Natalija Gajić
Natalija Gajić (1994) is a Slovenian visual artist, performer and journalist. Her practice is developed across media research, audiovisual work, theater and dance
As an artist and cultural producer, she is active within the association Boja (Izola,SLO), and in 2023, she co-founded the artistic and production collective Format (Koper, SLO). Since 2022, she has been working in television production as an editor, journalist, and camera operator in the Primorska region. Her work continues to be presented in Slovenia and abroad through exhibitions, television, festivals, and performance events.
Presented video and audiovisual work
Contemporary dance street experiment (Nov 2024) – Koper, Portorož, Postojna, Strunjan - Slovenia | Video documentation
Liebe dusters (Oct 2024) - Skladišče Libertas, Koper | videographer
Kons (Oct 2024) – Gledališče Koper, Slovenia | Visual artist, visuals
Tabak: The Square (Apr 2023) – Bologna, Italy | Video artist, performer
Magazzino: Veslaški klub Libertas (Mar 2023) – Skladišče Libertas, Koper, Slovenia | Video installation
Reahat – Port of Koper (2022) – Skladišče Libertas, Koper, Slovenia | Visual artist, visuals
Vetru (Mar 2021) – Art Kino Odeon | Dancer, camera, editing
Kalu: What We Are (Jan 2020) – Online | Camera, editor, director
Stik (2020) – Online | Camera, editor, director
Films
Krea (Jan 2024) – Koper, Slovenia | Post-production, editor
Contemporary Dance performances
Tabak: The Square — FAKI Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2025 — dancer, choreographer (Tabak collective)
Kons 7 — Festival Libertas, Skladišče Libertas, Koper, Slovenia, 2024 — dancer, choreographer (Format collective)
Tabak: The Square — premiere, Gledališče Koper, Koper, Slovenia, 2023 — dancer, choreographer (Tabak collective)
Tabak: La piazza — open rehearsal, Arco Iris, Bologna, Italy, 2023 — dancer, choreographer (Tabak collective)
ERA — Kulturni dom Izola, Izola, Slovenia, 2021 — dancer, choreographer (dance studio Erato)
Stik — Festival of Dance Creativity Živa, Španski borci, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019 — dancer, choreographer (dance studio Erato)
Terpsichorean — Festival JEFF, Koper, Slovenia, 2019 — dancer (dance studio Erato)
alteRealno, OPUS 1 — Španski borci, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018 — dance & choreography (dance studio Erato)
Vzlet neznanega časa — Gledališče Koper, Koper, Slovenia, 2012 — dancer (dance studio Lai)
Exhibitions
A se spomniš?/ Do you remember? photography exhibition - Skladišče Libertas, Koper, November 2023
Črna pega audio-visual installation, Chasers photograph - Pop Up UM, Skladišče Libertas, Koper, July - Sep 2021 | Collective exhibition
Črna pega audio-visual installation – Salsaverde, Izola, 2021 | Solo exhibition
Buerocratic Machine avdio visual installation, collaboration with Giacomo Calzelari, There’s no mirror visual installation - A Walk Through Identity, Arco Iris, Bologna, Italy, October 2020 | collective exhibition within artistic resideny Izola-Bologna (KUD Boja, Association Ottovolante)
Instructions before usage audio installation - TRK, Salsaverde, Izola, October 2020 | collective exhibiton within artistic resideny Izola-Bologna (KUD Boja, Association Ottovolante)
Časnost brezčasja / The temporality of timelessness photography exhibition- Sončna dvorana, Izola | solo exhibition
Photography projects
Harmonija / Harmony (2025) – Fashion editorial
Pauza – Tabak Booklet (2023) – photo booklet
Highschool Nostalgia (2022) – Fashion editorial
Street Kids (2022) – Fashion editorial, Faculti of Applied Sciences - Photography, Ljubljana
Otherness (2022) – Photo booklet, Faculti of Applied Sciences - Photography, Ljubljana
Workshops & Teaching
Gibalnica: Body in space (Nov 2023) – Center mladih Koper | Co-leader, dance workshop (KUD Format)
Grounding group project (Jul 2023) – Butik Festival, Tolmin, Slovenia | Leader, body movement workshop (KUD Format)
Sound-body movement workshops – Wawings: water, air, eath, fire (Nov–Dec 2023) – Mladinski center Markovec, Koper | leader of body movement
Almost (dance) impro-liga (Oct 2021) – Center mladih Koper | Co-leader, dance improvisation workshop (Plesni studio Erato)
Selected TV Features
Pogled nazaj: Portorož nekoč / Look Back: Portorose in the past - 80’ and 90’s party scene (Aug 2024) – Koper, Slovenia | Journalist, editor | Watch
Pogled nazaj: Mario Magajna, tržaški fotograf/ Look back: Mario Magajna, Trieste photographer (Jun 2024) – Koper, Slovenia | Journalist, editor | Watch
Tema tedna: Urbana kultura v MOK in Skladišče Libertas / Theme of the week: Urban Culture in Koper (Nov 2023) – Koper, Slovenia | Journalist, director, DOP, editor | Watch
Selected published Articles
Irena Urbič: koprska kulturna spletična (Jul 2024) – Newspaper Megafon | Journalist
Svoboda Libertasu (Nov 2023) – Newspaper Megafon | Journalist
Street art for only 15,5€! (Februar 2023) - Newspaper Megafon | Journalist
Selected radio work
Artikul: Ment 2023 (Feb 2023) – Koper, Ljubljana | Journalist, radio host | Neodvisni obalni radio
Strange Fruits (2022–2023) – Koper, Slovenia | Radio host, editor | Monthly show on new music releases
Cultural organization & production
Dancing the Roots: Afuera Teatro (Nov 2024) – Gledališče Koper | Coordinator, PR, organizer
Gluten Morgen: Tamorra & 93kb (Oct 2024) – Center mladih Koper | Organizer, PR, video documentation
Za Palestino / For Palestine (Sep 2024) – Arrigoni | Promotion, event moderator
Brbotanje, series of music events (Nov–Dec 2022) – Skladišče Libertas, Koper | Coordinator, PR, scenography
San Lorenzo Concert (Nov 2022) – Center mladih Koper | Organizer, PR
Festival Jeff, entno jazz festival(2016 - 2019) - Klub študentov občine Koper, Koper | Member of the Programming Committee, organization, PR
Kino Otok – Isola Cinema, international film festival (2016 - 2019) | organization, coordination
Kranjska Gora Film Festival, international film festival (2016 - 2017) | organization, PR
