Katarina Šević and Gergely László's House Museum Project Explores Post-War Return and Memory

In 2006, Katarina Šević and Gergely László initiated the House Museum project after Šević returned to her family's summer home in Žuljana, Croatia, post-civil war in ex-Yugoslavia (1991-2001). For thirteen years, ethnic conflicts barred Šević, a Serbian national, from Croatian soil. Together, the artists restored the war-damaged house, which had been occupied during their absence, using archeological methods to collect over 100 artifacts that reveal the home's history. House Museum has featured in several group exhibitions, such as Lost in Transition at CAME in Tallinn (2011) and Bunker Design at the Moscow Biennial's Hungarian Cultural Centre (2007). An interview with the artists appeared in Berlin's Ethnological Museum on March 12, 2014. Both Šević (born 1979, Novi Sad) and László (born 1979, Budapest) currently reside in Budapest and Berlin. Since 2004, László has worked with Péter Rákosi under Tehnica Schweiz, producing projects like The Man with an Excavator (2010) and Imperatores Provinciae (2013).