On Sunday, April 26th 2009, Upgrade! Berlin and Upgrade! Skopje will host a dinner together. Elena Veljanovska from Line Initiative and Movement runs the program of Upgrade! Skopje. During the dinner, she will present various projects that have been realized by Upgrade!Skopje over the past two years, both on a local and international basis.
Everyone who is interested and seeks an opportunity for collaboration is invited to join!
Just send a mail to: info [at] mobile-studios.org, to confirm your presence!
Depending on the weather, the dinner will be either in the Weinbergspark (Berlin-Mitte), starting from 7 pm or at a private location. We will send you all the information via mail additionally.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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 (www.line.org.mk), 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.
Currently working as a guest- curator at the Stefreund gallery in Berlin (www.stedefreund-berlin.de) and as a co-curator of the Macedonian pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennial.
