- Zdenka Badovinac
Zdenka Badovinac (1958)- art critic and curator.
Director of Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana since 1993.
Curated numerous exhibitions presenting both Slovene and international artists. She initiated first collection on the Eastern European art in Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, 2000+ Arteast Collection. The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West. She has been systematically dealing with the processes of redefining history, with the questions of the different avant-garde traditions of contemporary art, first with the exhibition Body and the East - From the 1960s to the Present, Moderna Galerija (1998), Ljubljana; travelled to Exit Art, New York (2001); and continued with in 2000 first publicly displaying of the Artest Collection 2000; and then with a series of the Arteast Exhibitions: Form Specific/Arteast Exhibition; Moderna galerija Ljubljana (2003); 7Sins :Moscow Ljubljana, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (co-curatedt with Victor Misiano and Igor Zabel); Interrupted Histories, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, 2006; Arteast Collection 2000+23, Moderna galerija,Ljubljana 2006; Every man is a curator/ Jeder Mensh ist ein Kurator!, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 2007.
Her other major projects include: Silence - Contradictory Shapes of Truth (1992); House in Time (1995); The Sense of Order (1996); The "Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo 2000". The 1996 Collection - Moderna galerija Ljubljana; Moderna galerija Ljubljana/Metelkova (2000), (travelled to Orangerie Congress, Innsbruck, 2001, ZKM Karlsruhe,2002; Umetnička galerija Skopje, Čifte Amam, Prostor2, Skopje 2002), unlimited.nl-3, DeAppel, Amsterdam (2000), (un)gemalt, Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Vienna (2002), (travelled to Moderna galerija Ljubljana, 2002), Marjetica Potrč/Next Stop, Kiosk, 2003, Moderna galerija Ljubljana; ev+a 2004, Imagine Limerick, Open&Invited, different exhibition venues, Limerick, 2004; Democracies/the Tirana Biennale, Tirana, 2005
Slovene Commissioner at the
Venice Biennale (1993 – 1997, 2005)
Austrian Commissioner at theSão Paulo Biennial (2002)
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