BRITISH AMERICAN WRITER Maia Damianovic born in 1976 is a

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writer of art critical texts, magazine articles, exhibition catalogs, artist monograms and art reviews.

Early life and education

Damianovic was born in southern

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, but grew up in

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. She attended the

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and studied art and culture at the

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Career

Damianovic has worked as an independent curator of large-scale projects for institutions such as the Smithsonian (1996), Kunstraum Innsbruck (2000, 2006), Frame Programme of the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum in Bolzano, Italy (2002), Steirischer Herbst Festival,

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(2002), Brandts Klædefabrik,

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(2006), and the Lentos Museum of Contemporary Art,

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. Her projects are usually presented in public and off-site locations. She specializes in situational and performative interactions, and enactments. She co-founded Future Systems Projects with

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in 2007, and currently works in the company as an architectural designer. In March and April of 2015, she curated "Radical Busts", 36 busts of significant women from antiquity through modern times. The collection was featured in the Gender Equality section of the 650th Jubilee at the

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References

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