Tatjana Macić is a visual artist, writer and researcher from a country that does not exist any more. By merging the ethereal and the theoretical, she blurs the boundaries between visual art, exhibition-making, education and language. Her practice resembles the alchemical laboratory, and research manifests in lecture performances, installations with found objects, artistic archives, interventions, collages and digital art. In her writing practice, she explores hidden power structures, the voice, science fiction and the image in the expanded context of language, body and space. Her work was shown at W139, the Tate Modern, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Venice Biennale Collateral Events, The Wrong Biennale, KunstVlaai and de Appel in Amsterdam.

Macić founded Urgent Matters / Srettam Tnegru - an initiative for art and research that questions conditions for artistic practice and critical thinking; and Leftovers initiative - a call to action for research and reflection upon the sustainability of exhibition-making in terms of materials and discourses.

Received a BA in art from ArtEZ University of the Arts, and an MA, with honours, in Theory and History of Contemporary Art from the University of Amsterdam.







Selected exhibitions and projects

2023  Leftovers, W139, Amsterdam
2023  de/cipher, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam
2021  Dead Darlings auction, Amsterdam
2021  My Psychic Energy Zeitgeist And A Melody, bienale.no
2020  Orbits Of Solitude, A-Lonely Show, at Sexyland, Amsterdam, Curated by Ka-Tjun Hau and Nanine van Smoorenburg
2020  My Psychic Energy Zeitgeist And A Melody, at Undocumented events and object permanence, noemata.org
2020  The Culmination of Abjection, noemata.org
2019  Intergalactic Pollinators, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2019  From the archive: Interlude No.17, Tate Modern, London, UK
2018  Thinking Bodies, de Appel, Museum night, Amsterdam
2018  The Stubborn Archive, The Capital Time Machine, Bucharest, Romania
2018  Alternative Facts, Stuttgart, Germany
2017 / 18 Digital Zoo, The Wrong, São Paolo, Brazil
2017  Massage in exchange for a story, performance, Palais van Mieris, Amsterdam
2017  Performing theory, Crisis Art Festival, Italy
2017  How to unfollow the red herring, performance lecture, Crisis Art Festival, Italy
2016  The Impulse to Write Images, performance lecture, the International Conference about Artistic Research and writing, Society of the Artistic Research (SAR)
2016  Performing Crisis, performance lecture, Crisis Art Festival, Italy
2016  The Impulse to Urgent, Brainwash Festival, The Hague
2016  Digital God, Bring Your Own B, The Wrong Biennale
2015  Jubilee exhibition, Arti et Amicitiae 1945-2015
2014  OLE.01 Internazionale della Literatura Electronica, the Royal Palace, Naples, Italy
2014  Galeria Tvrdjava, Nis, Serbia
2013  New Horizons, new members exhibition, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2012  Sintici, FAD, Barselona, Spain
2012  En garde, Snapshots Balkan Film Festival, Amsterdam
2011  Museum collection on the street, Hilversum Museum
2011  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MOCA), USA
2011  Cabinet Gallery, New York, USA
2011  Mecena Prize Circus, De Nieuwe Liefde, Amsterdam
2010  The Evolution of Spectacle, KunstVlaai, Amsterdam
2010  White on White, Master Piece auction, De Zwarte Ruyter, Rotterdam
2009  Memories, Stories and Invisible Treasures, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2019  ARMEN BENEN, 53rd Venice Biennale Collateral Events
2009  / 12 Red Line - Research dealing with language and social/ist architecture in former Yugoslavia
2007  Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art (LACDA), USA
2006  The Sound Wall project, Artist Project Space de Overslag, Eindhoven
2006  Centre for Contemporary Art, Negotin, Serbia
2005 / 06  Myths, people and music, Scryption Museum, Tilburg
2004 / 05 Cleansing, film screening, Club 11, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Publications

2019  Art & Research & Education In A Glob/c/al Flow, Conference of the Association of Interdisciplinary Studies
2016  The Impulse To Write Images, The International Conference on Artistic Research
2013  Positioning the Art Gallery, Tubelight, January/ February
2012  Artistic avant-gardes and the great shift- the psychoanalytical model of Hal Foster, Odgovor, art journal
2011  Curatorial practices in The Other Europe - Critical analysis of curatorial practice in turbulent times, Library of the University of Amsterdam
2011  An exchange, Cabinet Gallery, New York
2010  Dusan Rodic, artist catalogue Gerrit Rietveld Academy
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
2009  PSWAR's Intuitive practice and theoretical framework. HTV de IJsberg
2009  Ivan Grubanov: Artist as an agent of change. HTV de IJsberg
2009  Curatorial Contradiction- interview with Dieter Roelstraete. HTV de IJsberg
2009  Limeni pas u suturenu, poems, Odgovor, art journal


Other
Now
Lecturer and tutor, Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands
Founder, Urgent Matters / Srettam Tnegru, an initiative for art, research and critical reflection, since 2015 
Member of the Supervisory Board, ONSBank 


Before
Researcher, Atelierbeleid, Platform BK 
Guest speaker/lecturer at ArtEZ University of the Arts, HKU, University of Amsterdam- Master Artistic Research, Academia del' Arte Italy, performance festival FLAM, Amsterdam
Organiser of the symposium: Tot elkaar veroordeeld? - Friendly Enemies in the arts- with de Appel, Arti et Amicitiae and H401
Adviser at the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts 
Member of CAWA, committee for artist studios and art spaces in Amsterdam
Contributing editor at HTV De IJsberg