Maja Ciric

is an independent curator and art critic.

Holds a BA in Art History from the University of Belgrade, a MA in Cultural and Gender Studies from AAOM, Belgrade and a diploma of the interdisciplinary postgraduate program Transit Spaces, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany. She is a PhD candidate in Art and Media Theory at the University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. She has a Diploma of the Gwangju Biennale International Course for Curators. Her project A Different Kind of Trade was selected amongst a very competitive pool of applicants in order to be upgraded within the Curatorial Intensive Course, ICI(Independent Curators International) in NYC.

She has been curating projects and exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, among which: Mobile Studios; Becoming Minor:With or Without?; Offbeat: Look and See The Violence Against Women; Beyond Theory; Negotiating Places; Htmelles; Chain Reaction; Parallax: A View from a Different Angle; Cooperation, not Coorporation; I Am What I Am. She curated the Serbian Pavilion at 52nd Venice Biennale and worked as a cutlural developer in Dubai, UAE. She is a recipient of the Lazar Trifunovic Award for Art Criticism (Belgrade) and the CEC ArtsLink Independent Projects Award (New York). She is a member of AICA(International Association of Art Critics), IKT(International association of curators of contemporary art) and SAR(Society for the Artistic Research).

Her curatorial practice complements the mainstream social discourses and produces alternative knowledge about social, political and aesthetic transformations. Her areas of interest include, amongst others, theoretical aspects of curating, curating as institutional critique, gender and post-colonial issues.