Tatjana Macic
Visual artist, writer, theoretician
Born in Nis in former Yugoslavia, now Serbia. Living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
EDUCATION
2009-2011
MFA Master Theory and History of Contemporary Art (cum laude), University of Amsterdam
Research thesis: pioneering research about how the shift of paradigms and social turbulence influences curatorial strategies and trajectories -while taking into account field theory by Bourdieu and rhizome theory by Deleuze and Guattari.
2007-2009
Pre-Master Theory and History of Contemporary Art, University of Amsterdam
Research thesis Social- political turn in the early works of Marina Abramovic
2004
Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, Dutch Ministry of Culture, Education and Science
1999
New Media Expert,
Utrecht School of the Arts
1992-1994
Bachelor of fine Arts, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts - AKI, Painting and Drawing
1988-1990
Art school 'Djordje Krstic', Nis, Yugoslavia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND RESEARCH SELECTION
2016 -
Feeling Space (working title)
Research about monuments in public space in Amsterdam, focusing on the spatial, performative and the ritualistic
value of the public space. The underlying themes of interest are performativity of neo-colonialism, race and gender in public space.
2012 -
Unfolding Now
An on-going interdisciplinary research in which visual art is regarded primarily in the context of space, text and politics of signifiers of power.
2009
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Memories, Stories and Invisible Treasures
2009
Red Line, research project in public spaces in Eastern Europe
2004
Gallery Arttra, Amsterdam, NL
1998
Culture Centre de Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS SELECTION
2019 From the archive: Interlude No.17, Tate Modern, London, UK
2018 Thinking Bodies: Massage in exchange for a story, de Appel, Amsterdam
2018 The Capital Time Machine, Bucharest, Romania
2018 Alternative Facts, Stuttgart, Germany
2017/8 The Wrong, New Worldwide Digital Art Biennale, Sao Paolo
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 Performance lecture The Impulse to Write Images, The International Conference on Artistic Research
2016 Performance lecture Performing Crisis, Crisis Art Festival, Italy
2016 Kunst10Daagse, Bergen aan Zee, The Netherlands
2016 Performance lecture The Impulse to Urgent, Brainwash Festival, Schouwburg, The Hague, NL
2016 Digital God, digital art instalation, Bring Your Own B, The Wrong - New Worldwide Digital Art Biennale
2015 Jubilee exhibition, Arti et Amicitiae 1945-2015
2015 Salon, Arti et Amnicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2014 OLE.01 Internazionale della Literatura Electronica, the Royal Palace, Naples, Italy
2014 Solidarnost, Galeria Tvrdjava, Nis, Serbia
2014 Vakantiewerk, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2013 New Horizons, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Sintici, FAD, Barselona, ES
2012 Snapshots Balkan Film Festival, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Museum collection on the street, an intervention in public space, Museum Hilversum, NL
2011 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MOCA), USA
2011 Cabinet Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Mecena Prize Circus, De Nieuwe Liefde, University of Amsterdam, NL
2010 Kunst Vlaai, The Evolution of Spectacle, Westergasfabriek Amsterdam NL
2010 White on White, Master Piece auction, De Zwarte Ruyter, Rotterdam, NL
2009 53rd Venice Biennale Eventi Collaterali, Virtual Mercury Poetry Shuttle Landing on Second Life, curator Catarina Davinio
Performance in virtual space
2007 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art (LACDA), USA
2006 Artist Project Space de Overslag, Eindhoven, NL
2006 Centre for Contemporary Art, Negotin, SRB
2006 Artist Initiative Het Voorbeeld, Amsterdam, NL
2005-06 Scryption Museum, Tilburg, NL
2004-05 Club 11 at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Curator: Sandberg Institute- One Minutes
2004 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2004 Cultural Centre The Hague and Art Centre Utrecht, NL
2003 Grote Industriële Club, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Cultural Centre Kunstzaak, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Former Museum of Dutch Shipping, Rotterdam, NL
2001 The World Art Collection travelling trough Nederland, Korea and Japan
2001 New Holland Festival, Amsterdam, NL
1999-2000 Allard Pierson Museum, Animation film Myths, people and music, NL
1996 Royal Dutch Institute of the Tropes, Amsterdam, NL
1995 In Jezuitov, Cultural centre, Poznan, PL
1995 De Villa Project Space, Enschede, NL
1995 Artists Project space Klopjeshuis, Borne, NL
1994 Overlevingspakket (Survival gear), Art Centre, Enschede, NL
1994 GATE Foundation Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
1994 Academy of Fine Arts and Design AKI, Enschede, NL
1993 Amazone, feminist art gallery, Amsterdam, NL
1990 Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2009 Vratna, Negotin, RS
2006 Artist Projectspace De Overslag, Eindhoven, NL
TEACHING AND OTHER EXPERIENCE
2014-now
Tutor Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
2016-now
Head of Research and Discourse (with Maarten Cornel), Royal Academy of Art,
The Hague, NL
2018
Teacher Exhibition Research Lab, Lectorate Art Theory and Practice, Royal Academy of Art The Hague and Leiden University
2017
Teacher Exhibition Research, Lectorate Art Theory and Practice, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
2016-now
Researcher Artist' Studio Policy (Atelierbeleid) at Platform BK
2016
Teacher Exhibition Research Workshop, Lectorate Art Theory and Practice, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
2014/15/16
Chair of the Jury, Thesis Award, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2016
Re-under-standing Artistic Research, Conference on Artistic Research, ArtEZ University of the Arts
2015
Guest tutor Utrecht School of Arts (HKU), Utrecht, NL
2015
Guest lecturer University of Amsterdam Master Artistic Research
2015
Guest lecturer at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2014
Guest lecturer, Artist as a Writer, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2013
Organiser of the symposium, Tot elkaar veroordeeld? - Friendly Enemies in the arts- together with Ann Demeester (de Appel) and Lars Ebert (Castrum Peregrini). Panel members: Maria Pask, Frederique Bergholts, Maria Barnas, Danila Cahen, Alexander Mayhew, Popel Coumou and Tatjana Macic. The symposium was a collaboration of de Appel, Castrum Peregrini and Arti et Amicitiae
2010-2013
Adviser, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
2012-2105
Member of advisory committee for artistic vision, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2008-2013
Member of CAWA, committee for artist studios and art spaces in Amsterdam
(Commissie voor Ateliers en Woon/Werkpanden in Amsterdam)
2012-2014
Member of admission commission, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2012
Panel member, round table conversation for performance festival FLAM in Amsterdam
With Marco Paolo Rolla and Natasha Ginwala.
