Zorana Đaković Minniti | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

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• Biography
• The Project
• Organized by

• Zorana Đaković Minniti

  → www.kcb.org.rs

  Zorana Đaković Minniti is a professor of French language and literature, art historian, manager in culture and curator. Born in Belgrade in 1976 where she lives and works. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Department for French and literature. Holds MA degree in Management in Culture from the University of Arts in Belgrade (title of the thesis: Organizational structure and strategic planning of the City Museum of Belgrade) and the informal degrees of Cultural studies from Academic alternative educational network and Peace Studies.

  She is currently working as international projects coordinator and curator in the Belgrade Cultural Centre dealing mostly with organization and programming of the biggest annual international exhibition of contemporary arts - the October salon - and other international projects connected with contemporary art & culture. From September 2012 she is managing/curating the new exhibition space PODROOM in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade.

  www.kcb.org.rs
  
  She participated in trainings, workshops and courses abroad and in Serbia dealing with topics such as financing and economy of contemporary art, mediation, diplomacy and art, cultural management, pedagogy, art education etc. She is a member of the Curators’ Network and IKT.

  She also worked as journalist, translator and ceramist.

  In 2006 for four months worked in development department in the Contemporary Art Centre P.S.1 in New York. Personally interested in art, diplomacy - creative communications, good life and football.

   ∎ List of curated exhibitions

   from 2004, project coordinator of the international editions of the October Salon (working and assisiting to the curators Anda Rottenberg, Darka Radosavljević, Nebojša Vilić, Rene Block, Lorand Hegyi, Bojana Pejić, Branislava Anđelković, Johan Pousette, Alenka Gregorič, Galit Eilat, Branislav Dimitrijević, Mika Hannula) www.oktobarskisalon.org

  • Paris/Belgrade, les affinités électives, artists: Nataša Nišić, Ivan Grubanov, Hans Walter Muller, Ivan Kucina, Pierre Coulibeuf, co-curating with Eric Corne, april-may, public spaces 2006, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Sigalit Landau, solo show, Art Gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, october 2010, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Valerio Berruti, There is Too Much Light not to Believe in Light, solo show, The new building of the City Museum of Belgrade, september-october 2011, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Artists' Film International, in collaboration with Whitechapel from London (Alejandro Cesarco, anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova, Liu Chuang, Dan Finsel, Ben Hagari, Aleksandar Jestrović Jamesdin, sefer Memisoglu, Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio, sriwhana spong, Corin Sworn, Nguyen Trinh Thi) september-october 2012, gallery PODROOM, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Two Lines of Life or why a Rabbit Likes Weeds within prject A.C.T., artists: Radoš Antonijević, Damir avdić, Boogie, Uroš djurić, Vlatka Horvat, IRWIN, Aleksandar Jestrović Jamesdin, Aleksandar Maćašev and Stephen Gee, Vladimir Nikolić, Zoran Todorović, Raša Todosijević, co-curating with Mia David, january-march 2013, La Criee Centre d'art contemporain Rennes, France

• Study visit

  15.06.-30.07.2014.

  During her stay in Rijeka, as a curator and coordinator of international projects with the Belgrade Cultural Centre, Zorana Đaković Minniti will conduct a research of contemporary visual art scene, focusing on identification of potential partners and organizations with the aim of cooperation on the joint inernationa/regional project/s. Several visits and presentations of local artists will be organized in partnership with two NGO's – SIZ and Delta 5, as well as presentation of Belgrade Cultural Centre in Museum of modern and contemporary art.

• NGO SIZ

  → www.g-siz.com

  SIZ Gallery was founded in 2009, at the initiative of artists and curator Nemanja Cvijanovic. By 2010. the Gallery acts as one of the most important programs of the NGO The Other Sea. Active  participants of the gallery are, artists and designers,: ABS group, Art Fun Club, Milijana Babic, Tomislav Brajnović, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Focus Group aka Iva Kovac and Elvis Krstulović, Igor Grubic, Janez Jansa, Sinisa Labrovic, Cesare Pietroiusti, Oliver Ressler, SCRAP, Slaven Tolj and associations NGO The Other Sea. SIZ Gallery is designed as an artist run gallery in which all  artists  are actually shareholders of the Gallery, and jointly decide on the program, promotion, guest appearances, etc.

  In 2011. members  of the Gallery  established the NGO SIZ, thorugh which annual programme the Gallery continues to exist. In 2013. SIZ  (NGO and the Gallery) starts a collaboration with Museum of modern and contemporary art in Rijeka -  its annual program will be presented in the Mali salon gallery in Rijeka's main street Korzo. SIZ is defined by artistically never more relevant model of functioning of the collective association of equal individuals whose puropse is joint appearances in the art system. SIZ Gallery through a specific approach to artistic system emerged as one of the most interesting programs in Rijeka and beyond. Small, independent, rapidly rotating exhibitions thar connect Croatian contemporary art scene with artists from both the immediate region and other countries. Programme of the Gallery,  through the presentation of some of the most interesting tendencies in contemporary art, which in a  determined way, reflect social reality and its various, specific, dimensions such as politics, culture, ideology, cultural policy, etc., is aimed at informing the public and creating a critical counterbalance to the programs of large institutions.

  With the founding of the Gallery and later by founding of the Association SIZ they try to act positively in the exhibition scene in Rijeka, where the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art had created  a positive impact on the cultural life of the city, primarily educating audiences for contemporary visual language. Unexpectedly large and encouraging interest in international and regional art scene for SIZ Gallery which annually receives dozens of offers for collaboration, and in a way has become an important center of contemporary visual arts and cultural scene in general.

  Through Gallery SIZ to date the following has been achieved ...

  2009.: Nemanja Cvijanovic, Sinisa Labrović, Slaven Tolj, Igor Grubic, Sinisa Labrović, Club of Art Lovers and Oliver Ressler; 2010.: exhibitions Tomislav Brajnović, Cesare Pietroiusti, ABS Group, Rodion, Janez Janša, Janša and Janez Jansa, the artist duo Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (also director and advisors one of the most important international exhibitions - Document 13 - Ms. Carolyn Christov Bakargiev); 2011. Vlado Martek, Marijan Crtalić, collective GREY, art group Claire Fontaine, Sasha Huber, Milijana Babic, and Marko Markovic; 2012 and 2013.: Alexi Kukuljevića, Ivan Moudov, Stefan Pasquini, Ciprian Muresan, Ibro Hasanovic, Kristina Norman, Giuliana Racc0, Hudradea Collective and Fokus group.

  Summary: NGO  SIZ (SIZ - Self-management community of interests) is running the SIZ gallery. The Gallery started as a programme organized by the NGO Drugo more (The Other Sea) in 2009. During its 3-year long existence the Gallery created a certain recognisable profile of visual content in regional and local cultural community.

  It gradually became a significant point of contemporary artistic production and pratice. The content it presents is focused on works of Croatian and foreign artists that reflect various dimensions of social reality and its numerous fine nuances in specific ways.