DARKO ALEKSOVSKI
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    • Music for Heartbreaks
    • Places for Daydreaming
    • Never Not In Love
    • Present Past Perfect
    • The Pink Series
    • Artists’ Archive: Darko Aleksovski
    • PP TALK
    • GROWING
    • Silver Lining
    • WHOLE CONTENT
    • FACTORIES
    • O. G. S.
    • Project Solidarity '63
    • Elegy for Ramno
    • Curatorville
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    • Listening to the Audience
    • In the Mind's I
    • Inbox 1
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Education
       MFA in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia
       BFA in Painting and Graphic Design, Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia
       Secondary School for Applied Arts. Skopje, Macedonia

Artist-in-Residence
2020 
       Instagram Residency Program - SCS Centar - Jadro. Skopje, North Macedonia (June)
2013 
       Deutsche Börse Residency Program - Frankfurter Kunstverein. Frankfurt, Germany (Aug-Oct)
2012
       bm:ukk Artist in Residence Program. Vienna, Austria (Oct-Dec)

Solo Projects / Exhibitions

2019
        Never Not in Love, PrivatePrint Studio. Skopje, Macedonia
2018

        Present Past Perfect, Faculty of Fine Arts' Gallery. Skopje, Macedonia
2017

        Artists’ Archive: Darko Aleksovski, Privateprint Studio. Skopje, Macedonia
2016

       Factories, NMG@Praktika. Split, Croatia
       GROWING, Privateprint Studio. Skopje, Macedonia
2015

       Silver Lining, published by Mark Pezinger Verlag. Vienna, Austria
       Sex Shop, exhibition by Simona Manceva, O.G.Studio. Skopje, Macedonia (collaborator)
2014

       Factories, published by Mark Pezinger Verlag. Vienna, Austria
2013

       Open Game Studio (together with Ivana Spiroska), Open Graphic Studio. Skopje, Macedonia
2012

       Inbox 1, Hirvitalo- Center of Contemporary Art Pispala. Tampere, Finland
       Home, Museum of the City of Skopje. Skopje, Macedonia

Performances
2013
       Elegy for Ramno (with Dragana Zarevska, Jasna Dimitrovska and Rebecca Chentinell).
       Stockholm, Sweden / Skopje, Macedonia
2011

       In the mind’s I, Performance by Warren Neidich, Faculty of Fine Arts. Skopje, Macedonia.       
       /AKTO 6, Festival for Contemporary Art. Bitola, Macedonia

Group Projects / Exhibitions
2020
       
To Be Together While Being Apart, SCS Centar - Jadro. Skopje, North Macedonia
2019
       Paying Attention (curated by Suzana Milevska), Akademie Graz. Graz, Austria
       Streetlight, Revisited, Roman Susan Gallery. Chicago, IL, USA
       Streetlight, Revisited, Wedge. Chicago, IL, USA
       Athens Art Book Fair. Athens, Greece
       MISS READ: Berlin Art Book Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, Germany
       It's Easier To Breathe Underground 7, Plochnik - Underground Parking Complex. Skopje, N. Macedonia
       A5 Magazine, Portfolio No. 31 October
2018

       XII Biennial of Young Artists: Would It Be Late, If Time Stopped?, Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje, Macedonia
       Portals, Museum of the City of Skopje. Skopje, Macedonia
       AIR4 [100 artists] [100 artworks], Ravnikar Gallery Space. Ljubljana, Slovenia (tba)
       ​I never read, Art Book Fair Basel. Basel, Switzerland (tba)
2017

       The Tokyo Art Book Fair 2017, Warehouse TERRADA. Tokyo, Japan
       ​C.A.R. - Contemporary Art Ruhr, Galerie Directors Lounge. Berlin, Germany
       Medienwerkstatt Screening 2017, Kino Central Berlin. Berlin, Germany
       Streetlight Series, Roman Susan Gallery. Chicago, IL, USA
       Acquisitions and Donations 2012- 2016, Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje, Macedonia
       Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection, Face to Face, BKC. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
       Reborn Pop-up Shop Vol. 2, BackYard Lounge Bar & Kids Area. Skopje, Macedonia
       Paratissima Skopje #4, Youth Cultural Center. Skopje, Macedonia
2016

