Dr.

Suzana Milevska
Research, curatorial and theoretical interests:
Visual arts and postcolonial critique of hegemonic power in art;
gender difference and feminist art;the construction of visual memory in photographic
archives;
arts in postsocialist and transitional societies;
collaborative and participatory art practices.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES (SELECTED):
Agency and Reverse Recuperation, More Europe, Copernicus Science Centre,
WarsawCuratorial Agency as Cultural Translation and Knowledge Production, lecture
at ECM, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Curatorial Theory and Practice: A Reverse Perspective, Angewandtes Ausstellen, University
of Applied Arts, Vienna
Feminist Art as Agency: Apophatic vs. Kataphatic Principle, TransYgoslav Feminsms:
Womens Heritage Revisited, Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia, 17.10.2013.
Balkan is Now, moderator of the debate
(curator Gulsun Bal), DEPO, Vienna. 10.10.2013
Highly Curved Loops of Space-Time: Art History in Regional Perspective, inaugural
lecture, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 15.10.
2013 Woman must put herself into the text: Feminist Agency of Sanja Ivekovis Art,
workshop in the context of Sanja Ivekovis solo exhibition Unknown Heroine, 15
participants, 27.01.2013, Calvert 22, London
Lack and Supplement: Gender and Agency in Public
Space, How to Identify with Difference Curated by Elke Krasny, Kunstraum
Niederoesterreich, Vienna, 29.01.2013.
2012
Staging the Transgression, Civil Partnerships: Queer and Feminist Curating, TATE
Modern, London
Post-Representational Curating: Talking About Curatorial Agency Suzana Milevska
In Conversation with Nora Sternfeld, Alvar
2011
Epistemological and Ethical Turn in Curatorial Knowledge Production -practice and
theory- PhD by research programme with Renate Lorenz, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna
Art Practice
Based Research: Events of Production of Knowledge, Artistic Research and
Ethical Conundrums, Conference
report, SHARE/ELIA
Conference, KUVA, Helsinki
2010
'The Reciprocal Relationship between Art and Visual Culture in the Balkans,Space
(Re)solutions
2009
Can the Subaltern Speak East, Workshop at the Gender Check,
curated by Bojana Pejic, MUMOK, Vienna
What can transnational feminist theory learn from regional
feminism, Feminist Review Conference, Feminist Theory and
Activism in Global Perspective, SOAS, University of London, London (UK)
Internalisation of
Institutional Critique, Evaluating and Formative Goals of Art Criticism in
Recent (De)territorialized Contexts,
AICA, Seminar, curator and

participant, Cultural Centre Mala Stanica, National Gallery, Skopje (Macedonia)

'The Importance of Gendered Interpretation of Contemporary Art,
CEI Curatorial Forum, Palazzo Zorzi-Venice, Italy
Internalisation of the Institutional Critique, Conference: The Next Step, Curated by Zdenka
Badovinac, Moderna Galeria,
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Whatever Belonging, key-note speech, IKT
(International Association of Curators) Congress, Kiazma Museum, Helsinki
2008
World Art Forum, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, UK
Participatory Art and its Hierarchies. (key-note) On Participation
POPP68 Conference, Academy of Visual Arts-Berlin
2007
Casting iek: Manliness as a Masquerade (workshop with Katerina
Kolozova), Humanities Symposium: New Directions for the
Humanities, Columbia University, New York (USA)
Globalization of
Art, Stone Summer Theory Institute, Director: James Elkins, SAIC, Chicago
Phantasms of Belonging Vs. Participation, Kunsthaus, Graz,
Austria2006
Non-Schengen Art: The Phantasm of Belonging, SSEES,
Inclusion/Exclusion, London
An-archiving Gender Difference in the Balkans, ESC, Graz,
Austria
Balkan Subjectivity as Neither, Balkans Exhibited: A Debate: Art under
Construction, City University London
NonSchengen Art: The Phantasms of Belonging, Performance Rights, Queen Mary University
London
Not Quite Bare Life: Rules and Exemption, Documenta 12
Conference, Nehru University, New Delhi
2005
Staged Invisibility, Conference Strategies of (In)visibility, Republicart
project, eipcp, Vienna and Goldsmiths College, Camden
Art Centre, London
Political and Gender
Troubles Art in Eastern Europe, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Workers Club Conference, (curator and participant) International
Biennial - National Gallery Prague
2003
'Crossing the Borders in the Balkans, Oxford University Balkan Society, Oxford
(UK)
'Of
Balkan Hospitality in the Age of Ultimate Postcolonial Conference with Gayatri C. Spivak,
MOCA, Skopje
Correspondences and
Privileges, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (Germany)
The Home of the Other, CATH Conference on
Hospitality, University of Leeds, Leeds (UK)
Ready-Made in Macedonian Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm
2002

