Origin story
Ivana Keser is engaged in multimedia art, essayism, performance, photography, film, artistic research. She took her MFA in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, class of Đuro Seder (1992). She received PhD in film studies (2009), at the Postgraduate study of literature, performing arts, film and culture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Since 2010 she has been on the faculty of the Academy, in the New Media department. She also teaches at the Music Academy in Zagreb, she lectured at the Postgraduate studies at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and University North (Koprivnica).
ACHIEVEMENT
She has exhibited at institutions like the 1st European Biennale in Rotterdam (Manifesta I, 1996), the Austrian Triennale of Photography In Graz (1996), the Kyoto Biennale; Kyoto Art Center (2003), the exhibition Central and Eastern European art since 1949. years at the Museum of Modern Art Vienna (2000), the Sala Montcada, Fundacio “La Caixa”, Barcelona (2000), The Exhibition Marking the Territory, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2001), the exhibition Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière…, Casino Luxembourg Forum D’art contemporain, Luxembourg (2001), MoMA New York (Eye on Europe, Prints and multiples, 1960/ till Now (2006), the exhibition Workers Leaving the Workplace, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (2010), MAMCO in Geneva, the show One Sixth of the Earth: ecologies of the images, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC), Leon, Spain (2013); the ZKM (Karlsruhe), the exhibition Through a Forest Wilderness, actions in the forest, performance, conceptual art, events from the 1960s to the present, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam Kunstverein Potsdam (2013), the exhibition We are not like them MMSU, Rijeka (2019), Fotogalery Dubrava Zagreb (2023), The Visible Ones, MSU, Zagreb (2023), Natura Poetica MSU, Zagreb (2026).
Her artistic work has been included in publications such as; Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/ 1960 to Now edited by MoMA New York (2006) / Primary Documents edited by (MoMA) New York (2002) / Looking, Telling, Thinking, Collecting: Four directions of the Artist’s book from the Sixties to the Present, Casa del Mantegna of Mantova (2003). Her work was included in the University visual art textbook Preble’s Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts (New Jersey, 2009).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1989 – PM Galerija, Zagreb
1991 – PM Galerija, Zagreb
1991 – ŠKUC Galerija, Ljubljana
1994 – EgoEast, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
1994 – EgoEast, Galerija Karas, Zagreb
1995 – PM Galerija, Zagreb
1995 – Useful objects, Synagoga na Palmovce, Prag
1997 – Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag
1997 – Spaces Gallery, Cleveland
1997 – «The exhibition of the local newspapers«, CEC ArtsLink, Central Park, New York
1997 – «The exhibition of the local newspapers«, Institute of Art, Cleveland
2000 – Sala Montcada, Fundacio «La Caixa«, Barcelona
2000 – Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
2000 – Museum in Progress, u suradnji sa ”Der Standard« novinama, Beč
2000 – Galerija Marino Cettina, Umag
2003 – Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO): u suradnji s Cabinet des estampes – Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ženeva
2003 – Internacionalni grafički centar (u suradnji s časopisom Delo)
2004 – Community Art: Normalizacija, Galerija Nova, Zagreb
2012 – Galerija Prozori, Zagreb.
