Elena Veljanovska

Elena Veljanovska is an art historian and independent curator. In order to reach all her interests, she always makes a balance between the need for individual development and working in a collective. Consequently, Elena has curated several projects focusing on the urban topics and different aspects of documenting the city dynamics in the period of 2006 – 2007: exhibitions, lectures and a workshop, and has published texts for artist’s exhibitions. Since 2006, she is a co-founder of Line Initiative and Movement, platform for new media art and technology related arts, based in Skopje, Macedonia. In Line, she is responsible for the overall program development and coordination. In 2007 she co-curated the educational project Consumer vs. User; in 2008, she was the program coordinator of the “Chain reaction”, 3rd meeting of the Upgrade! International, held in Skopje in September, 2008. In 2009 working as a guest- curator at the Stedefreund gallery in Berlin (www.stedefreund-berlin.de) and as a co-curator of the Macedonian pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennial.