Participants

Zdenka Badovinac has been the director of Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, since 1993. She has curated numerous exhibitions of both Slovenian and international artists. In Moderna galerija she initiated the collection of Eastern European art, the Arteast 2000+. The collection was first presented at the exhibition Arteast 2000+. The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West. In her work she systematically deals with the processes of redefining history. She is a member of CIMAM.

Barbara Borčić is an art historian and the director of the SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts. She has been active in the field of contemporary art as a freelance curator, critic, editor, and writer, focusing especially on alternative art, performance, and video practices. In the 1980s she was involved in the "Ljubljana alternative scene" as co-author of art and documentary projects and as the art director of the ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana (1982 - 1985).

Sabine Breitwieser is a freelance curator and the Secretary of CIMAM; she lives in Vienna. From 1988 to 2007 she was a curator and the director of the Generali Foundation. She has curated more than 80 exhibitions in Austria and internationally, and is the editor of numerous publications.

Jesús Carrillo has been a professor of Contemporary Art History at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid since 1997, and Head of the Cultural Programmes Department of the Reina Sofía Museum since 2008. He combines analysis of contemporary culture and cultural institutions with a critical reading of historical narratives of art.

Zoran Erić is an art historian and curator. He is currently working as a curator at the Center for Visual Culture at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. He was a member of the IKT board between 2005 and 2008.

Charles Esche is a curator and writer. Since 2004 he has been the Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. He is a co-founder and co-editor of Afterall Journal and Afterall Books.

Petja Grafenauer is a freelance art critic and curator. In 2006 and 2007 she was the Culture and Humanities Programme Editor for Radio Študent. Since 2007 she has been working as a curator with the Ganes Pratt Gallery; in 2009 she heads the exhibitions programme at the Tobacco Museum Gallery in Ljubljana. She is the coordinator of the World of Art of the SCCA-Ljubljana and a lecturer at the Famul Stuart, Ljubljana. She publishes her writings in newspapers, magazines, and catalogues.

Alenka Gregorič is an art historian and curator. Since 2003 she has been the artistic director of the Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana. She curates shows in Ljubljana and abroad, and draws up the gallery's annual exhibition programme as well as its gallerist activities, representing young artists internationally.

Irwin was founded in 1983, and was a co-founder of the NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst) in 1984. Members: Dušan Mandič (Ljubljana, 1954), Miran Mohar (Novo mesto, 1958), Andrej Savski (Ljubljana, 1961), Roman Uranjek (Trbovlje, 1961), and Borut Vogelnik (Kranj, 1959).

Ana Janevski holds an MA at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris about the "Articulation of Balkanism in contemporary art". She is curator in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, where she curated "As soon as I open my eyes I see a film - Experiments in Yugoslav art in 60s and 70s" and "Unhoming", exhibition of Palestinian artist Ahlam Shibli.

Silvia Kolbowski is an artist based in New York. Her scope of work includes the ethics and politics of history, culture, feminism, and the unconscious. She is on the advisory board of the journal October and teaches in the CCC program at the Haute École Supérieure d'Art et de Design, Geneva.

Breda Kolar Sluga is an art historian and curator. Since 2007 she has been the Director of the Umetnostna galerija Maribor / Maribor Art Gallery. Kolar's interests are focused on photography and sculpture.

Lisette Lagnado is a co-editor of the web magazine Trópico. She holds a Ph.D. from USP and is a teacher in the master's programme in Visual Arts at Faculdade Santa Marcelina. She coordinated the Leonilson Project and the Hélio Oiticica Archive and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Art at MAM-SP. She was the chief curator of the 27th Sao Paulo Biennial (2006).

Suzana Milevska is a curator and a visual culture theorist based in Skopje. Her research and curatorial interests include postcolonial critiques of art institutions, gender studies of art, and participatory art. She is a professor of Art History and the Analysis of Styles at the Accademia Italiana and New York University in Skopje.

Tihomir Milovac is a Deputy Director and Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. He has curated numerous exhibitions focused on underrepresented art and art scenes. He is a co-author of the conception for the first Museum collection exhibition in the Museum's new building. Since 2007 he has been an elected board member of CIMAM.

Rastko Močnik teaches theory of discourse, theoretical sociology and epistemology of the humanities and social sciences at the University of Ljubljana. He is a co-chair person of the international board of directors of the Institute for Critical Social Studies, Sofia and Plovdiv, a member of the international advisory board of the journal Eszmélet, Budapest, a member of the editorial board of the publishing house Založba /*cf., Ljubljana, and the chair of the Managing Board of the Centre of the Graphic Arts, Ljubljana. He holds a honorary doctorate from the Plovdiv University.

Nina Möntmann is a curator, critic, and writer based in Hamburg and Stockholm. She is a professor at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She contributes regularly to art journals and magazines and lectures worldwide.

Alfred Pacquement is the Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris. The curator of numerous exhibitions in France and around the world, he is also a leading critic and art historian. He is a member of the AICA and CIMAM.

Bojana Piškur is a curator at the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana. Her main theme of research is experimental art (contexts, concepts, forms, and relations) in the wider social environment (Radical Education).

Tadej Pogačar is a visual and intermedia artist, curator, and the Director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art. Through the contexts of economy, dominance, and power, he explores the everyday in modern cities, participatory urbanism, and alternative strategies of urban minorities.

Amila Ramović is the executive director of the Ars Aevi Project for Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo. She also teaches theory of contemporary music at the Sarajevo Music Academy.

Barbara Steiner is a curator and the director of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig. Her interests focus on the politics of representation, institutional critique/criticality, architecture and display, and economic critique/criticality in the field of art and museums.

Igor Španjol studied sociology of culture and art history at the University of Ljubljana. Since 2000 he has been working as a media art curator at the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana.

Apolonija Šušteršič is an architect and visual artist. Her work is related to a critical analysis of space, usually focusing on the processes and relationships between institutions, cultural politics, urban planning, and architecture.

Miško Šuvaković teaches aesthetics and theory of art (at the Faculty of Music, Belgrade, and as part of the interdisciplinary studies programme at the University of Art, Belgrade). He is Art Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina (Novi Sad). His recent books are: Impossible Histories (The MIT Press, Cambridge 2003), Dictionary of Contemporary Art (Horetzky, Zagreb, Ghent, 2005), Konceptualna umetnost (MSUV, Novi Sad, 2007), and The Epistemology of Art (TkH, Beograd, 2008).

Gediminas Urbonas is a visual artist. His work bridges social and artistic practices with the interest to design organizational structures that question relativity of freedom. He teaches at the Visual Art Program, MIT, Cambridge.

Sheena Wagstaff has been Chief Curator at the Tate Modern, London, since 2001. She joined Tate in 1998 as Head of Exhibitions & Displays at Tate Britain. Previously, she was Director of Collections & Exhibitions at the Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh. Wagstaff is an elected board member of CIMAM.

Adela Železnik holds an MA in art history and is the curator of public programmes at the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana. She is interested in interpretation of and participation in contemporary art within the frame of the museum and its publics.

Beti Žerovc is an art historian, researcher, and writer. She is the author of the books Rihard Jakopič - umetnik in strateg (cf* 2002) and Kurator in sodobna umetnost. Pogovori (Maska 2008).

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