Nada Prlja is a visual artist, her main aim is to affect society in the most direct of ways; it challenges critical discourse around issues of current politics, nationalism, transition of ex-socialist countries, human rights, migration, etc. Prlja’s work adopts a site’s context specific quality or certain kind of social conditions, which may vary from project to project in the choice of media deemed most appropriate.
Prlja was born in 1971 in Sarajevo. Most of her life she lived in Skopje and London. She currently lives and works between Copenhagen, Skopje and London. Prlja received an MPhil research degree from the Royal College of Arts, London (2002), after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje (1997) in Skopje.
Prlja represented the Pavilion of the Republic of North Macedonia at 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. She took part in 10 biennials, between which most relevant are 18th Tallinn Print Triennial (2022), Baltic Triennial 14 (2021), Innsbruck International Biennial (2020), IV Bienal del Fin del Mundo de Arte Contempor oraneo, Chile/Argentina (2015); 5th Moscow Biennale, (Film Program) Moscow (2013); 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2012), Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010) and 28th International Printmaking Biennale, Ljubljana (2009).
Prlja received an MPhil research degree from the Royal College of Arts, London (2002), after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje (1997), and previously from the National High School of Fine Art both in Skopje, North Macedonia. (1989).
Selected solo exhibitions: FUTURA, Praha (2017); Lakeside Kunstrum, Klagenfurt (2010), MC Gallery, Zagreb (2009), The Museum of City, Vzigalica, Ljubljana (2009), Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (2019/08), National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje (2007), etc.
Selected group exhibitions: White Cube, London; Calvert 22 Foundation, London (2013); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2012); Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Lodz (2011), INIVA Institute of International Art, London (2009), David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2009), Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2009), Tina B – Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (2008), Hong-Gah National Museum, Taipei (2008), Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2008), etc.
Prlja’s main interest is art in the public domain. Her recent public interventions were for Innsbruck International Biennial in 2020, the 7th Berlin Biennale (2012), ORF FUNKHAUS, Vienna (2009), Marble Arch Gate, London (2007), etc. The practice-based research thesis, entitled ‘Blurring the Boundaries between the Artist and the Viewer as Conditioned by the Changing Concept of Art Space’, gained Prlja a Master of Philosophy of Arts Diploma at Royal College of Art, London. (MPhil by project, thesis 27.000 words).
Prlja has maintained a successful professional artistic practice since 1998, while she is also curated exhibitions. She was Artistic Director of In Situ Art Far in 2015, art fair for young artist with more than 10.000 visitors during three days of the fair. Between 2014 and 2018 she was a co-director and program coordinator of SIA Gallery in Skopje, North Macedonia. From 2005 to 2013, she was full time senior university lecturer in different London universities, such as full time senior tutor Istituto Marangoni Fashion, Art and Design and a visiting lecturer at the Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design and at London Metropolitan University all in London.
Prlja engaged with curatorial practice in a number of ways, including in relation to establishing and co-running an independent art project space. Prlja was an initiation, co-direction and program direction of SIA gallery with Daniel Serafimovski (architect and senior lecturer at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) in 2014 in Skopje, with the intention of supporting the North Macedonia cultural scene, as well as promoting cultural exchanges with other countries. SIA has collaborated with numerous local cultural workers, including local artists who are established on international level.
Prlja was a Board Member of Open Space – Open System, Vienna, Austria from 2008-2010.
Prlja’s work has also been reviewed in numerous books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers. In addition, she have taken part in numerous seminars, conferences and artist talks, for example at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; ICA, London; INIVA Institute of International Art, London; Tate Britain, London; University College of London (UCL), London; University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen; Goldsmith University, London, etc.
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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2000-2003 Royal College of Art, London, UK – MPhil, Master of Philosophy (Research Degree by Project, 2 year programme), Supervisor: Al Rees, Thesis Title: ‘Blurring the Boundaries between the Artist and the Viewer as Conditioned by the Changing Concept of Art Space’. 35 000 words.
1991-1997 Academy of Fine Art, Department of Printmaking, Skopje, Macedonia Director of Studies: Professor Zoran Jakimovski, Diploma Thesis and Exhibition: ‘Scenes from a School Life’. The thesis was supported by a presentation/exhibition at the Academy of Fine Art:
1986-1990 School of Applied and Fine Art, Department of Printmaking, Skopje, Macedonia. (A Level, 4 years program)
INTERNATIONAL BIENIALLS
// Innsbruck International Biennial of the Arts
Title: Human Capital
Curators: Tereza Kotyk and Chris Clarke
Different locations in Innsbruck, Austria (2020)
Representative of The Republic of North Macedonia
Palazzo Rota Ivancich (2019)
/ Berlin Biennial 7, title: Forget Fear
Curated by Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Warsza
Public Art project, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany. (2012)
/ MANIFESTA 8 – Manifesta, European Biennial of Contemporary Art
Curators Chamber of Public Secrets (Khaled Ramadan and Alfredo Cramerotti)
MUBAM, Museum of Beatiful Arts, Muricia, Spain. (2010)
/ 28th Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art
title: THE MATRIX: AN UNSTABLE REALITY
Curators Alenka Gregoric and Bozidar Zrinski, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (2009)
/ 5th Moscow Biennale, (Film Program), title: More Light
Curators: Catherine de Zegher, Alexandre Kauffman, Olga Shishko,
Manage, Museum of Screen culture Manage MediaArt, Moscow, Russia (2013)
/ a.) 4th Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Title: Contrastes y Utopias
Curator: Zoran Patrovski (selection of Macedonian artists)
Casa del Puente, Mar del Plata, Argentina (2014)
/ b.) 4th Bienal del Fin del Mundo (stage2), Title: Contrastes y Utopias
Curator: Zoran Patrovski (selection of Macedonian artists)
Valparaíso, Chile (2015)
/ Art Biennial Varna, title: August in Art
Varna, Bulgaria (2008)
/ 9th International Biennale of Miniature Work
Cultural Center Gornji Milanovac, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
ADAN in City of Fire, Curator: Jovanka Popova, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, N. Maqcedonia (2019)
Strategies of Undoing, Collaborative exhibition Nada Prlja and Daniel Serafimovski, Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft, Denmark (2018)
Double Feature # 4, Collaborative exhibition by Nada Prlja and Nikolin Bujari, Curator Adela Demetja, Tirana Art Lab, Tirana (2016)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being an Artist, Curators: Michal Novotný and Klára Adamcová. FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Praha, Czech Republic (2013)
Wild and Cultivated Fruits Market, Curator Christian Kravagna. Lakeside Kunstrum, Klagenfurt, Austria (2010)
Bad News Project (Intervention in the daily newspaper DELO, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Curator Alenka Gregoric and Bozidar Zrinski, Newspaper Intervention initiated and curated by curators of the Ljubljana International Printmaking Biennial of Graphic Art, Daily newspaper DELO, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2009)
Should I Stay, or Should I Go?, Curator Ksenija Baronica, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (2009)
Should I stay, or should I go?, Curator Zoran Petrevski, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia (2008)
Advanced Science of Morphology (Public Art Project, organised by Erste Bank Art Collection), Curator Walter Seidl, ORF FUNKHAUS TV and Radio Station, Vienna, Austria.
/ International Baroque
Curated by Mara Vujic, The City Museum of Ljubljana, Vzigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2007
/ The Little Match Seller, or ‘Merry Europe’
European Commission in the UK, London, UK.
/ Give and Take, Estate Agency
Collaborative exhibition by Nada Prlja and Nemanja Cvijanovic
Curator Sophie Hope (B+B Curatorial Partnership), Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK.
