Biljana Ciric residency
Biljana Ciric is an independent curator based in Shanghai. She is co-curator of the 2015 Third Ural Industrial Biennale for Contemporary Art (Yekaterinburg, Russia) and her upcoming projects include an exhibition at Kadist Art Foundation (Paris) as well as a curatorial seminar hosted by CCA Kitakyushu in 2016 among others. Biljana Ciric is research fellow for 2016 at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway. Her recent exhibitions include Just as Money is the Paper, the Gallery is the Room (2014) presented by Osage Art Foundation (Hong Kong), One Step Forward, Two Steps Back—Us and Institution, Us as Institution (2013) presented by Times Guangzhou Museum (Guangzhou), Tino Sehgal Solo Exhibition (2013) in UCCA (Beijing), Taking the Stage OVER (2011–12) presented in different institutions in Shanghai, Institution for the Future – Asia Triennale (2011) in Manchester, Alternatives to Ritual (2012–13) in Goethe Open Space (Shanghai) and OCAT (Shenzhen) among others. Her project Migration Addicts was presented in the Collateral Events program of the 52nd Venetian Biennale in 2007, and at the Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture in Shenzhen/Hong Kong in 2008. In 2013, Ciric initiated the seminar platform From a History of Exhibitions Towards a Future of Exhibition Making ; she regularly publishes in Broadsheet and Yi Shu among other magazines. Ciric was a jury for a number awards including Hugo Boss Asia Art Award (2013) and she is on the nominating council for Vera List Prize for Art and Politics (2014/2015). She has been nominated for an ICI Independent Vision Curatorial Award (2012).