Curriculum vitae

A short bio

Ana Vujanović (Berlin / Belgrade) is a cultural worker focused on bringing together critical theory and contemporary art. She holds Ph.D. in Humanities (Theatre Studies) and post-graduate diploma in Culture and Gender Studies.

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She has lectured at various universities and was a guest professor at the Performance Studies Dpt. of the University Hamburg and HZT, University of the Arts Berlin. Since 2016 she is a team member and mentor at SNDO – University of the Arts Amsterdam. For many years, she was a member of the editorial collective of TkH [Walking Theory], a Belgrade-based theoretical-artistic platform, and editor-in-chief of the TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory. She participates in artworks (performance, theatre, dance, and video/film), as a dramaturge and co-author with artists such as Marta Popivoda, Eszter Salamon, Christine de Smedt, Dragana Bulut etc., most recently documentary films Slet 1988 (2025) and Landscapes of Resistance (2021) dir. by M. Popivoda. She has published a number of articles and authored and edited several books, such as A Live Gathering: Performance and Politics in Contemporary Europe, ed. with L. Piazza (Berlin: b_books, 2019) and Toward a Transindividual Self: A Study in Social Dramaturgy, with B. Cvejic (2023).

For free online versions of my texts see my profile at Academia.edu.

ANA VUJANOVIĆ
Born in 1975, in Belgrade; based in Berlin / Belgrade

BASIC EDUCATION

2004: Ph.D. at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, Theatre Studies Dpt. Thesis: “Statuses and functions of theoretical practice in the performing arts world at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century”
2003: M.A. at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, Theatre Studies Dpt. Thesis: “Post-structuralist materialist theory of performing arts”
2000-01: post-graduate program: Culture and Gender Studies, Alternative Academic Educational Network (AAOM), Belgrade
1999-2000: School for History and Theory of Art, Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade (CSUB)
1999: B.A. at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, Theatre and Radio Production Dpt.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (a selection)

University (and other) courses, seminars, workshops:

2022-25: Guest professor of Theory of dance, performance, and choreography at HZT – Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin: UDK – University of the Arts, Berlin
2022: Feminist Storytelling seminar, with M. Popivoda; at the Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2020-21: Lecturer of Theatre and Globalisation at the Theatre Studies Dpt., University of Amsterdam (UvA)
2018: Performance and politics: A vicious circle; seminar. PARTS: School for contemporary dance, Brussels
2016- : Team member and mentor at SNDO – School for New Dance Development, Theatre and Dance Academy: Amsterdam University of the Arts
2016-17: Lecturer of Dance and performance theory at HZT – Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin, UDK
2016: Take It or Make it, with Marta Popivoda; workshop. Movimento Sur; Nave center for creation and residency, Santiago de Chile; Performance Practice and production of subjectivity on European contemporary performance scene; seminar. ArtEZ, Master of Theatre Practices, Arnhem
2015-17 & 2021-23: Mentor of Critical practice (Made in Yugoslavia), program in critical practice of contemporary dance and performance. Station, Belgrade / Locomotion, Skopje: Life Long Burning network
2012-15: International guest professor for Dramaturgy and Performance studies at the Dpt. for Human Movement / Performance Studies, University Hamburg
2011-12: Lecturer of Curating and performance; Master in International Performance Research (MAIPR). University of Amsterdam, Theatre Studies Dpt.
2009-11: Performance studies seminar at the Interdisciplinary postgraduate studies: University of Arts Belgrade
2003-09 University teacher in Belgrade, courses: Performance studies, Epistemology of Art, Theory of digital art and culture, and Art as Research, at the Interdisciplinary postgraduate studies, University of the Arts Belgrade, Faculty of Music and Faculty of Architecture

Research experience:

2020-25: Eco-Feminist Futures, with M. Popivoda, H. Erdman and L. Dahl; artistic-theoretical research; KW, Berlin Biennial; Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt and Glenkeen Garden Residencies – ArtNature / NatureArt, Ireland
2017- : Landscapes of Revolution, with M. Popivoda; artistic-theoretical research. Theory at Work, Cultural Center, Belgrade; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje; Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; WHW, Zagreb; State of Concept gallery, Athens; MAXXI Museum, Rome
2015-20: Performing the Self in the 21st Century, with B. Cvejić; theoretical research. Oslo National Academy of Arts; Sarma platform, Brussels; Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne; Station, Belgrade; Lokomotiva, Skopje; Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Skogen, Gothenburg; Archive Books, Berlin
2010-12: Performance and the Public Sphere, with B. Cvejić and M. Popivoda; theoretical-artistic research. Les laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris
2011-12: Escenas discursivas, with M. Popivoda; cultural-artistic research. Matadero, Madrid
2005-07: Self-managed educational systems in art (s-o-s project). research and working group by TkH [Walking Theory] & Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade

INVITED LECTURES AND PUBLIC TALKS (a selection)

2025: “Weaving Peace and Theatre. 30 Years of Experience from Southeast Europe.” UT Connewitz, Leipzig
2024: “Landscape Dramaturgy: Spaces outside the perspective”. KHiO, Oslo
2023: “Feminisming Storytelling”. Depot, European Kunsthalle, Vienna
“Social Class: Critical fabulations”, with M. Fierce. EIGHT, Undercurrents, Athens
“From the Proletariat to the Precariat – and Back!”. BITEF festival, Belgrade
2022: “Transindividual Futures: Transindividuality and technical objects”, with B. Cvejić. Armory Center, CalArts, Los Angeles CAL
“The Question of Possession: From the bodies of the proletariat to the bodies of the precariat”. lecture series The Performativity of Class, HZT, Berlin
“Transindividuality and Mnemotechnics”, a lecture. within the symposium A Thinking Practice, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Stockholm
2021: “S/Care Packages for Self, Community, and World”. commissioned as a keynote by Jon McKenzie and Ana Vujanović, feat. Bernard Stiegler, PSi conference 2020, Rijeka > cancelled due to the pandemic, and video lecture, public launching in April 2022, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2019: “Conviviality? An Attempt at Breaking the Spell”, an opening lecture. Imaginary school for the future of the (art) institutions, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Giessen
2018: “Landscape Dramaturgy in Contemporary Dance and Cinema”. PARTS, Brussels
2017: “Performing Ideology: Social choreographies and dramas of neoliberal capitalism”. Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shangai
“Art: Labour and Politics”. program Violence of Inscriptions, Hebbel am Ufer: HAU, Berlin
“Social Dramaturgy of Ideology”. within the festival Movimento Sur, Nave, Santiago de Chile
2014: “The Public Good Will Not Be Curated”. Spatial Confessions, Tate Modern, London
2013: “Vita performactiva”. pARTisan platform, Minks
2011: “A Tiger’s Leap: A Method of ‘Reloading’ Minoritarian Histories (of Performance)”. University of Amsterdam
2010: “Performance and/as (mis)communicational community”. National Museum Reina Sofia in collaboration with the Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Madrid
“TkH: How to Do Things by Theory and [illegal_cinema]”, with Marta Popivoda. École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

PAPERS AT CONFERENCES (a selection)

2024: “How Can a Landscape Speak? A conversation on landscape dramaturgy and eco-feminist storytelling”, with M. Popivoda and U. Gerhardt. conference Transforming Anthropo(s)cene, RUB – Fakultät für Philologie, Bochum
2022: “The Transindividual: From intersectionality to lesser identity”. program The Climate, The Worry, The Dance, Lake Studio, Berlin
2018: “Curating Performance in Belgrade During the Cold War”. podium discussion Bitef Fine Arts programme, Bitef theatre, Belgrade
2017: “Transindividuality in Contemporary Dance and Performance”. conference Metabolic Rifts, Prospections, Museum of contemporary art, Porto
“Surplus Selves: On performing the self in the 21st century”. PSi conference #23, Hamburg
“Landscape Dramaturgy: Echoing dance in the museum”. podium discussion In the Expanded Field, International Film Festival Oberhausen
2016: “The Transindividual and Performing the Self”. symposium (re-)combining the in-between, Joint Adventures, Munich
2014: “Community Between the Commons and Undercommons”. conference The Public Commons and Undercommons, CuP, University of Giessen / Frankfurt Lab, Frankfurt
2013: “Performing Ideology: Communitas and immunitas in neoliberal democratic society”. symposium There is no other poetry than action, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
2010: “From Theoretical Practice to Theoretical Mass-Production.” & “Second-Hand Knowledge”, in B. Cvejic & G.S. Pristas (eds.), A Lexicon of Inverted Notions: Parallel Slalom. Performance Studies International #15 follow up, Rijeka

ARTWORKS AND PERFORMANCES (a selection)

