Marco Nektan
Performance Artist, Butoh dancer/choreographer/teacher, and theatre and performance art producer. In his twenty-year career, he has created over 500 works in Serbia, Germany and Europe. He has a Master's degree in dramatic and A/V arts – Creative Production, and currently pursuing his PhD studies in Polymedia art. Butoh, as the most important medium of his work, he learned from the great masters from Japan and Europe. He started his career in the Belgrade performance group 'Corpus Artisticum' in V.I.P. Art gallery in Student Cultural Center. Marco is an independent artist and a member of the Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia. In 2020, the monograph 'Something called butoh' was published by the Japanese Dance Archive, where Marco Nektan was listed as an international Butoh artist. He has collaborated with several alternative theaters, dance and art troupes from Serbia and various European countries. He is a member of the World Mime Organization and CID-UNESCO Council of dance.
Marco Nektan selected work
SELECTED SOLO ART WORKS
2024: "Sonderlie Sexerlei" Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia.
2023: "Ischtarnacht" at PANDORA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2023: "Bornless Pose" at VOKSTATA, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, Germany.
2022: "Distanca M" at PANFIZ, Skopje, North Macedonia.
2021: "Panov Grad" at ExTeatar Fest, Pančevo, Serbia.
2020: "The Holy Martyr" at FAKI festival, Zagreb, Croatia.
2019: "Patient 418" at JSFF - Japanese-Serbian Film Festival, Yugoslav Cinematheque, Belgrade, Serbia.
2018: "Repolarization" at Bijenale umetnosti 2018, Pančevo, Serbia.
2017: "Damn Garden" at Bitef-Polifonija, CZKD, Belgrade, Serbia.
2016: "Alchemical Stories" at Casa Cacao, Berlin, Germany.
2016: "Sapphire Step" at PANPHYS Festival, Skopje, North Macedonia.
2015: "Breathing Prayers" at Open Art Weekend at ECC Weissensee, Berlin, Germany.
2014: "The Shape of the Wind" at Pozorište "Sterija," Vršac, Serbia.
2009: "Journey in the Deepest Darkness of the Heart" at PATOSOFIRANJE, Smederevo, Serbia.
2008: "Betwine the Worlds" at INFANT, Katolička Porta, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2007: "Shakti Rising" at Biennale "Octopus," Belgrade, Serbia.
ART WORKS WITH NEKTAN ART
2023: "Nefilimi" at Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia.
2022: "Distanca" at GKC (Gradski kulturni centar), Užice, Serbia.
2021: "Panov Grad" at ExTeatar Fest, Pančevo, Serbia.
2020: "Kreiranje Nove Tradicije II" at K.C. Nektan Art, Pančevo, Serbia.
2019: "Cabaret of Absurd" at MNT (Makedonsko narodno pozorište), Skopje, North Macedonia.
2018: "Agony" at MKM (Muzej savremene umetnosti), Belgrade, Serbia.
2017: "Wildness" at Vlasina Lake, Surdulica, Serbia.
2016: "Temple of Light" at Mikser House, Belgrade, Serbia.
2015: "Verloren Götter" at Spomen Park "Berlinski Zid," Berlin, Germany.
2014: "Nigoda Moksha" at Drugstore, Belgrade, Serbia.
ART WORKS WITH MIMART
2022: "Aplauz za Hekatu" , Trema Fest, Ruma, Serbia.
2021: "Aplauz za Hekatu", Magacin u K.M., Belgrade, Serbia.
2020: "Algoritam Sna" at INFANT (International Festival of Alternative and New Theatre), K.C. Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2019: "Ostrvska Magija" in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
2018: "Trokorak" at SKC (Studentski kulturni centar), Belgrade, Serbia.
2017: "Pokretna Instalacija" at BELEF ’17 (Belgrade Summer Festival), SKC, Belgrade, Serbia.
ART PRODUCTION
2023: "IT'S GONNA BE HOT," Performance Festival, Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia.
2022: "IT'S GONNA BE HOT," Performance Festival, Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia.
2021: "Performance Art Salon 2" at Cultural Center "Nektan Art," Pančevo, Serbia.
2015: "Mystery Butoh/Ritual Theater Workshop 'Universal Sense'" at Schillerpark/Tiergarden, Berlin, Germany.
2015: "First Performance Art Salon" at Cultural Center "Nektan Art," Pančevo, Serbia.
2014: "Butoh Workshop with Natsuko Kono" and performance "Life Under the Water" at Cultural Center "Student City," New Belgrade, Serbia.
2011-2012: "Multimedial Art Project 'Partimejkersi'" in Belgrade, Serbia.
2010: "April Meetings" - Program at V.I.P. Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
2009: "Ars Nocturna I" - Group Exhibition at Circus Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024: "Vortrag Butoh – Japanischer Tanz" Rabrika, Görlitz, Germay
2023: Performance Art Workshop at Magacin u Kraljevića Marka, Belgrade, Serbia.
2022: Creative Biographies Research Workshop at Art Academy Novi Sad, Let's Act Multilingual, Erasmus +, BAZAART.
2021: Butoh Correspondent Training, Online, International.
2020: "What is Butoh?" Online Lecture at University of Osijek, Croatia.
2019: Butoh Workshop at MNT (Macedonian national theater), Skopje, North Macedonia.
2018: Performance Art Workshop at MKM (Magacin Cultural Center), Belgrade, Serbia.
2017: Butoh Workshop in Šabac, Serbia.
2016: Butoh Workshop in Subotica, Serbia.
2015: Butoh Workshop "Alchemical Dance" in Berlin, Germany.
2014: Shamanic Mystery Dance Workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands.
2013: Shamanic Mystery Dance Workshop in Essen, Germany.
2012: Rune Dance Workshop in Bile, Switzerland.