Zoja Erdeljan (Zrenjanin, 1995) is a scene designer. She earned her Bachelor's in Scene Architecture, Technique and Design in Novi Sad, at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Sub-Department of Art and Design. She received her MA in Scene Architecture and Design at the same faculty with the thesis The Relationship between Smells and Memories in Scene Design through a multimedia exhibition “Scented Stories”.
Within her professional practice, Zoja is equally active on projects in performing and visual arts. She worked as a stage designer and assistant stage designer in theatres in Belgrade, Subotica, Užice and Šabac. In the field of visual art, her professional work primarily relates to architecture and exhibition design in various museums in Serbia, including the Museum of Applied Art, the Museum of Vojvodina, and the Museum of Yugoslavia. In addition to her artistic work, she was an associate on projects of scene architecture at the organisation Profakustika in Belgrade.
Zoja is studying for her doctorate in Scene Design at the Faculty of Technical Sciences. Since 2021, she has been employed at the same faculty as a research associate, where she is primarily engaged in subjects in the field of theory of scene design as well as scene design and technique. Apart from teaching she has an active role in the conceptualisation and production of projects within the Scen Centre for Scene Design, Architecture and Technology – Oistat Centre for Serbia, the most significant of which are the Biennale of Scene Design and Serbia's performance at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in 2023, where she had the role of project coordinator.