Bojana Matejić

Prof. Dr. Bojana Matejić (born 1984) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts New Media Department, and at the Interdisciplinary Studies, Theory of Arts and Media Department, at the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she teaches Discursive Practices in Art and Media, Institutional Theory of Art, Cultural studies, Bio/Necropolitical Theory of Art, and Media theory. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Fine Arts, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Theory of Arts and Media from the University of Arts in Belgrade.  In 2015, with a Research Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, she completed her Belgrade University of Arts Ph.D. on the normative presuppositions of human emancipation in art theory/aesthetics of Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Lev Kreft. Ms. Matejić has published many articles in international scientific publications on the ESCI/AHCI list (Performance Research (London: Routledge), Third text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture (London: Routledge), Život umjetnosti: Journal for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture (Zagreb: Institute of Art History), Theoria (Belgrade: Serbian Philosophical Society), Philosophy and Society (Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory), Monitorish: Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Ljubljana: ISH), etc., and in books and other publications such as the three-volume History of Art in Serbia XX Century (Belgrade: Orion Art, 2012/2014), Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/mobility and Politics (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Left Performance Histories: Recollecting Artistic Practices from Eastern Europe (Berlin: nGbK, 2018), etc. In 2019, with a Research Scholarship from the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, she was a Guest Research Fellow at Leipzig University in Global Art History, hosted by Dr Beáta Hock. Research and Educative Projects: New Forms of Exceptionalism: Art and Necropolitics in the Age of COVID-19 (Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia and the Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade (2021-2022)). She is a PI4 for the WP5 scientific project Participatory Practices and Contemporary Art within the project EPICA – Empowering Participation in Culture and Architecture: Activating Local Resources for and with Community funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2021-2024). She has given numerous public talks, lectures, and presentations at conferences in the field of aesthetics, media studies, art history, and theory, such as in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Künstlerhaus Vienna, FLUSS – Society for Promotion of Photo and Media Art, Villa Romana, Florence, TU Dresden Germany, the Institute of Art History in Leipzig, GWZO in Leipzig, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, nGbK neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst in Berlin, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Shaanxi Normal University & Association of Media Studies and Literary Theory in Xián, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Villa Finaly Florence, etc. Her main research interests include contemporary theories of emancipation in art and aesthetics, bio- and necropolitical theory of art and media, post-socialist studies, participatory art, (East-)European Transnational Art History, French Structuralism, and Post-structuralism.