ANA PRVAČKI: Applied Honey Proverbs

• December 12, 2026 | MAF Garden 3pm

MAF presents Applied Honey Proverbs, a lecture-performance by artist Ana Prvački. In this special program, to take place in MAF’s Garden, Prvački shares bee and honey proverbs, and expressions gathered from oral traditions around the world.

Applied Honey Proverbs sits at the intersection of storytelling, myth, and anthropology, treating proverbs as compressed cultural knowledge–small time capsules carrying a community’s values, contradictions, and accumulated experience of living alongside bees. Each proverb becomes a short physical enactment, language turned back into gesture and image.

About Ana Prvački

Ana Prvački draws inspiration from close observation of nature and contemporary culture. Her interdisciplinary approach encompasses film and video, performance, mixed reality, installation, theater, works on paper, and artist books. Prvački strives to stimulate a sense of wonder and pleasure in the face of the familiar and the routine, employing materials as diverse as magnets, marble and honey to invoke reflection through humor and play. She has presented her work at numerous international venues including Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, and has been commissioned by Chatsworth House and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Selected group exhibitions include Biennale Gherdëina 10 (2026), the 13th Gwangju Biennial, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Bangkok Art Biennale (2020), Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), 14th Istanbul Biennial and DOCUMENTA 13. She was shortlisted for the 2025 Gabriele Münter Prize. Her book of watercolors, Flowering Under Stress, was published in 2023 by Sternberg Press with an essay by Zadie Smith.