Zdenka Badovinac
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Zdenka Badovinac (1958) is a Slovenian art critic and curator, who has been the director of the Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art) in Ljubljana since 1993.[1]
[edit] Exhibitions
Curated numerous exhibitions presenting both Slovenian 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-curated 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.
[edit] Other major projects
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 the São Paulo Biennial (2002).
[edit] References
- ^ profile at The Guardian
