Sekelj Sanja

Sanja Sekelj is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Art History (IPU) in Zagreb. She has a Master’s Degree in Art History and French Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2014). In 2021, she defended her PhD thesis “Digital Art History and Artists’ Networks in Croatia in the 1990s and 2000s” at the University of Zadar. Her research has been largely concerned with interpreting the cultural dynamics and networking practices of the visual arts’ scene actors in Croatia at the turn of the millennium (1991–2006), with the emphasis on different and often competing social circles whose interrelationship defines the scene’s network and cultural structures. Recently, she is also focused on mechanisms of international cultural exchange in Croatia and Yugoslavia in the 1980s. She was a member of the scientific research project ARTNET (IPU, 2014–2018), a member of the curatorial team of the Miroslav Kraljević Gallery in Zagreb (until 2016) and executive editor of the scientific journal Život umjetnosti (2018–2021). She is currently a team member of the research projects “Models and Practices of Global Cultural Exchange and the Non-Aligned Movement: Research on Spatio-Temporal Cultural Dynamics” (IPU, 2020–2023) and “New public culture and spaces of sociability” (Clubture, 2021–2022).