Research team
Leader
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Nikola Bojić is an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he is the head of the Department of Theoretical Subjects. He completed his postgraduate master's degree focused on artistic research and practices in public space in 2013 at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and received his doctorate at the postgraduate doctoral study of interdisciplinary humanities at the University of Split. From 2015 to 2019, he was employed as an assistant at the Institute of Art History. In the academic year 2016/2017, he was a researcher and guest lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ACT/MIT), where he conceived and led a course focused on new approaches to artistic research (with Prof. G. Urbonas). At the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, he was a member of several project teams, including the design project of the international, interdisciplinary MA art program "ASH: Art, Science and Health" (Erasmus Mundus Design Measures – EMDM, 2021-2023). He has published scientific research in a number of original scientific papers, peer-reviewed chapters in books and catalogs, was an invited editor of the 96th issue of the journal Life of Art (IPU) and is a member of the editorial team of the Vibraception edition (k verlag, MSU, MaMa). His research art, design and curatorial projects have been presented at the Kunsthale Baden Baden (2024, AICE Germany Award for Best Annual Exhibition), the Taipei Biennale (2020), the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2019), the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2020), the Venice Biennale of Architecture (Lithuanian Pavilion, 2018) and the Milan Design Triennial (2016). As a curator and dramaturge, he collaborates with the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin.
Researchers
Prof. dr. sc. Leonida Kovač is an art historian and theoretician, curator and full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. Her main areas of interest are contemporary art, critical theory and feminist theories. She has curated and realized numerous exhibitions, including exhibitions at the Croatian Pavilion at the Biennale in Sao Paulo (2002) and at the Venice Biennale (2003). From 2002 to 2005, she was elected Vice President of the International Association of Art Critics – AICA, based in Paris. She has organized and co-organized several scientific conferences in Croatia and abroad, and held a number of invited lectures at European universities. She has published the following books: Contexts (1997), Identity Codes (2001), Edita Schubert (2001), Relational Realities (2007), Gorki Žuvela: Invent Yourself (2009), Anonymity: Normative Discourses and Self-Representation of Women Artists of the 20th Century (2010), The Tübingen Box: Essays on Visual Culture and Biopolitics (2013), In the Mirror of the Cultural Screen: Jagoda Kaloper (2013), Mrđan Bajić: Unraveling Transversals (2017), Scenery (2023).
Assoc. Prof. Art. Ivan Skvrce is a visual artist and associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb whose work explores the intersections of contemporary art, pedagogy and critical cultural practice. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and obtained a postgraduate master's degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana. His works have been shown in Zagreb, Rijeka, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Poreč, as well as in Vienna, Milan, Venice, Rome, Leipzig, Novi Sad, Skopje, Chicago, New York and Ottawa. Since 2007, he has been actively working as a member of the art collective ABS Group, with which he develops collective exhibition, research and educational projects. In addition to his artistic work, he has led and developed educational and research projects linking visual arts, experimental pedagogy and interdisciplinary learning, including international initiatives funded through Erasmus+ and the European Social Fund. His work often explores how artistic processes can act as tools for critical reflection, social dialogue and the transformation of educational environments.
Assoc. Prof. Art. Marko Tadić studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. He works as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and teaches exhibition design and visual arts at NABA in Milan. Tadić's artistic practice overlaps formal-art, archival and semantic research and encompasses the media of drawing, installation and animation. He has won several awards, including the Vladimir Nazor Award (2015), the Design Award at the FHAF (2012) and the Radoslav Putar Award (2008). He has participated in residency programs in Helsinki, New York, Los Angeles, Frankfurt and Vienna. His films have been screened at numerous international animation and experimental film festivals, and he has exhibited at many solo and group exhibitions around the world. He represented Croatia at the 57. Venice Biennale in 2017 with Tina Gverović.
As. Petra Šarin is an art historian and curator, assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University in Lisbon. She is the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Revista de História da Arte published by the Institute of Art History in Lisbon. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for her doctoral research. She is the editor of publications and the author of several scientific and professional papers, including Cartography of Resistance: Zagreb 1941–1945 (2022) and The Trouble with 'Primitivism' in Iberian, Latin American and Other Semi-peripheral Contexts (2025). She has co-organized several international conferences and research and educational programs, and is curatorial through exhibitions, preface writing and catalogs (VN Gallery, PM Gallery, Šira Gallery, Events Gallery, Institute for Contemporary Art, 42. Split Salon). Her areas of interest are theory and history of art from a decolonial and Marxist-feminist perspective, socially engaged (artistic) practices and anti-fascist resistance.