Leonida Kovač

Leonida Kovač (1962) is an art historian and theorist, curator and full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb. She completed primary and secondary school in Pula, and graduated and received her PhD from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Her main areas of interest are contemporary art, critical theory and feminist theories. The curated and implemented numerous exhibitions, including those in the Croatian Pavilion at the Biennale in Sao Paulo (2002) and at 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 organised and co-organised several symposiums in Croatia and abroad, and held a number of invited lectures at European universities. She published the following books: Konteksti (1997), Kodovi identiteta (2001), Edita Schubert (2001), Relacionirane stvarnosti (2007), Gorki Žuvela: Izmislite sebe (2009), Anonimalia: Normativni diskursi i samoreprezentacija umjetnica 20. stoljeća (2010), Tübingenska kutija: Eseji o vizualnoj kulturi i biopolitici (2013), U zrcalu kulturalnog ekrana: Jagoda Kaloper (2013), Mrđan Bajić: Rasprizorujuće transverzale (2017), Rasprizorenja (2023).