CV 2016 - Selected curatorial projects

Dr. Suzana Milevska

Research, curatorial and theoretical interests:

visual arts and postcolonial critique of hegemonic power regimes of representation;

gender difference and feminist art;

the construction of visual memory in photographic archives;

arts in postsocialist and transitional societies;

collaborative and participatory art practices.

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS 
(curated exhibitions, conferences and other discursive and educational formats-workshops, summers schools and residences)

2015-16
Inside Out - Not So White Cube, (co-curated with Alenka Gregorič) City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, exhibition and conference (catalogue and reader).

2014
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency, international conference, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (book).

2011
Roma Protocol, press room, Austrian Parliament, Wiener Festvochen, Vienna,

Roma Pavilion – Call the Witness, member of the curatorial team for the Venice Biennial’s 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 5 conferences (Ljubljana, Skopje, Pristina, Zagreb and Vienna) in partnership with the leader of the project, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana, Stacion, Pristina, g-mk, Zagreb and Open Space, Vienna.

2007
Translating the Self, International Conference, (curator/moderator of the conference), “Euro-Balkan” Institute and British Council, Skopje.

Integrating Cultures/Negotiating New Subjectivities, Summer School, Ohrid, “Euro-Balkan” Institute, supported by Life Long Learning programme - Jean Monnet, European Commission

Curatorial Translation, Regional Curatorial Workshop (curator of the programme), “Euro-Balkan” 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: co-curatorial 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 Schäfer), Galerie für Zeitgenössische 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 für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig,Germany (text in the catalogue for the long-term gfzk project "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
Helmet - Art as Protection, independent project by Petar Hadzi Boskov for the Macedonian presentation at the Venice Biennial Skopje-Venice, 48th Venice Biennial (unrealised).

Neighbours, by Oliver Musovik, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, national curator (catalogue).

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- 2005
National Curator for the representation of Macedonia at the 4th 5th and 6th International Biennial, Istanbul

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 (catalogue).

1996-2005
Initiator of the Open Graphic Art Studio and curator of the exhibitions and artist in residence programme at the Open Graphic Art Studio, solo and group exhibitions of more than 50 young Macedonian artists.

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).