Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, an artist, and the editor of Art Box portal, a platform dedicated to contemporary culture. As Editor-in-Chief, she curates content that informs and engages readers on women’s issues, diverse cultures, visual art, film, literature, and the performing arts. Through the careful selection and presentation of diverse texts, she strives to make contemporary art and underrepresented perspectives—including those of women and marginalized voices—more accessible and relevant to a wider audience.

Below is an overview of the experience and background that shape her curatorial and artistic approach.

As a writer, cultural researcher, and artist with a deep connection to Scandinavia and Northern Europe, Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić has worked across various locations in the region, including Norway (USF Verftet, Frida Hansen Hus, KH Messen, The Spitsbergen Artists Center / Svalbard), Iceland (Gunnar Gunnarsson Residency), Sweden (Konstepidemin), Finland (Erro Nelimarkka Museum, KulttuuriKauppila), and Greenland (Upernavik Museum).

Throughout her career, Maletin Vojvodić has held various roles as a writer-in-residence, artist, and researcher in countries including Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Japan, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Estonia, Austria, and Latvia. She has actively participated in artist residencies and research projects across Japan, Russia, Austria, France, Portugal, Latvia, Estonia, the United States, and Spain.

Ljiljana Maletin’s writings span a wide range of subjects, including contemporary visual art, (post)feminist and women’s art, gender studies, Scandinavian studies, intercultural dialogue, and art books.

Among her literary works are novels such as Skrik, Those Who Eat Raw Meat, Dwarves and Hyperborea, and In Exile, as well as non-fiction narratives like Farsickness / Homesickness / Homelessness.

She has also written numerous essays, including A Woman Artist’s Room of One’s Own, How to Understand Contemporary Art Practice, How to Understand New Art Practice, Norway: From Bjørnson to Knausgaard, The Image of Sweden in Serbian Culture, Finland – Land of Kalevala, Lakes, and Saunas, and Norwegian Story.

She won several literary awards: Ulaznica Zrenjanin (first prize for essay), Milutin Uskoković (second prize for short story), and Andra Gavrilović (first prize for short story). Her novel Skrik (2020) was longlisted for the NIN Award in 2021.

Additionally, Ljiljana Maletin has published and exhibited photo books and conceptual art books.

Education:

Magistra der Philosophie (Serbo-Croatian Language and Literature) Department of Literature, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (GPA: 9.36/10.00)

Artist-in-Residence, Mobility, Literary Grants, Scholarships, and Programs

• USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway, 2026.

• KulttuuriKauppila, Ii, Finland, 2025. (artist-in-residence and grant)

• Contexts of Invisibility: Artist Residencies and Marginalized Groups, project residency, Paris, France, 2025.

• AiR Writers’ House, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2024.

• How to Understand Contemporary Art Practice, City of Novi Sad support grant, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2024.

• The Spitsbergen Artists Center, Svalbard, Norway, 2024.

• Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2024.

• A Woman Artist’s Studio of One’s Own, City of Novi Sad support grant, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2023.

• USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway, 2023–2024.

• Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden, Serbian Ministry of Culture support grant, 2023.

• USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway, 2022–2023.

• Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden, Serbian Ministry of Culture support grant, 2022.

• Vlasina Art Colony, Serbia.

• AiR Writers’ House, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2022.

• Meaning of Home, Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2022 support grant, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022.

• How to Understand New Art Practice, Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2022 support grant, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2021.

• Research Trip, New York, USA, 2021.

• TYPA Centre, Tartu, Estonia, Serbian Ministry of Culture support grant, 2020.

• Artists. Now., European Capital of Culture 2022 project support grant, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2020.

• Gunnarshús, Writers’ Union of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2020.

• Research Trip, Tokyo, Japan, EU–Japan Fest Committee & Novi Sad ECoC 2022 Kizuna mobility grant, 2019.

• Gunnarshús, Writers’ Union of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2019.

• Q21 – MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria support grant, 2018.

Publications

Contexts of Invisibility: Artist Residencies and Marginalized Groups, Novi Sad (author), 2025.

How to Understand Contemporary Art Practice, e-book (editor), Novi Sad, 2024.

A Woman Artist’s Studio of One’s Own, Novi Sad, e-book, 2023.

How to Understand Contemporary Art Practice, e-book (with Dragan Vojvodić), Novi Sad, 2023.

Evrovizion. Crossing Stories, magazine (Novi Sad edition), ifa, 2023 (co-editor with Sanja Kojić Mladenov)

#Meaning of Home (Farsickness, Homesickness, Homelessness), Novi Sad, 2022.

How to Understand New Art Practice (with Dragan V. Todoreskov), Novi Sad, 2021.

Skrik, Novi Sad, 2020.

‘Post Nora’ Art(ist)?, Novi Sad, 2020 (e-book, Art Book)

Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, ‘Post Nora’ Art(ist)?, 2020.

