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Call for curators in the project NOVAci 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline: 30\/03\/2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the fifth year in the row, what, how & for whom\/WHW and POGON \u2013 Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth<\/strong> are implementing educational and exhibition project NOVAci under the mentorship of Ana Kova\u010di\u0107 and Lea Vene. The aim of the project is to enable art historians, artists and other interested in curatorial practices to gain first practical experience in the field of contemporary art.<\/p>\n

Through the public call there will be selected candidates who will realize an exhibition, and in that process gain practical experience of curating an exhibition mentored by the curators who have already been active in the local art scene for a long time. The call is intended for all those who are interested in curating, regardless of their professional background, but a slight priority will still be given to art historians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having in mind the absence of this kind of programs in the formal educational system, this platform represents a catalyst for the support and development of local curatorial practices focused on concrete and hands-on experience of putting up an exhibition project. The project aims to raise awareness of the need for new forms of support for emerging curators who need infrastructural and organizational support and mentoring while producing their first curatorial programs. An important element of the project is mentorship of the selected curator focused especially on preparing the exhibition, direct work with artists on developing new work, planning and realizing the exhibition, budgeting, producing art works, additional fundraising, writing promotional texts, conceptualizing and implementing the opening event and the supporting program, and final reporting.<\/p>\n

In the previous installments of the program NOVAci, the selected candidates were Tena Star\u010devi\u0107 who curated the exhibition  Rad, (ne)red i (samo)disciplina<\/i><\/a> in Gallery Nova in 2021, Antonela Soleni\u010dki who curated the exhibition Na vrhu jezika<\/i><\/a> in 2022, Teuta Gatolin with the exhibition Obrnute vje\u0161tine<\/a> in 2023 and the Rose collective with the exhibition (Pre\/formacije)<\/a> in 2024.  <\/p>\n

The call is open for future curators with no significant curatorial experience. The latest call for young curators offers an opportunity of work with three young artists, namely Lara Kulenovi\u0107, Nominis <\/strong>and Lucija Ostrogovi\u0107<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lara Kulenovi\u0107<\/strong> in her artistic practice directly relays her personal experiences and is focused on the issue of remembering. She attempts to install the feeling of identification and understanding with the audience.<\/p>\n

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Lara Kulenovi\u0107, The Grass Was Greener Before, 2024, photo: \u0160imun Bu\u0107an<\/p>\n

Nominis<\/strong> is a multimedia artist who uses 3D animation, drag and light for examining identity and virtuality while experimenting on the nexus of technology, queerness and materiality.<\/p>\n

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Nominis, THIS IS (W)HERE I POST FROM, 2023, photo: Juraj Vugla\u010d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lucija Ostrogovi\u0107<\/strong> combines visual arts and anthropology to examine their possible overlaps and contact points. She questions perceptions and relations between space and community by combining mapping and subtle spatial interventions. <\/p>\n

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Lucija Ostrogovi\u0107, Landscape – Reading Her, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three curators will be selected in this call. Each of them will work with one of the three artists toward a public presentation of their works and an exhibition in POGON in November 2025<\/strong>. The budget includes fees for curators and artists, material costs of the production, fees for all other associates, security staff and other costs related to the production of the exhibition. <\/p>\n

The application should include:<\/strong><\/p>\n