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Nevena Delić was born in 1999 in Sombor, Serbia. She is a visual artist based in Belgrade and Berlin. After completing her undergraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts “Pietro Vannucci” in Perugia, Italy,  she pursued postgraduate studies at the Institute for Art in Context at the University of Arts Berlin (UdK). Her artistic work is strongly connected to her social positioning and her work as a mediator, curator, tutor, and tour guide. She explores various trajectories of knowledge production and dissemination, such as workshops, lecture-performances, delegated action, self-publishing, and archiving. Nevena is a member of the Skup Skupova research collective.

In 2023, she contributed as a curator to the 16th edition of the Kondenz Festival in Belgrade. She has realised projects as part of the BINA (Belgrade International Architecture Week) Residency programme in 2024, as well as the Škart residency for socially engaged arts in Tivat, Montenegro, also in 2024. That same year, she developed and led the workshop Kako reanimirati rad? / How to reanimate the work? in collaboration with Marija Mladenović - a workshop for artists and cultural workers focused on lost, undocumented, invisible, and marginalised work, as well as the perceived tension between work and labor. She has also performed and presented work as part of the Food for Thought programme at Galerie am Körnerpark in Berlin.  

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1. Zelena kutija / Green Box at KC Grad, Belgrade, 2023 (photo by: Marija Mladenović); 2. Research for Alati za urbana istraživanja / Toolkit for Urban Exploration, BINA Festival 2024, Belgrade; 3. Understanding City Growth, Exhibition at Bina Kabina, BINA Festival 2024 (photo by: Aleksandar Gazibara/Courtesy BINA) 4. Čekam papire / (untranslatable title) as part of Škart residency 2024 in Tivat, Montenegro (photo by: Duško Miljanić) 5. Do you want to know if you are a lapača? Lecture-performance, Sommerakademie Salzburg 2023 (credits: ©Summer Academy Salzburg, Mira Turba) 6. Ge:schichten audio walk at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin (photo by: Debora Caro Reyes)
Artist statement

I consider knowledge production and dissemination to be a fundamental part of my work. Drawing from my experience as a cultural mediator and tour guide, I question hierarchical methods in order to seek more horizontal and participatory approaches - the only way knowledge can truly serve as an emancipatory tool. 

My work often deals with issues of commodification and the role of the consumer - a topic that became especially urgent to me while living in New Belgrade, where the urban fabric is shaped by neoliberal and extractivist forces that stand in stark contrast to the socialist heritage and ideals on which the city was built. I use public space as a site of research, action, and contestation, and explore the role political imagination plays in negotiating our lived realities. Political imagination, understood as the ability to imagine otherwise, has become a vital tool for surviving what many describe as a period of corrupted collective imagination. Through my ongoing research, I explore the ideas of radical democracy, antagonism, and the commons as tools for speculating on futures to come.

The mediums I use vary both depending on material conditions and questions of accessibility. I mainly work with participatory formats, delegated performance, text, sound, installation, and formats such as workshops and lecture-performances. Collaboration is a particularly important aspect of my work, especially between artistic and non-artistic positions.

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