Dr Lina Dzuverovic

Biography

Dr Lina Džuverović is a curator and Course Leader of the MA Curating and Collections course at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London, which she joined in September 2023. Most recently she was lead curator of the Hope is a Discipline exhibition across five venues in Belgrade, as part of the 60th edition of the October Salon (2024), a biennial exhibition which is the largest contemporary art manifestation in Serbia. Lina was the initiator and one of the two curators of Her Noise, the exhibition that led to the creation of the Her Noise Archive, one of UAL Archive and Special Collections Centre's most frequently searched and activated archives.

Lina's research focuses on feminist art histories and contemporary art as a site of solidarity and community-building. She founded the Decolonial Feminist Forum at Birkbeck in 2019. Her practice-led research often takes the form of knowledge production spaces in galleries where research is developed through discussions, workshops, collaborative writing or other experiments. Since 2019, her research has centered on explorations of gendered divisions of labour within art collectives under the umbrella project And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives, which has been supported by Birkbeck School of Arts strategic research funds and a Faculty Grant by the Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College. MA Curating and Collections students form an active part in this live project through the And Others Curatorial Research Lab which is a core part of the course.

Previously Lina was Lecturer in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck's Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies (2018 - 2023) where she also co-directed BIRMAC - Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media & Culture Centre. Prior to this Lina was Lecturer in Fine Art the Reading School of Art, University of Reading (2015 -2018) and Assistant Professor at IZK, Institute for Contemporary Art, TU Graz, Austria (2015).

Between 2011 and 2013 Lina was Artistic Director at Calvert 22 Foundation in London. Prior to this she spent seven years as Director of Electra, a London-based contemporary art organisation which she co-founded in 2003. In 2006 Lina was named the 2006 Decibel Mid-Career Curatorial Fellow by Arts Council England (an award given to one curator every two years) and received this prestigious award towards professional development and R&D of a major exhibition.

In 2016 she curated 'Monuments Should Not Be Trusted' for Nottingham Contemporary. The exhibition and associated events brought together varied artistic practices and material culture from the former Yugoslavia, from the 1960s and 1970s - UK's largest exhibition to date about Yugoslav art. Džuverović's PhD (Pop Art Tendencies in Self-managed Socialism: Pop Reactions and Countercultural Pop in Yugoslavia in 1960s and 1970s), which was funded by a collaborative award (AHRC) between Tate and the Royal College of Art, contributed towards Tate Modern's exhibition The World Goes Pop (2015).

Selected curatorial projects include Sanja Ivekovic - Unknown Heroine (South London Gallery and Calvert 22 Foundation, 2012/13), Archive As Strategy: Conversations about Self-historicisation across the East research project (Calvert 22, 2011 - 2014); IRWIN – Time For A New State and NSK Folk Art (Calvert 22, 2012) and NSK Symposium (co-organiser) (April 2012, Tate Modern); The Forgetting of Proper Names, co-curated with Dominik Czechowski, (Calvert 22, 2012); 27 Senses (Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2010; Kunstmuseet KUBE, Alesund, Norway, 2009), Favoured Nations, Momentum, 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art (co-curated with Stina Hogkvist), (Moss Norway, 2009), film/performance Perfect Partner by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison (Barbican Centre, London and across Europe, 2005), group exhibition Her Noise co-curated with Anne Hilde Neset, (South London Gallery, 2005), Sound And The Twentieth Century Avant Garde lecture series (Tate Modern, 2004), soundtrack consultancy on films by Daria Martin, with composers Zeena Parkins and Maja Ratkje, Emotional Orchestra and Sheer Frost Orchestra by Marina Rosenfeld (Tate Modern, 2005) and numerous projects by Christian Marclay.

Prior to completing her PhD at the Critical Writing in Art & Design Department, Royal College of Art (2017) and Tate, Lina studied at The London Consortium (Birkbeck College, University of London), Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Chelsea College of Art.