2023 – Fotogalerija Dubrava, Zagreb
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
1988 – 20. Salon mladih, HDLU, Zagreb
1990 – Zagrebački Salon, Umjetnički paviljon, Zagreb
1990 – 22. Salon mladih, HDLU, Zagreb
1992 – Natural Hazards, radionica, Sveučilište Perugia, Perugia
1992 – Project Ego East: Croatian Art now, Umjetnički paviljon, Zagreb
1993 – EgoEast, Galerija Karas, Zagreb
1993 – Nova hrvatska umjetnost, Moderna galerija, Zagreb
1994 – Šternberk Augustinian Monastery Installation Symposium, Sternberk, Češka
1996 – Gramercy International, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, New York
1996 – Manifesta I, Europski bijenale suvremene umjetnosti, Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
1996 – Radical Images, II. Austrijski trijenale fotografije, u suradnji sa Kleine Zeitung novinama i Camera Austria časopisom, Neue Galerie, Graz
1996 – Europa e solo una parola?, Europski bijenale mladih umjetnika, Pisa
1996 – Riparte- Ass.culturale, Ripa Residence, Rim
1997 – Gramercy International, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, New York
1997 – Hrvatska fotografija 90-tih, Umjetnički paviljon, Zagreb
1997 – Women Beyond Borders, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
1998 – Cityscape, MGC, Zagreb
1999 – Rondo, Ludwig Museum Budimpešta
1999 – Midnight Walkers & City Sleepers, Gallery W 139, Amsterdam
1999 – After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1999 – Aspects/Positions, Centralna i istočnoeuropska umjetnost od 1949. godine, Museum Moderner Kunst, Beč
2000 – Aspects/Positions, Centralna i istočnoeuropska umjetnost od 1949. godine, Ludwig Museum Budimpešta
2000 – KustRaum Mitteleuropa, Palais Harrach and artLab, Beč
2000 – KustRaum Mitteleuropa , Galerija Jána Koniarka, Trnava, Slovačka
2000 – Što, Kako i za koga?, Dom HDLU, Zagreb
2000 – Celje, Povečava /Blow up, Galerija sodobne umetnosti, Celje
2000 – Chinese Whispers, Apex Art, New York
2001 – Zero_Absolute_The Real, Galerija Marino Cettina, Umag
2001 – Central, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Beč
2001 – Central, Museum Mosbroch, Leverkusen
2001 – Što, kako i za koga?, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Beč
2001 – “Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière…”, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
2001 – P.M. 20 godina, HDLU, Zagreb
2001 – The Real, The Desperate, The Absolute, Forum Stadtpark, Steierischer Herbst, Graz
2001 – Konverzacija, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Beograd
2001 – Marking the Territory, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2001 – Mutations, Rumor City, TN Project, Tokyo
2001 – P.M. 20 godina, Umjetnička Galerija, Dubrovnik
2002 – Broadcasting, Tehnički Muzej, Zagreb
2002 – KunstRaum Mitteleuropa, Galerija Gradec, Zagreb
2002 – Misfits, Art Moscow, Moskva
2002 – Misfits, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
2002 – Central, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm
2002 – Porečki annale, Poreč
2002 – Međunarodna izložba fotografije, Umjetnički paviljon, Zagreb
2002 – Here Tomorrow, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
2002 – Helle Nächte, Cinema performance event, Stadtkino/Kunsthale Basel
2002 – In search of Balkania, Neue Galerie, Graz
2002 – Misfits, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2003 – 25. Internacionalni grafički bijenale, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana
2003 – Kyoto bijenale, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2003 – Carte Blanche, Performance event , Tanzquartier, Beč
2003 – Balkan Visions, Galerie Museum, Bolzano
2003 – Looking, Telling, Thinking, Collecting: Four directions of the Artist’s book from the Sixties to the Present, Casa del Mantegna, Mantova
2004 – East-West, performans i simpozij, Tanzquartier, Beč
2004 – 4th Performace Art Festival, Osijek
2004 – Double Check, Galerija sodobne umetnosti, Celje, Slovenia
2004 – Prvi kongres arhitekata, Zadar
2004 – Collaborative project: John Armleder: Yellow pages, Genéve, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO) / Team 404.
