Suzana Milevska is a curator and theorist of art and visual culture from North Macedonia. Currently she is a Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Research Fellow in Innsbruck. Her theoretical research and curatorial projects employ postcolonial and feminist institutional critique of representational regimes of hegemonic power in arts and visual culture, and deconstruction and decolonization of contentious cultural heritages in art institutions, collections, and public spaces. Her exhibitions focus on collaborative and participatory art practices, feminist projects by women artists looking at visual microhistories in historic and family photographic archives, and community-based artistic research projects in solidarity with marginalized and disenfranchised communities. In 2019, Milevska curated the exhibition Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects at the Polytechnic University Milan as Principal Investigator of TRACES – Transmitting of Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts – From Intervention to Co-production (EU Programme Horizon 2020, 2016-2019). From 2013 to 2015, she was Endowed Professor of Central and South Eastern European Art Histories, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Milevska was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. She holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College London. In 2012, she won the ALICE Award for Political Curating, and the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory. In 2010, Milevska initiated the project Call the Witness that focused on contemporary Roma artists and consisted of a participatory online Roma Media Archive, the exhibition Call the Witness, (BAK Utrecht), and the Roma Pavilion at 54 Venice Biennial (Palazzo Zorzi, Venice). In 2011, she also curated the project Roma Protocol, Wiener Festwochen, Austrian Parliament, Vienna. Milevska’s publications include Gender Difference in the Balkans (VDM Verlag, 2010) and the readers The Renaming Machine: The Book (P.A.R.A.SI.T.E. Institute, 2010), On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (SternbergPress, 2016), and Inside Out – Critical Discourses concerning Institutions (co-edited with Alenka Gregorič, 2016). suzanamilevska@gmail.com
[photo by: Franzisca Sauerbrey]
Institute of Art History, Faculty of Culture and Arts, Warsaw University
This project is made possible with support from the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Art Histories initiative.