2025: short documentary film SLET 1988, dir. by M. Popivoda; co-writer. Locarno Film Festival, currently on festival run
2023: video installation Surfaces that Matter: Youth Day’s Parade 1988, with M. Popivoda. Cultural Center of Belgrade, October Salon; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Fotograf Festival, Prague
2022: video installation Moss Does It Better (An eco-feminist meditation), with M. Popivoda. KW, Berlin Biennial
2021: feature documentary Landscapes of Resistance, dir. M. Popivoda; script-cowriter, dramaturgy. ARTE TV France; Rotterdam Film Festival; Sarajevo Film Festival; Jeonju Film Festival; Cinéma du Réel Festival, Paris… – over 60 festivals and exhibitions worldwide
a performative video Quiet Water Wears Down Mountains (An eco-feminist meditation), with M. Popivoda, H. Erdman, L. Dahl; Cullberg Ballet, Stockholm
2020: performance Future Fortune, by D. Bulut; dramaturgy. HAU, Berlin
2019: dance Slow Dance, chor. L. Dahl and H. L. Erdman; dramaturgy. MTD, Stockholm
2018: cinematic-choreographic installation Freedom Landscapes; concept and dramaturgy, co-author with M. Popivoda. Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana
performance Art of Happiness, by D. Bulut; dramaturgy. HAU, Berlin
2016: performance Take It or Make It; concept, artistic direction. Teatr polski, Bydgoszcz
2015: performance-installation Cabinet of Political Wonders; co-author with M. Popivoda, S. Asentić and S. Ilić. Kampnagel, Hamburg
2014: dance Monument 0: Haunted by Wars (1913-2013), chor. E. Salamon; dramaturgy. Kampnagel, Hamburg; HAU, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris
2012-16: performance / social choreography Examining Communitas: On Trial Together; co-author with S. Asentić. TkH, Belgrade; Per.Art, Novi Sad; New York Live Arts
2013: feature documentary Yugoslavia, how ideology moved our collective body, dir. M. Popivoda; script-cowriter, dramaturgy. Berlinale Forum; Sarajevo Film Festival; Jeonju Film Festival; Festival dei Popoli Firenze… – over 100 festivals and exhibitions worldwide
2011-12: dance / performance Four Choreographic Portraits: A Woman with a Diamond, chor. C. de Smedt; artistic collaboration, text, dramaturgy. Les ballets C de la B, Ghent

CURATED / EDITED / ORGANIZED PROGRAMS AND PLATFORMS (a selection)

2025 57. BITEF Festival. a member of the artistic direction of the festival
NE:BITEF 2025. a member of the self-organized team of the guerrilla festival 2024: Theoretical Fiesta, theoretical side programme of BITEF festival; curator. Belgrade
2017: Surplus Selves, panel with B. Cvejić, J. Jansa, M. Popivoda and A. Vujanović; editor. PSi #23, University Hamburg / Kampnagel, Hamburg
2014-18 & 21-24: Critical Practice (Made in Yu); mentoring program with a series of seminars, after-talks, workshops, texts and publications; editor, mentor. Belgrade; Lokomotiva, Skopje; Workspace, Brussels; Veem, Amsterdam: Life Long Burning network; apap: Feminist Future
2011-12: Performance and the Public: Open Days; co-editor. Tanzfabrik, Berlin; Les laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris; Veem, Amsterdam
2009-12: Deschooling Classroom; regional programme in collective self-education in art and culture; co-author, editor. TkH, Belgrade; Kontrapunkt, Skopje
2001-17: TkH: Walking Theory [Teorija koja hoda], theoretical-artistic platform; initiator, artistic director, editor-in-chief of TkH, Journal for performing arts theory. Belgrade – within which I curated over 30 seminars, conferences, festivals, working groups and networks with guests from the local scene, former Yugoslavia and Europe

AWARDS, HONORS, BOARDS

2026: BeFem – Bring the Noize award for the independent and solidary theatre (for Ne:Bitef festival), Belgrade
2023: president of the international jury of BITEF: Belgrade International Theatre Festival
2022: BeFem – Bring the Noize award for feminist archiving of women’s history (for the film Landscapes of Resistance), Belgrade
2021-23: The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Documentary, Sarajevo Film Festival; Grand Prix – Best Documentary, BELDOCS Festival, Belgrade; Best Picture Award, Jeonju Film Festival (Korea); Library Award, Cinéma du Réel Festival, Paris… – over 20 awards for the film Landscapes of Resistance
2020-25: Member of the International Editorial Board of Maska, Journal for performing arts
2020-22: Member of the Jury of German dance platform 2022. Hebbel am Ufer: HAU, Berlin
Member of Advisory Board of Turba, Journal for global practices in live arts curation
2012-14: Member of the Board of directors of Performance Studies international: PSi
2009-12: Member of the International Advisory Board of Maska, journal for performing arts
2005: National Award for Theatre Studies “Sterija Award”, Serbia
2002-17: Editor in chief of TkH journal for performing arts theory