2005 – Double Check, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus, Graz
2005 – Insert – retrospektiva hrvatske video umjetnosti, MSU, Zagreb
2005 – Central, New Art from New Europe, Klovićevi dvori
2006 – Insert, Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, Rijeka
2006 – Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples / 1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2008 – Priroda i društvo, Etnografski muzej, Dubrovnik / HAZU Gliptoteka, Zagreb
2008 – Konceptualna umetnost, HDLU, Zagreb
2008 – Clinch / Cross / Cut – Team 404 & John Armleder – New Jersey, Basel
2009 – 43. Zagrebački salon, Zagreb
2009 – Arbeiter verlassen die Arbeitsstätte, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
2009 – Fleuves – Cneai = Centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprimé, Chatou
2009 – Europe. In-between documentary and fiction, The national Dance Center, Bukurest
2010 – Workers Leaving the Workplace, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poljska
2010- Inserts d’artistes, Cabinet du livre d’artiste, Rennes
2010/2011 – The (im)potence of the image. Differing images of the new Europe seen through the eyes of photographer Erich Lessing and contemporary artists, BELvue Museum Brussels
2012 – The sixth of the Earth: Ecologies of the images, MUSAC – Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Leon, Španjolska
2012 – Print/Out: 20 Years in Print, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2012 – Europa: između dokumenta i fikcije, Kazalište Ulysses, Brijuni
2013 – The sixth of the Earth: Ecologies of the images, ZKM / Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
2013 – Imageination, Clothes, textiles, fashion, and costumes as a theme and a medium in contemporary art Galerija Karas, Kaptol Centar.
2013 – Riječnik svakodnevnih interakcija, Galerija prozori, Zagreb
2014 – Imageination / Odjeća, tekstil, maska i kostim kao tema i medij u suvremenoj umjetnosti, Galerija Multimedijalnog kulturnog centra Split
2015 – Europski parlament, Academia Cravatica, Strasbourg
2018- rujan-listopad, Through a Forest Wilderness, akcije u šumi, performans, konceptualna umjetnost, događanja od 1960tih do danas / Berlin, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam Kunstverein, Potsdam
2019 – listopad- Mi nismo kao oni (We are not like them), MMSU, Rijeka
2020 – ožujak – izlaganje na skupnoj izložbi “One su tu” / fotografije: MUZA / 8.03.-4.4.2020. Galerija “Slavko Kopač”, Vinkovci
2020 – travanj, Izložba Corona 19 / Serija fotografije: Hodanje unatrag (Walking Backward), dnevnički zapisi iz šume (pohvala: kategorija Umjetnički koncepti). Fotoklub Rijeka, Galerija Principij, Rijeka
2020 – svibanj – Izložba ”Animalizam u novijoj hrvatskoj fotografiji” /
– ožujak – Fotogaleriji Dubrava – Kulturni centar Dubrava / lipanj – Mala galerija Ekonomskog fakulteta u Ljubljani
2020 – HDLU Split, virtualna izložba u virtualnom prostoru Salona Galić: Kriza nam je velika prilika, Split, Idem u šumu dok je nisu posjekli… (serija fotografija: jesen 2019 – proljeće 2020).
2021 – listopad, Treći element 2021: voda / fotografije iz ciklusa: Tijelo od vode / Fotoklub Rijeka, Galerija Principij, Rijeka.
2021 REALIZE! RESIST! REACT! / Performance and Politics in the 1990s in the Post-Yugoslav Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Metelkova+ MSUM, Ljubljana
2021 – rujan, Društveni procesi, Galerija Ilica, plakat ‘You can!’, Ilica 32, Q’art, Zagreb
2021 – srpanj, 5. Zagrebački ljetni likovni salon 2021 – Duhovnost i umjetnost’ / Galerija Kontrast, Dubrava, srpanj, 2021
2021 – ožujak, Izložba Fotografkinje, / pohvala za fotografije iz ciklusa: Zraka sunca/ Fotoklub Rijeka / Galerija Principij, Rijeka
2022 – siječanj, Istra HDLU Istre. Izložba Znak / fotografije: Kore / Pula
2022 – lipanj, Dubrava u objektivu 2, Fotogalerija Dubrava / fotografije: Starine / Zagreb
2022 – Drugarstvo/ Comradeship, u sklopu ciklusa Glagol, MSU, Zagreb
2022 – izložba: Tradicija u objektivu, Udruga Hajdina, Varaždin.
2022 – prosinac, Društveni procesi, Galerija Ilica 25, plakat: Newspapers, Q’art, Zagreb
2023 – ZBIRKA SODOBNE UMETNOSTI MARINO CETTINA, Galerija Loža Koper, 23. 6. –15. 9.
