Our founder and director Claudia Zini has been selected as an Allianz Foundation Fellow.
The Allianz Foundation Fellowship supports people working across art, research and civil society who are addressing the urgent challenges of our time and imagining new ways of responding to injustice and division.
“For the past decade, my work as an art historian, curator and researcher has been rooted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where I founded Kuma International, a non-profit research and educational platform dedicated to the visual arts of post-conflict societies. Through research, exhibitions and educational programs, Kuma explores how artistic practices respond to war, genocide and trauma, and how culture can create spaces for dialogue, memory and long-term processes of healing.
This fellowship arrives at a very particular moment in my life, as I reflect on the past decade of work and try to understand where it might evolve from here. It offers something incredibly valuable: time and space to pause and think about how the methodologies developed through my work at Kuma might connect with other societies affected by war and displacement, and how these exchanges might contribute to new forms of dialogue, solidarity and shared understanding.
I feel honored to join this network of fellows across Europe and deeply grateful to @allianzfoundation for this trust.”
