Leonida Kovač

Leonida Kovač is an art historian and theorist, curator and the full professor at the University of Zagreb, Academy of Fine Arts. The main fields of her interests are contemporary art, feminist theories and critical theories. Since 1990s in her curatorial practice and accompanying theoretical writings she payed special attention to presentation of works by women artists, to mention here Dorothy Cross, Rita Duffy, Katarzyna Kozyra, Orshi Drozdik, Nan Hoover, Duba Sambolec, Edita Schubert, Nasta Rojc, Ana Opalić, Yael Toren. She has published ten books among which are Dis-enactments (2023), Anonimalia: Normative Discourses and Self-representation of 20th Century Women Artists (2010); Tübingen’s Box: Essays on Visual Culture and Biopolitics (2013); In the Mirror of the Cultural Screen: Jagoda Kaloper (2013); Mrđan Bajić: Disenacting Transversals (2016) and numerous academic articles. She was curator of the Croatian Pavilion at Sao Paulo Biennale in 2002, and at Venice Biennale in 2003. From 2002 to 2005 she was the elected Vice-president of the International Association of Art Critics – AICA. She has organized and co-organized several international academic conferences, the most recent is Memory, Word and Image: W.G.Sebald's Artistic Legacy (University of Amsterdam, 2019).