       One Minute Films, The New Bohemian Gallery, Franklin Arts Center. Brainerd, MN, USA
       The Essence of Existence - Macedonian Contemporary Art, National Museum. Cetinje, Montenegro
       /'fu:bar/ glitch art expo, AKC Medika. Zagreb, Croatia
       Young Visual Artists from Kavadarci and Guests, City Museum Kavadarci. Kavadarci, Macedonia
       Imaginarium: Contemporary Video Art from Macedonia, Gray’s School of Art. Aberdeen, Scotland
       Free_art_-_glitch, Hibridni Grad. Karlovac, Croatia
2015

       No Reading, No Cry!, Open Graphic Art Studio- Museum of the City of Skopje. Skopje, Macedonia
       Late at Tate: Mememoji, Tate Britain. London, UK
       XI Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje, Macedonia
       Late at Tate: Pixelate 1910, Tate Britain. London, UK
       The Essence of Existence - Macedonian Contemporary Art, Lauba Gallery. Zagreb, Croatia
       The Essence of Existence - Macedonian Contemporary Art, Gallery Mala Stanica. Skopje, Macedonia
       Paratissima 11 - Ordine o Caos?, Torino Esposizioni. Turin, Italy
       Murals Veles, Public Space Painting in Veles, Macedonia
       Librarion Art-fanzin #2. Subotica, Serbia
       /'fu:bar/ expo, Siva Galerija. Zagreb, Croatia
       Exhibition 2, CONCEPT 37. Skopje, Macedonia
       Drim On 3, Festival for processing culture. Struga, Macedonia
       Imago Mundi - Macedonia: Transfiguring
       DocuTIFF 2015, Documentary Film Festival. Tirana, Albania
       IN OUT, Young Visual Artists from Kavadarci and Guests, City Museum Kavadarci. Kavadarci, Macedonia
       Meeting Point #1, Metanoja Literary Cafe. Skopje, Macedonia
       The Cultural Avocado, Project/Interview by NNNaughty People
2014

       55. Oktobarski Salon - Disappearing Things, The Museum of the City of Belgrade. Belgrade, Serbia
       1840s GIF Party - Late at Tate Britain February 2014, Tate Britain. London, United Kingdom
       All Glitched Up - BP Loud Tate: Code, Space at Tate Britain. London, United Kingdom
       Mark Pezinger works both ways - From Performance to Publication, Centre de Documentation, FRAC Provence Hautes-Alpes.
         Marseille, France

       Pen-Pal Project, collaborative project with students from ]a[ akademie der bildenden künste wien initiated by Suzana Milevska
       About Mark Pezinger at It’s Not Very Nice That - Politics in Contemporary Graphic Design, The Lighthouse. Glasgow, UK
       Source - Streetstyle, Tate Britain. London, United Kingdom
       Source - Street Photography, Tate Britain. London, United Kingdom
       Journal of (Dis)Satisfactions by Ludwig Kittinger, Galerie Ferdinanda Baumanna. Prague, Czech Republic (Contributor)
       DENES 2014, Young Visual Artists Award Exhibition, CAC Mobile Gallery. Skopje, Macedonia
       Short Films from ACTive Summer School, MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival. Skopje, Macedonia
       OSTEN Biennial of Drawing 2014, Osten Gallery. Skopje, Macedonia
       Visual Writing, Calligraphy and Typography Exhibition, Ciao Caffe. Veles, Macedonia
       Group exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists from Veles, City Gallery. Veles, Macedonia
2013

       I want to become a millionaire, project by Thomas Geiger. Vienna, Austria (Contributor)   
       About Mark Pezinger, collaborative artist book published by Mark Pezinger Verlag. Vienna, Austria.
       Biennial for Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje, Macedonia
       Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial. Ancona, Italy         
       DENES 2013, Young Visual Artists Award, MKC Gallery. Skopje, Macedonia  
       LOCOMOTION - Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance. Skopje, Macedonia
       ACTive, School for Creative Documentary Film. Prizren, Kosovo  
       Pravo Ljudski Film Festival. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
       The Visions of Siljan, Solo Exhibition by Matej Bogdanovski. Skopje, Macedonia (Contributor)
       Children Book Illustrations, Gallery KO-RA. Skopje, Macedonia                                                              
2012

