Nevena Delić

I am an artist and curator, currently living in my home country - Serbia. My educational background is in the field of visual arts. I have completed my bachelor’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts “Pietro Vannucci” in Perugia, Italy. After that I have participated in numerous both formal and non-formal educational programmes, including Curating in Context in 2022 (a freestanding two-semester course organized by the Stockholm University of the Arts - SHK and Lokomotiva, Skopje), Towards non-Extractivist Curating, Epistemologies of the South and Curatorial Practice in 2022 (ZHdK), Feminist Studies programme in 2023 (a one-year programme organized by the Center for Women’s Studies, Belgrade), IMMA International Summer School ART&POLITICS no.5 Art and Assembly in 2023 (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Intercultural Icebreakers Serbia-Kosovo programme, ongoing (a residency programme for artists organized by the Helsinki Committee for human Rights - Belgrade and Artpolis - Prishtina).
My work experience includes cultural mediation, production assistance, curatorial assistance, gallery assistance, cultural management, grant-writing, public programming. I have decided to take up curating from a sense of urgency, a need to redefine where I stand in relation to the context, establishing new forms of sociability, new ways of thinking collectively and finding collective agency through micropolitical acts of resistance within a community. What interests me is thus the interstice between education, artistic and sociocultural practices; the idea that curating does not mean to produce and display value, but to rearrange and rethink how value is distributed, received, and perceived. What excites me is the idea of working as a facilitator/stimulator, as a “connective tissue”, operating along the lines and intersections of producing, generating and mediating knowledges, experiences and dialogues, speculating and denaturalizing the inherited and hegemonic ways of thinking and seeing.