Jelena Petrović is an art researcher, theorist, and curator actively engaged in texts, events, exhibitions, and projects concerning knowledge production within the post-Yugoslav space and beyond. She completed her PhD studies at ISH, the Ljubljana Graduate School for Humanities, in 2009, where she has since continued to teach and collaborate on various international projects until 2012. From 2008 to 2014, she was a member of the art-theory group Grupa Spomenik (The Monument Group). In 2011, she co-founded and became a member of the feminist curatorial collective Red Min(e)d, co-curating the series of Living Archive exhibitions in several cities, including Zagreb, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Vienna, Stockholm, and Munich, as well as the Belgrade’s 54th October Salon (2013). As the initiator of the course Living Archive: Feminist Curatorship and Contemporary Artistic Practices, she worked as a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (2014-2017). Following her tenure as the Endowed Professor for Central and South Eastern European Art Histories at the Academy of Fine Arts from 2015 to 2017, she continued her research at the same institution on the FWF Elise Richter project The Politics of Belonging: Art Geographies (2019-2023). Petrović’s recent publications include two books: Women’s Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia: The Politics of War and Struggle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and GEOPOLIS: The Politics of Belonging and Planetary Coexistence (Academy of Fine Arts and Sternberg Press, forthcoming 2024).