Nataša Ilić, together with Ivet Ćurlin and Sabina Sabolović, forms the artistic direction of Skulptur Projekte 2027 in Münster. In 1999, Ilić was a founding member of the international curatorial collective ‘What, How & for Whom’ (WHW), based in Berlin and Zagreb, which also includes Ivet Ćurlin and Sabina Sabolović.

WHW organises production, exhibition and publication projects. The three questions What? How? And For whom? – fundamental to any economic organisation – concern the planning, conception and realisation of exhibitions, as well as the production and distribution of artworks and the position of artists in the labour market. From 2003 to 2023, the WHW collective directed the programme of Galerie Nova, a municipal gallery in Zagreb. In 2018, WHW launched a new international study programme for young artists called ‘WHW Akademija,’ based in Zagreb. From 2019 to 2024, Nataša Ilić, together with Ivet Ćurlin and Sabina Sabolović, took over the artistic direction of the Kunsthalle Wien.