This summer, Kuma International expands beyond the classroom with a three-day public programme exploring artistic responses and curatorial practices in relation to war, displacement, and memory through perspectives emerging from Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The programme takes place on…
We are pleased to welcome back artist and researcher Giulia Casartelli, this time as a grantee of the Culture Moves Europe mobility programme. During her two-month residency in Sarajevo, Giulia is working with Kuma on the development of a new…
In March 2026, KUMA International partnered with BridgeEast Project (Düsseldorf) to deliver Neighbourhoods. BiH × GER, an intensive week-long programme in Sarajevo bringing together artists and cultural practitioners from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany. The programme explored contemporary artistic practices, memory,…
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…
In November 2025, KUMA International was invited by Rete ONG ETS to curate the Autumn School of the project Art for Change in Turin, marking the organisation’s first official collaboration in Italy. Held from 17 to 20 November at Fondazione Amendola, the…
For the third year in a row, Kuma International was proud to partner with Radio Elsewheres, an online and terrestrial low-power digital radio-art project exploring movement and displacement—whether voluntary or forced—of human and non-human bodies, languages, ideas, recipes, botany, musical…
Bosnia you would not expect: Travel Voices between Memory and Beauty is a podcast produced both in Italian and English for the Giacomo Leopardi School of Advanced Studies, directed by Prof. Carla Danani (Università di Macerata) and ASSI, the Alliance of Italian University Schools…
Kuma’s most enduring initiative is the Kuma International Summer School, whose first edition took place in Sarajevo in June 2018. What began as a small educational program bringing together twenty participants has since grown into an internationally recognised platform for…
In 2025, Kuma International continued to develop its Residency Program as a platform supporting long-term artistic and research practices engaging with memory, post-conflict societies, migration, identity, and contemporary social realities. Through its residencies, Kuma provides artists, photographers, curators, and researchers…
Kuma International is proud to announce a new collaboration with RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, bringing together researchers and creative practitioners working at the intersection of art, memory, reconciliation, and transitional justice in post-conflict societies, with a particular focus on…
