PhD. Suzana Milevska is a theorist and independent curator based in Skopje, North Macedonia. Her work engages with postcolonial critique, feminism, ecofeminism, institutional critique, and the representational regimes of hegemonic power, particularly as they intersect with art and visual culture. She places a strong emphasis on community-based projects carried out in solidarity with marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
From 2016 to 2019, she was the Principal Investigator of the Horizon 2020 project Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages through the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production (TRACES). She also curated the project’s concluding exhibition, Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects, at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
In 2013, Milevska was appointed the first Endowed Professor of Central and South Eastern European Art Histories at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2013–2015). She holds a Ph.D. in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in 2004.
She has curated numerous international exhibitions, including The Renaming Machine (2008–2011), Roma Protocol (Austrian Parliament, Vienna, 2011), and Call the Witness (BAK, Utrecht, 2011). She also initiated the project Call the Witness – the Roma Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
In 2012, Milevska received the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory. Her publications include Gender Difference in the Balkans (2010), The Renaming Machine: The Book (2010), On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (2016), and Participatory Art: A Paradigm Shift from Objects to Subjects (2024).