Objects and Subjects: Politically Engaged Art, Conference Cultural Territories, GfCA,
Leipzig
The Question of Readymade and Fabrication of Objects and Subjects, Badischer Kunstwerein, Karlsruhe
1999
DAS CAPITAL: Spectacle or Screen, symposium "After the Wall," Moderna
Museet, Stockholm
Fluids,
Desires, Stories, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (USA)1998
Cinderella Syndrome, Europe:
Cluster for New Peripheries (AICA), Manifesta 2, Casino Luxembourg
1999 Helmet - Art as Protection, independent project by Petar Hadzi Boskov for the
Macedonian presentation at the Venice Biennial Skopje-Venice,
48th Venice
Biennial (unrealised)
1997- 2005-National Curator for the representation of Macedonia at the 4th 5th and 6th
International Biennial, Istanbul
1996-2005 Founder and Curator of the exhibitions and residencies at the Open Graphic Art
Studios Programme, solo and group exhibitions of more
than 50 young
Macedonian artists
2016
Normalities, panel at the exhibition opening, Austrian Cultural Forum,
New York, 19.01. 2016
Microhistories and Internalisation of Macrohistories, book launch of Microhistories, Edited
by Magnus Brts, Konsthall, Gothenburg, 19.03.
Infelicitous Participatory Acts, lecture and seminar, Academy Valand, Gothenburg, 18.03.
Through the Magnifying Glass of a Feminist: Representation of Womens Body in Visual
Art and
Media, Fear from Feminism-School for Feminism, GEM Skopje, 20.02.
2015
Reverse Recuperation: The Philanthropist, the Critique/Critic and the
Trickster, A Proposal
for Open Call, Exnergasse, curated by Vera Lauf and Barbara Mahlknecht, Vienna, 13.11.
CEI Venice Forum, Continental Breakfast-Studio Tomasseo, Trieste, 24.10
Microhistories, seminar and workshop, in collaboration with Konstfack, Stockholm and prof.
Magnus
Brts, 11-14.09.
Butterfly Effect, The Long Moment, curated by Lina Morawttz, Exnergasse, Vienna,
03.09.
Triangulations of Estrangement: The subject, the object and the animal, Summer Institute
SAAS-Fee, Warren Neidich and Barry Schwabsky, 13.06.
The Lack and its Supplement: The visible and invisible violence of monuments, Invisible
Violence, symposium, Salzburger Kunstwerein, 18.03.
Landscapes Without Bodies, lecture, In Transitional Landscapes symposium, Karin
Reisenberg/Amila Siberbegovi, Paradocks/TUW, (Packhaus), 17.01.2015, Vienna
2014
From Parasitism to Institutional Critique, Lecture in the context of the
retrospective exhibition of
Tadej Pogaar, Museum of Modern Art,
Ljubljana, 19.12.2014.

