Vesna VUKOVIĆ

Vesna VUKOVIĆ is a curator, critic and researcher in the field of socially engaged art, member of curatorial collective BLOK, translator and publisher. She runs programs at the BAZA art center and educational programs organized by BLOK (Political school for Artists). Vesna taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2007–11) and at the Arts Academy in Split (2012–13). In 2013 she was a resident-researcher at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. She publishes essays in periodicals from Croatia and abroad (Frakcija, Theory that Walks, Camera Austria), and reviews and critiques for the web magazine Bilten, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Third Program of the Croatian Radio (Triptih, Ogledi i rasprave) where she is one of the editors of the show Stvarnost prostora. As an author, Vesna has written introductions to the artistic monographs of Sanja Iveković and Bojan Mrđenović, and has edited several publications in the field of contemporary art. Together with Ana Kutleša and Ivana Haanček she has been awarded by the Hans und Lea Stiftung in 2019 for the research of Zemlja Artists’ Association (1929 – 1935) in the category art history/mediation.