2023 – ožujak, Izložba Fotografkinje, / Galerija Principij, Rijeka
2023 – ožujak, “One su tu” / fotografije: Putešestvije / Vinkovci
2023 – svibanj, Vidljive, The Visible Ones, MSU, Zagreb
2023, Lipanj, Le petit festival, Dubrovnik, Atelier Pulitika- Tvrđava Sv. Ivana
2023, srpanj, Forgotten Places, photographic and Video International group exhibition, curated by Loosen Art, 14.-24.11.2023, Galeria Millepiani Coworking, Rim
2023 – Izložba projekt Ilica: Q7Art- Društveni procesi, Lice Zagreba, Weekend Art Hallelujah the Hill, Ilica 3, 12.10-13.11.2023.
2023 – Treći element voda, Galerija Principij, Rijeka
2024 – studeni / Lumen Art Gallery; Tango Monochrome, London
2025 – Fotografkinje, Galerija Principij, Rijeka
2025 – Treći element – voda , Galerija Principij, Rijeka
2025 -. Kapitalocen vs. “Zemlja je naša ljubavnica!”, Muzej grada Zagreba
2025 – „Zov divljine“, Gradska knjižnica Janet Majnarich Delnice, Org. Matica Hrvatska, Delnice.
2026 – Fotografkinje, Galerija Principij, Rijeka
2026 – ožujak, Treći element – voda 2026, Galerija Principij, Rijeka
2026 – svibanj, „Dijalozi s krajolikom“, Makarska, Vila Irena. Organizacija: Gradski muzej Makarska i Sveučilište u Zadru
2026 – Natura Poetica, MSU Zagreb
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1992 – Davor Matičević, katalog ”EgoEast”, Zagreb
1994 – Tihomir Milovac, katalog ”EgoEast”. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1994 – Matthew Remsky, katalog “ŠAMIS”. Sternberk
1995 – Darko Šimičić, katalog ”Words & Images“, SCCA, Zagreb
1995 – Darko Šimičić, katalog ”Reality, Alegria, Reliquiem, Ambiguity”, Prague
1996 – Christian Chambert, Ett europeiskt Manifesta, Nya Tidning UNT, July 20, Švedska
1997 – Tiziana Casapietra, Flash Art International, Summer, nr. 195, p. 148
1998 – Nada Beroš, PressArt, no.232, p.49
1998 – Flash Art International, news, ”Weekend Art“, January-February, p.52
1998 – Nada Beroš, ”From Gorgona Esoterics to Weekend Art dematerialisation”, Art Press, 1. 241, p.46-52
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1999 – Franciska Zoloym, katalog Rondo, Ludwig Museum Budimpešta
1999 – David Elliott, katalog ”After the Wall”, volume I, p.33
1999 – Nada Beroš, katalog ”After the Wall”, volume II, p.227
1999 – Branka Stipančić, katalog Aspekte/Positionen – 50 years of Art in Central Europe, Museum Moderner Kunst, Beč
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2001 – Amei Wallach: Making Art From Splited Memories of War, December 16.2001, pg. 41, The New York Times
2001 – Barbara Lehmann, Das Theater nach der Katastrophe, Dei Zeit, 4.1.2002.
2002 – Kristine Kern, Kunstig Natur, Politikken, Kopenhagen, 26.1.2002
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2002 – Roxana Marcoci, Here Tomorrow, catalogue, Zagreb, 2002
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2003 – Christophe Cherix (Interview: I. Keser):, iz knjige Ivana Keser: Local News 1993-2003, str. 8-26, Ženeva, 2002/03.
