Nataša Bodrožić

curator / culture worker
(born in Split, Croatia)

She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb in 2004. In 2008 she finished one year educational program Laboratory of the Curatorial Practices at the Center for Contemporary Arts (SCCA) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She holds MA degree at the Universite Lumiere 2 in Lyon and University of Arts in Belgrade //UNESCO Chair for Cultural Management and Cultural Policy (2010).

In 2009, she co- founded the organization “Loose Associations, contemporary art practices” (with Ivana Meštrov and Tonka Maleković) So far she co-curated or co-produced numerous exhibitions and public space projects in Croatia and abroad:

MOTEL TROGIR- public campaign for preservation of the mid 20th century architectural modernism in the post- Yugoslav realm-  2013- ongoing (initiator, with S Šimpraga)
MOTEL TROGIR: ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, BJCEM/Fabbrica di Vapore, Milano, October 2015
MODERN ARCHITECTURE OF TROGIR 1945-1990 (curated by Lidija Butković Mićin, produced by Loose Associations/ MOTEL TROGIR team)- Trogir City Museum, September 2015
MOTEL TROGIR/HOLIDAYS AFTER THE FALL (curated by Michael Zinganel, produced by Loose Associations/MOTEL TROGIR team)- Trogir City Museum, 2015

POLITICS OF FEELINGS/ ECONOMIES OF LOVE- in collaboration with FOKUS Grupa & Irena Boric (Zagreb, 2013-2014)
MEDITERRANEA 16 Young Artists Biennial/ERRORS ALOWED/-co-curator (Ancona, Italy 2013)
ONCE UPON A PRESENT: A view on contemporary art in Russia /with Elena Yaichnikova (Zagreb, Gallery SC- 2011)
NOTES FOR PEOPLES ATLAS OF CHISINAU / with AREA Chicago & OBERLIHT/ (Chisinau, Moldova, 2010)
FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY: Self-organized Artistic Practices from Ukraine/ with R.E.P. group (Zagreb, Gallery SC and Gallery PM- 2009)
CHIOSC  with Vladimir Us (Zagreb, Gallery VN- 2009 & Chisinau, FLAT SPACE- 2009/2010)
INTERVENTIONS 3: Artistic interventions in public space/ with Vladimir Us (Chisinau, Moldova- 2008)

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Books/Publications:
Politics of Feelings/Economies of Love, Ed. with Irena Borić (ONOMATOPEE, Eindhoven 2014),
Cultural Public Sphere in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, Ed. with Nini Palavandishvili (Bibliothek Verlag der Provinz, Vienna, 2014),
Imagining the Public: Independent Cultural Scenes in Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova (SPACES, 2014),
Motel TROGIR: It is not Future that Always Comes After, Ed. with Saša Šimpraga (upcoming, ONOMATOPEE, 2015)

Scholarships and grants: CEC Artslink, French Government scholarships (2), Soros Supplementary Grant, Gulliver connect/ Kulturkontakt grant.

Currently lives and works in Zagreb.

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