art historian, curator, cultural worker based in Vienna

Amalija Stojsavljević (b. 1984, Pančevo) is an art historian, curator, and cultural worker based in Vienna. Her practice critically engages with otherness, reproductive labor, and feminist artistic strategies, often framed through post-Yugoslav and migrant perspectives. In parallel, she also works with outsider art, focusing on questions of visibility, artistic recognition, and institutional frameworks.

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Her current focus is the forthcoming book Distaff: Contemporary Embroidery in the Former Yugoslav Countries (2025), which builds on years of curatorial research and maps over thirty artists and collectives who use embroidery as a medium of storytelling and resistance. This publication follows the regional exhibition Hand Job: What We Know About Contemporary Non-Traditional Embroidery (Remont, Belgrade 2022 / Layerjeva Hiša, Kranj 2023). She also initiated and edited the feminist publication Uterus Effects (2020), which brought together essays, testimonies, and artworks addressing art, maternity, and reproductive health. Her curatorial work further includes (co-curated) Doing the Dirty Work (Wienwoche, Vienna 2022), which examined undervalued reproductive labor, and the panel discussion Women in Art Brut: Outsiders among Outsiders? (Belgrade 2024). In addition to these projects, she has organized and participated in numerous exhibitions, festivals, workshops, lectures, and discussions.

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Since February 2025, Amalija has been part of the artistic team of TEATA, a new multilingual theatre in Vienna that is currently in development. Within TEATA, she develops a community outreach strategy and an additional program that connects artistic work with diverse local communities and fosters inclusive spaces for cultural participation. All information about TEATA’s development and activities will be available on teata.at.