/ Globalwood
Curator Ana Frangovska. National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia.
2006
/ Advanced Science of Morphology
(Public Art Project, organised by B+B Curatorial partnership
and Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK)
Curator Sophie Hope from (B+B Curatorial Partnership), Marble Arch Park, London.
/ Advanced Science of Morphology
(Public Art Project, Walking Performance from solo exhibition at
Marble Arch to group exhibition at Space Gallery, London, UK, project supported
by Austrian Cultural Forum, London)
Curator Sophie Hope (B+B Curatorial Partnership), Marble Arch Park to Hackney, London.
/ Advanced Science of Morphology. (project suspend due political conflicts)
Curators: Sophie Hope (B+B Curatorial Partnership) and Nemanja Cvijanovic, supported
by Jolanda Todorovic (City of Rijeka) and Austrian Cultural Forum,
Titov Trg, Rijeka, Croatia.
/ Advanced Science of Morphology
(Public Art Project, Walking Performance in Zagreb)
Curator: Sophie Hope (B+B Curatorial Partnership), supported by Austrian
Cultural Forum, London. Mamutica and other public locations, Zagreb, Croatia.
/ REPLICAS
Curator: Lucy Newman Cleeve, Man and Eve Gallery, London, UK.
2005
/ Agency for Serious Interests
Organiser: Iskra Gesoska and Elena Veljanovska, Tocka Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia.
1997
/ Walking on Water According to Dr.Knaipp
(Site Specific Art project in Center for Rehabilitation in Skopje)
Curatorial Text: Zoran Petrevski, project supported by SOROS Center, Macedonia.
Centre for Physical Rehabilitation, Skopje, Macedonia.
/ Angels and Insects
Academy of Fine Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
/ Remastered – The Art of Appropriation
Curator: Verena Gamper, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
/ From Diaspora to Diversities
Curator: Miroslav Karic, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro
2017
/ Acquisitions and Donations
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
/ Sculptural (Public Art projects around MSU)
Curator: Zoran Petrovski. Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
2016
/ From Diaspora to Diversities
Curators: Miroslav Karic and Janka Vukmir.
Festival KRIK 2, National Gallery of Macedonia – Daut Pashin, Skopje, Macedonia.
/ In Search of a Common Ground
Curators: Ana Frangovska and Bojana Shemova. Youth Cultural Center, Skopje, MK.
Curators: W.J. van Gerven Oei, Stefano Romano, and Ardian Isufi
FAB Gallery, Tirana, Albania
/ Imaginarium: Contemporary Video Art from Macedonia.
Curator Jon Blackwood. Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, UK
/ In Search of a Common Ground #2
Curators: Ana Frangovska and Bojana Janeva Shemova. Halle 50, Munich, Germany
/ Focus former Yugoslavia and Albania
Curator Adela Demetja. Viennacontemporary art fair, Vienna, Austria
/ IBCT/If buildings could talk (together with Daniel Serafimovski),
Curators: Faculty of things that can’t be learned, AKTO Festival.
Railway Workers Residential Complex, Skopje, Macedonia
2015
/ WAITING FOR RAVE. ANTICIPATION OF POSTHUMAN TIME
Curator: Pietro Gaglianò, Barchessa di Levante di Villa Manin di Passariano, Italy
/ Say what?
Curators: Gülsen Bal and Walter Seidl, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul
/ NATIONLESS? THE REFLECTIVE NOSTALGIA AND TRIVIAL AESTHETICS
Curator: Gorge Jovanovic. Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art, Greece
/ Where (not) to go?
Curator: Jovanka Popova (press to exit project space). MC gallery, New York, USA
/ Nationless: A Continuous Struggle
Curator: Gorge Jovanovic, Youth cultural center (MKC), Skopje, Macedonia
/ Imago Mundi Macedonia,
Curator: Anna Frangovska, Benetton Foundation Collection, Italy.
/ In Search of a Common Ground
Curators: Ana Frangovska Bojana and Janeva Shemova
Müasir İncəsənət Mərkəzi, Baku, Azerbaijan
/ Temporary spiritual remediation intimate urban re-vision, Skopje Urban Stories
(Public Art project in close proximity to the old building for Telecommunication)
Curator: Ana Frangovska, organised by Macedonian Artists’ Association Gallery.
/ NATION / EMANATIONS
Curator: Gorge Jovanovic, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia
/ In First Person
Curated: Maja Cankulovska Mihajlovska, National Gallery of Macedonia,
Mala Stanica, Skopje, Macedonia
/ In First Person, selection
Curated: Maja Cankulovska Mihajlovska, NU Museum, Magaze, Bitola, Macedonia
/ Transfiguring, one point of view on the Macedonian Contemporary Art
Curator: Ana Frangovska, České centrum, Pragha, Checz Republic
2014
/ Solidarity – An Incomplete Project?
Curators: Liljana Nedelkovska, Zaharinka Baceva, Marika Bocvarova
and Zoran Petrovski. Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Curator: Peter Lewis. Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Shuwaiheen, Arts Area, Sharjah,
/ The Art of Failure: Affective Aliens
Curator: Slavcho Dimitrov, Mala Stanica, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje.
/ Demoralized idealism
Curator: Anna Frangovska, Varg e vi – Center for Contemporary Art, Gjilan, Kosovo.
/ Generation XXX
Curator: Emil Aleksiev. Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia.
2013
Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, White Cube, London, UK.
/ Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
Curated by Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
/ …how is it toward the East
Curators Lilly Hill, Marina Doritis, with direction by Lina Dzuverovic
Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK
Curated by Miguel Amado, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, North Ireland
/ PASSPORTS – GLOBALISATION IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN VIDEO
Curated by Chris Clarke, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2012
/ Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
Curated by Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
/ Contested Territories
Curated by Miguel Amado, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA.
/ 90s – Macedonian Visual Arts 1990-2000: Euphoria
Curated by Zaneta Vangeli and Slavica Janeslieva, MKC, Skopje, Macedonia
2011
/ CONDENSATION
Curated by Daniele Capra, Borgo storico di Clauiano, Trivignano, Udinese, Italy
/ Loophole to Happiness
Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, AMT_Projects, Bratislava, Slovakia.
/ Škvíra ke štestí
Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, FUTURA Center, Praha, Czech Republic.
/ Loophole to Happiness
Curators Maja and Dr. Reuben Fowkes, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland.
2010
/ no ifs, no buts
Curators Gulsen Bal and Walter Seidle, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey.
/ Living Across, Spaces of Migration
Curator Christian Kravagna, x_hibit, Akademie der bildenden Künste,
Vienna, Austria.
/ Loophole to Happiness
Curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
/ Bless my homeland, I, too, will try to forget
Concept and Organisation Ioana Marinescu and Karoline Mayer
Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, Austria.
/ Unerwartete Wendungen
Curators Margarethe Makovec&Anton Lederer, Kunst Pavillion, Innsbruck, Austria.
/ BQ OFF Program, 3rd Quadriteral Biennial
Curator Ksenija Orelj, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.
/ Vinna Art Fair, Springering’s Artists
Organised by Hedwig Saxenhuber and Christa Benzer for
Springerin Magazine participation at Vienna Fair, Vienna Art Fair, Austria.
/ Unexpected Twists
Curators Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer,
<rotor> contemporary art association, Graz, Austria.
2009
/ Atitude 5 – 5th Video Art Festival
Curator Biljana Isianin, Various Bank Buildings, Bitola, Macedonia.
/ Studio Visit
Curators Andrea Bruciati, Stefano Coletto, Nemanja Cvijanovic and
Marco Tagliafierro, GC. AC Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy.