2003 – Nataša Ilić (Interview: I. Keser): «Lokalne vijesti», 10 travnja, Zarez, Zagreb, str.8-9
2003 – Andrea Springer: Local Players, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Zürich, 29. ožujak, str. 68
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2004 – Ivana Mance: «Poklapanje u sferi odgovornosti», Frakcija – Magazin za izvedbene umjetnosti, 1. 30/31, Zagreb
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2004 – Anne Moeglin-Delcroix: Thinking, in Guardare, raccontrare, pensare, conservare /
Quattro percosi del libro d’artista degli anni ’60 ad oggi, pg. 189., Edizioni Corrani, Mantova.
2005 – Eda Čufer: Ivana Keser, Svoboda dezinformacije/ The freedom of Misinformation / Svet umetnosti, letnik 5 i 6, str. 48-62, Ljubljana 2004
2005 – Silva Kalčić: “Umjetnost u pejsažu”, u Neizvjesnost umjetnosti, udžbenik za 4. razred gimnazije iz predmeta likovna umjetnost, Školska knjiga, Zagreb
2005 – Marina Gržinić, “Feminism and Performance in the Territory of ex-Yugoslavia”, u Casting gender: women and performance in intercultural context, ur. John T. Warren,Laura B. Lengel, str. 171
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2006 – Andrea Zlatar, “Heterotopijski Zagreb; Kolektivne umjetničke i teorijske prakse”, Zarez, Zagreb, str. 12-13.
2006 – Di Marzo, Cindi: MoMA Sets An Eye On Europe:
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2007 – Jörg Heiser, Romantic conceptualism, BAWAG Fondation Wien, str. 82
2008 – Marina Gržinić, «Ivana Keser: je li umjetnik aktivist ili atavist?», u Up&underground, Zagreb, str. 140-151.
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2008 – Olivier Vargin, Regards sur l’art de “l’Autre” Europe de 1945 à 2005,
L’art contemporain est-eurepéen après 1989, pg. 267, L’Hartmann, Paris
2008 – Željko Tomić, “Intenzivna interpersonalna razmjena”, Zarez, broj 11/12, Zagreb, str. 10
2008 – Patrick L. Franck, Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts (9th Edition), str. 142-143, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
2009 – Kenny Mc Bride, Eastern Time-Based Art Practices Contextualised Within the Communist Project of Emergence and Post-Communist Disintegration and Transition, http://www.agora8.org/reader/Kenny_McBride_ch4html, 1/2/2010
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2009 – Marina Grzinić i Walter Seidl: Europe. In-between documentary and fiction, Erich Lessing photographs from post-World War II Europe expanded, Erste Stiftung, Beč, str. 11-12.
2010 – Maroje Mrduljaš/ Dea Vidović, Dizajn i nezavisna kultura, str 101
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2011 – Suzana Marjanić, «Umjetničke intervencije u industrijsku kulturnu baštinu ili kako nastaje društveno kosrisna umjetnost?», u Narodna umjetnost, hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku, vol. 48, br. 1, str. 29-53.
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2011 – Roxana Marcoci, «Art in transitional times, post-1945, 1968, 1989, and 2000 in the former Yugoslavia», u Sweet Violence, monografija Sanje Iveković, ur. Roxana Marcoci i Terry Eagelton, MoMA, New York, str. 29.
2011 – Ana Kršnić Lozica, «Lažna svjedokinja/ The False Whitness», u Život umjetnosti : časopis za suvremena likovna zbivanja (89), str 68-77.
2011 – Cvitanic, Marilyn, Culture and Customs of Croatia, ABC-CLIO, 2011, str. 189.
2012 – Katalog, Print/Out: 20 Years in Print, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
2012 – “Devedesete ili o shvaćanju procesa”, u Život umjetnosti, časopis za suvremena likovna zbivanja, broj 9, str. 88-101.
2012 – Kiš, Patricija, “Što je ostalo pd umjetnosti”, Jutarnji list,
2013 – Levi, Pavle, Kino drugim sredstvima, str. 162-163, Muzej savremene umetnosti i Filmski centar Srbije, Beograd.
2014 – Čegir, Tomislav, Refleksivna filmska forma: Filmološka studija Film esej Ivane Keser Battista, Vijenac, br. 527, 15.4.2014.
