Lina Dzuverovic

Lina Džuverović is a PhD candidate on a Collaborative Doctoral Award between the Critical Writing in Art and Design Department at the Royal College of Art and Tate, researching Pop Art in the former Yugoslavia in 1960s and 1970s.Lina works as a freelance curator, currently in the role of Artistic Director at Calvert 22 Foundation in London. Prior to joining Calvert 22 in 2011, Lina spent seven years as Executive Director of Electra, a London-based commissioning organisation, which she co-founded in 2003. In 2006 Lina was named the 2006 Decibel Mid-Career Curatorial Fellow by Arts Council England (an award to one curator every two years) and awarded a two year grant towards professional development.

Selected curatorial projects include Sanja Iveković - Unknown Heroine (South London Gallery and Calvert 22, December 2012 - February 2013); Twenty Three Percent- A conference on the work of Sanja Iveković, (Royal College of Art, January 2013), Archive As Strategy: Conversations about Self-historicisation across the East ( http://www.archiveasstrategy.org/) research project (Calvert 22, 2011 - present); IRWIN – Time For A New State & NSK Folk Art (Calvert 22, April - July 2012) and NSK Symposium (co-organiser) (April 2012, Tate Modern); The Forgetting of Proper Names co-curated with Dominik Czechowski, (Calvert 22, 2012); 27 Senses (Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2010; Kunstmuseet KUBE, Alesund, Norway, 2009), Favoured Nations, Momentum, 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art co-curated with Stina Hogkvist, (Moss Norway, 2009), film/performance Perfect Partner by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison (Barbican Centre, London and across Europe, 2005), group exhibition Her Noise both co-curated with Anne Hilde Neset, (South London Gallery, 2005), Sound And The Twentieth Century Avant Garde lecture series (Tate Modern, 2004).