/ AT YOUR SERVICE
Curator Cylena Simonds, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
/ CRIME & PUNISHMENT – THE SEQUEL
Curator Predrag Pajdic, Kortil gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.
/ Inside Out
Curator Ana Frangovska, National Gallery of Macedonia, Mala Stanica, Skopje.
/ People Signs & Resistance, Investigating the front-line
Curator Predrag Pajdic, 198 Contemporary Art Gallery, London, UK.
/ Re-Branding Act Tina B – Prague Contemporary Art Festival
Curator Micaela Giovannotti, Different locations in Prague, Czech Republic.
2008
/ Dwelling Place, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition
Curator Yung-Hsien Chen, Hong-Gah National Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
/ Tit for Tat, Counter Images for Transcultural Thinking and Acting
Curators Margarethe Makovec and Anton Laden.
<rotor>, center for contemporary art, Graz, Austria.
/ Wie du Mir, Counter Images for Transcultural Thinking and Acting
Curators Margarethe Makovec and Anton Laden, <rotor>, center for contemporary art,,
Graz, Austria.
/ Stay here… Product, The Festival of Contemporary Art
Curator Gulsen Bal, National Museum, Varna, Bulgaria.
/ Four Macedonian Artists
European Commission in the UK, London, UK.
/ Vision in the Nunnery
Curators Tessa Garland, Cinzia Cremona and Darshana Vora,
Nunnery Gallery, London, UK.
/ H A C K. F e m. E A S T
Curators Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
/ Another City, Another Life
Curator Joanna Sokolowska, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
/ Breaking Lines – 6th Short Film Festival of Mostar
Cultural Centre Abraševic, Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina.
/ Temporary Zones
Curator Gulsen Bal, Open Space, Vienna, Austria.
/ Qbox Art Books
Curator Myrtia Nikolakopoulou, Qbox Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2007
/ OPTICA 2007 – Gijon International Festival of Video Art
Various Locations, Gijon, Spain.
/ White Nights – September Festival
Curator Biljana Peseva, Different locations in Skopje, Macedonia.
/ UNBOUND
Curator Predrag Pajdic, Contemporary Art Platform, London.
/ Inter-Faces
Curator Christina Steinbrecher, Soros Centar for Contemporary Art, Almati, Kazahstan.
/ Recognise
Curator Predrag Pajdic, Contemporary Art Platform, London.
/ Old Space, New Initiative
Curator Biljana Isianin, Magaze, Contemporary Art Center, Bitola, Macedonia.
/ BINARY CODE EMOTION Festival
Studentski kulturni centar, Beogradu, Srbia.
2006
/ Mine, Yours, Ours
Curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic & Davor Miskovic, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.
/ The Sweetest Dream: Unity and Dissonance in Europe
Curated by Sophie Hope (B+B Curatorial Partnership), SPACE gallery, London, UK.
/ Related Exhibitions to MPhil thesis at Royal College of Art:
The thesis was supported by four exhibitions, focusing on installation,
digital art and video art.
2003 / And Some Other Stories…, – Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK.
2002 / And Some Other Stories…, – Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK.
2001 / Wired Houses – Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA, London, UK.
2000 / Moving Houses – Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK.
1999
/ 1111 Portrait
Curated by Valentino Dimitrovski, organised by SOROS Center for Contemporary
Art, H’vzi Pashini Konaci, Bardovci, Skopje, Macedonia.
1998
/ SEA Fair’ 97, International Fair of Electronic Art
Curator: Melentie Pandilovski, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
/ Printmaking Experiment, Second Annual Exhibition
Curator: Suzana Milevska, Center for Graphic Art, City Museum of Skopje, MK.
/ Extension of the frame, New Macedonian Photography
Concept and essay: Sonja Abadzieva, Art Gallery Bitola, Macedonia
/ Extension of the frame. New Macedonian photography
Concept and essay: Sonja Abadzieva, Art Gallery Kumanovo, Macedonia
1997
/ CefCA Festival
Curator: Melentie Pandilovski, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, MK.
/ Printmaking Experiment, Printmaking Experiment First Annual Exhibition
Curated by Suzana Milevska, Center for Graphic Art, City Museum of Skopje, MK
/ Icon on Silver
Curated by Nebojsa Vilic and Milentije Pandilovski, Duplo Gallery, Skopje, MK.
CATALOGUES
2019 Subversion to Red, Catalogue for the project exhibited at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia, 178 pages in colour; 4 booklets, 2 inserts and 2 postcards. The cover, consisting of two separate sleeves, is made of cardboard, silk screen. The over all size is 30x21x1cm. The texts are by Jovanka Popova, Lina Djuverovic, Adela Demetja, Nada Prlja, Marika Bocvarova Plavevska, Boris Petkovski and Mira Gacina. Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje. The book was produced with the financial support of Ading/Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Farmahem, Skopje, with additional financial support by Daniel Serafimovski and Nada Prlja.
2010 Foreign Language for Beginners, Catalogue for the project exhibited at the Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain. (140 pp., A5, BW 67 and 170 colour illustrations), Essays by: Jan Verwoert, Florence Lazar, Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund, Nada Prlja, Published by Murcia Ministry of Culture. ISBN: 978-85-968-87-5
2008 Should I stay or Should I go, Catalogue for the project exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje. (140 pp., A5, 4 booklets, black and white) Essay and interview with Nada Prlja by Lillian Fellmann, Essay by Liljana Nedelkovska. Published by Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. ISBN: 978-9989-199-10-3
2007 Globalwood, Catalogue for the project exhibited in the National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia. (36pp., A5, colour) Essays by: Sophie Hope, Ana Frangovska, Interview with Nada Prlja by Michele Robecchi. Published by National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia. ISBN:9989-694-85-1
1999 Walking in a Water According to Dr. Knippe. Catalogue for the public project exhibited in the Center for Physical Rehabilitation, Skopje, Macedonia. (16pp., 21x21cm, colour). Essay by: Zoran Petroski. Published by SOROS Center for Contemporay Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
1997 1923, reacted. Second International Festival of Computer Arts New Bodies, Curator Milentie Pandilovski, Plecnik Library, Maribor, Slovenia and Kibla Center, Maribor, Slovenia.
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2016
Curatorated and organised: Nada Prlja and Daniel Serafimovski (SIA Gallery)
MOB – Macedonian Opera and Ballet, Skopje, Macedonia
Participants and collaborators: Violeta Bakalcev / Minas Bakalcev (architects), Ivan Blajev (photographer), Martin Guleski (architect) John Ivanovo / Vladimir Deskov / Smith-Deskova (architects), Vlatko P. Korobar (architect), Zoran Petrovski (curator), Dusan Percinkov (artist), Ilija Prokopiev (artist), Andriana Tilikj (photographer), Nicholas Uzunovski (artist), Mitko Hadzi-Puglia (architect), Bert rooms (writer), Dragan Hristov (fashion designer), Jane Chalovski (artist).
/ In Pursuit of the Impossible
Exhibition by Nikola Uzunovski, SIA gallery, Skopje.
Commissioned and organised: Nada Prlja & Daniel Serafimovski (SIA Gallery)
Exhibition by Zorica Zafirivska, SIA gallery, Skopje, MK.
Organised: Nada Prlja and Daniel Serafimovski (SIA Gallery, Skopje, MK.)
/ We read: people Co books, buildings like people
Exhibition curated by Ivana Vaseva and Filip Jovanovski, at SIA gallery, Skopje
Organised: Nada Prlja and Daniel Serafimovski (SIA Gallery, Skopje, MK.)
