ART & MONEY
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Title: Art & Money
By: Freja Hallberg
Premiere: November 2026 (international, Heartefact, Belgrade, Serbia), February 2026 (Konträr, Stockholm)
Language: Performed in Serbian with English surtitles
Cast: Milica Stefanovic and Vanja Ejdus
Crew:
– Written & Directed by Freja Hallberg
– Music composed by Anton Alfvén
– Costume Design by Maja Mirkovic
Technical: Intimate room, Audience in three directions.
Touring Availability: 2026 and 2027
Produced by: A part of the project Political Loneliness - a collaboration between Sweets and Heartefact
Co-produced by: Konträr
Supported by: Swedish Institute
An impossible love story between art and capital – a performance about loneliness, dependence, and the quiet cruelty of needing what you cannot live with.
In developing. Premiering in Belgrade, November 2025. Available for touring 2026.
Two women on stage: Art and Money.
Dressed in gala gowns from an award ceremony they once attended in 2021 – gowns they haven’t been able to take off since.
They argue, whisper, cry, laugh, seduce, insult and comfort each other. They play roles and then break them.
They talk, they plead, they perform. They circle around money, value, purpose, and survival – with desperation, humour and defiance.
Accompanied by original music composed for the piece, Art and Money becomes a duet in more than words – a rhythm of contradiction, longing, and resistance.
It’s a sharp, absurd, and tender dialogue between two forces that both desire and despise each other. A breakdown, a stand-up routine, a funding application gone rogue. At once philosophical and painfully concrete, the piece explores dependency, performance, and worth – economic, aesthetic, emotional.