PARTICIPATION IN ART/MUSEUMS

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
(published on 15 June 2025)

THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
9:00 – 9:30 REGISTRATION
9:30 – 10:00 WELCOME ADDRESS
10:00 – 10:45 KEYNOTE SPEECH

Anna Chiara Cimoli – Participation without Rhetoric
10:45 – 12:00  SESSION 1: CURATING CHANGE

Claudia König – Documenta Fifteen: Realized Utopia or Site of Unease?
Corey Dzenko – Secretary to the People: Recent Case Studies from Sheryl Oring’s I Wish to Say
Jasmin Kolkwitz – Participatory strategies and practices in Rasheed Araeen’s work “Shamiyaana–Food for Thought: Thought for Change” (2016–2017)
12:00 – 13:15 LUNCH BREAK
(lunch provided by the conference for registered speakers)
13:15 – 14:30 SESSION 2: SPONTANEITY AND TRANSIENCE

Xiangyin Gu – Speaking the Unspeakable: Participation, Haunting, and the Politics of Collective Memory
Alessandra Delli Poggi, Alba Maria Porto – La Stanza: Transforming Archives
Deja Bečaj – Vila Katarina: Independence, Hospitality and Experimentation
14:30 – 14:45 COFFEE BREAK
14:45 – 16:00 SESSION 3: MAKING PLACES

Petra Kelemen, Sanja Potkonjak, Nevena Škrbić Alempijević – From Factory to Festival: Space, Art, and Community in Sesvete
Diletta Haberl – Growing Together: Giuliano Mauri’s Cattedrale Vegetale and the Poetics of Participatory Nature
Daniel Ongjerth – How Art Can Change a Neighborhood – a Case Study of the Work of 11_11
16:00 – 18:00 VISIT TO THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN ZAGREB –  
guided tour of Andreja Kulunčić’s exhibition Making the World a Better Place (optional)
FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
9:30 – 10:00 REGISTRATION
10:00 – 10:45 KEYNOTE SPEECH

Ana Škegro, Celina Damjanović – MSU Youth Club – Actively Engaging Young People in Museum Programmes

 10:45- 12:15 SESSION 4: SHIFTING INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES

Dalibor Prančević – Reimagining the Museum: Participation and Inclusion in Vladimir Dodig Trokut’s Antimuzej
Lorena Šimić – Digital Museum Presence: Stories from the Museum Repository as an Example of Participation in Virtual Space
Heejung Ryoh – Democratizing the Exhibition? A Critical Case Study of the Seoul Museum of Art’s Citizen Curator Program (2015-2022)
András Müllner – The Canoe Made of One/Two (?) Trees. A Case Study of a Communication Failure in Ethnographic Film
12:15 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
(lunch provided by the conference for registered speakers)

 13:30 – 14:45 SESSION 5: ENGAGING DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES (I)

Ana Rizmaul, Sanja Lončar, Janko Petrović – Participatory Artistic Practices in Heritage Education: The Case of Lukine crte and Endangered Wooden Architecture in Central Croatia
Benedetta Caglioti, Giorgia Sala – Archaeology and Childhood: A Project of Fruition without Perceptual and Cognitive Barriers
Blanka Stančić Puhak –  The Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Art
14:45 – 15:00  COFFEE BREAK

15:00 – 16:15 SESSION 6: ENGAGING DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES (II)

Ileana Parvu – Ana Lupas: Working with Peasant Communities in 1970s Romania
Giulia Menegale – Reimagining the Euro-Mediterranean Space as a Landscape of Diasporic Experiences through Museums and Cultural Heritage Sites: A Comparison between Art-Based Educational Platforms in Southern Europe
Sandra Uskokovic – Art in Motion: Collaboration and Circulation of Communities in Representing Migration
16:15 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30  – 17:30 NEW PATRONS  – ENGAGING COMMUNITY IN COMMISSIONING ART IN PUBLIC SPACE
(short presentations of the methodology and ongoing projects in Croatia)

Jasmina Šarić – Working with Community Using the New Patrons Methodology
Sonja Leboš – Participation in Art – The Case-Study of the EU Project ALILAND (Art Living Lab to Repair the Land)
Maša Štrbac – Challenges in the Implementation of New Patrons Projects – the Case-Study of the Let’s Renew a Well! Project

CONCLUDING REMARKS