In 2026, our founder and director Claudia Zini was selected as an Allianz Foundation Fellow, joining a network of practitioners working across art, research, and civil society to address some of the most pressing social and political challenges of our time.
For more than a decade, Claudia’s work as an art historian, curator, and researcher has focused on the role of contemporary art in post-conflict societies, with a particular emphasis on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through Kuma International, she has developed research projects, exhibitions, educational programmes, and international collaborations exploring how artistic practices respond to war, genocide, displacement, and collective trauma, and how culture can contribute to dialogue, remembrance, and long-term processes of social healing.
The Allianz Foundation Fellowship provides an opportunity to reflect on the methodologies and approaches developed through Kuma’s work over the past ten years, while exploring how these experiences might resonate with and contribute to conversations in other societies affected by conflict, violence, and displacement.
The fellowship supports a period of research, exchange, and experimentation, creating space to build new connections across Europe and to engage with a diverse community of artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners committed to social change, solidarity, and transnational dialogue.
We are deeply grateful to Allianz Foundation for its support and for the opportunity to be part of this inspiring network of fellows.
