Iva Simčić, vanredna profesorica na oblastima Crtanje i Slikanje. Naučno zvanje doktora nauka stekla je na Interdisciplinarnom doktorskom studijuTeorija umetnosti i medija, Univerziteta umetnosti u Beogradu. Doktorsku tezu pod nazivom Kolektivizam kao umjetnička strategija otpora: političnost slikarstva nakon 1960. godine. (2016.), pod mentorstvom prof. Vesne Mikić i komentorstvom prof. Miška Šuvakovića, odbranila je 2016. godine. Magistrirala je na Postdiplomskom studiju lijepih umjetnosti, Odsjek slikarstvo/grafika / MFA in Painting/Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA, mentor prof. Mela Bochner (2005). Diplomirala je na Dodiplomskom studiju vizuelnih umjetnosti / BFA in Studio Arts, College of the Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA, mentor Kerry James Marshall (2000). Učesnica je brojnih izložbi u zemlji i inozemstvu, tedobitnica nekoliko prestižnih nagrada i stipendija poput: Mostar Grand Prix 2011. (14. Anale crteža Mostar), Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Award in Studio Arts, Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship, Yale University Scholarship, Illinois Art Council Artist Fellowship Award in Visual Arts.

Born in 1980 in Sarajevo, Jasmina graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo with a degree in Painting. She earned her MA in Painting from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in Japan and an MSc in Sociology of Culture from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2014, she completed her PhD in Art and Media Theory at the University of Arts in Belgrade on the topic ‘Politics of Memory in the Visual Arts – Contemporary Art of Okinawa and Bosnia-Herzegovina.’ Her work explores issues of collective and individual identity, gender violence, and the transmission of transgenerational trauma in the visual arts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Japan (Okinawa), and Belgium. Jasmina is an associate professor at the Art Education Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo. She was also an international researcher for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences at Doshisha University, Faculty of Public Policy Studies, Kyoto (2018/2020).

Selected publications:

Gavrankapetanović-Redžić, J. (2024). “Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Art.” The Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Acta Slavica Iaponica, Volume 45, pp. 23-47. https://doi.org/10.14943/ASI.45.23

Gavrankapetanović-Redžić, J. (2023) “In the Shadow of Genocide: Mothers of Srebrenica and New Social Power.” In: Arıboğan, D.Ü., Khelghat-Doost, H. (eds) Constructing Motherhood Identity Against Political Violence. Contributions to International Relations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36538-6_9 Book chapter.

Gavrankapetanović-Redžić, J. (2022) “Enjoy Sara-jevo: Coca-Cola, Material Culture and the Siege of Sarajevo.” Third Text, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2022.2045148.

Gavrankapetanović-Redžić, J. (2021) “Le Musée virtuel du siège de Sarajevo (1992-1996)–Destruction des lieux de mémoire et mémoires civiques” In: Archiver le temps présent : Les fabriques alternatives d’archives. Véronique Fillieux, Aurore François i Françoise Hiraux (eds) Collection Capsae, Presses universitaires de Louvain. ISBN-13 978-2-39061-024-3. pp. 113-132. Conference proceedings.

Gavrankapetanović-Redžić, J. (2019) “Cultural Capital in Times of Crisis: The Fragmentation of Sarajevo’s Post-war Cultural Elite.” Southeastern Europe, Vol. 43 (2) 2019. pp. 1–26. DOI 10.1163 /18763332-0430200.

Gavrankapetanović-Redžić, J. (2018) “Post-genocide Bosnian (Muslim) Female Identity: Visualizing motherhood, violence and sexuality”. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Studia Territorialia. Volume XVIIII, nr. 2: 63-88. DOI: 10.14712/23363231.2019.12.

Gavrankapetanović-Redžić, J. (2018) “Culture, Memory and Collective Identities in the (Re) Making: The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.” The Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Acta Slavica Iaponica, Volume 39, pp. 71-90 ISSN 0288-3503.

Portfolio: www.gavrankapetan.weebly.com

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5316-5165

Dr. Nela Hasanbegović was born in Sarajevo (1984) where she completed primary education, and then secondary education at the School of Applied Arts. Graduated at the Sculpture Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo 2007. MFA studies completed at the same department 2010. PhD studies completed at the Faculty of Fine Arts Universty of Arts in Belgrade, at the same department 2025. She has been working at the Department of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts University of Sarajevo since 2012. Currently is assistant professor in the field of Methods of Art Education. Currently is PhD candidate at third-year of interdisciplinary doctoral studies at the Faculty of Educational Sciences University in Sarajevo. She exhibited her artworks at 131 international and domestic group exhibitions and realized 23-solo exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. Her artworks are included in important museums and private collections. She has given talks at numerous panels and presentations, and held several lectures. She has published several papers and participated in many symposia, artist colonies and residency programs, and she has won several prestigious awards and scholarships. She is a member of the several Associations of Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. Special areas of her research interest include three-dimensional and multidisciplinary art as well as teaching process at all levels of education, with an emphasis on the Methods of Art Education.

E:nelahasanbegovic@gmail.com | www.nelahasanbegovic.com

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