Participatory Budgeting workshop leader, Critical Management in Curating, Schnittpunkt,

09-10.12.2014 Vienna
After Before: Re-writing Art Histories, Self-historisation and Other Contradictions, me
Collection, Berlin, 13.11.
The Impossibility of Cultural Translation of Blue, Blue Times, Kunsthalle, Vienna,
04.12.2014
Becoming-Curator, tranzit, 10.10.2014, Bratislava
Miracles Can Happen- A theoretical reflection on miracles, Microhistories (research project
and exhibition by Magnus Brts),Tensta, Stockholm, 10.09.2014.
The (Im)Possibility of Commoning, Tranzit.Cz 17.07. 2014, Prague
Introduction and moderation of the session with Silvia Federici,
Summer School
Commoning the City (organised by Prof. Anette Baldauf and Prof. Renate Lorenz, PhD by
Practice, Academy of Fine Arts). 23.06.2014
Launch of the book: Performing the Sentence, Austrian Cultural
Forum New York, 17.06.2014
BODY THINKS, Or Cognitive Body Vs. Essentialism, Objectification and Ideal Body
Imagery, Lecture in the context of the retrospective exhibition of Vlasta Delimar, Museum of
Contemporary Museum, Zagreb, 10.06. 2014 Zagreb, Croatia
''Word Bridges Dictionary of Curatorial Agency-workshop'', ECM Module Curatorial Agency, 13.04.
2014
Introduction of Esther Shalev Gerz and moderator of the session, Europe: The City is
Burning (curated by Sophie Golz, Stadtkuratorien Hamburg) Hochschule fr
bildende Knste Hamburg (HFBK). 24.05.2014
The Lack and its Supplement: Gender and Agency in Public Space, Invisible
Violence (symposium curated by Zoran Eri), Youth House, Belgrade, 10 May 2014
Immaterial Monuments, curator of the workshop with Art Agent Stockholm and Macedonian
artists, Youth Cultural Centre, Skopje, 23-25 April
Presenter and moderator of a discussion, Microhistories (research project by Magnus Brts),
Moderna Museet and Konstfack, Stockholm, 10-12.02. 2014
Troubled Relation Between Theory and Curatorial Practice: A Reverse Perspective, lecture
and workshop, Igor Zabel Association/SCCA-Ljubljana, 05.02.
2014
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation and Agency, curating and moderating the symposium,
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 3-4 April 2014
Not-Yet Ready Made, public lecture, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies,
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 11.03. 2014
2013
The Invisible Borderlines of Racism: From amnesia to racist allure in visual
representation, individual public lecture, Mauthausen Project series of lectures:
ERINNERUNGSORTE IN BEWEGUNG - Vortragsreihe zur Neugestaltung der KZGedenksttte Mauthausen, TUW, Vienna, 04.11.2013.
Veils/Folds/Events- Production of face in space-time, Not Now/Now, curated by Renate
Lorenz, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna,
'Becoming-Curator, How to Become a Curator (with Ruth Noack),
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Erste Foundation. 15.11.2013

On the (Im)possibility of (Re)naming, A Conversation about the formation of national

iconographies and their framing, in the context of Jasmina Cibics exhibition, UGM, Maribor
Agency and Reverse Recuperation, More Europe, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw
Voices and Choirs of Dissent: Reverse recuperation Curatorial Summer Workshop, Royal
Art Institute, Stockholm
Aalto Univerity, Helsinki
On the (Im)possibility of (Re)naming, A Conversation about the formation of national
iconographies and their framing, in the context of Jasmina Cibics exhibition, UGM, Maribor
Roma Protocol, Safe European Home? Architektur Zentrum Wien, Wiener Festwochen,
Vienna
Feminist Research in Art, Art as a Thinking Process, IUAV and EARN, Venice, Italy
NSK State a relationship of belonging without belonging, Red District
Symposium, Curated by Alexei Monro, Trbovlje, Slovenia
Intervention and Research In Visual Culture, edited by Peter Mrtenbck and Helge
Mooshammer, Technical University Vienna
2008/11
The Renaming Machine, series of 5 conferences (Ljubljana, Skopje, Pristina, Zagreb, Vienna)
in partnership with P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana
2000
Summer Institute in World Art Studies Getty Foundation Program, University of East
Anglia - SCVA(Norwich, GB)'
'Self-referentialism Vs. Criticism, AICA Congress, Tate Modern Museum, London

