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…
It has been our pleasure to welcome Italian photographer Camilla de Maffei at Kuma Residency as she began a new long-term project in Bosnia and Herzegovina in collaboration with journalist Christian Elia (@chrelia ) in 2024. Thanks to the support of…
Kuma International is proud to announce an exciting new collaboration with RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. This collaboration brings together leading researchers and creative practitioners to explore the role of arts in advancing reconciliation and transitional justice in post-conflict societies,…
It’s hard to believe Lora Adžić’s residency at Kuma International has come to an end. Lora reached out to us last summer with great enthusiasm and curiosity about connecting with artistic practices in BiH, learning more about our activities, and…
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…