Branka Benčić
Branka Benčić is a curator and art historian with a strong interest in contemporary art, exhibiting film and video, curatorial practices and exhibition histories. She curated a number of solo and group exhibitions, research-based projects and film screenings in Croatia and internationally and has published in catalogues, journals and books. She curated Croatian Pavillion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), and co-curated the Pavillion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Benčić is co-founder of Apoteka – space of contemporary art in Vodnjan, and curator of screening programs Artists' Cinema at the Museum of contemporary art in Zagreb, collateral film projects at Pula Film Festival, and retrospective of films Solidarity as Distruption at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. She is the director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia since 2020, where she has curated or cocurated several exhibitions, such as, the video retrospective of Sanja Iveković and exhibitions by Raffaella Crispino, Hana Miletić, The Motovun Encounters and Igor Grubić: Gestures of Activation – Works in Public Space. (2024)
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