Portfolio Review
Closed event
for students of the Academy of Dramatic Arts
12/06 @ 11:00 am
SKD prosvjeta
Berislavićeva 10
Zagreb
Reviewers:
Morana Matković
Morana Matković graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, earning degrees from the Department of Art History and the Department of Croatian language and literature. She gained professional experience working at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (MSU), Lauba – People and Art House, and DeltaLab – Centre for Urban Transition, Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Rijeka, as well as working independently as a curator and producer for a number of organizations and projects, among which was also Photographic Association ORGAN VIDA. She worked as a producer and project manager for Croatian Pavilion projects for La Biennale di Venezia – the International Architecture Exhibition (2021, 2023, and 2025) and the International Exhibition of Visual Arts (2024). Since December 2024, she has been employed as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Una Mathiesen Gjerde is a curator, film producer, and writer, based between Paris and Oslo, working at the intersection of visual arts and cinema. Her curatorial work is centered around questions related to precariousness, work ethics, economic models, and distribution systems, often departing from marxist theory and forms of collectivity, such as unionizing. She was appointed director of the exhibition space and artist union BO, The Association of Visual Artists Oslo in 2022. Aside this, she has curated a number of exhibitions and public programs for collectors, independent spaces, and museums across Europe, such as Index (Stockholm, Sweden), Pragovka Gallery (Praha, Czech Republic), Podium (Oslo, Norway), Encooore (Biarritz, France), The Botanical Garden of the University of Oslo Natural History Museum (Oslo, Norway), The Institute for Post-Natural Studies (Madrid, Spain), Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Madrid, Spain), and Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Stockholm, Sweden). Since 2024, Gjerde has been the co-curator, together with Erfan Ghiasi, of the philosophical and art theory-based lecture symposium the Tehran Summit, that takes place annually in Tehran, Oslo, and beyond. She is also the funder and CEO of the cinema production company Amfitrite Produksjon AS, dedicated to the production of cinematic works fueled by experimentation and artistic drive.
Daria Tuminas is an independent curator and a co-founder of the Growing Pains—an Amsterdam based foundation working on the crossroads of visual arts, publishing, conversation, education and human connection. Since September 2025, she is the program leader of Curatorial Practices in Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. From January to May 2026, Tuminas is working for Stroom den Haag as a curator for visual arts. Since 2019, she has been curating regularly for FOTODOK, Utrecht, as well as developing exhibitions at the likes of Foam Museum Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, BredaPhoto Festival, WORM etc. She regularly writes for multiple media, having contributed to: Foam Magazine; Trigger (FOMU); YET; The Photobook Review (Aperture); doc! photography magazine; Unseen Platform; Unseen Magazine; LensCulture; Belgian Platform for Photobooks; Archivo Platform; EXTRA; and more. Between 2017 and 2019, Tuminas headed Unseen Book Market at Unseen Amsterdam, and has contributed to multiple photobook-related reflections as a writer, an editor or a curator. She co-curated the symposium The Moving Page for Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, contributed a chapter to How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks, 2018), guest-edited The PhotoBook Review #12 (Aperture, 2017), and has curated a number of exhibitions in connection to printed matter.
Ajda Ana Kocutar is a curator, writer, and editor based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a co-founder and member of the curatorial team of ETC. Magazine, showcasing art “from the Balkan to the Baltic” in both printed and exhibition formats. As a member of the ETC. collective, together with Hana Čeferin and Lara Mejač, she also leads the Ljubljana Art Weekend program from 2024 to 2026. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad and regularly contributes texts to exhibition catalogues and other publications. She was the assistant curator of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: The Oracle, curated by Chus Martínez and co-editor of The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom (Sternberg Press, 2025).
Lovro Japundžić is a curator and producer based in Zagreb, Croatia. He holds a Master’s degree in Art history and Sociology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Zagreb. For the past decade, his work has explored the dynamic interplay between performance and visual art on both local and international level. He is a member of the curatorial collective behind Organ Vida, an international festival and platform dedicated to researching image-based practices in relation to contemporary visual and popular culture. He also works as co-director of Močvara Gallery, where his curatorial approach centers on performance art. Previously, he worked as the artistic director of Miroslav Kraljević Gallery - GMK (2021-2023). Beyond curating, he has been involved in creative production, collaborating with BADco. (2018-2020), a collective focused on performance, and working as a program selector for Živa Muzika (2013-2019), a collective promoting innovative approaches to club music. He has participated in numerous international residencies and projects abroad.