Jelena Micić

Jelena Micić (Knjaževac, 1986) lives and works in Vienna as an artist and artistic director of the WIENWOCHE Festival for Art and Activism.
Micić received a Master’s degree at the Department of Textual Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2020), holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy (2013), and a graduate degree in Scandinavian languages and literature (2010) from the University of Belgrade.
Micić’s artistic practice includes ready-made installations and in situ interventions exploring the socio-political aspects of color (systems). Micić received the “Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos” Award (2021), the Ö1 Talentestipendium Bildende Kunst scholarship (2018), and the kültüř gemma! Fellowship (2018).
Co-curated exhibitions include Multiple Singularities, xhibitE, Vienna (2020) and Balkanization, Friday Exit, Vienna (2016). Micić is currently working on Red Museum, exhibition which will open at the Vienna City Museum, MUSA Startgalerie, Vienna in 2025.
Solo exhibitions (selection): Sala uzoraka, Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade (2022/23); Crvena analiza, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade (2022); Alles in Ordnung, Wien Museum, MUSA Startgalerie, Vienna (2021); Moleraj, Temporary Parapet, Bratislava (2019), and Anekumena, DOB Gallery, Belgrade (2016).
Public collections: Museum of the City of Vienna, Collection of the City of Vienna, Federal Collection (Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Republic of Austria), Paper Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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