Nostalgia for the North, Novi Sad, 2017.

Proust’s Madeleines in the Supermarket (with Dragan Vojvodić), Novi Sad, 2016.

Those Who Eat Raw Meat, Novi Sad, 2016.

Vanishing Homes, Novi Sad, 2016.

Dwarves and Hyperborea, Kindle Amazon, 2014.

Those Who Eat Raw Meat, Novi Sad, 2013.

A Norwegian Story, Novi Sad, 2013.

In Exile, Novi Sad, 2011.

Sweden, the Land of Kalevala, Lakes and Saunas, Novi Sad, 2011.

Karlovci Grammar School (co-author), Novi Sad, 2010.

Icelandic Guidebook: Dwarves and Hyperborea, Novi Sad, 2008.

Artist’s Books and Collages

Instruction Readings, TYPA, Estonia (Limited Art Books), 2020.

Artist’s Books, TYPA, Estonia. Photo: Art Box portal

Instruction as Writings, Novi Sad, 2016.

Vanishing Home, Novi Sad, 2016.

Instruction as Writings, Bergen, Norway, 2015.

Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, Collages as Literature, Gothenburg, 2024. Photo: LJMV

Fabrikken, Bergen, Norway, 2015.

“Who?” makE Künst?, Bergen, Norway, 2014.

Gothenburg Art Book, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014.

Featured in Anthologies

Novi Sad Literary Guidebook, Bulevar Books, Novi Sad, 2022.

ERKLÄRUNG FÜR ALLES: New Texts from Central, Eastern, Southeastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, Graz, Austria, 2021.

Ulaznica, Zrenjanin, 2021.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2018–2019, Impact Press, UK, 2019.

Pichweis, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012.

Međaj, Užice, 2009.

The Shortest Stories, Alma, Belgrade, 2005.

Imprints of the Planet’s Heart, Beografiti, Belgrade, 1999.

Exhibitions

Parallel Realities (Maja Erdeljanin, Stevan Kojić, Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, Dragan Vojvodić), Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Dubrovnik & Flora Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2025.

Carbon Footprint (with Dragan Vojvodić), The Spitsbergen Artists Center, Svalbard, Norway, 2024.

Vlasina Art Colony (2018–2023), Studentski Grad Cultural Center, Belgrade, 2024.

Mobility, Home and Belonging: The Politics of Postmigration, curated by Hélène Ducros for EuropeNow, Council for European Studies (CES), Columbia University, USA, 2023.

49th Vlasina Art Colony, Leskovac Cultural Center, curated by Jelena Matić, Leskovac, 2023.

#Meaning of Home in Today’s World (Farsickness/Homesickness/Homelessness), Creative District, Novi Sad, co-curator with Dragan Vojvodić, supported by Novi Sad ECoC Foundation 2022, 2022.

#Meaning of Home in Today’s World, Reykjavík, Iceland. Photo: D. V.

Meaning of Home #Gothenburg, Konstepidemin AiR, Open Studio, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2022.

Meaning of Home in Today’s World, TYPA Museum, performance, Tartu, Estonia, 2020.

Photography as an Artistic Concept, Magacin Kraljevića Marka, curated by Svetlana Mladenov, Belgrade, 2018.

Museum Night, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, 2008 & 2011.

Men Through Women’s Eyes, Jefimija Gallery (Special Award), Belgrade, 2008.

Art Tech Belgrade; 7 KEF; Rex Center; Café Moscow (Berlin); Mobil Eye 2; Museum Night – British Council & Gallery “Žad”; FemFest (Zagreb), 2006.

Collaboration (Performances, Visual Art, Co-editing)

Since 2006, she has collaborated on international projects with multimedia artist Dragan Vojvodić in Paris (Cité des Arts, 2025), Estonia (TYPA, Tartu, 2020), Czech Republic (DEPO 2015, Plzeň), France (Cité des Arts, Paris), Finland (Nelimarkka Museum, KulttuuriKauppila, Koli Residency), Iceland (SIM House, Writers’ House), as well as performances in Croatia (ARL Dubrovnik, Poola Gallery, Pula), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Zvono Gallery), and artistic projects and exhibitions in Serbia (official program Novi Sad ECoC 2022 – Meaning of Home), among others.

Editorial Work

Co-editor (with Dr. Sanja Kojić Mladenov) of EVROVIZION: CROSSING STORIES (Novi Sad edition, 2023), published by the German organization ifa; editor of the newsletter for the International Contemporary Art Festival Danube Dialogues (2019–2021); author and co-author of projects supported by the City of Novi Sad Department of Culture, the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, and others.

Memberships

Serbian Literary Society, Belgrade, Serbia

Association of Writers of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

Contact

ljiljanamv@artboxportal.com

Novi Sad, Serbia