In an artistic career ranging from video, film, photography and performance to embroidery and text, Dante Buu’s central issues are love, resistance and intimacy. Born in Montenegro, Buu is currently an artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. His work blurs the boundaries between the private and the public sphere and addresses the sociocultural alienation present in our societies. In an intimate quest of resistance and subversion, Buu questions and challenges gender roles and stereotypes that are set up by mechanisms of power. As a storyteller and performer, he intertwines his own life story with the untold stories of others and uses his artistic practice as a vehicle for resistance against marginalisation and invisibility of minority groups...
Dante Buu: ‘A Portrait of My Parents / Summer (Fifth Season),’ 2014, performance at Gallery Java (Sarajevo), duration: 8 hours // Photo by Aleksandar Kordić
Dante Buu: ‘and you—do you die happy?,’ 2021, performance at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Duration: 8 days, 4 hours per day // Photo by Bastian Hopfgarten
Dante Buu: ‘and you—do you die happy?,’ 2021, performance at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Duration: 8 days, 4 hours per day // Photo by Bastian Hopfgarten
Dante Buu: ‘A Portrait of My Parents / Summer (Fifth Season),’ 2014, Photo documentation of performance at Gallery Java (Sarajevo), Duration: 8 hours // Photo by Velija Hasanbegović
Dante Buu: ‘If you wanna fuck me, you don’t have to pretend it’s for art,’ 2018, Fine art inkjet print, 116 x 207 cm, unframed // Courtesy of the artist