2014 – Marjanić, Suzana, “Prema dostojanstvu: direktna gesta i “nebitni detalji”, str. 3/-31, časopis Zarez, XVI/380, ožujak, Zagreb.
2014 – Marjanić, Suzana, Kronotop hrvatskog performansa, Udruga bijeli val / Školska knjiga / Institut za etnologiju i filkloristiku, 15. poglavlje, Zagreb.
2014 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ef6jpszwsrce311/IMAGEINATION_Suvremena_umjetnost_i_moda_ULUPUH_2014_144.pdf?dl=0
2014 – Čegir, Tomislav: Ivana Keser Battista: Film Esej, str. 29, Broj 527, Vijenac, Zagreb.2016 – Heidl, Janko, “Stalni preobražaj: Ivana Keser Battista, Film esej, Leykam International, Zagreb, 2013», http://www.filmovi.hr/index.php?p=article&id=2328
2020 – Maja i Reuben Fowkes, Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950”; EgoEast i Weekend Art Hallelujah the Hill, str. 308-311, WW Norton.
2023 – 7.2.2023 – Izložba Ivane Keser u Fotogaleriji Dubrava; https://ns-dubrava.hr/2023/02/07/izlozba-ivane-keser-u-fotogaleriji-dubrava/
BROADCAST / RADIO TEXTS AND DRAMAS
2010 – esej: “Ezra Pound: Estetički revolucionar, politički ultrareakcionar”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
2010 – esej: “Razmišljanje u odlomcima i esej u filmu”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
2009 – esej: “Mišljenje i hodanje”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
2007 – esej: “Mišljenje / djelovanje”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
2007 – esej: “Virginia Woolf: Pacifizam versus patrijarhat”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
2007 – esej: “Nemjesta”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
2007 – esej: “Tjelesna uvjetovanost jezika u filmu Ledena oluja”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
2007 – esej: “Interdisciplinarnost u filmskom esejizmu”, I. i II. dio, Treći program hrvatskog radija
2001 – radio drama: “ Budućnost je luksuz”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
1999 – esej: “Dosada”, Treći program hrvatskog radija
Ivana Keser (Battista) PhD
Ivana Keser’s research and practice focus on Film Theory, Film History, Visual Arts, Essayism, Artist’s Books, Photography, and Artistic Research. She earned a PhD in Film Studies in 2009 through the postgraduate program in Literature, Performing Arts, Film, and Culture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
In 2012, she undertook postdoctoral research within the Associate Professor Program supported by the University of Zagreb Development Fund. Her interdisciplinary artistic research in visual and audiovisual media encompasses digital film, conceptual development, and the exploration of film as an interdisciplinary field through visual, multimedia, and conceptual approaches to moving-image media. Her work also investigates methodologies and practices of artistic research.
EMPLOYMENT AND TITLES
2013 – ongoing, Full professor, New Media Department, The Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb; subjects: Film Theory, Film History, Film Essayism, Artist Book.
TEACHING ENGAGEMENTS
– From 2009. – ongoing, at The Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb; Subject Visual culture.
– From 2022 – ongoing, Postgraduate Studies at the The Fine of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb; subject: Art Research 1
– From 2012 – 2014, At the Postgraduate studies of literature, performing arts, film and culture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb; subjects:
Film essayism,
European film I: figures of identity in European film after 1950
European film II: “European film after 1970.
Trends in French and Francophone cinema after the 1950s
Film and history
– 2012/2013 – Media design studies, University North, Koprivnica; subjects; Introduction to media and Visual culture.
