Kuma International is excited to announce the 8th edition of our Summer School, a unique program dedicated to exploring contemporary art practices created in the context of conflict and trauma that will be curated this year by Professor Stephenie Young…
As this year slowly comes to an end, we are grateful to have closed it by working again with Italian and Bosnian youth, thanks to a project organized by UNFPA with support from the Italian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.…
Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce that Kuma International has been selected as one of only 50 organizations chosen from over 2,100 applications from 136 countries to receive support from the 2024 Creativity Pioneers Fund! 🌍✨ The Creativity Pioneers Fund…
This October, we had the pleasure of welcoming artist Aida Šehović and architect Arna Mačkić to our studio for a residency. Together they worked on Cups of Memory, a research project created to decolonize the public memory of the Srebrenica…
In a ceremony organized at his Residence, the Ambassador of Italy in Sarajevo Marco Di Ruzza awarded Claudia Zini, Director of Kuma International Center for Visual Arts from Post-Conflict Societies, the honor of Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia, conferred on…
The last week of August, we spent a wonderful time in Srebrenica, hosted by Adopt organization at their Documentation Center. We worked with artists Ibro Hasanović and Vladimir Miladinović on a two-day workshop with youth from Srebrenica and the surrounding…
This past July 22-30, 2024, we hosted the 7th edition of the Kuma International Summer School, bringing together 28 participants from across Europe, including Ukraine, Palestine, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, to explore the role of contemporary art in addressing conflict and…
The second iteration of Radio Elsewheres [re.02], conceptualized and curated by Velibor Božović, artist/musician Steve Bates, art historian Claudia Zini, and curator Adna Muslija, took place from June 7 to June 28, 2024. The program was broadcast live from our…
During spring 2024 Kuma International hosted more than 100 Italian high school students visiting from Torino, Ravenna, Monza, and Venice. For many participants, it was their first time in Bosnia. They engaged in a series of ŠTO TE NEMA monument…
In March 2024, eleven students from the Syracuse School of Architecture and Yale University spent five wonderful days in Sarajevo with Kuma International, led by Visiting Fellow Christina Zhang. Their trip was part of the project “A Seed for a…