Yane Calovski is an artist and curator living and working in Skopje. His practice incorporates writing, drawing, video, public actions, publications, installations, and curatorial projects, and his work has been exhibited and published internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at the European Kunshalle in Cologne, Germany (2009) and in Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, Italy (2008). Calovski is the founder and artistic director of “press to exit project space” in Skopje, Macedonia, and the contemporary art periodical D (D is for Drawing). He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadephia (1992–96) and Bennington College, Vermont (1996–97) and participated in the post-graduate studio program at the CCA Kitakyushu, Japan (1999–2000) and at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2002–04). He is currently working on PONDER PAUSE PROCESS (A SITUATION), an exhibition project to be presented at the Tate Britain as part of Contemporary Art Society’s centenary program (2010).
Project 35 is a program of single-channel videos selected by 35 international curators who have each chosen one work by an artist that they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today. The resulting compendium is released in four installments and is presented simultaneously in an ever-expanding number of venues.