Luja Šimunovic is an independent curator holding an MA in Art History and Comparative Literature (Faculty of Humanities, Zagreb). She has been active on the independent cultural scene since 2015, namely in an organization dedicated to the intersection of science and art, KONTEJNER, where she has worked as a curator and project manager of art and educational programs until 2021. She is the editor of three festival catalogues that include curatorial and theoretical texts and she was also the co-curator of the festival Extravagant Bodies (2019) and Touch Me (2020). She initiated and led 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. Since 2016 she has been part of the Organ Vida team where she works as an exhibition coordinator and curator, until 2019 when she became part of the curatorial collective of the organization and festival. As part of the curatorial collective KU??A she is preparing the 36th Youth Salon (HDLU, 2022) on the topic of PARASITES. Areas of interest include experimental and investigative contemporary art practices. She has been awarded the Franjo Markovi? Award of the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb for founding the cultural portal Kulturflux and the Iso Kršnjavi Award for the best diploma thesis of the Department of Art History. She has collaborated with cultural portals (Vizkultura, Muf), and has been published in the INSAM Journal and the Croatian Film Chronicle.
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 »