2012
Lecturer, Forms of ownership former Yugoslavia', de Meent, NL
2008 - 2012
Contributing editor and final editor at HTV De IJsberg, art magazine.
Collaborated for different issues with various artists and institutions i.e. Jan van Eyck Academy, de Appel and Incubate Festival.
2008
Jury member Uppergroundfestival / art prize for young talent, Amsterdam, NL
An award for the young artists from master institutes in the Netherlands Jan van Eyck Institute, Arnhem Fashion Academy, Sandberg Institute etc.
2007
Researcher and visualiser, project Future perspectives, University of Maastricht and TU Delft, NL
2005
Board member, Techinika Tien Amsterdam (feminist foundation for promoting interest in science in young woman), NL
2003
Advisor, member of cultural diversity committee, Phoenix Foundation in Rotterdam.
2000
Guest teacher Utrecht School of the Arts, NL
ACADEMIC AND LITERARY PUBLICATIONS
2016
The Impulse To Write Images,
The Internation Conference on Artistic Research
2013
Positioning the Art Gallery, book review in Tubelight, in Januari / Februari 2013
2012
Artistic avant-gardes and the great shift - the psychoanalytical model of Hal Foster, in: Odgovor, art journal, RS
2011
MFA Research thesis: Curatorial practices in The Other Europe - Critical
analysis of curatorial practice in turbulent times, Library of the University of Amsterdam
2010
Dusan Rodic, short critical essay, catalogue Gerrit Rietveld Academy
2010
Performance interrupted: death and the other fabulous nonsense, HTV de IJsberg, NL
2009
Abject performing body, virtual palm trees and mental pictures. HTV de IJsberg NL
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, RS
2006
Short stories, publisher ALMA, RS
CURATING
2017
It is sort of a thing, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2016
Exhibition research exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2012/13/14
Nieuwe Leden, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2012/13/14
Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2009
Curator at Galeries.nl, online art archive, NL
Featured one artwork per day during month of October.
2004
Van Azerbeijan tot Stadskanaal,with Johan Breukhoven and in collaboration with AIDA Nederland, in Culture Centre Hague, Culture centre Utrecht and Arti et Amicitiae.
CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS
2016
Refugees, VU, Amsterdam
2011
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Books, New York and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MOCA), USA
2009
Virtual Mercury Poetry Shuttle Landing on Second Life, book and DVD, IT
2004
Van A tot S, catalogue with 35 posters, available at Nijhof and Lee, Amsterdam, NL
2001
The World Art Collection, Inter-Ko, Seul, Korea
2000
Agenda 2000-2001, Amnesty International
1995
Overlevingspakket, Enschede, NL
1994
Graduation catalogue, AKI, NL
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2014 Arti et Amicitae, travel grant, NL
2009 Ministry of Arts and Education, SRB
2006 Art Fund of Province Noord-Brabant of The Netherlands
1994 University Assistant Fundation Grant, NL
1994 First prize art competition, University Assistance Fund, NL
1993 Culture Fund, Municipality Enschede. NL
1992 Academy for Arts and Design, stipend, NL
1990 Young Talent Award, Art Schools Yugoslavia encouraging award, RS
1986 Young writers encouraging award, RS
PRESS SELECTION
2012 What Can Art Do For Real Politics? J. Warsza, Artur Zmijevski, 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
2009 TV interview, Art TV Negotin, SR
2006 City Radio Nis, program Kultura, interview, SR
1994 Volkskrant, interview, NL
Additional workshops, masterclasses and interests
2016 The spatial, the social and the sensorium, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2008 Masterclass 'Management in cultural diversity', at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
2008 Building Stones by Netwerk CS, Dutch Heritage (Erfgoed Nederland) and Dutch Ministry of Culture, Education an Science
2007 Legal liability of board members in Arts & Culture, by Mr. C.L. Koppenol
2006 Master class Sound and Movement, Artists Project Space de Overlsag, Eindhoven, NL
2004-06 Cultural Governance, Diversity in Art Governance, by PhD. Giep Haagoort, HKU/ Binoq - Atana
2006 Performing Arts in the Balkans, Dragan Klaic; European Culture Foundation
1995-97 Fancing, University of Twente, Fancingclub Gascogne
1988-89 Youth theatre ensemble Treca Polovina, Nis, Serbia
Member of
AICA Nederland, International Association of Art Critics
Atana / Binoq, network of board members in the Dutch Cultural Institutions