Zdenka Badovinac

Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer,[1] who has served since 1993 as director of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana,[2] comprised since 2011 of two locations: the Museum of Modern Art and the Metelkova Museum of Contemporary Art in Metelkova, an autonomous art, culture, and social center in Ljublijana.[3]

Zdenka Badovinac
Zdenka Badovinac (Moscow, 2015)
NationalitySlovenian
OccupationMuseum curator

Career

Badovinac has curated numerous exhibitions presenting both Slovenian and international artists.[4][5] She initiated the first collection of Eastern European art, Moderna galerija’s 2000+ Arteast Collection. In her work, Badovinac addresses the processes of redefining history with the questions of different avant-garde traditions of contemporary art. Furthermore, Badovinac is involved in international dialogue surrounding the geopolitics of art after the fall of communism, believing that museums must face the complex histories of the recent past in conversations about the present.[6]

She was Slovenian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale (1993–1997, 2005).

Badovinac was Austrian Commissioner at the São Paulo Biennial in 2002.[7] She worked with the art group monochrom who created an elaborate hoax featuring Georg Paul Thomann.[8] Badovinac discusses her role in the project in a short documentary film called "The Thomann In(ter)vention", created by Hadas Emma Kedar.[9]

Badovinac was a board member of The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art from 2005-2010 and president from 2011-2013.[10]

The Thomann In(ter)vention. Poster of short documentary about monochrom's Georg Paul Thomann (2018).

2000s

Badovinac's first exhibition, Body and the East – From the 1960s to the Present, was staged in 1998 at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana.[11] The exhibit then traveled to Exit Art, New York in 2001. She continued in 2000 with the first public displaying of the 2000+ Arteast Collection: The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West at Moderna galerija. In 2003, Badovinac completed a series of Arteast Exhibitions, mostly at Moderna galerija.[12] In 2004, Badovinac co-curated 7 Sins: Ljubljana-Moscow with Victor Misiano and Igor Zabel. In 2006, she worked on Interrupted Histories and Arteast Collection 2000+23. In 2008, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Badovinac was part of the Hosting Moderna galerija! project. Also in 2008, Old Masters (2008) Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Center in galerijaP74, Ljubljana, also part of the Hosting Moderna galerija! project!

2010s

In the next decade, Badovinac helped curate Museum of Parallel Narratives: In the Framework of L’Internationale at MACBA, Barcelona, 2011.[13] L'Internationale is an international and cross-institutional organization created in 2009 to foster discussion between institutions whose collections focus on local histories and narratives.[14] The organization takes their name from the left-wing anthem "The International." MACBA's exhibit presented Ljubljana’s Moderna galerija’s Arteast 2000+ Collection, the foremost and seminal collection of post-war avant-garde Eastern European art. [15]

Other major projects

Badovinac's other major projects include:

  • 2000: unlimited.nl-3, DeAppel, Amsterdam
  • 2002: (un)gemalt, Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Vienna
  • 2004: Imagine Limerick, Open&Invited, different exhibition venues, Limerick
  • 2005: Democracies/the Tirana Biennale, Tirana
  • 2008: The Schengen Women. Badovinac's text where she discusses European identity as it relates to gender and space
  • 2016: "Art as a Parallel Cultural Infrastructure / Legacy of Post War Avantgardes from Former Yugoslavia" lecture at Haus der Kunst in Munich.

Publications
  • Museums beyond the Crises: CIMAM 2012 Annual Conference Publication, edited by Zdenka Badovinac, Bartomeu Marí
  • Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-socialist Europe, Zdenka Badovinac in conversation with Ana Janevski.[16] (published by E-flux publications).

References
  1. Sutton, Kate. "Unfamiliar Territory: "What Art History?" at the Moderna galerija". Artforum. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  2. "Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova". culture.si. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  3. "Zdenka Badovinac ostaja direktorica Moderne galerije". RTV Slovenia. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  4. "Curator's Perspective: Zdenka Badovinac". Independent Curators International. ICI. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  5. "Zdenka Badovinac". L'Internationale. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  6. "Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-socialist Europe, Zdenka Badovinac in conversation with Ana Janevski - Video & Film - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  7. "Am Kunst-Gipfel des Sao Großglockner". Der Standard. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  8. Edlinger, Thomas. "0100101110101101". The Gap. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  9. Kedar, Hadas Emma. "The Thomann In(ter)vention". YouTube. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  10. "Former Board Members". cimam.org. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  11. "Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana)", Wikipedia, 2018-05-04, retrieved 2020-03-18
  12. Spieker, Sven; Petrešin-Bachelez, Nataša (2009-08-31). "Creating Context: Zdenka Badovinac on Eastern Europe's Missing Histories (Interview)". ARTMargins. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  13. Petrešin-Bachelez, Nataša; Spieker, Sven. "Creating Context: Zdenka Badovinac on Eastern Europe's Missing Histories (Interview)". ARTMargins. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  14. "L'Internationale". www.internationaleonline.org. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  15. "Who's in town? Zdenka Badovinac: | SALT". saltonline.org. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  16. "Book Launch: Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-socialist Europe, Zdenka Badovinac in conversation with Ana Janevski". E-Flux.
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