Damjan Kokalevski

Damjan Kokalevski is a curator at the Architekturmuseum der TUM and a postdoctoral researcher at the TUM Chair of Architecture History and Curatorial Practice. He earned his PhD in 2018 from ETH Zurich with a dissertation titled Performing the Archive: Skopje – From the Ruins of the City of the Future. His doctoral thesis was further developed into a series of curatorial projects and the book Skopje Walkie Talkie, co-edited with Susanne Hefti (2019).

Born and raised in Skopje, he trained as an architect and has worked across academia and practice in Vienna, Tokyo, Zurich, and Munich. Most recently, Kokalevski co-curated the exhibition The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture at the Architekturmuseum der TUM (2024) and co-edited the e-flux architecture online publication of the same title.

His ongoing curatorial and research project, City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground, examines data infrastructure through questions that connect the data economy to its physical form, with a focus on ecological, material, and societal costs. The project led to an exhibition, catalog, and public program at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in fall 2025.