/ The politicization of the debris*
Exhibition: Kristina Bozurska and Zorica Zafirovska, SIA gallery, Skopje, MK.
Commissioned, curated and organised: Nada Prlja & Daniel Serafimovski (SIA Gallery)
2015
/ La Mystérique (Road to Mercy)
Exhibition by Hristina Ivanoska, SIA gallery, Skopje, MK.
Organised: Nada Prlja and Daniel Serafimovski (SIA Gallery, Skopje, MK.)
Exhibition by Alban Muja, SIA gallery, Skopje, MK.
Organised: Nada Prlja and Daniel Serafimovski (SIA Gallery, Skopje, MK.)
/ Prokrastinacija – Arts billboard
Co-curator: Nada Prlja, Selected artist: Velimir Zernovski, (Invitiation by curators
of the concept: Bojana Janeva-Semov and Anna Frangovska)
Organised by National Gallery of Macedonia – Daut Pashin, Skopje, Macedonia.
2014
Exhibition by OPA PROFESSIONAL, SIA gallery, Skopje, MK.
Curated, commissioned and organised: Nada Prlja (SIA Gallery, Skopje, MK.)
2009
Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, Minouk Lim, Tanja Ostojic and Khaled Ramadan.
Curator: Nada Prlja (invitation by Gulsen Bal, Open Space)
Open Space, Vienna, Austria (March 2009)
2009
Artists: Nemanja Cvijanović, Olgica Dimitrovska, Vesna Miličević, Nikola Uzunovski,
Škart and Žaneta Vangeli
Curator: Nada Prlja (invitation by THANK TV)
tank.tv, On-line exhibition
2006
/ AMBIVALENT TRUTHS, or The Last Geographically Defined Exhibition
Artists: Serbia (Ivan Grubanov), Macedonia (Zaneta Vangeli), Kosovo (Dren Maliqi)
Curator and organiser: Nada Prlja
Serious Interests Gallery, London, UK.
LECTURING POSITIONS and responsibilities
1 – Istituto Marangoni, London, UK. 2005 – 2013
Senior Lecturer, Working with students from First to Third Year of BA course
2 – London Metropolitan University, London, 2005 – 2013
– Visiting Lecturer, Working with second and third year BA students 2004-2009; 2009- onwards MA students.
SELECTED CONFERENCES, DISCUSSIONS, ARTIST TALKS AND FILM SCREENINGS
ARTIST TALKS
2021 Communist Hauntings: Aesthetics of Disrupted Times
Moderator: Magda Schmukalla and Liene Ozolina
Participants: Lina Dzuverovic, Igor Grubic, Esther Leslie, Francisco Martinez, Michal Murawski, Liene Ozolina, Nada Prlja Joanna Rajkowska, Magda Schmukalla
Hosted: Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
2021 The production process of the project “Subversion in Red” which represented North Macedonia at the last Venice Biennale in 2019
Moderator: Nikola Uzunovski
ZOOM platform of the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
2021 Voci d’artista – Meet the protagonists of the exhibition Bigger than Myself. Heroic voices from ex Yugoslavia
Moderator: Zdenka Badovinac and Giulia Ferracci
Participants: Božena Končić Badurina, Jasmina Cibic, Igor Grubić, Irwin, Marko Pogačnik, Nada Prlja and Milica Tomić
MAXXI video platform
2013
SUBVERSION TO RED: RED DISCUSSION (Art project – Panel Discussion, as a part of ‘…how is it toward the East’ (Group Exhibition), Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK.
Migratory Homes (Artist talk Nada Prlja and Joanna Rajkowska), Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Language and pictures: multimodal approaches to heteroglossic biographies (Symposium participation)
University of Vienna, Department of Sociology and the Institute of Art and Design, Vienna, Austria, Nov. 2012
Fire Station Residency (March-April 2012)
Dublin, Ireland
Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics and Everyday Dissent (Artist Talk and Panel Discussion)
Dr Imogen Tyler, Sociology Senior Lecturer & Leverhulme Fellow, activist group No Borders London and Margareta Kern
INIVA Institute of International Arts, London, 2012
RAVE East Village Artist Residency (with Adrian Paci) (Residency)
Trivignano, Udinese, Italy, June 2011
Foreign Language for Beginners. (Film Screening and discussion)
Nada Prlja in conversation with Lina Dzuverkovic (Director Electra productions).
Organised and introduced by Cylena Simonds (Art Film Curator at ICA).
ICA, London, UK. 2011
Reclaim Happiness: Self-Help (Panel Discussion)
Organised and moderated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Curators Translocal), including various cultural workers:
Nada Prlja, Janek Simon, Kuba Szreder and Tomasz Zaluski.
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland. 2011
Living Across, Spaces of Migration. (Panel Discussion)
Organised and moderated by Chrtistian Kravagna (Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
with artists Yto Barrada, Ghazel, Anna Jermolaewa, Nada Prlja and Deniz Sözen.
Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria. 2010
Wild and cultivated fruit market (Artist’s Talk)
Organised and introduced by Chrtistian Kravagna (Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna).
Lakeside Kunstraum, Klgenfurt, Austria. 2010
Wild and cultivated fruit market (Radio Discussion)
Nada Prlja in conversation.
Austrian National radio, 2010
Wild and cultivated fruit market. (Radio Discussion)
Nada Prlja in conversation with Bojan Radovan.
Agore radio, 2010
Bless my homeland, I, too, will try to forget (Panel Discussion)
Moderated by Martin Fritz (Freelance Curator) with artists Werner Kaligofsky, Ioana Marinescu, Karoline Mayer,
Lucia Nimcova, Luciano Parodi, Nada Prlja and Susan Silas.
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria. 2010.
In search of Black Comunism (Artist’s Talk)
Introduced by Margareta Kern (artist).
University College of London (UCL), London, UK. 2010
Migggrrrration (Artist’s Talk)
Introduced by Ksenija Orelj (Curator at MSU, Rijeka).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia. 2010
Black Communism (Artist Talk and Consolation with Students)
Artist Talk introduced by Dr. Amy Bryzgel (Senior Lecturer in the History of Art).
School of Art History, History & Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. 2009
Nations: Panel Discussion (Panel Discussion)
Moderated by Gabriela Salgado (Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern) with artists Nada Prlja, Alexandra Handal.
INIVA, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK. 200
Return of the Red Bourgeoisie (Artist talk)
Organised and introduced by Paul Goodwin (Curator of Cross Cultural Programmes at Tate Britain).
Tate Britain, London, UK. 2009
SocialEast Seminar on Foreign Experience on Post-89 Art (Conference)
Moderated and organised by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Curators, Translocal), including various cultural workers:
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Nada Prlja, Diana McCarty, Szabolcs Kisspal, Amy Bryzgel, Lena Prents and Oleksiy Radynski.
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary. 2009
Balkan Toxonomy (Conference)
Moderated by Janis Jefferies (Director, Research Centre, Goldsmiths University), including various cultural workers:
Nela Milic, Althea Greenan, Sophie Hope, Dr. Eric Gordy, Zlatan Krajina, Jasmina Cibic, Larisa Blazic, Maria Theodoraki, Djordje Balmazovic, Dr. Dejan Djokic, Nada Prlja, Piera Ravnikar.
Goldsmith University, London, UK. 2009
At Your Service (Artist’s talk)
Organised and introduced by Cylena Simonds (Curator in Iniva), with artists Nada Prlja and Manuela Ribadeneira.
