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Katarina Gotic Damiani is a poet whose practice spans experimental writing, translation, performance, and visual work, engaging language as a site of experimentation, negotiation, and material encounter. She is the author of three poetry collections—we need a breathing tongue between (kith books, 2024), where am i in the world? (2025), and leerlauf (parasitenpresse, 2026)—and has developed a series of language-based works exploring translinguality, fragmentation, and the loss of mothertongue(s).

Her practice has been supported by several grants and awards, including the Work Stipend for Non-German Literature (2023), the Research Scholarship for Translators (2024), and project and reading-series funding (2025) from the Berlin Senate.

She is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

She lives in Berlin.

education

2025 – PhD Artistic Research, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2023 – 2024 MA Art in Context, Universität der Künste Berlin
2016 – 2018 MSc Neural and Behavioural Sciences, Universität Tübingen
2013 – 2016 BSc Psychology, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

publications

books

Damiani Gotic, Katarina. leerlauf. parasitenpresse, 2026. (forthcoming) [announcement]
Damiani Gotic, Katarina & Damiani, Vincent. where am i in the world, 2025. [link]
Gotic, Katarina. we need a breathing tongue between. kith books, 2024. [link]

journal publications

Damiani Gotic, Katarina. “Practice Sharing III.” Language-Based Artistic Research Group 3, no. 3 (2026), [forthcoming]
––. “[to catch a cold in your kidney], [or ever the earth was].” SAND 29 (2026) [forthcoming]
Gotic, Katarina. “poet-language=poet(translated).” Secondary Archive (2025). [link]
––.. “četiri uloge tla.” (2025). Climateeurope2: Klimatska Akcija (2025).
––. “leerlauf: six poems / six visual collages.” Paperbag 1, no. 15 (2024). [link1] [link2]
––. “leerlauf” Sarajevo Photography Festival: Intersections (2024). [link]
––. “[dry sunflowers like showerheads, pointed at toes], [it takes 37 cameras to capture the
soul], [clasp a cuff below the sleeve].” LCB Digital Essay 1, no. 3 (2023). [link]
––. “2+1=sun.” Stadtsprachen 9, no. 26 (2023). [link]
––. “ŽELJA.” Stadtsprachen 9, no. 25 (2023). [link]
––. “leerlauf.” Harbor Review 5, no. 11 (2023). [link]
––. “leerlauf: BINGO” ETC. Magazine, vol.1, no.3, 2024
––. “codified absence.” Stoff aus Luft 2, no. 7 (2023). [link]
––. “leerlauf: six visual collages.” ARTWIFE (2023). [link]
––. “leerlauf: one visual collage.” Gulf Stream Magazine 34, no. 32 (2023). [link]
––. “ALKA.” SAND, no. 25 (2023): 63–65. [link]
––. “LJUBAVI, KOMUNISTO”, Nux Vomica, vol.2, no.7, 2023, pp. 14-16

translations

Kaplan, Almin. “House people.” Translated by Katarina Gotic. Lyrikline (2024). [link]
––. “It is morning and sun carries naked treetops like antlers.” Translated by Katarina Gotic. Lyrikline (2024). [link]
Mladenović, Dragana. “RELATIVES.” Translated by Katarina Gotic. Lyrikline (2024). [link]

exhibitions

solo

she opens herself to ~~thirteen~~ thirty-two ways of looking at a motherland, Gallery VAGON, Banja Luka, 2026. [link]

group

“codified absence” 48 Stunden Neukölln, Ivallan’s Books, Berlin, 2026. [forthcoming]
“your wintercreature” A Science of Singularity in the Age of Light‍, PART, Vienna, 2026. [link]

“where am i in the world?” To Move, To Stay, To Return, GMK, Zagreb, 2025. [link]
“codified absence” BUNA Vol. 3: DISCOVERY AND OTHERNESS IN THE AGE 5.0, Varna, Bulgaria, 2025. [link]
“leerlauf” Sarajevo Photography Festival, Bosanski Kulturni Centar, Sarajevo, 2025. [link]
“leerlauf: a thin band of glue” 25. Poesiefestival Berlin. backsteinboot, Berlin, 2024.
“otkazna pisma III” Poetry in an expanded field, Gallery Manifesto, Sarajevo, 2023. [link]
“otkazna pisma II” Poetry in an expanded field, KRAK, Bihać, 2023. [link]
“VENAC” Novi Talasi. Bosanski Kulturni Centar, Sarajevo, 2023. [link]

