Anamarija Batista

Anamarija Batista is an experienced interdisciplinary researcher and curator working at the intersection of art, architecture and economics. As a senior researcher at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, she has explored and developed the methods of artistic and scientific practice to investigate the question of socialist perspectives on leisure as part of the project "Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism": The Adriatic Coast as a Leisure and Defence Paradise" (funded by the PEEK programme). She is deeply engaged with issues of modern and contemporary art practice, architectural theory, economics and educational practice. In addition to her extensive experience in research, she also has good practice in curatorial and artistic work. Her exhibitions include: The Distance View (Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2023), Productive Work - what is it supposed to be? (frei_raum, Museumsquartier, 2018), The Munchhausen effect- Micro-utopias on Time in the Time of having no Time (Galerie 5020, 2017), Crisis as Ideology? (Kunstraum Niederösterreich, 2016). She is co-editor of Rethinking Density: Art, Culture and Urban Practices (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017) and Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations Through History and Art (London: UCL, 2017) as well as the editor of Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2022). In 2024, her monograph Reimagining the Obsolete City will be published by Routledge.