Dejan Vasić
Dejan Vasić (1985) is an art historian and curator of late modern and contemporary art and moving image media. Vasić holds a BA and MA in Art History from the University of Belgrade and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.
Vasić specializes in the transnational avant-garde and conceptual art, concentrating primarily on performance, video art, photography, and artists’ films and media works. His research intersects art, power, war, and everyday life, with methodological grounding in historical materialism, memory politics, decolonial, gender, feminist and queer theory, and affirmation of critical thinking as a public good. He is invested in writings in the first person, and frequently collaborates with artists who battle social, economic and political problems.
Vasić engages in radical curatorial practices and critical writing that delves into the politics and ethics of aesthetics. Since 2012, he is a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA and has served on the Program Advisory Board of AICA-Serbia (2020-2023). Dejan curated visual arts program at the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade (2017-2023), co-edited the Beton - Cultural Propaganda Kit (2018-2023), was part of the Four Faces of Omarska Working Group (2010-2015), the Culture of Memory curatorial platform (2010-2014) and Kontekst Collective (2009-2013).