Klara Petrovic is an independent curator holding an MA in Art History and Comparative Literature (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb). She has worked alongside Luja Simunovic on numerous projects, starting with Kulturflux in 2016, a student-oriented website for art news, interviews and reviews for which she was awarded the Franjo Markovic award. Since then, she has been active on the independent cultural scene, mainly as a member of the curatorial collective KONTEJNER, an organization dedicated to the intersection of science and art, where she worked as a curator and project manager until 2021. She initiated and managed the educational project Short Circuit (2018-2020), which networks students of the Academy of Arts and students of natural sciences and humanities, including students of the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Humanities. She has also co-curated the festival Extravagant Bodies (2019) and Touch Me (2020). Simultaneously, she has been a part of Organ Vida, an organization dedicated to contemporary photography, as an exhibition coordinator and curator. As part of the curatorial collective KUCCA she is preparing the 36th Salon of Youth (HDLU, 2022) on the topic of PARASITES. Areas of interest include experimental and investigative contemporary art practices. She was published by cultural portals (Vizkultura, Muf) and the INSAM Journal.
Articles
Parasites, A Biennale Manifestation
This is the concept text for the 36th Youth Salon, a biennial manifestation organized by the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), that his year will be curated by the KUCCA collective. The Salon will open in April 2022 in Zagreb. The parasite is an infectant. Far from actually transforming a system’s nature, its form, elements, relations, and paths,… Read More »