Tatjana Macić is a visual artist, writer and researcher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is deploying her artistic practice as an agency to blur the boundaries and explore the intersection between visual art, theory, exhibition-making, education and language. Her research resembles an alchemical laboratory, merging the miraculous and the theoretical. She works in a variety of media such as lecture-performances, installations, artistic archives, interventions in public space, painting, internet art and graphic novels. Her work poses an array of questions often revolving around rhizomatic points of departure regarding current and historical discourses. Amongst others, work has been shown at the Tate Modern, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Venice Biennale Collateral Events, The Wrong Biennale, KunstVlaai, and de Appel in Amsterdam. In her writing practice, she explores the innovation of language, the voice, science fiction and the power of the image in the context of language. She relates thereby poetry and prose to the visual language or to the spatial installations. She is a tutor and lecturer of artistic research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where she also teaches Exhibition Research Lab and heads Research & Discourse. She was a researcher at PlatformBK, an adviser for Amsterdam Art Fund and member of CAWA committee for artist studios and art spaces in Amsterdam. Recently Macić founded Urgent Matters / Srettam Tnegru - an initiative for art and research which questions conditions for artistic practice and critical thinking. Macić received a BA from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, and an MA, with honours, in Theory and History of Contemporary Art from the University of Amsterdam. In 2020, she was a recipient of a support grant from the Royal Academy of Art, to research possibilities of starting a PhD trajectory. Education The spatial, the social and the sensorium, University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2016 MFA Master Theory and History of Contemporary Art, cum laude, University of Amsterdam, 2009 / 11 Theory and History of Art, pre-master University of Amsterdam, 2007 / 09 Management and cultural diversity, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2008 Cultural Governance and management for board members, Binoq Atana, 2004 / 08 BFA Academy of Fine Arts and Design AKI, ArtEZ, 1992 / 94 Selected exhibitions and projects 2021 Dead Darlings auction, W139, 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 2006 Short science fiction stories, ALMA, Republic of Serbia Curating 2019 Ar Real As You Want, Royal Academy of Art, at the Research Catalogue 2018 The Middleman, Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands 2017 It is sort of a thing, Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands 2016 Exhibition research exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands 2014 New member exhibitions, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2013 New member exhibitions, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2012 New member exhibitions, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2004-2005 Co-curator, Van Azerbeidjan tot Stadskanaal, AIDA Nederland- de Association Internationale de Défense des Artistes Other 2014-now Tutor Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands 2015-now Founder, Urgent Matters / Srettam Tnegru, an initiative for art, research and critical reflection 2016-now Head of Research and Discourse (together with Marten Cornel), Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands 2016-now Exhibition Research Lab Tutor, Lectorate Art Theory and Practice, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts. 2018-now Member of the artistic committee at artist in residence airWG in Amsterdam 2016-2020 Researcher, Atelierbeleid, Platform BK 2016 Guest lecturer, ArtEZ 2014 Chair of the Jury thesis award, Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands 2015 Chair of the Jury thesis award, Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands 2016 Chair of the Jury thesis award, Royal Academy of Art, the Netherlands 2016 Speaker, Conference on Artistic Research, ArtEZ University of the Arts 2015 Guest tutor, Utrecht School of Arts 2015 Guest lecturer University of Amsterdam, Master Artistic Research 2015 Guest lecturer Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam 2014 Guest lecturer, Artist as a Writer, Royal Academy of Art 2013 Organiser of the symposium: Tot elkaar veroordeeld? - Friendly Enemies in the arts- with Ann Demeester, de Appel and Castrum Peregrini 2010 / 13 Adviser Fine Arts, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts 2012 / 15 Advisor, committee for artistic future, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2008 / 13 Member of CAWA, committee for artist studios and art spaces in Amsterdam 2012 / 14 Member, admission commission, Arti et Amicitiae 2012 Panel member, performance festival FLAM, Amsterdam 2012 Lecturer, Forms of ownership in former Yugoslavia', de Meent, Amsterdam 2008 / 12 Contributing editor at HTV De IJsberg Member of AICA. |