Curatorial workshop

“Museums and Galleries of Contemporary Art – after the War”- curatorial workshop
Organized in cooperation between the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) – Zagreb and the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) – Sarajevo.

I part – visit of museums and galleries in Croatia – Zagreb, Osijek, Vukovar and Slavonski Brod
May 11-15, 1999

II part – visit of museums and galleries in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo, Mostar and Travnik
June 26 – July 01, 1999

III part – International seminar and visit of museums and galleries in Dubrovnik
October 08-12, 1999

Project leader: Jadranka Vinterhalter, the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) – Zagreb.
Project realized in collaboration and co-ordination with Dunja Blažević, the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) – Sarajevo.

Participants from Croatia: Sanja Žaja-Vrbica (curator and art historian of the Art gallery, Dubrovnik), Branko Franceschi (curator-in chief of the Gallery “Miroslav Kraljević”, Zagreb), Grgur Marko Ivanković (curator of the Museum of Slavonija), Ivan Šeremet (curator-in chief of the Art workshop Barutana, Slavonski Brod), Vladimira Pavić (museum consultant of the Museum Documentation Centre, Zagreb), Jasminka Franić (curator of the Museum Documentation Centre, Zagreb), Kristina Leko (artist from Zagreb) and Jasminka Babić (curator of the Gallery “Ivan Meštrović”, Split)

Participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ivana Jevđević (art historian, the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo), Fatima Maslić (art historian and Director of the Regional Museum in Travnik), Dragana Baner (curator of the Regional Museum in Travnik), Mevlida Serdarević (Director of the Museum of City of Sarajevo), Mehmed Klepo (curator of artistic collection of the Museum of City of Sarajevo), Nataša Šahinović (art historian, the Federal Institute for Protection of Monuments, Sarajevo), Inge Dragoje Mikulić (Director of the Gallery of Contemporary Art – Croatian Lodge “Herceg Stjepan Kosača“, Mostar) and Gordana Vilušić (the Institute for Urbanism, Sarajevo)

International seminar was held in Dubrovnik during the third part of the Curatorial workshop (October 11-12).
Participants / Lecturers of the International seminar: Jadranka Vinterhalter (SCCA – Zagreb), Višnja Zgaga (Director of the Museum Documentation Centre, Zagreb), Ruža Marić (Director of the Vukovar Municipal Museum), Konstantin Akinsha (Deputy Research Director of the Art and Cultural Property, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the  Washington D.C.,USA), Nicole Marjanović-Zoubek (KulturKontakt, Gratz, Austria), Suzanne Marston (Visual Arts Consultant – Visiting Arts Information, London, U.K.), Meliha Husedžinović (Director of the Art Gallery of BiH), Dunja Blažević (Director of the SCCA-Sarajevo), Lóránd Hegyi, Director of mumok (Vienna, Austria), Boris Ljubčić (designer, Zagreb, Croatia), Martha Wilson (Founding Director of the Franklyn Furnace Archive, New York, USA), Mercy Bona Pavelic (President of the Heathcote Art Foundation, Old Greenwich, USA)