Leonida Kovač

Leonida Kovač (1962) is an art historian, art theorist, curator, and full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. She completed elementary and high school in Pula and earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Her main areas of interest are contemporary art, critical theory, and feminist theory. She has curated and organized numerous exhibitions, including those at the Croatian Pavilion at the São Paulo Biennale (2002) and the Venice Biennale (2003). From 2002 to 2005, she was elected vice president of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), based in Paris. She has organized and co-organized several academic conferences in Croatia and abroad and has delivered invited lectures at various European universities. She has published the following books: Konteksti (Contexts, 1997), Kodovi identiteta (Codes of Identity, 2001), Edita Schubert (2001), Relacionirane stvarnosti (Relational Realities, 2007), Gorki Žuvela: Izmislite sebe (Gorki Žuvela: Invent Yourself, 2009), Anonimalia: Normativni diskursi i samoreprezentacija umjetnica 20. stoljeća (Anonimalia: Normative Discourses and Self-Representation of 20th-Century Women Artists, 2010), Tübingenska kutija: Eseji o vizualnoj kulturi i biopolitici (The Tübingen Box: Essays on Visual Culture and Biopolitics, 2013), U zrcalu kulturalnog ekrana: Jagoda Kaloper (In the Mirror of the Cultural Screen: Jagoda Kaloper, 2013), Mrđan Bajić: Rasprizorujuće transverzale (Mrđan Bajić: Unfolding Transversals, 2017), and Rasprizorenja (Unfoldings, 2023).