       Pixelversity, research-based international project, transdisciplinary platform for experimental art, design, research and activism.
         Helsinki, Finland

       Listening to the Audience (International collaborative art project with Ivana Spiroska, Katerina Sokolova, Simona Manceva, 28
         volunteers from AKTO Festival and guests Tadej Pogacar, Uros Legen and SKART Collective. Initiated and curated by Suzana
         Milevska). Bitola, Macedonia

       bm:ukk Artist in Residence Program 2012, Group exhibition of all participating artists. Vienna, Austria
       The Use of Art Where it’s Hard to Talk, Mångkulturellt Center. Botkyrka, Sweden
       Small scale painting exhibition. Kocani, Macedonia
       Skopje Urban Stories, Central City Square. Skopje, Macedonia
       Tailor Made Knowledge Pavilion (Curator: Suzana Milevska), AKTO 7. Bitola, Macedonia
       The Great Cloth (together with Simona Manceva). White Night Skopje 2012, Skopje, Macedonia
       FRIK Festival 4. Skopje, Macedonia
       Young Visual Artists from Kavadarci and their Colleagues, Kavadarci, Macedonia
2011

       George Maciunas and beyond: Fluxus never stops, Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas,  Lithuania
       Nonbiennale, Online exhibition (http://www.webartcenter.org/nonbiennale/)
       In_treш, short movies festival, Pancevo, Serbia
       FRIK Festival, Macedonian video selection. Skopje, Macedonia        
       Garbage, Young Visual Artists exhibition. Kavadarci, Macedonia
       My City, My Stage!, photography exhibition, White Night. Skopje. Macedonia
       One Minute Film & Video Festival (special selection), Aarau, Switzerland
       Podmukli Proces (together with D. Zarevska and F. Jovanovski) AKTO 6, Festival for Contemporary Art. Bitola, Macedonia
       Migration to Europe: Can it Work for Development?, The Czech Council on Foreign Relations, Prague, Czech Republic / Brussels,
         Belgium

       Facing the Climate, Museum of the City of Skopje. Skopje, Macedonia
       Graduation Exhibition, Gallery Cifte Amam. Skopje, Macedonia
       Exhibition of the students in the final year, at the painting department, Gallery Suli An. Skopje, Macedonia
       30+1, Gallery Cifte Amam, Final annual exhibition of the graduate students from the Faculty of Fine Arts. Skopje, Macedonia
2010

       Small Scale, Group exhibition at the Faculty of Fine Arts. Skopje, Macedonia
       Exhibition at the Faculty of Fine Arts. Skopje, Macedonia
       White Night, video projections. Skopje, Macedonia
       White Night, street performance. Skopje, Macedonia
       GIGUK, Video Art Festival. Giessen, Germany
       Young Visual Artists, group exhibition. Kavadarci, Macedonia
       de: sonanz (festival for electronic music), background visualization for Cluster, Axiotomic and Tam Tam Delia. Skopje, Macedonia
       Facing the Climate, Suli An. Skopje, Macedonia
       Chocolate Auction, Exhibition with small-scale format sculptures made of chocolate, Macedonian Opera and Ballet. Skopje, 
         Macedonia

2009

       The Art of the Coffee, Group exhibition at Vittoria. Skopje. Macedonia
       Skopje REMIX, Gallery 7. Skopje, Macedonia
       Skopje Poster, the Museum of the City of Skopje. Skopje, Macedonia / Altan Klamovka Gallery. Prague, Czech Republic
       Group Painting at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet parking place (Non-existing)
       Exhibition at the Faculty of Fine Arts. Skopje, Macedonia
       Group Painting at ERA City, City Fair. Skopje, Macedonia
       Exhibition at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Skopje, Macedonia
2008

       Exhibition at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje

Workshops
2017
       Street Art: Historic, Social and Local Context, NGO Fokus. Veles, Macedonia (ongoing)
2016

       ​Stop Hate Speech, NGO SPPMD. Kavadarci, Macedonia
2014

       Visual Writing / Typography and Calligraphy Workshop, NGO Fokus. Veles, Macedonia
2012

