Svetlana Racanović is an art historian, curator, and art critic.
She graduated in Art History from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She completed her MA in Arts and Cultural Management (ECUM–ECUMEST program) in Dijon. She earned her PhD in Transdisciplinary Studies of Contemporary Art and Media at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University in Belgrade.

Since 2018, she has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. From 2011 to 2015, she taught at the Department of Digital Art and New Media at FMK in Belgrade. From 2003 to 2009, she served as Director of the NGO Nansen Dialogue Centre Montenegro, and prior to that, from 2001 to 2003, as Executive Director of the NGO Montenegro Mobil Art.

She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in Montenegro and internationally, including: I Want to See My Mountains, Cetinje (2025); Obod and Clear Waters, 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Sweet, Small, Dirty Things, Artpoint Gallery, Vienna (2010); The Eros of Minor Transgression, 51st Venice Biennale (2005); Montenegrin Beauty, Motorenhalle, Dresden and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2005); Citadel, Budva and the Gallery of the Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade (2003); 4th Cetinje Biennale of Contemporary Art (2002); 5th Biennial of Young Visual Artists, Vršac (2002); Chain of Discovery, Montenegro (2001); 3rd Cetinje Biennale of Contemporary Art (2001).

She is the recipient of the “Lazar Trifunović” Award for Art Criticism (2004).

As a Fulbright Fellow, she was based in New York in 2014, and has also participated in artist residencies in New York (Residency Unlimited, 2023) and Vienna (KulturKontakt, 2009).

She is the author of the books: Marina Abramović – From Cut to Stitch (Geopoetika, Belgrade, 2019); Millennial Bug?! – The Montenegrin Art Scene around 2000: A Transgressive Coalition of Critique and Practice (CSU, Podgorica, 2009).

She has published numerous scholarly texts in art monographs, exhibition catalogues, academic journals, and art publications in Montenegro and abroad.