Antonia FRIEDMAN

Antonia Majaca Friedman's work spans critical environmental theory and political epistemology of the postwar techno technoscience. Grounded in anti-colonial feminist praxis, her research often manifests as discursive, critical-creative interventions at the intersection of contemporary art and academia. Her current work is developing at the intersections of political ecology and social theory in the context of the critique of the Anthropocene hypothesis.

She is the editor of the forthcoming volume "Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis" (Bloomsbury: Theory in the New Humanities, 2024), which builds upon her role as principal investigator for the multi-year artistic research project 'The Incomputable'' (2019-2021) at the IZK - Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, funded by the Austrian National Science Fund (FWF).

Currently she is a research fellow in the HealthXCross ERC research project at the University of Ca' Foscari in Venice. Her doctoral research, drawing on materialist feminist, decolonial, and indigenous epistemologies, focuses on how thinking across scales and bio-geological interdependencies can inform a reconceptualization of "planetary health".

Her academic trajectory includes positions such as visiting professor at the Graz University of Technology, IZK - Institute for Contemporary Art (2015-2016), and lecturer in critical theory at the Dutch Art Institute (2018-2020). She was one of the research curators for the 'Kanon Fragen' project at the HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, where she co-curated the exhibition 'Parapolitics - Cultural Freedom and the Cold War' (2017) and co-edited the accompanying book, published by Sternberg press.

In 2015, Majaca founded 'Feminist Takes', an ongoing, itinerant investigation into the relationship between Non-Western avant-garde cinema and feminist praxis. This project has resulted in sessions at various international institutions and the publication of 'Feminist Takes: Early Works' (Sternberg Press, 2021).

Her contributions to major international art events include authoring a collective aural project for Documenta 14 and co-curating its discursive program 'Women's Work in Revolt'. She has also directed educational programs for the Berlin Biennale X and developed research and discursive projects commissioned by institutions such as the German DAAD and HAU - Hebel am Ufer Theater, Berlin.

From 2005 to 2011, Majaca served as the artistic director of G-MK - Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, a non-profit contemporary art space in Zagreb. Concurrently, she engaged in independent curatorial work, often in collaboration with art historian and theorist Ivana Bago, focusing on projects at the intersection of art, politics, and cultural theory.

She is an editorial committee member of the South as a State of Mind journal and a frequent contributor to art and theory publications, including E-Flux journal and various edited volumes. Her work has been presented at numerous institutions worldwide, including MoMA (NYC), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin).

Majaca's educational background includes studies in Art History, Comparative Literature, and Political Theory in Zagreb, New York, and London, with postgraduate scholarships from Goldsmiths College London and New York University. Her research has been supported by grants from the Getty Foundation, Fundación Cisneros, and FFAI foundation, among others.