Marijana Cvetković

Marijana Cvetković is a producer, curator, and lecturer with a background in art history, cultural policy, and cultural management. She has been involved in various programmes and projects related to cultural policy, international cultural cooperation, contemporary dance, visual arts, and museums. She is a co-founder of Station Service for Contemporary Dance and Nomad Dance Academy, a platform dedicated to the development of contemporary dance and performing arts in the Balkans. Additionally, she serves as a cultural activist within the independent cultural scenes of Belgrade and Serbia, where she has co-founded platforms such as druga scena (other scene), Cultural Centre Magacin, Association of Independent Culture of Serbia, and Platform for the Commons Zajedničko.

As a lecturer at the University of Arts in Belgrade and the University Lyon 2, but also at many informal education platforms, she shares knowledge on curatorial studies, cultural policy, and arts production. Her main interests are self-organization, self-management, Yugoslav cultural policy, cooperation platforms, the political aspects of cultural work, institutional transformation, and the working conditions in arts and culture.

Marijana has edited several books and contributed to many edited volumes, journals, and online magazines.

In 2018 she received the Jelena Šantić Award ‘for consistency in her work and promotion of contemporary dance, continuous advocacy for better working conditions in the field of culture’.