       Studies of Yugoslavia, Reading group: Knowledge after Genocide - Subaltern Knowledge -  Group Spomenik, The Ignorant
         Schoolmaster and Its Committees (Milica Tomić and Branimir Stojanović), AKTO 7. Bitola, Macedonia

2011

       DIY Biotechnology, by Niki Sperou, SEAFair ’11. Skopje, Macedonia
       PRIVATE/PUBLIC: Ephemeral monuments. Skopje, Macedonia
       The Use of Art Where it is Hard to Talk. Ohrid, Macedonia
       ISA- International Summer Academy (Art Interventions in Public Space Workshop. Ohrid, Macedonia
       Comic book workshop, International Comic Book Salon. Veles, Macedonia
2010

       Facing the Climate. Skopje, Macedonia

Talks / Conferences
2018
       Regional Discursive Program: XII Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje, Macedonia
       Art Talk: The Art Market in Macedonia, Museum of the City of Skopje. Skopje, Macedonia
2016

       Artist Talk: Darko Aleksovski - Tvornice, NMG@Praktika. Split, Croatia
2013

       Artist Talk with Darko Aleksovski and Redmond Entwistle at Frankfurter Kunstverein. Frankfurt, Germany
2012

       IN/VISIBLE: The political and sexual regimes of the Archive, Gallery Cifte Amam. Skopje, Macedonia
       Virtuality Grand Tours, seven online conferences on topics of Virtuality, Social Identity and Augmented Reality (with Owen Kelly,
         Andrew Paterson, Sari Kivinen, Mikko Lipiäinen), Pixelache. Helsinki, Finland

Prizes / Grants
2014
       Young Visual Artist Award “DENES 2014” (nominee)
2013

       Jardin D’Europe- Co Production Grants 2012/13 for “Elegy for Ramno”
       Konstnärsnämnden: International Cultural Exchange Grants for “Elegy for Ramno”
       ​Kulturrådet: International Collaboration Project Grants for “Elegy for Ramno”
       Young Visual Artist Award “DENES 2013” (nominee)
2012

       European Cultural Foundation, Production Grant for Listening to the Audience
       Open Society Foundation Macedonia, Production Grant for AKTO Festival for Contemporary Arts
2011

       Dragisa Nanevski Award at AKTO 6, Festival for Contemporary Art, for the collaborative project In The Mind’s I, together with Suzana
         Milevska, Slobodanka Stevceska, Ivana Spiroska, Filip Rizov, Simona Manceva and Katerina Sokolova   

       Borko Lazeski Award, Faculty of Fine Arts- Skopje
       Frank Maning Annual Award for the best graduates in Architecture, Social Sciences and Arts
       ​Award for Artistic Achievement, In_treш, short movies festival, Pancevo, Serbia
2007

       The Annual Award for the best student from the Secondary School for Applied Arts in Skopje
       The Annual Award for the best copy for “Bacchus” by Caravaggio, from the Secondary School for Applied Arts. Cetinje, Montenegro

Publications
       Blackwood, Jon (2016) Critical Art in Contemporary Macedonia. Skopje: Mala Galerija.
       Kadin, Natasha (2019) NMG@PRAKTIVA: 2016. - 2018. Split: MAVENA - 36 njezinih čuda.
       Pavleski, Stanko (2013) Artistically through the Phenomenal 1-5: 2004/2013. Veles: City Museum Veles.
       Neidich, Warren (2013) The Noologist Handbook and Other Art Experiments (Edited by Suzana Milevska). Berlin: Archive Books.
       Veselinović, Dobrica i Stevanović, Mihailo (2012) Otvoreno o javnim prostorima. Beograd: Građanske Inicijative.

Collections
       Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje, Macedonia
       OSTEN Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia


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  • bio
  • works
    • Music for Heartbreaks
    • Places for Daydreaming
    • Never Not In Love
    • Present Past Perfect
    • The Pink Series
    • Artists’ Archive: Darko Aleksovski
    • PP TALK
    • GROWING
    • Silver Lining
    • WHOLE CONTENT
    • FACTORIES
    • O. G. S.
    • Project Solidarity '63
    • Elegy for Ramno
    • Curatorville
    • HOME
    • Listening to the Audience
    • In the Mind's I
    • Inbox 1
  • press
  • contact