Zdenka Badovinac
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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. Often her exhibitions have a strong political and social slant.
Among the exhibitions Badovinac has organised in the Modern Galerija in Ljubljana are:
- 'Experience of the Object', 1989 (young Slovenian art)
- 'Silence & Contradictory Shapes of Truth', 1992 (with Pedro Cabrita Reis, Hubert Kiecol, Juan Munoz, Thomas Schütte, Ettore Spalletti, and others)
- 'House in Time', 1995 (with Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Ilya Kabakov, Cornelia Parker, Rikrit Tiravanija, and others)
- 'The Sense of Order', 1996 (with Ghada Amer, Peter Kogler, Simon Patterson, Nedko Solakov, and others)
- 'Body and the East. From the 1960s to the Present' (the first major collaborative thematic exhibition presented by artists from Eastern European countries).
She has served as: Slovene Commissioner at the Venice Biennale (1993-1997); Austrian Commissioner at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial (2002).
She was a member of the following Boards:
- 1999-2002, IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art
- 2000, Comitato scientifico, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
- 2001, Network 21, Museumsquartier, Vienna
- 2001, Art Advisory Board, Generali Foundation, Vienna
She has served on a number of Juries, including:
- 1999, Member of the International Jury of the XLVIII Venice Biennale
- 2000, Central Art Prize of the Central Krankenversicherung an Kölnisher Kunstverein, Cologne
- 2001, Jury of The Artist in Residence Program, the Atelier Augarten, Vienna
- 2001, The Vincent 2002, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
- 2001, Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Nomination Committee.
She has been invited to participate in many international symposia. She has also published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art.
