Beti Žerovc
Beti Žerovc is an art historian and art theorist. She holds a doctoral degree in art history from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, where she teaches the history of exhibitions and the history of Slovene art from 1800 to the present, on the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Her areas of research are visual art and the art system since the mid-nineteenth century, with a focus on their role in society. In the past ten years her research has concentrated mainly on the phenomena of the contemporary art curator as a profession in the process of establishing itself and the contemporary art exhibition as a medium. A second area of her research is late-19th- and 20th-century Slovene art in the wider Central European context. She has recently written extensively on Slovene Impressionism and the realist painter Ivana Kobilca.
Žerovc has conceived and organized a number of scholarly gatherings, including The Exhibition as an Artistic Medium, The Curator of Contemporary Art as Artist: The Changing Status of the Exhibition and the Curator in the Field of Contemporary Art (Igor Zabel Association, 2010) and The Event as a Privileged Medium in the Contemporary Art World (International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2011).
In 2011, she curated the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, titled The Event.
Žerovc is the author of numerous articles, in the journals Maska (Ljubljana), Život umjetnosti (Zagreb), Springerin (Vienna), Site (Stockholm), Manifesta Journal, and others, as well as several books, including The Curator and Contemporary Art: Conversations (Maska, 2008; in Slovene), Curatorial Art: The Role of the Curator in Contemporary Art (Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2010; in Slovene) and Slovene Impressionists (Mladinska knjiga, 2013; in Slovene). In 2012, Žerovc edited the essay collection The Event as a Privileged Medium in the Contemporary Art World (Maska, 2012). In 2015 she published the book When Attitudes Become the Norm: The Contemporary Curator and Institutional Art (Archive Books and Igor Zabel Association). (2015)
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