Verica Kovacevska was born 1982, in Skopje, Macedonia. In 2004 she graduated from the University of Plymouth (UK) in BA (Hons) Visual Art with Theatre and Performance. The same year she attended the 10th Advanced Course in Visual Arts led by Jimmie Durham at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, in Como, Italy. In 2007 she graduated from the University of Cambridge (UK) in MPhil Arts, Culture and Education, and was awarded a one-year art residency at Christ's College, University of Cambridge.

She has taken part in many exhibitions and festivals across Europe as well as in the United States, Cuba and Mexico. The most notable ones are Belgrade: Nonplaces, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2009); re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2008); Liquid Cities, Micro Museum, New York (2008); Everyday Art, The Art of the Everyday, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (2006, solo); Next Text, 1.60insurgent space, Tirana (2006, solo); and Surely We Will Be Confused, Ex-Ticosa, Como (2004).

Since 2009 she is based in Zurich, Switzerland.