SEMINAR NO.4: ART AND MEMORY

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Zdenka Badovinac
Zdenka Badovinac (born 1958) is the director of the 'Galerija Moderna' in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is an internationally acclaimed art curator and well known for her analyses of artistic developments in Europe. Her major international projects include: Silence - Contradictory Shapes of Truth (1992), House in Time (1995), The Sense of Order (1996), The “Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo 2000”(1998). The 1996 Collection - Moderna galerija Ljubljana ; Body and the East - From the 1960s to the Present (2001), travelled to Exit Art , New York ), 2000+ Arteast Collection (2000).

Miško Suvaković
Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Author of numerous books and essays including Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991 and curator of the exhibition Conceptual Art (March 2007, Novi Sad).

Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans
Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans (1977, Poland ) studied philosophy and art history in Cracow and cultural studies in Leuven . She is currently a PhD candidate at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography and Visual Studies at the university of Leuven . In her research she focuses on the representations of history in contemporary art. Her field of interest includes Eastern European art, contemporary photography, art theory. She is a regular contributor to Polish art magazines ARTeon, Kwartalnik Fotografia and Gazeta Antykwaryczna.

Lara Weibgen
Lara Weibgen is a doctoral student in the History of Art department at Yale University. Her research focuses on intersections of visual and political rhetoric in 20th-century and contemporary art.

Andrzej Szczerski
Andrzej Szczerski is a professor at the Institute of Art History , Jagiellonian University Krakow. His academic interests are in
Central European art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the relations between British and Central European art and 20th century Polish art.

Hedwig Turai
Hedwig Turai is an art historian (PhD) based in Budapest and coordinator the Education Abroad Program jointly run by the University of California and ELTE in Budapest. Her main interests are: contemporary art, Holocaust studies, feminist art. Her publications include a monograph on the Hungarian painter Margit Anna.

Simon Rees
Simon Rees is a curator at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CAC) Vilnius and Commissioner of the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennial.

Marko Lulić
Vienna-based artist Marko Lulic reconstructs modernist monuments by means of a wide range of materials and, using the medium of video, explores utopian structures of this kind. He is interested in the relation between form and ideology and in determining the importance attributed to them. In 2007 he has had solo shows at Kunstverein Arnsberg and Office for Contemporary Art Norway.