at the KRAK Center in the fall of 2021, and this time it moves onto the streets of the city, into the public space for which it was actually intended.

The exhibition is realized with the support of the Danish Arts Foundation from Copenhagen.