2018/2019
Based on the understanding that education is not talent training but an open-ended, continuing process, the inaugural year of WHW Akademija piloted the idea of co-learning and the testing and development of models through trial and error with lengthy discussions and various emergent formats of collective activity as well as collaborative events and impromptu performative gestures.
The program was structured by way of two-week intensive sessions that alternated with a series of workshops, seminars and meetings with international and local curators, artists, cultural workers, theorists, and activists.
The resident professors were: Ben Cain and Tina Gverović as well as Sanja Iveković; the guest professors were: Pierre Bal-Blanc, Rajkamal Khalon, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, and Adam Szymzcyk. Guest speakers and collaborators included Greg de Cuir Jr., Mladen Domazet, Charles Esche, Ana Janevski, Božena Končić Badurina, Oscar Murillo, Manuel Pelmuș, Kathrin Rhomberg, Dubravka Sekulić, Marko Tadić, Goran Trbuljak, Jelena Vesić, and Želimir Žilnik.
During its first year, WHW Akademija was based at Studio David Maljković, which was employed as a space of work and contemplation that simultaneously functioned as a shared artistic space, a space in which to do exercises, and an event venue for the program’s public lectures, performances, and exhibitions. The program maintained a continuous dialogue with WHW’s program for the city-owned exhibition space Gallery Nova including its premises, participants, and ideas.
With the Kontakt Collection as a point of reference for WHW Akademija, the participants were invited to explore Kontakt’s works and artists as well as to develop their own work in non-hierarchical dialogue with its holdings, using the collection as a trigger for their artistic explorations.
The program was structured by way of two-week intensive sessions that alternated with a series of workshops, seminars and meetings with international and local curators, artists, cultural workers, theorists, and activists.
The resident professors were: Ben Cain and Tina Gverović as well as Sanja Iveković; the guest professors were: Pierre Bal-Blanc, Rajkamal Khalon, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, and Adam Szymzcyk. Guest speakers and collaborators included Greg de Cuir Jr., Mladen Domazet, Charles Esche, Ana Janevski, Božena Končić Badurina, Oscar Murillo, Manuel Pelmuș, Kathrin Rhomberg, Dubravka Sekulić, Marko Tadić, Goran Trbuljak, Jelena Vesić, and Želimir Žilnik.
During its first year, WHW Akademija was based at Studio David Maljković, which was employed as a space of work and contemplation that simultaneously functioned as a shared artistic space, a space in which to do exercises, and an event venue for the program’s public lectures, performances, and exhibitions. The program maintained a continuous dialogue with WHW’s program for the city-owned exhibition space Gallery Nova including its premises, participants, and ideas.
With the Kontakt Collection as a point of reference for WHW Akademija, the participants were invited to explore Kontakt’s works and artists as well as to develop their own work in non-hierarchical dialogue with its holdings, using the collection as a trigger for their artistic explorations.