Zdenka Badovinac

Biography

Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and art critic, theorist and former long-time director of Moderna galerija in Ljubljana (1993–2020), as well as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (2022–2023). She is among the leading figures in the research and presentation of Eastern European contemporary art, founder of the Arteast 2000+ collection and co-founder of the museum network L'Internationale. Her work focuses on rethinking post-socialist cultural memory and alternative institutional models. She was awarded the Igor Zabel Prize for Culture and Theory in 2020.