I am a visual artist, researcher and educator. My professional background is in art, digital media and urban practice. With this transdiciplinary expertise I utilise a wide range of methodologies – mental mapping, walking, interviewing, oral history, archival research. I create audio walks, multimedia installations in public spaces and cultural venues, conceptualise and give workshops and seminars, conduct research and publish monographs.
Doing art for me is a state of being in, relating to and exchanging with society. At the same time I also consider it a contribution to (mediation for) a more just societal design. While I consider it an occupation, doing art is intrinsically connected to my personal life and biography. Socialised between nations and changing national systems, I critically engage with topics of migration, transculturality, a-nationality, decoloniality and cultural memory. I do so by searching, researching, collecting, documenting, reflecting upon, rearranging, transforming and mediating artefacts with artistic means. With this I aim to create situations in which another reality emerges through aesthetic experience.
I hold BA in Painting and Art Pedagogy (Faculty of Fine Arts Skopje, 2006), MA in Space Strategies (Art School Berlin-Weißensee, 2011) and practice-based PhD in Fine Arts (Bauhaus University Weimar, 2019).
My recent engagements include: “From Palace to Forum” (seminar, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, 2021/2022); “Museum of Art Solidarity” (guest lecture, MA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus University Weimar, 2022); “Mediating Heterogeneity: Urban Thresholds“ (seminar collaboration with the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Joint Master of Architecture, 2022/2023); “The Autonomous Museum” (participation in the exhibition “Whose Side Are You On?”, National Opera and Ballet House, Skopje 2022); “Solidarity of Art (A-National and Transcultural)” (artistic project collaboration with artist Susanna Schönberg, UNESCO-World Cultural Heritage Zollverein, Essen 2023, “TUNE IN. Audio Walk with Ukrainian Artists (in collaboration with Mariia Lutsak, Sofiia Yesakova, and Somari Ptashka), Audio Walk in Berlin, Charlottenburg, 2023), “Keep Working on Love” (participation in the exhibition “Broken Time And The World is Made Again From What It Forgets”), Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje).
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