performances

your wintercreature, Public Colloquium, 26.05.2026, PART Vienna [link]
SAND no. 29 launch reading, 23.05.2026, Lettretage, Berlin [link]
Book Launch: to work from simultaneity, 17.05.2026, Künstlerstätte Stuhr-Heiligenrode, Stuhr [link]
Reading with Emily Brandt, Inna Krasnoper and Amelia Ada, 10.05.2026, Café Plume, Berlin [link]
Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work). 24.04.2026, Lettretage, Berlin [link]
DEVOTED. FU Review, 26.02.2026, Shakespeare and Sons, Berlin. [link]
i grow my home twofold, become place. 24.08.2025, OPEN Späti, Berlin. [link]
Poetry Reading & Conversation: Crista Siglin, Katarina Gotic Damiani and Marina Reza. 26.07.2025, Gallery And, Berlin. [link]
[how \ long is the letter i ]. Wofür ist es zu spät?, 29.06.2025, OPEN Späti, Berlin. [link]
the tides of lethe. 22.06.2025, Torstrasse 95, 10119 Berlin. [link]
Berlin Poetry Collective: summer reading. 31.05.2025, Club der polnischen Versager, Berlin.
Berlin Poetry Collective: spring reading. 22.02.2025, Club der polnischen Versager, Berlin. [link]
a thin band of glue. 25. Poesiefestival Berlin. 08.07.2024, backsteinboot, Berlin. [link1] [link2]
Book Launch: we need a breathing tongue between. 14.05.2024, Ivallan’s Books, Berlin. [link]
Book Launch: we need a breathing tongue between. 05.05.2024, Cafe Plume, Berlin. [link]
we need a breathing tongue between. 14.02.2024, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin.
Vocations – Reimagining the Lied. 16.11.2023, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
some words nearly in ruins: a reading and conversation with Tracy Fuad and Katarina Gotic. 02.11.2023, Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin.
Literatur in den Sprachen Berlins 2023. 25.08.2023, Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin. [link]
codified absence. 23 Poesiefestival Berlin. 17.06.2022. Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
SAND no. 25 launch reading, 29.03.2023, Hallesches Haus, Berlin. [link]

grants, awards & residencies

2025. Remember Freedom. WHW Akademija, Zagreb, Croatia [link]
2025. for “OPEN Späti: Wofür ist es zu spät? – Eine Lesereihe im Spätkauf” Project and Reading Series Funding. Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin, Germany [link]
2025. Secondary Archive. Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Warszawa, PL), Visegrad Fund (Bratislava, SK). [link]
2024. for“Mijenadaha” Research Scholarship for Translators. Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin, Germany. [link]
2024. for “leerlauf” Sarajevo Photography Festival: Conceptual Photography Award. Sarajevo Photography Festival, Sarajevo, B&H. [link]
2023. for “leerlauf” Work Stipend for non-German Literature. Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin, Germany. [link1] [link2]
2023. for “VENAC” Pop Art Festival Award. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2023. for “Otkazna Pisma” ZVONO Award. KRAK (Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Residency Unlimited (New York, USA), Trust for Mutual Understanding (New York, USA). [link]
2016 - 2019. Max-Planck Society fellowship. Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.

others with & about me

Jovanović, Bojana. “Do Machines Dream of Digital Art?” Vogue Adria, vol. 2(14), 2025. [link]
ŠPALT. “Ana Kotar Škarjak and Katarina Gotic Damiani”. ŠPALT Magazine, 2025. [link]
OPEN Späti, project website, 2025. [link]
Papadakis, Emilia. “Berliner Kollektiv bringt mehrsprachige Poesie in den Späti.” taz.de, 2025. [link]
Pejić, Ivana‚. “WHW Akademija: Pokret, ostanak, povratak.” Kulturpunkt.hr, 2025. [link]
Mahlberg, Sarah. “Kulturort Spätkauf: Lieber früher als Späti.” Deutschlandfunk, 2025 [link]
Savić, Julija. “Otpor kroz poeziju i umjetnost.” Kulturpunkt.hr, 2025. [link]
Klein, Yessica. “#50 OPEN Späti Collective (Sonja Azizaj, Magdalena Filkova, Katarina Gotic Damiani).” That Poetry Thing, 2025. [link]
––. “#36 Katarina Gotic‑Damiani, Artist & Poet.” That Poetry Thing, 2024. [link]
kith books. “pressed into ink”, 2024. [link]
KRAK Centar. “ZVONO23: Poezija u proširenom polju.” Youtube, 2023. [link]
KRAK Centar. “Poetry in an expanded field.” e-flux Announcements, 2023. [link ]