Suzana Milevska
SELECTED CURATED PROJECTS
2015-16
Inside Out - Not So White Cube, (co-curated with Alenka Gregoric) City Art Gallery,
Ljubljana
2011
Roma Protocol, Press room, Austrian Parliament, Wiener Festvochen, Vienna
Roma Pavilion Call the Witness, member of the curatorial team for the Venice
Biennials Collateral Event
Call the Witness, BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
2009
Hito Steyerl solo exhibition of Hito Steyerl and conversation with the artist, P74
Gallery, Ljubljana
2008/10

The Renaming Machine, series of 3 exhibitions (Ljubljana, Skopje, Vienna) and 4

conferences in partnership with P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana
2007
Translating the Self, International Conference, (curator/moderator of the conference), EuroBalkan Institute and British Council, Skopje.
Integrating Cultures/Negotiating new Subjectivities, Summer School, Ohrid, EuroBalkan Institute, supported by Life Long Learning programme - Jean Monnet, European
Commission
Curatorial Translation, Regional Curatorial Workshop (curator of the programme), EuroBalkan Institute in partnership with Ministry of Culture and ECF, Press to exit
project space-Skopje, SCCA-Ljubljana, EXIT Peje.
2006
Naming of the Bridge Rosa Plaveva and Nakie Bajram, Hristina Ivanoska, Art under
Construction, FWA/City University, London, 2005
Workers Club - International Prague Biennial: curator of the exhibition and conference
National Gallery, Prague (catalogue)
2004
Cosmopolis Microcosmos X Macrocosmos (national curator), State Museum of
Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (catalogue)
Unbalanced Allocation of Space, (co-curated with Julia Schfer), Galerie fr Zeitgenssische
Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (catalogue)
Multiplication, City Museum of Skopje/British Council, Skopje (Macedonia) (catalogue)
2002
Divided Sky/Re-unified Territories, talk-show programme on TV Leipzig and a part
of Introducing Sites II, Galerie fr Zeitgenssische Kunst, Leipzig,Germany (text in Cultural
Territories)
2002
The Body Thinks, exhibition and conference, Open Graphic Art Studio The Museum of the
City of Skopje (Macedonia)
2001
Capital & Gender International Project for Art and Theory, public art project Perfect
Match and conference Capital & Gender, City Shopping Mall, Skopje (forward, text and
edition of book)
Correspondences, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Stuttgart, Bonn, Germany (catalogue)
2000
Words, Objects, Acts, The Museum of the City of Skopje Skopje (Macedonia), ArtsLink
collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)
1999
Neighbours, by Oliver Musovik, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, (national curator)

Always Already Apocalypse, in parallel with the 6th International Istanbul

Biennial, Sabanci Art Center, Yildiz Technical University Istanbul (curated by Paolo
Colombo)catalogue
First Peep Show in the City, CIX Gallery, Skopje (catalogue)
1998
Little Big Stories, Riksarkivet, Stockholm (catalogue)
1997
The Bridge, by Marina Abramovic, The Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje (catalogue)
Leaving the
Nest, by Bedi Ibrahim, national curator of the Macedonian representative, 5th International
Istanbul Biennial (curated by Rosa Martinez) catalogue
Liquor Amnii II, Convergence X, Festival,
Providence, Rhodes Island, USA
1996
Liquor Amnii, ten women artists from Macedonia and USA, Skopje Summer Festival,
Cifte Amam, Skopje, Macedonia (catalogue)
1995
A Documentary about V.A. by Zaneta Vangeli, a national selector for the Macedonian
representation at the 4th International Istanbul Biennial (curated by Rene Block) catalogue