Iva Kovač

Iva Kovač is a curator and visual artist. Since 2012, she participates in the art collective Fokus Grupa that has collaborated with numerous cultural organisations and exhibited in Slovenia and internationally. Between 2010 and 2012, she was the head of the PM and Prsten galleries of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists in Zagreb. From 2013 to 2015, she curated and headed the programme of the SIZ gallery in Rijeka. As the recipient of the artistic residency grant Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (2015–2016), she prepared a summer seminar for the students of the Innsbrück Institute for Architectural Theory. Since 2017, she has been the programme selector and organiser of activities of the art organisation GSG in Rijeka, where she founded GSG – Časopis za suvremena umjetnička i društvena zbivanja (GSG – Magazine for Contemporary Art and Social Issues) in 2018. Since 2021, she is the programme director of Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture – City of Women.

Events
Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive. Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive.
The South in Us: Constructing and Performing Ideology
The south in us
06/10/2022
Galerija Alkatraz
17.00 – 18.00

Free admission

South-Eastern Europe has long held the belief that the history of colonialism has had no impact on its lands although even a minor shift in the perspective can produce numerous

Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive. Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive.
The South in Us: NAM
The south in us
06/10/2022
Mala galerija
18.30 – 19.30

Free admission

South-Eastern Europe has long held the belief that the history of colonialism has had no impact on its lands although even a minor shift in the perspective can produce numerous

Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive. Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive.
The South in Us: Othering (in) the Semi-periphery
The south in us
06/10/2022
Galerija Škuc
20.00 – 22.00

Free admission

South-Eastern Europe has long held the belief that the history of colonialism has had no impact on its lands although even a minor shift in the perspective can produce numerous

Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive. Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive.
The South in Us
09/10/2022
Mala galerija
17.00 – 17.30

30'

Guided tour of The South in Us: NAM exhibition (free admission) with the curator Iva Kovač.

Katia Kamelli Katia Kamelli
Archeology of Resistance: exhibition opening
Archeology of Resistance
03/10/2023
Galerija Škuc
20.00 – 21.30

Historically there has been an abundance of feminist organising and activity done by women* aimed toward peace and against oppression. Women have ignited and participated in peaceful and armed

Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women During the Shoah.
06/10/2023
Mala galerija
19.30 – 20.30
Mechitza is a partition in an orthodox synagogue that separates men with full access to the ritual from marginalised women. Hertzberg's work Mechitza constitutes poetic and vivid starting point...