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Ana Devic received a B.A. in Art History and Comparative Literature, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
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'''Ana Dević''' is a curator and critic who lives and works in [[Zagreb]]. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in Comparative Literature and Art History with a master's thesis entitled 'Sociconography in the work of Tomislav Gotovac and Mladen Stilinović'. In 2016, she enrolled in postgraduate studies in the field of art history at the University of Zadar under the supervision of Ljiljana Kolešnik and Vinko Srhoj with the topic "Croatian anti-fascist artistic production (1941-1945) in the context of European resistance art". She is a member of the curatorial collective and association for visual culture [[WHW|What, How & for Whom / WHW]], which has been active in Zagreb since 1999, developing various models of cooperation based on collective work, creative use of public space, association of partners from different fields of activity and examination of the social role of art. She is one of the heads of the [[Nova Gallery]] in Zagreb, whose programme is dedicated to the research, documentation and production of knowledge of modernist and contemporary visual art practice and its extended field. In 2019, WHW launched the international art education programme WHW Akademija in Zagreb, where Ana continues to work and teach. In 2008, as a member of the curatorial collective WHW, she was one of the winners of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory, awarded for outstanding cultural activities in Central and Southeastern Europe. [https://blok.hr/en/mikropolitike-arhiva/umjetnici-za-antifasisticki-front-esteticka-i-poeticka-pitanja (2021)]
  
Since 1997 she has been working as an art critic and curator.
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She has contributed to many cultural magazines and numerous exhibition catalogues.
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She is one of the founding members of an independent curatorial collective What, How & for Whom/[[WHW]] (with Ivet Curlin, Natasa Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic and designer and publicist Dejan Krsic) based in [[Zagreb]]. WHW's activities are exploring the potentials of critical curatorial practice capable of generating innovative models of self-representation and self-organization within the realm of contemporary art. Since May 2003 WHW has been running the program of Gallery Nova - non-profit city owned gallery in the center of Zagreb.
 
Ana Devic had also worked for the Gallery of Modern Art, Zagreb as a
 
coordinator of an exhibition program of Studio Josip Racic in Zagreb where she curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions.
 

Latest revision as of 20:32, 16 January 2024

Ana Dević is a curator and critic who lives and works in Zagreb. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in Comparative Literature and Art History with a master's thesis entitled 'Sociconography in the work of Tomislav Gotovac and Mladen Stilinović'. In 2016, she enrolled in postgraduate studies in the field of art history at the University of Zadar under the supervision of Ljiljana Kolešnik and Vinko Srhoj with the topic "Croatian anti-fascist artistic production (1941-1945) in the context of European resistance art". She is a member of the curatorial collective and association for visual culture What, How & for Whom / WHW, which has been active in Zagreb since 1999, developing various models of cooperation based on collective work, creative use of public space, association of partners from different fields of activity and examination of the social role of art. She is one of the heads of the Nova Gallery in Zagreb, whose programme is dedicated to the research, documentation and production of knowledge of modernist and contemporary visual art practice and its extended field. In 2019, WHW launched the international art education programme WHW Akademija in Zagreb, where Ana continues to work and teach. In 2008, as a member of the curatorial collective WHW, she was one of the winners of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory, awarded for outstanding cultural activities in Central and Southeastern Europe. (2021)