​​Luja Šimunovic is a curator, researcher, lecturer, and co-founder of KUĆĆA. She works at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb where she is pursuing a PhD on the topic of digitally mediated subjectivity and fiction in contemporary art.

 

Luja has been working as a curator, educator and producer since 2015, collaborating with many different institutions and organisations in Croatia and abroad. She has been part of the KONTEJNER (Croatia) and Organ Vida (Croatia) curatorial teams, and has continuously collaborated with the Croatian Association of Artists, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), the Academy of Fine Arts (Zagreb), as well as worked with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Poland), the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium), Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal), Kapelica Gallery (Slovenia), and the Zürich University of the Arts (Switzerland), to name a few.​

 

She has been awarded the Franjo Marković Award of the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb for founding the cultural portal Kulturflux and the Iso Kršnjavi Award for the best diploma thesis of the Department of Art History. She has collaborated with cultural portals, and has been published in KUNSTFORUM, ŠUM, the Croatian Film Chronicle, etc.

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SELCETED TEXTS:

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Šimunović, Luja. "A Playbook of Bewilderment". in: ŠUM Journal. Ljubljana. 2026. https://www.sum.si/journal-articles/a-playbook-of-bewilderment

 

Šimunović, Luja. “The Boundaries of Digital Utopia: An Affective Cartography of Jon Rafman”. in: Život umjetnosti. Institut za povijest umjetnosti: Zagreb. 2025. https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/file/485286  

 

Šimunović, Luja. “The Archive, Memory and Media in Crisis: Jon Rafman’s Poetic Disruptions of the Present”. in: In my End is my Beginning: Dialectical Images in Times of Crisis. Edizioni Ca’Foscari: Venice. 2024. http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-878-1/004  

 

Šimunović, Luja. “Collective Becomings with/in Stuttering Systems: nimiia cétiï di Jenna Sutela”. in: Oltre la catastrofe: Ecologie, visualità e immaginari nelle arti contemporanee. Postmedia Books: Milano. 2024. http://www.postmediabooks.it/2024/405oltre/9788874904051.htm 

 

Šimunović, Luja. “„Strane“ ontologije u novim umjetničkim praksama”. in: Književna smotra. Godište LV/2023 broj 207 (1). Hrvatsko filološko društvo. 77.-90. https://hrcak.srce.hr/304963 

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