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Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and critic. Since 1993 she is the director of Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana. Processes of the reinterpretation of history in the various avant-garde traditions of the 20th and 21st centuries form a focus of her curatorial and journalistic work.
Body and the East – from the 1960s to the present (1998) and Arteast 2000+ (1998/2000 Ljubljana) as one of the first programmatic exhibitions of Eastern European art, were important projects in this context. NSK followed in 2015: Capital to Capital – The Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia (2015-2017 Ljubljana, Eindhoven, Madrid).
Also in 2017, she curated the NSK State Pavillion with Charles Esche at the 57th Venice Biennale, which re-discussed issues of territory, citizenship and identity in times of migration and European fragmentation processes.

The series of lectures Kunstbegriffe was initiated by the Kunsthaus Dresden in collaboration with Landesverband Bildende Kunst Sachsen e.V. and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts as well as the Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Those responsible for the idea and conception of the lecture series: Lydia Hempel (Landesverband Bildende Kunst Sachsen e.V.), Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz (Kunsthaus Dresden - Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst) and Dietmar Rübel (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts). Kunstbegriffe is a lecture series in cooperation with: Landesverband Bildende Kunst Sachsen e.V., the Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunsthaus Dresden – Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.