Filip Jovanovski (Bitola/Skopje, 1979) is a visual artist and cultural worker. He graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje, he also has an MA at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Department of painting. He often uses a curatorial approach in his works, and creates socially engaged and interdisciplinary art projects, often working with different communities like the projects “If Buildings could talk” and CAC (Center for Art and Culture) TEXTILE in Štip. Jovanovski had many solo exhibitions in the country and abroad and participated in many group exhibitions.

His project “This building talks truly”, curated by Ivana Vaseva, which represented The Republic of North Macedonia at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019 won the prestigious Golden Triga for best exposition. He was one of the authors of the Macedonian pavilion titled “Freeing Space” which was presented at the Venice Biennale of architecture in 2018. He has made about 30 stage designs for theater plays, video and documentary projects and won several awards such as the award for best stage design at the festival “Vojdan Chernodrinski” in Prilep (2010, co-author), Special Architecture Award from the Association of Architects of Macedonia (2014, co-author), winner of the Young Visual Artist Award DENES (2013), Award Ladislav Barišić by AICA – Macedonia for a research project (2015, co-author) etc. Since 2007, he is artistic director of the AKTO Festival for contemporary arts in Bitola and is co-managing the organization for art and culture “Faculty of things that can’t be learned (FR~U)”.

Role in the Biennale 2022.

jury member of Awards and Accolades 

Collab Commons