Portfolio review with Organ Vida Festival Team
Portfolio review with Organ Vida Festival Team
UGM, Strossmayer street 6
Saturday, 9 December 2023, 12:30
On Saturday, 9 December, at 12:30, we invite you to attend a portfolio review by Barbara Gregov and Lea Vene, curators of the international festival Organ Vida from Zagreb.
Portfolio Review is intended for artists at the beginning of their professional career, working in the field of contemporary art or photography in the expanded field, using photography as an integral part of your creative process in your artistic practice.
The event is a great opportunity to gain further insight into your work during individual meeting with the curators. They will provide you with expert feedback on your artistic practice, advise on how to develop your projects and artworks further, recommend reference festivals, institutions, artists or other professionals. Also, it’s a great networking opportunity, as events like this are often the starting point for various collaborations in the future.
Applications will be accepted until Wednesday, 6 December 2023, by email to info@ugm.si. Number of places is limited.
Before the event, there will also be a guided tour of the exhibition It’s Okay To Cry, produced in collaboration with Organ Vida, at 11.00.
Organ Vida is a biannual international photography festival (Zagreb) that brings together contemporary international artists of younger generation whose practice strives to develop the photographic medium and critically address global socio-political issues.
Lea Vene is an independent curator, cultural anthropologist, and lecturer in Fashion Museology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb. Between 2013–2019 she was a curator at the gallery Miroslav Kraljević in Zagreb and one of the organizers of ETNOFILm (Ethnographic film festival) where she curated film, exhibition, and educational programs. She curates exhibitions and programs for the International Photography Festival Organ Vida and Gallery Močvara. In 2018, she received the Lucie Award for Engaged, Active, Aware – Women’s Perspectives Now, an exhibition she curated with Marina Paulenka at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
Barbara Gregov is a writer and curator with diverse interests spanning film, photography, contemporary art, and popular culture, focusing notably on feminist and queer perspectives. Holding a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature, she has extensive experience in writing, editing, coordinating, curating, and producing exhibitions, festivals, and various cultural programs. She has actively collaborated with numerous feminist and LGBTIQ organizations, including VoxFeminae, Zagreb Pride, and the Centre for Women’s Studies in Zagreb. Currently, she serves as the editor of the feminist cultural website Krilo and holds the role of festival coordinator at the Zagreb Film Festival. Barbara has been a member of the curatorial team for the Organ Vida International Photography Festival since 2018.