David Roberts Art Foundation, London. 2009
(IM)MIGRANTS WITH(IN) (Panel Discussion)
Organise and moderated by Nada Prlja. With Tanja Ostojic, Khaled Ramadan, Gulsen Bal and Walter Seidl.
Open Space, Vienna, Austria. 2009
GIVE TO TAKE (Artist’s talk)
Organised and introduced by Hack.Fem.East.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. 2008
Vision in the Nunnery (Panel Discussion)
Organise and moderated by Cinzia Cremona, including exhibition artists.
Nunnery Gallery, London. 2008
Temporary Zones (discussion)
Organised and moderated by Gulsen Bal, with artists Ergin Çavusogu, and Nada Prlja.
VideoLab, Viena, Austria.
Can engaged art change or contribute toward building a better society? (Artist’s talk)
Nada Prlja in conversation with Predrag Pajdic (Curator in Contemporary Art Platform).
Contemporary Art Platform, London. 2007
London is a Place for Me (Panel Discussion)
Moderated by David Bailey (Curator in Autograph).
INIVA, London, UK. 2007
2007
Returning home – Symposium 2
Discussion and short films
Short works that explore the topic of belonging
Participants: Nada Prlja, Fatima Letter, Alia Said, Helena Aпpio, Inge Blackman.
INIVA Institute of International Art, London, UK.
2007 Panel Discussion
Context Matters: can political art travel?
Organised and moderated by Sophie Hope (Curator in B+B curatorial group) with artists Nada Prlja, Nemanja Cvijanovic.
Public Works, London, UK.
2007 Panel Discussion
Money Matters in Political Art
Organised and moderated by Sophie Hope (Curator in B+B curatorial group)
with artists Nada Prlja and Nemanja Cvijanovic.
Austrian Cultural Forum. London, UK. 2007
2007 Panel Discussion
Context Matters: can political art travel?
Organised and moderated by Sophie Hope (Curator in B+B curatorial group)
with artists Igor Grubic, Djordje Balzmatovic, Nada Prlja and Nemanja Cvijanovic.
Space Gallery and residence, London, UK. 2007
The Almanac of Political Art (Conference)
Organised and moderated by Sophie Hope (Curator in B+B curatorial group) and Simona Nastac (Curator at Romanian
Cultural Institute), including various cultural workers: Leigh French, Adam Jeanes, Igor Grubic, Djordje Balzmatovic
(Skart), Nada Prlja and Nemanja Cvijanovic.
Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK. 2007
Turbo Star (Radio Discussion)
Including Sophie Hope (Curator in B+B curatorial group), Djordje Balzmatovic (Skart) and Nada Prlja.
Resonance FM, London, UK. 2007
Turbo Star (Radio Discussion)
Nada Prlja in conversation with Kostadin Surbanovski.
Radio 103, Skopje, Macedonia. 2007
ART UNDER CONSTRUCTION, the Balkans in Context (Conference)
Organisers and moderators Luisa Avgita (City University) and Juliet Steyn (Senior Lecturer, City University),
including various cultural workers: Suzanne Treister, Marina Grzinic, Zoran Eric, Suzana Milevska,
Dimitris Konstantinidis, etc.
City University, London, UK. 2006
2006 Conference
Mine, yours, ours
Moderatorated by Davor Miskovic (Director of Drugo More) and Aljosa Puzar (Jurnalist, Zarez magazine)
Participants: Teo Celakoski, Nikola Gelevski, Maks Sorsak, Marko Stamenkovic, Stefan Rusu, Attila S. Tordai, Nemanja Cvijanovic,
Kortil Gallery and SC Center, Rijeka, Croatia.
SELECTED ACADEMIC AND WRITING FOR ART JOURNALS BY NADA PRLJA
ACADEMIC WRITING BY NADA PRLJA
MPhil thesis – Blurring the Boundaries between the Artist and the Viewer as Conditioned by
the Changing Concept of Art Space. 2003, 37 000 words.
WRITING FOR ART JOURNALS BY NADA PRLJA
2020 WM Magazine
Title: The Sinking of King Frederik V – an Art Happening or a “Bit of Everything”?
USA
2010 Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aestetics and Everyday Dissent. (Book essay/interview)
Book edited by Katarzyna Marciniak (Associate Professor, Ohio University)
and Dr Imogen Tyler (Senior Lecturer & Leverhulme Research Fellow)
2010 Nolens Volens
Title: Can video artists create alternative working methodologies?
Text: Nada Prlja
Issue editor: Alfredo Cramerotti
Other collaborators: Carlos Jiménez, Alfredo Cramerotti, Arturo/ fito Rodríguez Bornaetxea, Jesús Aguilera, Ramon Parramon, Anders Eiebakke, Erlea Maneros Zabala, Andreja Kulunčić, Daniel García Andújar, Extrastruggle, Michael Takeo Magruder, Nemanja Cvijanovic, GenderArtNet and Michael Baers
Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Wild and Cultivated Fruit Market (Reordering catalogue entry)
Essay by Nada Prlja. Published by Lakeside Kunstraum, Klagenfurt, Austria. pp. 7-14.
2009 Return of the Red Bourgeoisie. (Magazine interview)
Interview with Nada Prlja by Stefan Szezelkun, Mute Magazine, London
Issue 2/13. Published by Mute Magazine, ISBN 978-1-906496-41-8
Should I stay or Should I Go (Catalogue interview)
Nada Prlja interviewing Eleonore de Montesquiou, SC Gallery, Zagreb.
Jesus dies for our Sins (Catalogue essay)
198 gallery, London, UK.
2008 To Curate or Not to Curate in 2008. (Magazine Biennales’ review)
ArtLink, Contemporary Art Quarterlly. Melburn, Australia. Art Magazine. Vol 28 no 4. pp. 32-35.
Art Reclaims Foreign Affairs (Book essay)
New Paradigms, New Models – Culture in the EU’s External Relations Conference
Published by contemporary art association, Graz, Austria. By Nada Prlja. Book. pp. 16-17.
Love and Hate (Interview exhibition overview)
TANK.TV, London, UK. Published by TANK.TV, Videoa art portal of monthly exhibitions. By Nada Prlja.
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2021 LARGE GLASS
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2021 FRIEZE
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2021 MOUSSE
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2016 WAITING FOR RAVE. ANTICIPATION OF POSTHUMAN TIME
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AKTO Festival
Railway Workers Residential Complex, Skopje, Macedonia
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Nada Prlja’s installation Strike (Internet Newspaper)
not here no there, interview with Francis Hunger
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2013 Kunststadt – Stadtkunst (Magazine review)
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Joanna Rajkowska and Nada Prlja will be talking about their work at Nottingham Contemporary
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Macedonian Kuenstlerin Nada Prlja Pictures and Images
Getty Images
Migratory Homes (Artist talk Nada Prlja and Joanna Rajkowska)
Nottingham Contemporary, 07.05.2013, Nottingham, UK
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2012 Berlin Biennale 7 (Exhibition catalogue)
Edited by Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Warsza
TAZ (Newspaper review), 03.05
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Parametar – Newspaper
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After protests: “Peace Wall” is broken
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The wall in our heads – Early degradation of the “Peace Wall” at the Frederick Street
friedrichstraße?comment_sort=desc
Materialize the Contradiction (Online interview)
Nada Prlja in interview with David Miller
2011 Loophole to Happiness (Exhibition catalogue)
Edited and exhibition curated Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Škvíra ke štěstí (Online video)
Artycok TV, Interview: Jan Vidlička
http://artycok.tv/7743/skvira-ke-stestiloophole-to-happiness
Škvíra ke štěstí / Loophole to Happiness
Artmap
http://www.artmap.cz/skvira-ke-stesti-loophole-to-happiness
About uncensored slavery and protests agains it (Magazine interview)
Nada Prlja in interview with Suzana Marjanic
Zarez, Zagreb, Croatia. Cultural magazine. 20.02.2010, year 13, no. 301, pp. 30-31.
Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aestetics and Everyday Dissent. (Book essay/interview)
Book edited by Katarzyna Marciniak (Associate Professor, Ohio University)
and Dr Imogen Tyler (Senior Lecturer & Leverhulme Research Fellow)
2010 Good luck, migration today (book essay, exhibition entry)
Essay by Christian Kravagna
Published by Initiative Minderheiten, Vienna, Austria. Book. ISBN 978-3-85476-340-6. pp. 464-466.
Manifesta 8 (Catalogue entry)
Published by Manifest Fondation & Murcia Ministry of Culture. Catalogue. ISBN 9-788836-61697. pp. 190-191
Manifesta 8 (Guide entry)
Published by Manifest Fondation & Murcia Ministry of Culture. Guide. pp. 122.
Manifesta 8 (Magazine biennale review)
Art Review, London/New York. Review by Joshua Mack . Art magazine. January/February 2011, Issue 47. pp. 123.
Can video artists create alternative working methodologies?. (Magazine essay)
Issue editor Alfredo Cramerotti. Magazine Nolens Volens, Madrid, Spain.
Der Knast im Obst- und Gemüsegarten
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Keln, Germany. By Georg Imdahl. Magazine. 18-19.12.2010. pp. 27-29.
Macedonian artist Nada Prlja has spent one week in a Detention Center (Newspaper workshop review)
Nova Makedonija, Newspaper, 06.08.2010. pp. 20. Skopje, Macedonia.
Tiempo robado a la condena (Newspaper workshop review)
LaOpinion, Murcia, Spain. Comment by Julia Albaladejo, Photos by Gloria Nicolas. Newspaper. 20.06.2010. pp. 54-56.
‘Manifesta 8’ convierte en artistas a diez presos de la carcel de Sangonera (Newspaper workshop review)
La Razon, Murcia, Spain. By A.G. Aviles. Newspaper. 26.06.2010. pp. 42
Arte entre rejas (Newspaper workshop review)
La Verdad, Murcia, Spain. By Gulierno Carrion. Newspaper. 20.06.2010. pp. 46
Can video artists create alternative working methodologies?. (Magazine essay)
Issue editor Alfredo Cramerotti. Magazine Nolens Volens, Madrid, Spain.
Bless my homeland, I too, will try to forget (Catalogue essay, catalogue entry)
Essay by Karoline Mayer. Published by Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, Austria. pp. 14-15.
At Vinna Art Fair, Springering’s Artists (catalogue essay, catalogue entry)
Essay by Christian Cravagna. Published by Springerin, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 1029-1830 pp. 25.
Reordering (catalogue essay, catalogue entry)
Essay by Christian Cravagna. Published by Lakeside Kunstraum, Klagenfurt, Austria. pp. 3-6.
Wild and Cultivated Fruit Market (Reordering catalogue entry)
Essay by Nada Prlja. Published by Lakeside Kunstraum, Klagenfurt, Austria. pp. 7-14.
Austrian National radio, (interview)
Kunst sucht die Heimat (Newspaper exhibition review)
Weiner Zeitung, By Stefan Beig. Newspaper. 16.09.2010. Cover page and pp. 17.
Im Kunstpavillon der Tiroler Künstlerschaft in Innsbruck
stehen seit 23. Jänner “Unerwartete Wendungen” am Programm (Newspaper exhibition review)
der Standard, Vienna, Austria. Newspaper. 20.01.2010. pp. 17.
LAND OF HUMAN RIGHTS, Artistic Analyses and Visions of the Human Rights Situation in Europe, Published by HUMAN RIGHTS, Graz, Austria. ISBN 978-3-86895-028-1 pp. 176-179.
Agora radion, Carinthia’s local radio (Interview)
Nada Prlja (Catalogue entry)
Interview with Nada Prlja by Ksenija Orelj. QB OFF program, 3rd Quadriterale Biennal.
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.pp. 17-19.
2009 Give ‘em Hell (Online review)
MR ZINE, project by Monthly Review Foundation.
Newspaper Intervention in Slovenian ‘Delo’ Newspaper by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Nova Makedonija, Skopje, Macedonia. By Vesna Dimcevska. Newspaper. 09.10.2009. pp. 25.
Nada Prlja (Catalogue entry)
28th Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Published by Internationl Center of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ISBN 978-961-6229-28-9 pp. 337 – 339.
Studio Visit (Catalogue entry)
Published by GC. AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy.
The Return of the Red Bourgeousie (Magazine interview)
Interview with Nada Prlja by Dr. Stefan Szezelkun
Mute Magazine, London, UK. Issue 2/13. pp. 24-33. Published by Mute Magazine, ISBN 978-1-906496-41-8
The Return of the Red Bourgeousie (Online interview)
Interview with Nada Prlja by Dr. Stefan Szezelkun
Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, London, UK.
The Return of the Red Bourgeousie (Online interview)
Interview with Nada Prlja by Dr. Stefan Szezelkun
EUROZINE, online edition.
‘Re-performans’ kao re-enactment, re-construction, re-playing i re-doing:
ili o tome ‘covjek ne moze dva puta napravti samoubojstvo’ (Magazine interview)
Kazaliste, Zagreb, Croatia. By Suzana Marjanic. Theatremagazine. 20.02.2009, year 5, no. 3, pp. 117-133.
‘17.000 woman are victims every year’ intervention by Nada Prlja (Newspaper project)
Delo, Ljubljana, Slovenia. By Nada Prlja. Newspaper.
4 interventions:
Intervention 1: Delo, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 15.09.2009. pp. 15.
Intervention 2: Delo, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 19.09.2009. pp. 15.
Intervention 3: Delo, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 26.09.2009. pp. 15.
Intervention 4: Delo, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 03.10.2009. pp. 15.
Ideal ‘place’ for a meeting between art and politics (Magazine inteerview)
Tea, Skopje, Macedonia. By Biljana Peovska, Magazine. 08.12.2008. pp 37.
Crni kvadrat je nasa resnicnost (Newspaper project review)
Delo, Ljubljana, Slovenia. By Jelka Sutej Adamic. Newspaper. 03.10.2009. pp. 15.
Creator of the Situations (Catalogue entry)
Eleonore de Montesquiou in conversation with Nada Prlja. Published by MC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.
At Your Service (magazine exhibition review)
Review by Francis Gooding. Magazine Time Out, London, UK. 7-13.05.2009. pp. 42.
At Your Service (catalogue, catalogue entry)
Essay by Cylena Simonds. Published by David Roberts Art Foundation, london, UK.
Should I stay or Should I Go (Should I Stay or Should I go catalogue essay)
Essay by Liljana Nedelkovska. Published by Museum Of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
ISBN: 978-85-968-87-5. pp. 2-13.
– Negociations (Should I Stay or Should I go catalogue essay)
Essay by Lillian Fellmann. Published by Museum Of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
ISBN: 978-85-968-87-5. pp. 14-29.
Archivum (catalogue essay, catalogue entry)
Essay by by Joanna Sokolowska. Published by Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. pp.18-19.
