The exhibition "Retro: Body Retrospectives" by artist Jana Jakimovska is multimedia in nature and includes works from several recent periods of her work.

“Retro: Body Retrospectives is a look back at herself as a human being, a social being, a woman, a mother, an artist. The focus of the exhibition is the body, but as a metaphor for the human, the profane, the uncomfortable: the body ages, grows fat; the body copulates, gives birth; the body bleeds, dies; the body needs to be covered, to be punished. Where is the boundary between me and my body? What is ‘me’, and what is the body? How should I and my body feel in different emotional and social contexts? To whom does the body owe, to whom does it hold responsibility? ‘Retro…’ does not pretend to be a retrospective exhibition because it is not – it merely recycles and recontextualizes some already seen concepts, in an attempt to answer these questions.” – Jana Jakimovska, visual artist

"In our country, feminism in fine art can be traced through several individual artistic engagements that approach current problems with various methodologies and neologisms. One of the most consistent representatives of this current in the Macedonian contemporary scene is certainly the contribution of the artist Jana Jakimovska, who devotes almost her entire visual opus of the past 20 years to treating various problems related to gender equality and the social inclusion of women in the "modern" and "democratic" society. One of the main characteristics of Jakimovska's feminist approach is the inclusion of all senses in the act of seeing and the subsequent collapse of the boundary between subject and object." - Ana Frangovska, curator

Jana Jakimovska was born in 1981 in Skopje. She graduated (2005) and received her master's degree (2009) from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. In addition to painting, she also works with digital art, mural painting, photography, installations, graphic design, illustration and performance. Much of her recent work deals with issues of the body, self, sexuality, and the position of women in contemporary society. She has had 20 solo exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Belgrade, Pristina, Skopje, Gevgelija, Kumanovo and Shtip. She has participated in over 80 exhibitions in the USA, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia. She has participated in 18 art symposia in Greece, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. She is currently an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at Goce Delchev University in Shtip.