Crossing #8 - (Temperance)
11. 8. 22, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Zdenka Badovinac is the  director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, She is known internationally as a long-time director of the Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art) and MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Ljubljana; and for her outstanding curatorial work and important theoretical contributions as a writer in the international discourses on the geopolitics of contemporary art in Eastern Europe and global art history. When she was awarded the Igor Zabel award in 2020, Zdenka Badovinac was recognized as one of the most important and rigorous locally rooted and globally connected professionals in the field of cultural production of the past decades.Badovinac initiated the first Eastern European art collection, Arteast 2000+. Her most recent exhibition is Bigger Than Myself: Heroic Voices from Ex-Yugoslavia, MAXXI, Rome. Her most recent books are  Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe (Independent Curators International (ICI), New York,  2019 and Unannounced Voices: Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions (Sternberg Press , New York, 2022She is a founding member of L'Internationale, a confederation of seven modern and contemporary European art institutions, and President of CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, 2010–13.

Sebastian Cichocki is the Chief Curator and Head of Research at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, where he has worked on the curation of the exhibitions Who Will Write the History of Tears. Artists on Women’s Rights (2021), Primary Forms (2021 –ongoing), The Penumbral Age. Art in the Times of Planetary Crisis (2020), and Never Again. Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries (2019), among others. Other selected exhibitions include: The Postartistic Congress (Sokołowsko, 2021), the Polish Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale and the 54th Venice Biennale, and Rainbow in the Dark. On the Joy and Torment of Faith, Malmö Konstmuseum (2015). Cichocki is a member of the board of programming at The Forum for the Future of Culture at the Powszechny Theatre (Warsaw), The Sunflower – Solidarity Community Center Warsaw, an aid, culture and counter-propaganda initiative in Warsaw for those who suffered from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and one of the founding members of artist-activist initiatives The Consortium for Postartistic Practices/ The Office for Postartistic Services. He is a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership, MoMA, New York, and he has just been appointed as Curator for  the 40th EVA International Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art in Limerick (2023).

Ekaterina Degot is an art historian, researcher and curator, born in Moscow and based in Graz, leading steirischer herbst as artistic director and chief curator since 2018. Prior to that, Ekaterina Degot was artistic director of the Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne from 2014 to 2017. She received the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory in November 2014. The focus of her work is on aesthetic and socio-political issues in Russia and Eastern Europe from the 19th century to the post-Soviet era. Before leaving Russia in 2014, she was one of the curators at the State Tretyakov Gallery, art columnist for the newspaper Kommersant, and from 2008 until 2012 she was senior editor of www.openspace.ru/art, an independent online magazine of art news, art criticism and cultural analysis. She has also contributed to Artforum, frieze, and e-flux magazines. Other  tasks have included curating the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2001, co-curating the First Ural Industrial Biennial in Yekaterinburg together with Cosmin Costinas and David Riff in 2010, and co-directing the first Bergen Assembly in 2013 with David Riff.

Marina Fokidis is a curator, writer, and educator based in Athens, Greece. She is the founder of the art center Kunsthalle Athena, ( www.kunsthalleathena.org) which was established in 2010 and operated as a non-profit art space until 2015 and of the journal "South as a State of Mind (www.southasastateofmind.com ) which was founded in 2012 as a platform for critical discourse on contemporary art and culture, with a particular focus on south to south to south correlation and shared intensities.

Fokidis is known for her advocacy of emerging and underrepresented artists, particularly those working in Greece, South Europe, and the wider Mediterranean region. Her curatorial practice is characterised by a strong focus on geography, co-existence, locational experimentation, and critical engagement with social and political issues. In 2014 she was appointed Head of the Artistic Office in Athens and curatorial advisor for documenta 14. There she worked closely with the artistic director, Adam Szymczyk, and the members of the curatorial team to develop a program that incorporated a wide range of critical perspectives, approached from multiple angles and presented simultaneously in two different locations-Athens and Kassel- and not just a single one, as per Documenta’s tradition. In 2011 Fokidis was one of the curators of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art. She was also commissioner and curator of the Greek Pavilion at the 51st Biennale di Venezia (2003) and one of the curators of T.I.C.A.B. – Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual 1 (2001). She was an adjunct curator at the Art Space Pythagorion – Schwarz Foundation, where she curated solo shows with newly-commissioned works by Slavs and Tatars (2013) and Nevin Aladağ (2014). From 2001 to 2008 she served as co-director of Oxymoron, a non-profit organisation in Athens dedicated to the promotion of contemporary visual art in Greece on an international level.