Tatjana Macić was born in a country that no longer exists. She is a visual artist, writer and educator from former Yugoslavia, city of Niš, now based in Amsterdam.

She assembles found matter, vanished geographies and intergalactic leftovers - with critical care and humour - into body gestures, images and stories. Walking into her work, you might find a massage table surrounded by plants, time-travelling aliens speaking in performance language, archives singing micro-operas, or digital and physical artefacts given new attention. Her investigaitons take on various forms: science-fiction inspired performances (Intergalactic Pollinators), installations from discarded exhibition materials (Leftovers), interventions into curatorial language (Discourse Games), and lecture performances where theory is researched through the body (Performing Theory).

She has exhibited at Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, W139, Tate Modern and the Society for Artistic Research, among others.
In 2010 she became the first artist to sell a digital artwork at auction.
Between 2022 and 2024 she was a Research Fellow at the Lectorate Art Theory and Practice at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague, where she published the essay On Assemblage and organised the symposium Body as Proxy. Since is lecturer of Artistic Research and Exhibition Research Lab at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague.

She is the founder of Urgent Matters / Srettam Tnegru, an initiative challenging artistic conventions and the Leftovers initiative for exploring sustainable exhibition-making.

Macić holds a BA from ArtEZ University of the Arts and an MA cum laude in Theory and History of Contemporary Art from the University of Amsterdam.

Selected exhibitions
2026 Today is Tomorrow, Amsterdam
2025 Art et Amicitiae, Salon, Amsterdam
2023 Leftovers, W139, Amsterdam
2023 Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Die Angewandte, Vienna
2021 My Psychic Energy Zeitgeist And A Melody, biennale.no
2019 Intergalactic Pollinators, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2019 From the Archive: Interlude Nr.17, Tate Modern, London
2014 Museum collection on the street, Hilversum Museum
2009 Virtual Mercury Poetry, 53rd Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Venice

Selected publications
2024 On Assemblage, Royal Academy of Art The Hague
2020 Glob/c/al, Interdisciplinary, University of Amsterdam
2013 Positioning the Art Gallery, Tubelight
2011 Artistic Avant-Gardes and the Great Shift, Odgovor
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

Teaching and lectures
Macić is a regular invited speaker and guest lecturer at institutions including ArtEZ University of the Arts, HKU, the International Conference on Artistic Research, Academia dell'Arte Italy, and the University of Amsterdam.

Other roles
Macić is currently a member of the supervisory board at ONSBank. Previously she served as adviser for fine arts at the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (2010–2014), as a member of CAWA, the Amsterdam committee for artist studios and workspaces (2008–2013), and as contributing editor to HTV De IJsberg (2008–2012).

Contact
studio@artkosmika.com