VALS: Vjera Borozan – Between Expansion and Inclusion

Demands for decolonization resonate intensely through contemporary art practice and theory. To begin with, we will ask what their nature and real possibilities are. Next, we will seek answers to the questions posed, which we will place in the local context and the global condition, related to the current geopolitical situation.
I will expose everything on examples from my own curatorial and editorial practice, specifically on a few selected projects that I have implemented recently. I will focus on three exhibitions (Tapping the Egg: Columbus Then and Now, 2022; Can we try again?, 2022; Domesticated Abyss, 2023) and two publishing projects (Artalk Return and Brothers with Suitcases) through which we will reflect on the issue and explore precise possibilities of decolonization.

Vjera Borozan is an art historian, educator and curator. She studied History and Theory of Art at Charles University, where she received her PhD in 2011. From 2011 to 2019 she was the director of the internet platform for contemporary art Artyčok TV. Since 2019 she has been teaching contemporary and 19th century art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Previously, she worked at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology and the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague. She was the director of the National Museum in Montenegro (2017-2018) and a long-term collaborator of the contemporary art initiative tranzit.cz (2005-2011).