Andreja Kargačin

Andreja Kargačin (*1999) is a Serbian performance artist, theater director, choreographer, visual artist, and writer. Kargačin attended Ballet High School in Novi Sad, in the Department of Contemporary Dance, and graduated in Theater Directing from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. She is a member of the artistic-activist collective Shock cooperative / Led art and co-founder of the dance collective ČETA.

Kargačin's works are interdisciplinary, often politically charged, and deal with collective memory, totalitarian regimes, and gender roles. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and has completed residencies in Italy, Serbia, Sweden, and Germany. She worked for six months as a performance artist at Marina Abramović's exhibition The Cleaner.

DORA or Who’s Going To Stitch the Vests is her first production that will be shown at the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Freie Republik Wien.

In 2023 Kargačin received the Novica Tadić Award for the collection of poems Slobodni dani Elene Čaušesku (Elena Ceaușescu’s Days Off), and the Iskra kulture Award in 2024 for her entire artistic creation. Kargačins directed works like HOLOPARTIZANKE (2024), At the Inland Sea (2023) and Brooklyn and Cats in Dumpsters (2021) and created performances and installations.