Šta ima!? Festival — 3 Tage Retrospektive & Resonanz unter dem Motto: „ZUSAMMEN SIND WIR MEHR“

Šta ima!? Festival - 3 days of retrospective & resonance

June 7-9, 2025 - Glockenbachwerkstatt Munich

Under the motto: "TOGETHER WE ARE MORE"

Music. Performance. Exhibition. Talks. Food. Dancing. Movies. And more.

At a time when memory has become political, the balkaNet collective looks back on ten years of artistic, political and collective practice and invites you to join us:

To three days of retrospection, resonance and outlook.
To a festival of encounters, exchange - and the future.

What you can expect:

A look back at the last few years of artistic, political & collective practice
Formats & projects such as Noise Mobility, MingRa Talks & Vibes, UN-Ebenbild, Ogledalo, QueerRefugeeKunst, QueerFemTalks, Šta ima! Festival, YUdéjàVU
Artistic interventions, performances & discussions
Culinary delights & thinking spaces
Concerts & dance floors
Film program - curated by Borjana Gaković

What it's about:

The festival is a resonance space for a shared history:

balkaNet e.V. - these are artists, activists, technicians, organizers, culinary experts, friends. A network that has created connections, opened up spaces and amplified voices over ten years.

These days are an invitation - to you and to ourselves:

To make visible what connects us and who we have become in the process.
To celebrate what we have created.
And to think about what can still come.

Come along - get involved - be part of it!

Fixed program items so far (more program items to follow):

DAY 1 / 07.06.2025

from 4 pm Beer garden and exhibitions are open!

6 pm Documentary short film "This was a Graffiti"/"Ovo je bio grafit" (UKR, BiH, GER 2024)
Director Valeriya Boyko will be on site for Q&A (moderation: Nils Nebe)

Synopsis:

"Ovo je Srbija. Ovo je pošta, budalo", "This is Serbia. This is a post office, you fool" was a graffiti that appeared in Sarajevo briefly before the onset of the Bosnian war. In a series of conversations with local personalities, the film explores the story behind the graffiti that everyone knows yet few have seen.

Festivals:

Sarajevo Film Festival, 2024

Futures Connected Festival, 2024

Artown Festival, 2024

BiH Looks Around Festival, 2024.

Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival New York, 2025

Interviews:

Remembering Yugoslavia https://yugoblok.com/this-was-graffiti/

WARM Foundation https://warmfoundation.org/projects/bosnia-ukraine-reporting-from-the-future/valeriya-boyko/

Trailer: https://mubi.com/en/films/this-was-a-graffiti/trailer

DAY 2 / 08.06.2025

from 4 pm Beer garden and exhibitions are open!

6 pm Open project presentation by the interdisciplinary artists Manuela Unverdorben and Iris Špringer

A project about water, memory, flight and connection

"Tiha voda brege valja... - Stilles Wasser rauscht ..." is a supra-regional, interdisciplinary exchange project by artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Munich - with guests and audio-visual events in Bavaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The aim is to artistically tell stories of rivers, flight, corruption and hope and to stimulate a dialog about the past, present and future.2025 marks a special year: it is 30 years since decisions were made that have shaped two rivers - the Isar in Munich and the Neretva in Bosnia and Herzegovina - in different ways.

- In 1995, an ambitious renaturation project began in Munich with the Isar Plan.

- 1995 saw the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Dayton Agreement

- In 1995, the deportations of refugees - including from Munich - to Bosnia and Herzegovina began.

- In 1995, the reconstruction of the Stari Most, the old bridge of Mostar, began - a powerful symbol of destruction, separation and hope.

While the Isar is now considered a successfully renaturalized river, the Neretva and other river systems in south-eastern Europe are under massive threat from current construction projects. What is at stake is nothing less than the preservation of one of the most species-rich river landscapes in Europe - an "evolutionary cradle" of diversity.

Manuela Unverdorben and IRiS Špringer will present the project outline on Sunday, June 8 at 6 pm in the foyer of the Glockenbachwerkstatt and cordially invite all interested parties to contribute their own stories, perspectives and ideas.

Take part. Remember. Design.

Together we want to let the water speak - about what was, what is and what can be.

8 pm Dj Vančo YU Wave Postpunk Set
-open end

DAY 3 / 09.06.

from 4 pm Beer garden and exhibitions are open!

8 pm Concert: ITHAK (rock, psyche, jazz, fusion from FR)

ITHAK (Institut Techno Harmonique d'Accordage Kosmique) is a multilingual band that has been touring Europe for over 10 years. Founded in 2005 by Seb El Zin, it combines psychedelic rock, dub, Turkish pop, industrial, jazz and more to create a cosmopolitan, poetic and often political sound. Inspired by music of all kinds as well as literature (e.g. Orwell, Burroughs), the band reinvents itself with every album. Their trademarks are powerful lyrics, surprising melodies, deep baritone sax basses and energetic drums - an unclassifiable sound without boundaries.