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Dr. Suzana Milevska is a visual culture theorist and curator from Macedonia. Currently she is Principal Investigator at the Politecnico di Milano (Horizon 2020, TRACES) and a curator of the exhibition Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects.http://www.traces.polimi.it/2018/10/10/traces-final-exhibition-contentious-objects-ashamed-subjects/

Her theoretical and curatorial interests are informed by deconstruction and postcolonial critique of hegemonic power regimes of representation, gender theory and feminist art. She engages in curating participatory, collaborative, and research-based art practices that focus on various issues as "participatory institutional critique", renaming as rewriting history, "reverse recuperation",commoning and community-based projects, art by Roma artists and other art projects invested in social change. From 2013 to 2015 she was the Endowed Professor for Central and South European Art Histories at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and she taught at the Visual Culture Unite at the Technological University in Vienna. She was a professor of history and theory of art at the Faculty of Fine Arts – University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje and in 2006 she initiated the Centre for Visual and Cultural Research at the Research Institute “Euro-Balkan.” She holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmith’s College. In 2004, Milevska was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Library of Congress.

Milevska continuously curates exhibitions that focus on different socio-political issues in art and advocate for social change. Since 1992 she curated over 70 local and international exhibitions and other interdisciplinary projects that investigate new formats of presentation and mediation of art. In her projects she includes different art media, artistic research, or discursive events (seminars, conferences, workshops), and her academic and curatorial research methodology combines art, academic education and life-long learning formats (summer schools, workshops, seminars). She was the initiator and curator of the Open Graphic Art Studio at the Museum of the City of Skopje (1997-2005) and was the national coordinator for the Istanbul Biennial (1994-1999). Her long term research and curatorial project The Renaming Machine (2008-2011), in collaboration with P74 –artist run space in Ljubljana focused on the politics of renaming, rewriting history and overwriting memory in art and visual culture. Milevska curated the Roma Protocol (Austrian Parliament, Vienna) and initiated Call the Witness, a project focusing on contemporary Roma artists (included Roma Media Archive and the exhibition at BAK Utrecht that was part of the Roma Pavilion, 54 Venice Biennial, 2011). In 2015 she co-curated with Alenka Gregorič the exhibition Inside Out – Not So White Cube (City Art Gallery, Ljubljana),https://mgml.si/en/city-art-gallery/exhibitions/287/inside-out/.

She lectured extensively in various renowned universities and art institutions among others at Columbia University in New York; Library of Congress in Washington DC; Oxford University in Oxford; Alvar Aalto University and KUVA in Helsinki; Royal Art Institute in Stockholm, Gothenburg University; Goldsmiths College, SEES and SOAS in London; SVAC-East Anglia University; Academy of Fine Art in Frankfurt; Vienna Technical University, University of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; Akademie der Kunst in Berlin; Oldenburg University; IUAV in Venice, The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, TATE Modern in London, Moderna Museet-Stockholm, KIASMA-Helsinki, MUMOK-Vienna, CAMK-Japan, etc.

Her publishing records range from critical reviews and theoretical texts in art magazines, peer reviewed academic journals and exhibition catalogues to chapters in academic publications and editing and publishing individual books.

In 2012, Milevska won the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.

Milevska’s publications include Gender Difference in the Balkans (VDM Verlag, 2010) https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Difference-Balkans-representations-contemporary/dp/3639200322/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539518558&sr=1-9&refinements=p_27%3ASuzana+Milevska, The Art of Tadej Pogacar https://www.amazon.com/Art-Tadej-Pogacar-Institutional-Recuperation/dp/3943620247/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539518558&sr=1-6&refinements=p_27%3ASuzana+Milevska, She edited (or co-edited) the readers The Renaming Machine: The Book (P.A.R.A.SI.T.E. Institute, 2010),http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/the-renaming-machine-the-book.html, On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (SternbergPress, 2016),http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1633&l=en&bookId=526, Inside Out – Critical Discourses concerning Institutions (co-edited with Alenka Gregorič, Spaces for Criticism (co-edited with Thijs Lijster, Pascal Gielen and Ruth Sonderegger)https://www.amazon.com/Spaces-Criticism-Contemporary-Discourses-Antennae/dp/9078088753/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539518443&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3ASuzana+Milevska.

Selected texts available online: https://www.p-art-icipate.net/infelicitous-participatory-acts-on-the-neoliberal-stage/ https://www.eurozine.com/authors/suzana-milevska/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/57/60425/galma-the-objet-petit-a-alexander-the-great-and-other-excesses-of-skopje-2014/ https://www.eurozine.com/participatory-art/ http://eipcp.net/transversal/1206/milevska/en

Chapters in: http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1564 http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1509&bookId=403&l=en http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1437&bookId=331&l=en

Intreviews, lectures, workshops: https://cummastudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/cummapapers3_milevska1.pdf https://institute.tuwien.ac.at/visual_culture_unit/visual_culture_module/archive/20142015/5_regime_des_visuellen/EN/ https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/global-photography-now-balkans https://vimeo.com/95716495 https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/graduate-school/salon-fuer-aesthetische-experimente/salon-fuer-aesthetische-experimente-2018/salon-fuer-aesthetische-experimente-9/ http://cz.tranzit.org/en/lecture_discussion/0/2014-07-17/suzana-milevska-the-impossibility-of-commoning http://www.worldofart.org/current/archives/115 https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/31945/suzana-milevska-and-ruth-noack-on-how-to-become-a-curator-at-the-academy-of-fine-arts-vienna/