12th cei venice forum for contemporary art curators: programme
Criteria of Memoria. Navigating Memory and Preservation in Contemporary Art.
12th CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators. Continental Breakfast 2026.
Venice, Academy of Fine Arts, Academy Auditorium, Fondamenta Zattere Allo Spirito Santo 423,
Friday, 8 May 2026 [2:00–6:00 pm]
Programme
2:00 – welcome speeches and introduction:
Riccardo Caldura. Director of the Academy of Fine Art in Venice. Italy.
Barbara Fabro. Senior Executive Officer of the Central European Initiative. Italy.
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun. CEI Venice Forum curator. President of Trieste Contemporanea. Italy.
Janka Vukmir. CEI Venice Forum convenor 2026. President of the Institute for Contemporary Art Zagreb. Croatia.
2:15 – Adrianna Wiktoria Kowalik. Contemporary art curator and researcher. Poland.
– Women Artists Rewriting History.
2:35 – Lilijana Stepančič. Art historian and economist. Slovenia.
– Women’s Memories at the Contemporary Art Festival City of Women in Ljubljana.
2:55 – Nataša Bodrožić. Art curator. Croatia.
– Modernism of the Marginal Seas: (Re)Thinking Monuments of Fragile Materiality.
3:15 – Dejvi Dauti. Architect. Albania.
– Curating with Care II: Dealing with the Past in Curatorial Practice.
3:35 – comments, debate
3:45 – 4:00 – break time
4:00 – Darko Šimičić. Art curator, researcher and collector. Croatia.
– Archive as Paranoia View Art: the Case of Tomislav Gotovac.
4:20 – Iara Boubnova. Curator of contemporary art projects and art writer. Bulgaria.
– How do We Remember?
4:40 – Konstantin Akinsha. Art historian, curator and investigative journalist. Ukraine.
– Memory and Oblivion. Art in the Time of War.
5:00 – Dessislava Dimova. Art historian and curator of contemporary art. Commissioner of the Bulgarian pavilion at Venice Biennial 2026. Bulgaria.
– “What to cook when mom’s not home?”: The Federation of Minor Practices and the Question of Now.
5:20 – Irfan Hošić. Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Bihać. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
– Cracks, Fractures, and the Archive as Refuge?
5:40 – comments, debate and closing remarks
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[update: 18 April, 2026]