Maja Simisic

artistiek onderzoek - conceptueel - installatie - media - performance

Maja is an artist, a dog lover, provocative performer, post-postmodernist, turbofolk bombshell, devoted housewife, prophetic storyteller and a meticulous maker of uncanny worlds. She is a collection of untamed personas. Women that question and criticize their surroundings through a humorous lens. Her performative approach seeps through the narratives in vaguely defiant ways. More often than not, Maja's personas will subvert the status quo for her own benefit, rather than plainly protest it. 'If you can't beat them, infiltrate and dismantle'. No medium is foreign to her, she wove her nest in the intersection of research and making, comfortably intersecting both in new patterns. Right when you think you can pin her art as just fashion, or just performance, or just anything, she'll prove to you that categories are cages and she does not play by the rules.


Fashionclash festival

Performance

  • 27-11-2021 t/m 27-11-2021
  • In samenwerking met: Rebecca Levy, Yannik Güldner
  • Locatie: LAB Maastricht, Maastricht
  • The 'Amna' performance from my project 'Re-imagining a happy place' at the OpenMic night of FashionClash festival.
  • https://www.forbeschina.com/city/58678

Graduation show

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

'Identity[z]'

Lezing

  • 05-10-2021 t/m 05-10-2021
  • In samenwerking met: TEDxLeiden University Pitch Night Talk
  • Locatie: , Den Haag
  • TEDxLeiden University Pitch Night Talk in The Hague organized by Leiden university students. My talk was about creating identities.
  • https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/629319435

Youth Biennale Serbia

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 29-07-2021 t/m 05-09-2021
  • In samenwerking met: Youth Biennale
  • Locatie: Footnote Center, Belgrade
  • An international group exhibition all over Belgrade organized by Youth Biennale in Belgrade. I showed 'Re-imagining a happy place' as a video installation.
  • https://bijenalemladih.ulus.rs/en/portfolio-item/maja-simisic/

Re-imagining a happy place @ studio.151

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 24-06-2021 t/m 26-06-2021
  • In samenwerking met: Yannik Güldner / Spectrum space
  • Locatie: Studio.151, Rotterdam
  • Solo exhibition @ studio.151 of all material and stories which are a part of 'Re-imagining a happy place'
  • https://www.instagram.com/thespectrumspace/

Cultural Workers Unite Anti-gentrification workshop

Workshop

  • 26-01-2022 t/m 26-01-2022
  • In samenwerking met: Rebecca Levy
  • Locatie: Rotterdam Studio.151, Rotterdam
  • A workshop with the topic of anti-gentrification in the Netherlands started by Cultural Workers United. Rebecca Levy and myself gave a workshop focusing on the future of the human mind and thoughts, calling it 'Homo Peace'. We also did a space performance with the participants.

Going to Canada I

Performance

  • 26-02-2022 t/m 26-03-2022
  • Locatie: The Performance Bar, Rotterdam
  • A performance at the Performance Bar as the first part of my performance triptych 'Going to Canada'.