Claudia Zini
Founder and Director
Claudia is an Italian art historian and curator focusing her professional interests on visual arts dealing with the aftermath of war and violence. She holds a PhD degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In 2019 she was one of the curators of the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Venice...
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Irfan Hošić
Founder
Irfan (1977) completed his PhD thesis at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2011. His scope of research is modern and contemporary arts, design, fashion and architecture. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Ghent University in 2013 and 2014, guest lecturer...
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Izela Kešmer
Founder
Izela finished her Master at the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo. Since 2014 she works at Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo as program coordinator, project manager and chief administrative officer. In 2017 she worked at the organization of the exhibition show Nove Opere da Nove Collezioni held at the Italian Parliament...
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Enrico Dagnino
Head of Photography and Film Department
Enrico Dagnino is an Italian news photographer whose archives and reportages are distributed and exhibited worldwide. He debuted as a photojournalist at the end of the Eighties with the fall of the Berlin wall and the Velvet Revolution. He then covered the uprising in Romania, followed by the outbreak of the civil war...
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Ajla Borozan
Art Summer School Program Coordinator
Ajla finished her Master of Arts in English and Philosophy at Aarhus University in 2010, after which she taught in high school. In 2018, she finished her second Master of Social Sciences in International Security and Law at the University of Southern Denmark, where her focus was on human rights, R2P, international humanitarian...
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Lejla Odobašić Novo
Director of Architecture Program
Lejla is a licensed architect by the Ontario Association of Architects in Canada and she currently teaches at the International Burch University, Department of Architecture. She has obtained her Bachelor and Master degrees at the University of Waterloo in Canada and her PhD at the International Burch University. Prior to IBU, Lejla has...
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Adriana Drljepan
Web designer
Adriana is a software engineer who graduated in computer science from the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo. She has been working full time for NextVision d.o.o. Sarajevo as a front-end developer and UI/UX designer since 2018. She has been freelancing as a graphic designer for 5 years...
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Hella Wiedmer-Newman
Intern
Hella holds an MA in Art History from University College London and a BA in Art History and Geography from the University of Toronto. Hella previously interned at Hauser & Wirth Gallery Zurich and at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Before the pandemic, Hella volunteered with a refugee aid organization in Sarajevo...
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Hannah Fillmore-Patrick
Former intern
Hannah is a writer with a BA in English from Colby College and an LLM in International Law from the American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In her work, she’s passionate about looking at modern conflicts through the lenses of art and literature. She’s contributed several papers to the field, including The Iceland experiment...
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Katerina Novakova
former intern
Katerina is a student of the master’s program International Development Studies at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Currently, she is an intern at Kuma International while she is also writing a thesis titled “Visual Arts as a Tool for Reconciliation from Difficult Pasts in a Post-war Society” with Bosnia and Herzegovina as...
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Alice Deledda
former intern
Alice graduated in History Art with a thesis on Contemporary Arts and is currently attending the Master in Multimedia Production at the University of Cagliari, Italy. For several years she curated film and music promotion, collaborating with several festival organizations, including “Passaggi d’Autore – Intrecci Mediterranei”, a festival dedicated to short movies from...
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Ángela Campos Fernández
former intern
Ángela (Badajoz, Spain, 1993) graduated in Humanities at the University of Salamanca, she studied at Trinity College (Dublin) during the academic year of 2017/2018 and wrote her final dissertation on the photographic serie The Siege of Sarajevo by Spanish photojournalist Gervasio Sánchez, in which she reflected upon the aesthetics of destruction and the...
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