October 28 – November 17, 2025
BelArt Gallery, in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum and the galleries Hilger (Vienna) and X-Vitamin (Belgrade), presented the exhibition Superstitions by artist Asunta Abdel Azim Mohamed. The opening took place on October 28 at 7:00 PM in the gallery space, and the exhibition was on view to the public until November 17.
The exhibition was officially opened by Lioba Bamer, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Belgrade.Asunta Abdel Azim Mohamed was born in 1993 in Klagenfurt (Carinthia, Austria). She initially studied Romance languages and literature, and later graphic design and printmaking at the University of Applied Arts. According to the artist, her favorite media are ballpoint pen, marker, pen, and ink on paper.
The drawings of Asunta Abdel Azim Mohamed are simultaneously a satire of her generation in Vienna and a study of the human condition—a painful moral comedy, with death as a recurring motif. They are dense with incidents and rich in allusions: to music, film, literature, and art; from the Baroque to Symbolism; to medicine, anatomy, graphic arts, and contemporary popular culture. Vienna lies between East and West, where genres meet, which further influences her work. Her intelligence regarding the nature of drawing and the apparent ease with which she draws result in work that feels almost self-aware: this is art of perception, even when it concerns the lives of others, their ambiguous and unresolved stories.