Petja Grafenauer Krnc (1976)
An independent visual art critic and curator. She is completing her PhD on Historical Anthropologies of Visual at the ISH – Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities and her undergraduate studies in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Arts Ljubljana.
She publishes regularly in the newspaper Dnevnik and on Radio Študent Ljubljana where she was the editor of Culture and Humanites Editorial between 2006 and 2007. As a curator she is cooperating with Ganes Pratt Gallery Ljubljana.
Angela Harutyunyan
PHd candidate in Art History and Visual Studies at University of Machester, UK. Member of the National Association of Art Critics in Armenia. She received her first graduate degree in Art History from Yerevan State University in Armenia. As a curator in the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art from 2002-2004, she has organized several solo exhibitions of contemporary Armenian artists as well as curated an international festival of media art called “Public_Media_Space” in Yerevan, Armenia. In 2006 she was a coordinator of the First International Summer School for Art Curators, Yerevan, Armenia.
Suzana Milevska (1961)
Born in Bitola, Macedonia. She is a curator and visual culture theorist based in Skopje. Currently she is a Lecturer in Visual Culture and the Director of the Visual and Cultural Research Centre, “Euro-Balkan” Institute. She earned her PhD in 2006 from the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths College – University of London where she was teaching from 2003 to 2005. In 2004 she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. She won the ORS Grant (2002-2004) and in 2001 the Getty Curatorial Research Grant. In 1999 she was a curator in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (ArtsLink Grant). In 2007 she curated the regional workshop “Curatorial Translation.” In 2006 she curated Hristina Ivanoska’s “Naming of the Bridge Rosa Plaveva and Nakie Bajram,” at the Foundation of Women’s Art, London. As one of the curators of the International Contemporary Art Biennial – National Gallery, Prague, in 2005 she curated the “Workers’ Club” – exhibition and conference. In 2004 she was the national curator of the Macedonian section of “Cosmopolis” – Microcosmos X Macrocosmos, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki. In 2004 she co-curated (with Julia Schäfer) the “Unbalanced Allocation of Space,” at GFZK (Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst), Leipzig, and in 2003 she curated a TV Leipzig talk-show programme “Divided Sky/Re-unified Territories,” part of Introducing Sites II in GFZK, Leipzig. She curated over 70 exhibitions in Skopje, Istanbul, Stockholm, Berlin, Bonn, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Prague, London, etc.
She is a member of IKT (the International Association of Curators) and A.I.C.A. (International Association of Art Critics) and an International Correspondent for the Feminist Review – London, Contemporary, London, and springerin, Vienna.