Marija Miloshevska
МАМКА
jewellery convey the story of the earliest written testimony of the artificial fly for fishing, known worldwide as Macedonian Fly. This collection is a combination of two local ancient stories (filigree and fly fishing) into one personal perspective, creating international outreach; showing the connected structure they both are based on: Stillness, present moment, structure of information, knowledge, skills and history. The inspiration for "MAMKA" is directly related to the moment of survival, which through the filigree work and technique for producing artificial flies for fishing is revived in modern life as a moment of existence, from a practical to an artistically scientific aspect.Marija Miloshevska was born in 1982 in Skopje, Macedonia (now Northern Macedobnia). She matriculated in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, majoring in Ethnology and Anthropology. After finishing her studies in 2004, she diverted her attention to studying and conveying the process of the filigree technique via different media. In 2009, she had her first performance in/by which she did exactly that, depicting the process as a revival, starting from material omnipresence, through shaping and constructing, until the very end, when the work lives and possesses love and impetus. She was also one of the representatives for Macedonia at the XIV Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in the field of applied arts, which took place in Skopje in 2009.
Miloshevska presented her first independent exhibition of filigree jewellery and installations “OROROK – cold wire melted in a hot rhythm”, inspired by ex-Yugoslavian rock music in Skopje, Gevgelija, Ljubljana.
The year 2012 is a significant creative year for Miloshevska, having two performances about filigree technique, both in Skopje and Vienna, while also promoting her first documentary “Silver Song”, screened across multiple festivals outside Macedonia. The Festival of Rock-Movie Documentaries “DORF” in Vinkovci, Croatia, had entrusted Marija to be part of the creative team and design the prizes.
In July, 2015, she managed to make the prize for lifetime achievement for David Bowie, presented to him by the festival Skopje Cinema City. In collaboration with the curatorial organisation “Something Human” from London, Miloshevska realised two performances: “Home, migration, identity” in Skopje and “Crisis” in Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, Great Britain.
She takes part in the project for entrepreneurs in the organization CEED HUB in 2017, supported by the IME programme of the Swiss Embassy in Skopje.
Marija opens the Festival of New Media “Grisia Youth” in Rovinj, Croatia (2018) with the filigree-technique
performance on “Art is alive”. That very same year in November, Miloshevska participates in the research programme of Nomadic Dialogue in the organisation CCFT (https://www.researchcatalogue.
net/view/380422/491653) at the University of Bergen for Art, Music and Design, Norway, where she introduced a performance and exhibition on „Between imaginary boundaries“and „The ethics of fly fishing “.
In April, 2019, she was part of the renowned master of the filigree technique Goran Ristovic's exhibition „Raskrshche“, in Manak's House in Belgrade, Serbia.
Furthermore, Marija is also the owner of the brand #МАкедонскаМушичКА – МАМКА, whose products convey the story of the earliest written testimony of the artificial fly for fishing, known worldwide as Macedonian Fly. This collection is a combination of two local ancient stories (filigree and fly fishing) into one personal perspective, creating international outreach.
The idea behind this, as part of the creative industries, is presented on Creative Business Cup North Macedonia 2021.
Miloshevska won the prize BIG SEE fashion design for 2021 for her collection “MAMKA” in competition with 23 European countries (https://bigsee.eu/marija-miloshevska-mamka/)
In the period from August 25 to September 12, 2022, the MAMKA collection was promoted in the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, where it was also the first conceptual exhibition of a contemporary character in the 121 years of existence of this museum in Belgrade.
In October 2022 the collection MAMKA was promoted in Skopje in Museum of Northern Macedonia – Ethnographic museum.
www.instagram.com/macedonianfly
www.instagram.com/oroworkshop/
www.instagram.com/marija_hgag/
Miloshevska presented her first independent exhibition of filigree jewellery and installations “OROROK – cold wire melted in a hot rhythm”, inspired by ex-Yugoslavian rock music in Skopje, Gevgelija, Ljubljana.
The year 2012 is a significant creative year for Miloshevska, having two performances about filigree technique, both in Skopje and Vienna, while also promoting her first documentary “Silver Song”, screened across multiple festivals outside Macedonia. The Festival of Rock-Movie Documentaries “DORF” in Vinkovci, Croatia, had entrusted Marija to be part of the creative team and design the prizes.
In July, 2015, she managed to make the prize for lifetime achievement for David Bowie, presented to him by the festival Skopje Cinema City. In collaboration with the curatorial organisation “Something Human” from London, Miloshevska realised two performances: “Home, migration, identity” in Skopje and “Crisis” in Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, Great Britain.
She takes part in the project for entrepreneurs in the organization CEED HUB in 2017, supported by the IME programme of the Swiss Embassy in Skopje.
Marija opens the Festival of New Media “Grisia Youth” in Rovinj, Croatia (2018) with the filigree-technique
performance on “Art is alive”. That very same year in November, Miloshevska participates in the research programme of Nomadic Dialogue in the organisation CCFT (https://www.researchcatalogue.
net/view/380422/491653) at the University of Bergen for Art, Music and Design, Norway, where she introduced a performance and exhibition on „Between imaginary boundaries“and „The ethics of fly fishing “.
In April, 2019, she was part of the renowned master of the filigree technique Goran Ristovic's exhibition „Raskrshche“, in Manak's House in Belgrade, Serbia.
Furthermore, Marija is also the owner of the brand #МАкедонскаМушичКА – МАМКА, whose products convey the story of the earliest written testimony of the artificial fly for fishing, known worldwide as Macedonian Fly. This collection is a combination of two local ancient stories (filigree and fly fishing) into one personal perspective, creating international outreach.
The idea behind this, as part of the creative industries, is presented on Creative Business Cup North Macedonia 2021.
Miloshevska won the prize BIG SEE fashion design for 2021 for her collection “MAMKA” in competition with 23 European countries (https://bigsee.eu/marija-miloshevska-mamka/)
In the period from August 25 to September 12, 2022, the MAMKA collection was promoted in the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, where it was also the first conceptual exhibition of a contemporary character in the 121 years of existence of this museum in Belgrade.
In October 2022 the collection MAMKA was promoted in Skopje in Museum of Northern Macedonia – Ethnographic museum.
www.instagram.com/macedonianfly
www.instagram.com/oroworkshop/
www.instagram.com/marija_hgag/
