Mia David

Mia David was born in Belgrade in 1974. She graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture and received her MA and PhD in Scene Design from the University of Arts in Belgrade. She works in the field of contemporary visual and performing arts, as well as management in culture. She is a member of the Serbian Chamber of Engineers, Association of Architects of Belgrade, Independent Journalist Association of Serbia (NUNS) and Independent Curators Network. She worked on a number of project in the fields of architecture, design, scenography, and arts. Additionally, she is the author of numerous texts published in different forms of media.

She has exhibited in Berlin, New York, Vienna, Paris, Rennes, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Frankfurt, Moscow, Rome, Venice, Prague, etc. She has been awarded for her work, including the Gold Medal for Provoking a Dialogue at the Prague Quadrennial 2015, as a curator of the National Serbian exhibition. She worked at architectural studios DSZ and Blok and was a founder and the head editor of the Kvart magazine, as well as one of the founders of Blokovi(NGO). She authored the radio program entitled Life as such (Zivot kao takav) at the Radio B92. David was a lecturer at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of Belgrade University. Between 2010 and 2014 she was the Director of the Belgrade Culture Centre.

Since 2016, Mia David is the Head Curator of the Navigator Gallery in Belgrade. From 2017 she is the author of the Spaces of Freedom (Prostori slobode), an online video show on the Remarker web portal. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Novi Sad where she teaches scene design, contemporary architecture, arts, and culture.