Milica Topalovic, born in 1971 in Belgrade, studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade and received a Master’s degree from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Since 2006, she has been based in Switzerland as head of research at ETH Studio Basel, where she has taught urban research studios on Belgrade, Havana, and Hong Kong.
She also taught at Academie Bouwkunst Arnhem and Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck. She lectured or exhibited at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and NAi, Rotterdam; the STROOM Center for Visual Arts, The Hague; Archilab, Orleans; Apexart, New York; the Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; and Arc En Rêve, Bordeaux, among others.

For her collaborative work with Bas Princen, Milica was awarded the Prix de Rome for Architecture 2006 and received an architect-in-residence scholarship from the MAK-Schindler Centre for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles in 2005. Their first retrospective exhibition, Invisible Frontier, was shown at AUT, Innsbruck in 2008.
Her recent architectural work includes spatial installations for “Resonances,” curated by Astrid Wege for JvE Academy, Maastricht, 2006; “I Hate” by Imogen Stidworthy, Documenta XII, Kassel, 2007; “Far City” by Aglaia Konrad, Hanover, 2007; and “Foyer” by Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Tent Centre for Visual Art, Rotterdam, 2008. She is a participant in the Ordos 100 project.