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'''Zdenka Badovinac''' is a curator and writer who has served since 1993 as Director of the Moderna galerija in [[Ljubljana]], comprised since 2011 of two locations: the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. In her work, Badovinac highlights the difficult processes of redefining history alongside different avant-garde traditions within contemporary art. | '''Zdenka Badovinac''' is a curator and writer who has served since 1993 as Director of the Moderna galerija in [[Ljubljana]], comprised since 2011 of two locations: the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. In her work, Badovinac highlights the difficult processes of redefining history alongside different avant-garde traditions within contemporary art. | ||
| − | Badovinac’s first exhibition to address these issues was ''Body and the East: From the 1960s to the Present'' (1998). She also initiated the first Eastern European art collection, [http://www.mg-lj.si/en/collections/1245/ Arteast 2000+]. One her most important recent projects is ''[ | + | Badovinac’s first exhibition to address these issues was ''Body and the East: From the 1960s to the Present'' (1998). She also initiated the first Eastern European art collection, [http://www.mg-lj.si/en/collections/1245/ Arteast 2000+]. One her most important recent projects is ''[http://nsk.mg-lj.si NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst: An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia]'', Moderna galerija, 2015 (traveled to Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2016; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2016; and the Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, 2017); ''NSK State Pavilion'', 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, co-curated with Charles Esche; ''The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition'', Modena galerija, Ljubljana, 2017, co-curated with [[Bojana Piškur]]; ''Sites of Sustainability Pavilions, Manifestos and Crypts, Hello World. Revising a Collection'', Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; ''Heavenly Beings: Neither Human nor Animal'', Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, co-curated with [[Bojana Piškur]], 2018. |
| − | Badovinac was Slovenian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale from 1993 to 1997, 2005 and 2017, and Austrian Commissioner at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 2002 and the President of CIMAM, 2010-2013. | + | Badovinac was Slovenian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale from 1993 to 1997, 2005 and 2017, and Austrian Commissioner at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 2002 and the President of CIMAM, 2010-2013. [https://curatorsintl.org/shop/comradeship (2019)] |
| − | + | ==Publications== | |
| − | + | ; Books | |
| − | * ''Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe'', ed. J. Myers-Szupinska, forew. Kate | + | * ''Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe'', ed. J. Myers-Szupinska, forew. Kate Fowle, New York: Independent Curators International (ICI), 2019, 250 pp. [https://www.academia.edu/39937864/ Excerpt]. [http://curatorsintl.org/shop/comradeship] [http://curatorsintl.org/events/comradeship-book-launch] [https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/247910/] {{en}} |
| + | * editor, with Bojana Piškur and Jesús Carrillo, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18340 Glossary of Common Knowledge]'', Ljubljana: MG+MSUM, 2017. Online platform. {{en}} | ||
| − | ; Links | + | ; Catalogues |
| + | * editor, ''Body and the East: od šestdesetih let do danes / From the 1960s to the Present'', Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 1999, 192 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/body-and-east] {{sl}}/{{en}} | ||
| + | * editor, with Bojana Piškur and Igor Španjol, ''Glossary of the Present and Presence / Pojmovnik sedanjosti in prisotnosti'', Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2011, 110+51 pp. {{en}}/{{sl}} | ||
| + | * editor, ''Stari mojstri / Old Masters'', Ljubljana: Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., 2011, 46 pp. [http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/publications/books] [http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/publishers/zavod-parasite/old-masters-stari-mojstri-9789616807043.html] {{sl}}/{{en}} | ||
| + | * co-editor, ''Sedanjost in prisotnost - ponovitev 1: izbor del iz zbirke Arteast 2000+ in nacionalne zbirke Moderne galerije / The Present and Presence: Repetition 1: A Selection of Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection and the National Collection of Moderna Galerija'', Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2012, 189 pp. {{sl}}/{{en}} | ||
| + | * editor, with Eda Čufer and Anthony Gardner, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17945 NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst: An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia]'', Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, 2015, 83 pp. {{en}} | ||
| + | ** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17945 Od Kapitala do kapitala: Neue Slowenische Kunst dogodek zadnjega desetletja Jugoslavije]'', Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, 2015, 81 pp. {{sl}} | ||
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| + | ; Essays | ||
| + | * "Sites of Sustainability: Pavilions, Manifestos and Crypts", in ''Hello World: Revising a Collection'', eds. Udo Kittelmann and Gabriele Knapstein, Munich: Hirmer, and Berlin: Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2018. {{en}} | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Interviews== | ||
| + | * Sven Spieker, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, [https://artmargins.com/creating-context-zdenka-badovinac-on-eastern-europes-missing-histories-interview/ "Creating Context: Zdenka Badovinac on Eastern Europe’s Missing Histories (Interview)"], ''ARTMargins'', 31 Aug 2009. {{en}} | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Links== | ||
* [http://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/zdenka_badovinac Profile on ICI] | * [http://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/zdenka_badovinac Profile on ICI] | ||
| + | * [https://independent.academia.edu/ZdenkaBadovinac Academia.edu] | ||
| + | * [https://aaaaarg.fail/maker/57118c419ff37c6c148cf57d ARG] | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdenka_Badovinac Wikipedia] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdenka_Badovinac Wikipedia] | ||
Revision as of 10:42, 12 April 2020
Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer who has served since 1993 as Director of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, comprised since 2011 of two locations: the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. In her work, Badovinac highlights the difficult processes of redefining history alongside different avant-garde traditions within contemporary art.
Badovinac’s first exhibition to address these issues was Body and the East: From the 1960s to the Present (1998). She also initiated the first Eastern European art collection, Arteast 2000+. One her most important recent projects is NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst: An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia, Moderna galerija, 2015 (traveled to Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2016; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2016; and the Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, 2017); NSK State Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, co-curated with Charles Esche; The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition, Modena galerija, Ljubljana, 2017, co-curated with Bojana Piškur; Sites of Sustainability Pavilions, Manifestos and Crypts, Hello World. Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; Heavenly Beings: Neither Human nor Animal, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, co-curated with Bojana Piškur, 2018.
Badovinac was Slovenian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale from 1993 to 1997, 2005 and 2017, and Austrian Commissioner at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 2002 and the President of CIMAM, 2010-2013. (2019)
Publications
- Books
- Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe, ed. J. Myers-Szupinska, forew. Kate Fowle, New York: Independent Curators International (ICI), 2019, 250 pp. Excerpt. [1] [2] [3] (English)
- editor, with Bojana Piškur and Jesús Carrillo, Glossary of Common Knowledge, Ljubljana: MG+MSUM, 2017. Online platform. (English)
- Catalogues
- editor, Body and the East: od šestdesetih let do danes / From the 1960s to the Present, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 1999, 192 pp. [4] (Slovenian)/(English)
- editor, with Bojana Piškur and Igor Španjol, Glossary of the Present and Presence / Pojmovnik sedanjosti in prisotnosti, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2011, 110+51 pp. (English)/(Slovenian)
- editor, Stari mojstri / Old Masters, Ljubljana: Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., 2011, 46 pp. [5] [6] (Slovenian)/(English)
- co-editor, Sedanjost in prisotnost - ponovitev 1: izbor del iz zbirke Arteast 2000+ in nacionalne zbirke Moderne galerije / The Present and Presence: Repetition 1: A Selection of Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection and the National Collection of Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2012, 189 pp. (Slovenian)/(English)
- editor, with Eda Čufer and Anthony Gardner, NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst: An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia, Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, 2015, 83 pp. (English)
- Od Kapitala do kapitala: Neue Slowenische Kunst dogodek zadnjega desetletja Jugoslavije, Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, 2015, 81 pp. (Slovenian)
- Essays
- "Sites of Sustainability: Pavilions, Manifestos and Crypts", in Hello World: Revising a Collection, eds. Udo Kittelmann and Gabriele Knapstein, Munich: Hirmer, and Berlin: Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2018. (English)
Interviews
- Sven Spieker, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, "Creating Context: Zdenka Badovinac on Eastern Europe’s Missing Histories (Interview)", ARTMargins, 31 Aug 2009. (English)
