MIRJANA MUSTRA

Like Tears from a Star, 2026

Installation: textile, flowers, acrylic, ink, blood, water

Created directly within the exhibition space, this installation emerged from the process of curating Water Resistance and collaborating with its artists. It reflects on curating itself as a feminist practice: a way of creating relationships, spaces of care, and collective resistance. Flowers evoke beauty and vulnerability, while their dependence on water makes visible water’s fundamental role in sustaining life. Blood enters the work as a material and symbol of violence—against water and against feminized bodies. Beauty, however, is also found in the joy of working together, in caring for one another and for the Earth, and in our collective decision to resist the imposed logic of patriarchal capitalism and its destruction.

Mirjana Mustra (b. 1978, Belgrade) is a Vienna-based multimedia artist, curator, and cultural worker, currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her practice explores the intersection of art, feminism, and activism, challenging structures of power through collective and participatory methods. She served as Artistic Director of WIENWOCHE (2019) and founded NOTE 15, a transdisciplinary festival in Vienna’s 15th district. In her recent video and performance works, Mustra addresses gender-based violence against women and girls, using artistic practice as a space for resistance, solidarity, and healing. Her work is rooted in lived experience and feminist theory.

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