Open Space in Vienna (Internet interview)
Art Review, London, NY. Interview with Gulsen Bal by Costanza Meli. Internet Art Magazine edition. 26.02.2009
Open Space in Vienna (Internet interview)
SuccoAcido.net. Interview with Gulsen Bal by Costanza Meli. Internet Art Magazine edition. 01.02.2009
Open Space, Mapping Contemporary Creative Practices (book essay)
Essay by Gulsen Bal. Published by Divius, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 80-86450-50-3 pp. 25-29
2008 Starke Gobenbilder zu Vorurteilen (Newspaper exhibition review)
Kleine Zeitung, Graz, Austria. Newspaper. 7.10.2008. pp. 24.
Dus Bist eine wonderbare Personlichkeit (Newspaper exhibition review)
Kleine Zeitung, Graz, Austria. By Walter Titz. Newspaper. 04.10.2008. pp. 20.
Sein und Schein (Internet review)
artmagazine.net. By Ivona Jelcic. Internet. 04.10.2008.
To Curate or Not to Curate in 2008. (Magazine Biennales’ review)
ArtLink, Contemporary Art Quarterlly. Melburn, Australia. Art Magazine. Vol 28 no 4. pp. 32-35.
Workers’ destiny (Magazine exhibition review)
Globus, Skopje, Macedonia. By Toni Dimkov, Photo Andrej Ginovski. Magazine. 05.09.2008. pp.45
STRIKE at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vesnik, Skopje, Macedonia. By Katerina Bogoeva. Newspaper. 23.09.2008. pp 14.
Performance by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vesnik, Skopje, Macedonia. By VN. Newspaper. 05.09.2008. pp 15.
Exhibition abou the migration (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vreme, Skopje, Macedonia. By EV. Newspaper. 03.09.2008. pp 12.
‘Da ostanam ili da si begam’ vo MSU (Newspaper exhibition review)
Spic, Skopje, Macedoia. By Jasna Frangovska. Newspaper. 04.09.2008. pp. 20.
Hack.Fem.East. Frauen, Technologie, Netzwerke in Osteuropa (Catalogue entry)
Edited by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati. Published by Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. pp. 12.
‘Da ostanam ili da si begam’ na Nada Prlja vo MSU (Newspaper exhibition review)
Nova Makedonia, Skopje, Macedoia. By Jasna Frangovska. Newspaper. 04.09.2008. pp. 20.
Art could not be compromising (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vest, Skopje, Macedonia. By Marija Zafirovska, Photo by B. Grozdanovski. Newspaper. 08.09.2008. pp 11-12.
Ideal ‘place’ for a meeting between art and politics (Magazine inteerview)
Tea, Skopje, Macedonia. By Biljana Peovska, Magazine. 08.12.2008. pp 37.
Inside Out (Catalogue entry)
Essay by Ana Frangovska. Published by National Gallery of Macedona, Skopje, Macedonia.
Catalogue. ISBN 978-9989196-23-2 pp. 2, 4.
Istrazivanje odnosa izmedju zlocina i kazne (Newspaper exhibition review)
Novi List, Rijeka, Croatia. By Nela Varlejev Ogurijic. Newspaper. 07.10.2008. pp. 20.
Open Space, Zentrum fur Kunstprojekte (Magazine exhibition review)
Springerin, Austria. Published by Springerin. Art Magazine.
Art Reclaims Foreign Affairs (Book essay)
Decision Maker, Art Reclaims Foreign Affairs
Conference New Paradigms, New Models – Culture in the EU’s External Relations, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Published by contemporary art association, Graz, Austria.
Nada Prlja, Return of the red burgeoisie (Brochure entry)
Tate, London, UK. Brochure. pp. 43
Wide Open Eyes (Catalogue entry)
Balkan Express, Symposium: Return to Europe, Talking Balkans (Catalogue entry)
Published by Erste Stiftung. Catalogue. pp. 17-18.
Land(s) of Free (newspaper exhibition review)
derstandard, Vienna, Austria. By Anne Katrin Febler. 20.04.2008. pp. 06.
Gulsen Bal and Open Space (Internet review)
By Walter Seidl. Published by Art Margines, art internet magazine.
Open Space and Temporary Zones (Newspaper exhibition review)
derStandard, Viena, Austria.
2007 Introduction page (Magazine festival review)
Steiricher Herbst. Published by Steiricher Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria. Catalogue. Introduction page.
Sky Net TV, Austrian Video Art and 4 Videos by Nada Prlja, by Biljana Petrevska, (TV presentation)
Recognise (Magazine exhibition review)
ARTFORUM, New York, USA. By T.J. Demos. November. 2007. pp. 363
Culture Shocked (Magazine exhibition review)
TimeOut, London, UK. By Ossian Ward. Magazine. 29.08-04.09.2007. pp. 41
The Sweetest Dream: Unity and Dissonance in Europe,
Reunion project currated by Sophie Hope (Magazine exhibition review)
Third Text, London, UK. By Sophie Hope. Magazine. ISBN 0952-8822 pp. 229-230
Was this the last geographically defined exhibition? (Magazine exhibition review)
Third Text, London, UK. By Nada prlja. Magazine. ISBN 0952-8822 pp. 230-232.
A1 TV channel, Nada Prlja and Turbo Star, (TV exhibition review – news)
MS TV channel, Nada Prlja and Turbo Star, (Live broadcast of the performance)
The Mutual Torture between Turbo Folk Fans and the Intellectuals (magazine exhibition review and interview)
TEA Magazine. By Ivana Tasev. Published by Dnevnik.
Confessions of a Music Fan (Catalogue essay)
Globalwood. By Sophie Hope. Catalogue. Published by National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia.
ISBN:9989-694-85-1 pp.23-26.
Michaele Robecchi in conversation with Nada Prlja (Catalogue interview)
Globalwood. Interview Nada Prlja with Michaele Robecchi. Catalogue.
Published by National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia. ISBN:9989-694-85-1 pp.23-26. pp.
Globalwood (Catalogue foreword)
Globalwood. By Ana Frangovska. Catalogue. Published by National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia.
ISBN:9989-694-85-1 pp.23-26. pp.
Macedonia is Paradise for Engaged Artists (Newspaper exhibition review)
Review, Skopje, Macedonia. Interview by Marija Zafirovska. Newspaper. 04.05.2007. pp. 25-28.
Recognise (Internet review)
By Elisabeth Lebovici, Published by Recognise.org.uk. Internet.
Inter-Faces (Magazine exhibition review)
Flash Art Internatonal. By Marela Pribec. Art Magazine. Vol.11. No. 257
Artist Nada Prlja is Selling Properties from the Balkans as an Art Project (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vreme, Skopje, Macedonia. By JF. Newspaper. Newspaper. 18.04.2007. pp. 5.
Angaziranata umetnost na Prlja opomena za politikata (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vest, Skopje, Macedonia. by JMZ. Newspaper. Newspaper. 25.04.2007. pp. 22.
Star Prostor, Nova Linija! (Catalogue entry)
Essay by Biljana Isianin. Catalogue. Published by Magaze, cultural center, Skopje, Macedonia.
Multimedia project by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Dnevnik, Skopje, Macedonia. By JF. Newspaper. 13.02.2007. pp. 21.
Proekcija na ‘Prava: Jas sum Makedonec’ (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vreme, Skopje, Macedonia. By JF. Newspaper. 02.11.2007. pp. 19.
Is the ‘Artistic Elite’ also Turbo Folk? (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vest, Skopje, Macedonia. by M. Zafirovska. Newspaper. 13.02.2007. pp. 21.
GLOBALWOOD, and Everything is Possible (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vreme, Skopje, Macedonia. By LA. Newspaper. 15.02.2007. pp. 33.
