projects & lectures

Selection of notable projects

STREET ART WALKS BELGRADE (STAW BLGRD, 2016-today)

• Co-founder, Researcher, & Guide
• Conducted over 50 lectures and tours annually on street art, graffiti, murals, and history of Belgrade, in collaboration with Ljiljana Radošević and Street Art Belgrade.
• Research and write pieces on contemporary street art in Belgrade, Serbia, and Podgorica, Montenegro.

KUSTOSIRANJE / ABOUT AND AROUND CURATING (2011-2017, on hiatus)

• Launched the About and Around Curating / Kustosiranje educative and research curatorial project focused on younger art professionals together with Andrej Bereta.
• Created and delivered three curatorial programs, five exhibition projects, and an academic course.
• Directed a conference and publication for the Serbian Ministry of Culture to highlight Serbia’s art colonies and residencies.

CULTURAL INNOVATORS NETWORK & projects (2012-2017):

• Culture Open Source project & forum (2017). Part of the Research Working Group with Reem Khedr and Shaimaa Atef: Euro-Mediterranean region’s cultural networks and participatory practices.
• Trans-Cultural Dialogues (2012-2017). With TCD team. Location: Algiers, Maghreb; Euro-Mediterranean region.
• Infiltri – street art project & archive (2012-2014). With Infiltri team. Locations: Euro-Mediterranean region.

THEY: LIVE – Student lives revealed through context-based art practices (2020-2021)                      

• Archivist for the Institute for Contemporary Art on the project They: Live – Student lives revealed through context-based art practices, maintaining the Topoteka online archive page.
• Coordinator, organizer, and jury member of Artist in residence open call for artists and curators.

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Lectures

• “Plants, insects and art: Mary Foley Benson‘s scientific illustrations from UC Davis collections.” Pence Gallery: Art History Lecture Series, Davis, CA, 01/2023.
• “Science Fiction Belgrade: Aleksa Gajić & Enki Bilal“, as part of Beokon Festival 2018, Dom Omladine Beograda, 11/2018.
• As part of the About and Around Curating / Kustosiranje project and course, with Andrej Bereta (from 2012-2014):
  • “The Definition and Activities of the Curator”,
  • “Curatorial Practices”,
  • “The Context of an Artwork (Damien Hirst’s Shark)”,
  • “Expanded Media: Video Art (exhibiting and documenting)”.
• “¿Cómo se puede exhibir la música?” Instrumentos tradicionales del África del Oeste: kora”, Casa Hankili África in Mexico City, 12/2015.
• In cooperation with Yugoslav film archive Kinoteka, studio for digital and electronic media Vlada Petrić (program ed. Borislav Stanojević, director of Kinoteka’s library), presentations and mini film cycles:
  • “Afrička muzika kroz dokumentarce” (African music through documentaries), 03/2012;
  • “Vilijam Kentridž: fragmenti sećanja postkolonijalne Južne Afrike” (William Kentridge: Postcolonial South Africa’s fragments of memory), 12/2011;
  • “Hajao Mijazaki: konstruktor svetova – budućih i prošlih” (Hayao Miyazaki: the constructor of future and past worlds), 05/2011.
• In cooperation with Belgrade Book Fair, Comic Book venue (Strip sala, program ed. art historian and comic theorist Draško Roganović):
  • lecture “Prošireno polje stripa Alekse Gajića” (Aleksa Gajić’s comics in the extended field), 10/2013;
  • “Naušika iz Doline vetra: Mijazakijeva ekološka postapokaliptična distopija” (Nausicaä of the Valley of wind: Miyazaki’s ecological post-apocalyptic dystopia), 10/2011.
• Lectures on South African artist William Kentridge:
  • “William Kentridge: Anything is possible”, MUAC (with Sofía Olascoaga), Mexico City, 06/2015;
  • “Vilijam Kentridž: umetnost sećanja” (William Kentridge: the art of remembrance), history seminar, summer camp at Petnica science center, 07/2011;
  • “Vilijam Kentridž: umetnost sećanja” (William Kentridge: the art of remembrance), Student’s Cultural Centre (ed. of Forum+ program Bojana Pokrajac), 02/2011.