Hana Ćurak, Visiting Fellowship 2023/24

Biography

Hana Ćurak is a cultural researcher and author. Her research interests broadly emerge from the intersections of memory studies and cultural anthropology, focusing on contemporary art and curatorial practices. In her PhD project (University of Zürich, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, from Spring 2024), titled “Collectiveness and Radical Futures: Shared Curatorship as Intervention”, Hana ethnographically explores whether collective curatorial practices are able to intervene across different temporalities and social and political contexts. At the Institute for European Ethnology of Humboldt University in Berlin, Hana is currently associated researcher with the Collaborative Research Center “Intervening Arts”, where she focuses on intervening collective curatorial practices in the context of (post)Yugoslavia. She is the founder of a progressive experimental platform “Sve su to vještice (It’s all Witches), whose main goal is to perpetuate feminist continuity in the (post)Yugoslav context through media productions.

Visiting fellowship September 2024

Motivation

As part of my doctoral research, I will be prepairing for conducting an ethnography in Ljubljana, particularly within several curatorial collectives whose practice is relevant to the notion of collectivity. At the Institute, there is a number of people whose research can help and inform mine, as well as materials I aim to use to deepen my knowledge on the topic. Additionally, the fellowship will provide me with an opportunity to establish new networks and contacts as well as curiosities.

List of publications (a selection)

Forthcoming

Ćurak, H (2025) “Yugoslavia of the Mind: Diasporic Practices”. In Blackwood, J & Tumbas, J (eds., 2025), *Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Case Studies in Hauntology*, Routledge: London and New York.

Ćurak, H (2025) “Bosnian Contemporary Art as a Should Have Been” (working title) in Blackwood, J, Hošić, I & Zini, C (eds., 2025) *Contemporary Art in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Crisis, Rupture, and Discontinuity*, Routledge: London and New York.

Ćurak, H (2024) “What Happened to the Likely Lads? Searching for Post-Yugoslav Collectivity in Curatorial Endeavors Dealing with Gastarbeiters” (working title) in Mirčev, A, Marquardt, H. (eds., 2024) *Gastarbeiter 2.0*, nGBK, Berlin.

Published

Ćurak, H (2023) “Solidarity as Poiesis”. In *Springerin*. ed. Benzer, C. Issue 1/2024.

Ćurak, H (2023) “Transition”. In *Mother is a Bitch*, Kamerić, Š. ed. Kleindienst, Ž. Distanz Verlag.

Hozić, A, Ćurak, H. (2023). “Witches of Unwanted Colonies”. *Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research* Vol. 9 No. 1 (January 24, 2023): pp. 201-215. [https://kohljournal.press/witches-unwanted-colonies](https://kohljournal.press/witches-unwanted-colonies).

Hodžić, D., Ćurak, H. (2022): Daytonitis in Practice: (Post)Socialist (Dis)Continuities in the Energy and Environmental Sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: *Berliner Blätter 85, 87–98.*, Berlin.