SELECTED WRITINGS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
2024 – Places, nonplaces, spaces // Zbornik radova Akademije umetnosti, Novi Sad
2023 – Artistic research: plural methods and melting methodologies, thematic proceedings (in)agreements, University of Zagreb, The Academy of Fine Arts, 14-21
2016 – Modern and postmodern European film // Zbornik radova Akademije umetnosti, Novi Sad, (2016), 4; 220-232. doi: 10.5937/zbakum1604220b
2015 – Physical condition of the film // Filozofska istraživanja, 3 (2015), 139; 533-543
2014 -“ Contemporary European feature film: contexts and tendencies ”, Hrvatski filmski ljetopis, br. 76, Hvatski filmski savez, Zagreb, 2013, str. 77-92; ISSN 1330-7665 (
2013 – Essay: thinking in fragments // Filozofska istraživanja, 33 (2013), 2; Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo, Zagreb, 2013, Sv. 2, str. 258-266; ISSN 0351-4706
2012 – Impure film: intermediate strategies and pictorial processes in film // Hrvatski filmski ljetopis, 70 (2012), 70; 6-24
2012 – Contemporary European feature film: contexts and tendencies // Hrvatski filmski ljetopis, 76 (2012), 1; 77-92 / str. 131-160; ISSN 1330-6928
2010 – Intertextuality, intermediality and interdisciplinarity in film essay // Medijska istraživanja, 16 (2010), 1; 131-160
2010 – Ante Babaje’s film essay: The Body as a trial process // Hrvatski filmski ljetopis, 63 (2010), 1; 52-58
2009 – ‘Gauthier’s theory of film art // Hrvatski filmski ljetopis, 59 (2009), 66-73
2007- Film and literary Essayism: Jean-Luc Godard // Književna smotra: časopis za svjetsku književnost, 39 (2007), 1; 11-24
2002 – “About economy”, interview with Santiago Sierra, Život umjetnosti, br. 67/68-02, str. 76-85, Zagreb.
2001 – “Water, communication, shelter”, interview with Marjetica Potrč, Život umjetnosti, pg. 64-01., str. 40-51. Zagreb.
SIMPOSIUM
2022 – ‘Artistic research: plural methods and melting methodologies at: (in)agreements-doctoral art project, at the scientific-artistic partnership meeting of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb and the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade, held at the University of Zagreb.
2014 – Presentation: “Physical conditioning of film”, at the symposium philosophy and corporeality, annual symposium of the Croatian Philosophical Society, dvorana Školske knjige, Zagreb (28.11.2014)
2011. “Essay: thinking in fragments”, annual symposium of the Croatian Philosophical Society: art and philosophy, School Book Hall, dvorana Školske knjige, Zagreb. (1-3.12.2011).
2011. “Zones of Geopolitical Intersections and Legacy of the Third Cinema” na međunarodnom simpoziju: Re-thinking Humanities and social sciences, University of Zadar, Zadar, str. 1-13
2010. “Cinema and Remembrance, Archive and medium of rumination and reflecion” na međunarodnom simpoziju: Art of Remembrance; Mnemopolitics, Mnemotopias, Mnemopoetics; Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural research (AIIR), Zagreb
SELECTION COMITIES AND JURIES
2024 –PSSST! 18th Silent film festival, Zagreb (selection comity and jury member)
2016 – 9. Subversive (Film) festival Wild Dreamer award, selection comity and jury member for documentary and short film (with Goran Dević and Tomislav Brlek), Zagreb.
2017 – 10. Subversive (Film) festival – Wild Dreamer award, selection comity and jury member for documentary and short film (with Tomislav Brlek, Leila Topić and Dragan Jurak), Zagreb.
2018 – 11. Subversive (Film) festival –Wild Dreamer award, selection comity and jury member for documentary and short film (uz Louisa Armanda i Marinu Baničević), Zagreb.
BOOKS (author)
Ivana Keser Battista Film Essay. Zagreb: Leykam International, 2013
ISBN 978-953-340-005-1
https://www.leykam-international.hr/publikacija/117
EDITORIAL WORKS
2019 – Editor of the scientific book Anamnesis, dialogues of art in public space, by Sandra Uskoković, for the publisher UPI2M BOOK, Zagreb, 2019, ISBN 9789537703400
MORE
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https://ffzg.academia.edu/ivanakeser
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivana-Keser-Battista-2?ev=hdr_xprf