Olja Triaška Stefanović (1978) is a visual artist and photographer, born in Novi Sad, in the former Yugoslavia. During the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, she immigrated to Bratislava, Slovakia, where she completed her studies and PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD), where she currently lives and works. She is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
She was the recipient of a 2022–2023 Fulbright Scholarship at Parsons School of Design / The New School in New York, where she conducted visual research on the Cold War.
Her artistic work often explores the historical, political, and cultural context of the former Yugoslavia, as well as the consequences of the 1990s civil wars. Beyond these themes, her interdisciplinary visual research demonstrates a special interest in the politics of the post–World War II period, focusing on memory, forgetting, and the Cold War. Her projects frequently address topics such as the Non-Aligned Movement, decolonization, utopia, solidarity, and the (in)visible traces of the Cold War era. Her latest artistic project, Stories from Around the Non-Aligned, was presented as a solo exhibition in Berlin in November 2025. She is currently completing her new artistic book Yutopislavia: Intimate Stories of the Non-Aligned, which will be published and launched in May 2025.
In February 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at Das Weiße Haus in Vienna, where she presented her new exhibition Aren’t They Cute, focusing on animal diplomacy during the Cold War.
Olja Triaška Stefanović was selected for and awarded an artistic residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA. In 2025, she will conduct an interdisciplinary artistic project there, working with Cold War veterans at the Nike Missile Site in San Francisco.
Her work is included in private collections, as well as in the permanent collections of the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava and the City Gallery in Nitra, Slovakia.