EXHIBITIVE CARTOGRAPHIES II
Critical Instrumentation, Exhibitive and Curatorial Narratives
Croatian Architects’ Association
25 January, 2024
ORGANIZED by Croatian Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA Croatia)
CO-ORGANIZERS Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split
The aim of this conference is to present, examine and contextualise curatorial practices in contemporary art, in Croatian and in a region, but also specifically in regard to our lecturer Pedro Lorente’s thesis on “museums as cathedrals of urban modernity”. (1) It is important to note that the history of curatorial practices is a relatively little studied area in Croatian art history, while it is increasingly present at the international level. Our objective with this conference is to address this important subject at the crossroads of art criticism, theory and practice. The starting point of the conference is the curatorial figure of Želimir Koščević, the 2018 laureate of AICA Croatia’s Annual Award and Lifetime Achievement Award.
INVITED LECTURERS
Maja Ćirić, PhD (curator and independent researcher, Belgrade, Serbia); Professor Marina Gržinić, PhD (Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Želimir Koščević (curator, Zagreb, Croatia); Jovanka Popova (curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia)
The conference is supported by AICA International and City of Zagreb, City Office for Culture and Civil Society. We would like to thank DAZ for providing the space for the conference.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Assistant Professor Silva Kalčić, PhD (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split), President of AICA Croatia with Associate Professor Asja Mandić, PhD (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sarajevo) and Professor Krešimir Purgar, PhD (Academy of Arts and Culture, J.J. Strossmayer University, Osijek)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ASSISTANT
Miona Muštra (lecturer at Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb)
The conference EXHIBITIVE CARTOGRAPHIES III will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, on 14 May, 2024.
The conference is part of a wider program that includes the workshop “How to Write about Contemporary Art” which seeks to examine relations between art and contemporarity, the discourses that shape them and figures who produce them. The workshop in 2024 will be held in Zagreb, in collaboration with ULUPUH and in Rijeka, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU).
1. Jesus Pedro Lorente, Cathedrals of Urban Modernity: The First Museums of Contemporary Art 1800-1930, Farnham: Ashgate, 1998.