With a signature blend of critical care and humour, Macić’s work invites audiences into immersive encounters: a massage table surrounded by flora, time-travelling aliens speaking in performance languages, or archives singing micro-operas. Her investigations operate as an alchemical laboratory, including the science-fiction inspired performances of Intergalactic Pollinators, the sustainable installations of Leftovers, and the embodied theory of Discourse Games and Performing Theory.

Tatjana Macić was born in a country that no longer exists. A visual artist, writer, and educator originally from Niš, former Yugoslavia, and now based in Amsterdam, she assembles found matter, vanished geographies, and intergalactic leftovers - into body gestures, images, and stories.

A pioneer in the digital realm, Macić became the first artist to sell a digital artwork at auction in 2010. She has exhibited at Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, W139, Tate Modern and the Society for Artistic Research, among others.

Currently Macić is lecturer of Artistic Research and Exhibition Research Lab at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague. As a Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (2023-2024), she published the essay On Assemblage and organised the symposium Body as Proxy.

She is a founder of Urgent Matters / Srettam Tnegru, an initiative questioning the conditions of artistic labour, and the Leftovers initiative for sustainable exhibition-making.

Macić holds a BA from ArtEZ University of the Arts and an MA cum laude in Theory and History of Contemporary Art from the University of Amsterdam.

Selected exhibitions
2026 Today is Tomorrow, Amsterdam
2025 Art et Amicitiae, Salon, Amsterdam
2023 Leftovers, W139, Amsterdam
2023 Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Die Angewandte, Vienna
2021 My Psychic Energy Zeitgeist And A Melody, biennale.no
2019 Intergalactic Pollinators, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2019 From the Archive: Interlude Nr.17, Tate Modern, London
2017 Performing Theory, Crisis Festival, Arezzo, Italy
2014 Museum collection on the street, Hilversum Museum
2009 Virtual Mercury Poetry, 53rd Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Venice

Selected publications
2024 On Assemblage, Royal Academy of Art The Hague
2020 Glob/c/al, Interdisciplinary, University of Amsterdam
2013 Positioning the Art Gallery, Tubelight
2011 Artistic Avant-Gardes and the Great Shift, Odgovor
2010 Performance Interrupted: Death and the Other Fabulous Nonsense, HTV de IJsberg
2009 Abject Performing Body, Virtual Palm Trees and Mental Pictures, HTV de IJsberg

Macić is a regular invited speaker and guest lecturer at institutions including ArtEZ, HKU, the International Conference on Artistic Research, Academia dell'Arte Italy, and the University of Amsterdam. Previously she served as adviser for fine arts at the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (2010–2014), as a member of CAWA (2008–2013), and as contributing editor to HTV De IJsberg (2008–2012). Currently she is a member of the ONSbank supervisory board.

Contact
studio@artkosmika.com