C.V.
SUZANA MILEVSKA
PhD, Goldsmiths College, Visual Culture
Born 1961, Bitola, Macedonia
Ruzveltova 46 a, I-5, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Tel. +44(0)2070873448, +38923228198
E-mail: suzanamilevska@yahoo.com
Research and curatorial interests:
representation of gender difference in photography, women’s art in transitional societies,
feminism and gender theory, psychoanalysis, socially and politically engaged art in Eastern Europe and
the Balkans.
EDUCATION:
2005
1993-1994
1979-1984
Ph.D. Goldsmiths College – University of London, London
MA at CEU College - Prague, in Art History, History and Philosophy of Art and
Architecture
B.A. at The Faculty of Philosophy, Art History Dept. at University
"Cyril and Methodius" – Skopje
Professional Associations and Boards:
From 2005
From 2005
2004 / 2005
From 2002
From 1994
IKT (International Association of Curators)
Feminist Review, London, UK
International Advisory Board of Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
IFUW (International Federation of University Women)
A.I.C.A. (International Association of Art Critic) member
TEACHING:
2003/2005
- Visiting Tutor, Course: Techniques and Technologies – Photography,
Goldsmiths College, Visual Cultures Department
- Visiting Tutor, Course: Framing Art: Museum and Galleries,
Goldsmiths College, Visual Cultures Department
- Visiting Tutor, Course: Curatorial Knowledge,
Goldsmiths College, Visual Cultures Department
CURATORIAL POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT:
2005
2004
1997-2005
1999-2000
Co-Curator of the International Contemporary Art Biennale - Prague, Czech Republic
National curator of Cosmopolis – Balkan Biennial, Thessalonica, Greece
Curator at the Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia
Curriculum and Director of the International Summer School “The Image of the Other”,
OSI/HESP, Skopje, Macedonia
GRANTS:
2004 – Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
2002 – 2004 – Overseas Research Student Grant
2001 – Getty Curatorial Research Grant
2000 – Getty Grant, Summer University, SIWAS Program at Sainsbery Center for Visual Arts,
University of East Anglia, GB
1999 - Arts Link Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, curatorial residence
1996-1998 – Research Support Scheme Grant – Prague
RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2004
2001
1999/2000
1996/1998
1993
Women Immigrants from the Balkans in the Early American Photography, Library of
Congress, Washington D.C. , Fulbright Senior Researcher Scholarship
Representation of Women in the Early Balkan Photography, Archives in Bulgaria,
Romania, Serbia and Macedonia, P. Getty Curatorial Research Grant
The Image of the Other - The Perception and the Representation of the Others, Skopje
Summer School, HESP/OSI Macedonia project
The Conceptualization of the Byzantine Heritage in the Contemporary Art in Macedonia,
Prague (Czech Republic), Research Support Scheme Grant
Photographs of Brothers Manaki, Skopje (Macedonia), National Film Archive
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Resistance That Cannot be Recognized as Such – An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak” in
Conversations With Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak, London: Seagull Press, 2007.
“Is Art History in the Balkans Global?” in Is Art History Global? Ed. By James Elkins, London: Routledge,
2006.
“Hesitations, or About Political and Cultural Territories” in Cultural Territories, Galerie für Zeitgenössische
Kunst, Leipzig, 2005.
“Curatorial Labyrinths in Macedonia”, Men in Black – Handbook of Curatorial Practice, Ed. Christoph
Tannert/Ute Tischchler, Kűnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2004.
“The portrait of an artist as a young ‘strategic essentialist’” in Tanja Ostojić - Strategies of Success / Curators
Series 2001-2003, La Box, Bourges and SKC, Belgrade, 2004.
“The Readymade and the Question of Fabrication of Objects and Subjects” in Primary Documents - A
Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s, The MOMA, New York, 2002.
Anthologie der Kunst in Kunst Nach Ground Zero, Herausgegeben von Heinz Peter Schwerfel, DuMont,
2002.
Capital and Gender, Ed. and forward by Suzana Milevska (Catalogue), Museum of the City of Skopje, 2001
“Electronic Art: Fetish or Gift” in The Absolute, The Desperate, The Real, Ed. by Marina Grzinić, Forumpark,
Graz, 2001.
“Cinderella Syndrome” in Future Perspective, Ed. by Marina Grzinić, Gallery Cettina, Umag, 2001.
‘From the Bat's Point of View’ in Eduardo Kac, Editors: Peter Tomaz Dobrila and Aleksandra Kostić, Kibla,
Maribor, 2000.
‘Stories about the Selves’ in Magnus Bärtås, Kunstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden, 2000.