Turbo Folk and Globalization (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vest, Skopje, Macedonia. By Marija Zafirovska. Newspaper. 13.02.2007. pp. 17.
Questionable existance of Bin Laden in the ar project by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vest, Skopje, Macedonia. Review by Marija Zafirovska. Newspaper. 30.08.2007, pp. 18.
Unbound (Catalogue entry)
Published by Contemporary Art Platform, London, UK. Catalogue.
2006 Austrian Cultural Forum in London (front and back cover of the brochure)
Published by Austrian Cultural Forum in London. Brochure.
The History of Macedonian Contemporary Art 1990-2005, (Photography
and the Extension of the Frame, by Nebojsa Vilic). (book)
Mine, Yours, Ours, Euro, by Iva Merlak (exhibition catalogue)
HTV – Croatian National TV, ‘Euro’ by Nada Prlja, (TV exhibition review)
Absolute Truth (Magazine exhibition review)
Move. By Marry Ties. Magazine. Year 3, no2. pp. 22-26.
Time Out, Replicas, by MN, (newspaper exhibition review)
Sweetest Dream (Newspaper exhibition review)
Metro, London, UK. By LK. Newspaper. 21.06.2006. pp. 30.
Sweetest Dream (Catalogue entry)
Published by B+B Curatorial Partnership and Austrian Cultural Forum. London, UK. Catalogue. 21.06.2006.
Put out Fewer, not More Flags (Newspaper exhibition review)
Art Work, Aberdeen, UK. By Tessa Williams. Newspaper. 21.06.2006. pp. 14.
Why Prlja’s Flag Project was not Realised in Rijeka (Newspaper exhibition review)
Novi List, Rijeka, Croatia. By NE. Newspaper. 07.10.2006. pp. 60.
ART UNDER CONSTRUCTION, the Balkans in Context (Catalogue entry)
Published by City University, London, UK. Catalogue.
Nine Flags on Tito’s Square, Art Action by Nada Prlja in City Center (Newspaper exhibition review)
Novi List, Rijeka, Croatia. By NE. Newspaper. 03.10.2006. pp. 66.
Nada Prlja has put down EU flags from Marble Arch park
Vreme, Skopje, Macedonia. By Frangovska. Newspaper. 13.07.2007. Cover and pp.20-21.
London is Not Afraid by Balkanisation
Vreme, Skopje, Macedonia. By Frangovska. Newspaper. 03.06.2007. pp.20-21.
2005 Agency for Serious Interests by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vesnik, Skopje, Macedonia. By Jasna Frangovska. Newspaper. 23.12.2005. pp. 15.
Vizuelizacija na teloto niz umetnicki aspekt (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vecer, Skopje, Macedonia. By Jasna Frangovska. Newspaper. 11.08.2005. pp. 15.
Icons, Mrs. Taylor Moor (Newspaper exhibition review)
Dnevnik, Skopje, Macedonia. By SO. Newspaper. 03.11.2005. pp. 14.
Nada Prlja in EuroArt
Vreme, Skopje, Macedonia. By Frangovska. Newspaper. 03.11.2005. Cover and pp.20.
Curating the Invisible, Contemporary Art Practices
and the production of meaning in Eastern Europe (Book entry)
Interno. By Marko Stamenkovic. Published by Interno. Vol. 9. Art. 6. pp 20.
2004 Agency for Serious Interests by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vreme, Skopje, Macedonia. By Jasna Frangovska. Newspaper. 23.12.2004. pp. 20.
Daily Newspapers as Representations of Our Identity (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vest, Skopje, Macedonia. By MN. Newspaper. 24.12.2004. pp. 22.
Seriousi Interests Agency (Catalogue)
Published by Tocka, Cultural Center.Skopje, Macedonia. Catalogue.
Exhibition in Tocka, three agancies by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Nova Makedonija, Skopje, Macedonia. By CP. Newspaper. 24.12.2004. pp. 14.
Exhibition by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Dnevnik, Skopje, Macedonia. By SO. Newspaper. 24.12.2004. pp. 14.
2003 Sexy Machinery (magazine entry)
Architectural Association, London, UK. Magazine. Published by Architectural Association. Year 1, No1. pp.25-30.
Few Candies for Venice; On the Art in Macedonia at the End of the Millennium (Book entry)
by Nebojsa Vilic. Book, Published on the occasion of 48th Venice Bienniale, by Laurens Coster, Skopje, Macedonia.
ISBN 9989-888-01-9. pp. 50-51; 96-97; 137, 139, 320.
2002 Extension of the Frame, New Macedonian Photography (Book entry)
Published by Art Gallery of Bitola, Art Gallery of Kumanovo, Macedonia. Book. By Sonja Abadzieva. Book.
pp. 134, 199. images 20.44
Royal College of Art Show 2002 (Catalogue entry)
Published by Royal College of Art, London, UK. pp.157
1998 Deep Breathing – Aspects of Women’s Discourse in the 20th Century (Book entry)
By Sonja Abadjieva. Published by Center for Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Book. ISBN 9989-888-05-1. pp. 2, 31, 85, 99, 140, 141, 145, 172, 196. images 140, 184, 198.
Dossier, 1994-97 (Book entry)
By Nebojsa Vilic. Published by Horizons Unlimited. ISBN 9989-740-01-1 pp. 30-31.
Osum Predavanja za umetnosta i novite tehnologii (Book entry)
by Nebojsa Vilic. Book, Published by Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
ISBN 9989-703-20-5. pp. 37, 45, 85. Images 38, 46.
Nada Prlja (Catalogue entry)
11 11 Portrait, Skopje. Published by SOROS Center for Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Catalogue. pp. 04.
1997 Magija, Sonot i isceluvanje (Magazine exhibition review)
Denes, Skopje, Macedonia. By Iskra Gesovska. Magazine. 26.12.1997. pp. 60-61.
Nada Prlja (Magazine exhibition review)
Metro, Skopje, Macedonia. By Iskra Gesovska. Magazine. 26.12.1997. pp. 07.
Nada Prlja (Catalogue entry)
Out of Photo, Skopje. Published by SOROS Center for Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Catalogue. pp. 05.
Nada Prlja (Catalogue Entry)
Video Positive, Excaping Gravity, Liverpool, UK. Catalogue. pp. 07.
Personality=software by Nada Prlja (Catalogue entry)
Icon on Silver, Skopje, Macedonia. Published by SOROS Center for Contemporary Art, Skopje. Catalogue. pp. 07.
Installation by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vecer, Skopje, Macedonia. By Iskra Gesovska. Magazine. 26.12.1997. pp. 07.
Public Art Project by Nada Prlja (Newspaper exhibition review)
Nova Makedonija, Skopje, Macedonia. By IO. Newspaper. 26.12.1997. pp. 09.
Icon on Silver – Electronic Aesthetics (Newspaper exhibition review)
Nova Makedonija. By Milan Angelkovski.
1923 by Nada Prlja (Catalogue entry)
Published by Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia. By Milentie Pandilovski. Catalogue. pp. 142-148.
Print Making Experiment (Newspaper exhibition review)
Vecer, Skopje, Macedonia. by SG. Newspaper. 23.12.1997. pp. 14.
Studio Open for Experiments (Newspaper exhibition review)
Nova Makedonija, Skopje, Macedonia. By Emilija Kostovska. Newspaper. 23.12.1997. pp. 13.
Experiment with Printmaking (Newspaper exhibition review)
Nova Makedonija, Skopje, Macedonia. By Emilija Kostovska. Newspaper. 24.12.1997. pp. 9.
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