Dr. Lina Džuverović

Dr. Lina Džuverović is a curator and researcher of Yugoslav-Sudanese origin, based in London. She has been leading the Master’s program in Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Art, University of London since September 2023. In her research, she focuses on questions of collectivity and gendered labour and her curatorial practice approaches contemporary art as a sphere of solidarity and community-building. Lina was the recipient a Bard College Center for the Arts and Human Rights Faculty Fellowship (2022) for the research project entitled And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives. Previously, Lina was the Artistic Director of the Calvert 22 Foundation in London; founder and Director of the contemporary art agency Electra, London; Curator of Media Arts at the ICA, London, co-curator of the Momentum Biennial 2009 in Norway, and has taught contemporary art at universities in Great Britain and Austria. exhibitions: “Monuments Should Not Be Trusted” (Nottingham Contemporary, 2016), Sanja Iveković – “Unknown Heroine” (South London Gallery/Calvert 22, 2012), 5th Nordic Contemporary Art Biennial (Norway, 2009), “Her Noise” (South London Gallery and other spaces). In 2006, Lina was the recipient of Arts Council England’s DeciBel Curatorial Fellowship, worth £50,000, which at the time was the largest amount awarded to a curator in the UK.