Zdenka Badovinac

Biography

Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer, who has served since 1993 as Director of the Moderna galerija and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana. Curated numerous exhibitions presenting both Slovenian and international artists. She initiated the first collection of Eastern European art, Moderna galerija’s 2000+ Arteast Collection. She has been systematically dealing with the processes of redefining history and with the questions of different avant-garde traditions of contemporary art, first with the exhibition Body and the East – From the 1960s to the Present, staged in 1998 at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana. She was the Slovenian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale (1993–1997, 2005, 2017) and Austrian Commissioner at the São Paulo Biennial (2002). From 2011-2013 Zdenka Badovinac was president of CIMAM.

Documentation

Badovinac, Zdenka, Presentation, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, 6 November 2019, 19' 37"
Badovinac, Zdenka, Interdependence, MG+MSUM, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 23 June 2020, 11' 08"
Badovinac, Zdenka; Jenko, Marko, Wojciech Grzybała, Magdalena Ziółkowska: About the Andrzej Wróblewski, Waiting Room exhibition, MG+MSUM, Fundacja Andrzeja Wróblewskiego, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Ljubljana, 14 October 2020, 11' 20"

Umetniška dela

Subtitle International conference
Type Conference
Date 26 May 2023 – 26 May 2023
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 31:06

Subtitle Introduction to the international symposium
Type Symposium
Date 23 May 1996
City of production Ljubljana
Duration 12:03
Type Group exhibition, Online exhibition
Date 15 May 2020 – 31 December 2020
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 61:15

Concept

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Type International exhibition
Date 14 October 2020
City of production Ljubljana
Production Fundacja Andrzeja Wróblewskiego, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza
Format 1920x1080
Duration 11:20

This is the first international exhibition of Wróblewski's work that is dedicated solely to his travels across Yugoslavia and his late work. It showcases more than 120 of his works from the period between 1955 and 1957. The curators[]

Date 30 August 2000
City of production Ljubljana
Format 787x576
Duration 05:12

In 2000, Moderna galerija in Ljubljana founded the Arteast 2000+ Collection and staged its first public presentation in an unrenovated building of a former[]

Subtitle Glossary of Common Knowledge
Type Seminar
Date 23 June 2020
Production Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Format 2736x1824
Duration 11:08

Subtitle Art and its Institutions in the Fight Against Populism
Type Symposium
Date 6 November 2019
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 19:37

Subtitle Art and its Institutions in the Fight Against Populism
Type Symposium
Date 6 November 2019
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 51:55

Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 24 August 2019
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 42:25

Badovinac’s contribution reflected on the specificity of the archives built by some Eastern European artists about the 1990s, especially about the wars in the Balkans, and on the question of the impact that artists’ archives have on[]

Subtitle International conference
Type Conference
Date 27 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 08:34

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 29:58

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. []