In a time when the basic values of democracy and human rights are increasingly being questioned or actively erased from public discourse and space, through the conversation “Experiences from History, Strategies for the Present” by historian Ana Lovreković and curator Ana Škegro, we will recall the anti-fascist past in the local context, as well as the fundamental anti-fascist values of freedom, equality and solidarity, while simultaneously questioning the possible role of cultural and artistic institutions as places of freedom of expression, critical thinking and social responsibility.
Ana Lovreković holds a degree in history and museology and heritage management. Her primary interests include women’s trade union organizing in the interwar period and the history of the liberalization of abortion rights in socialist Yugoslavia. She has participated in several research projects, such as “Cartography of Resistance”, “Organized Women on the Left Between the Two Wars, During World War II and After Liberation” and “Women’s Anti-Fascist Zagreb”. She is a co-author of the exhibition “Women of Resistance” as part of the international exhibition project “Women of Resistance. Women in the Fight against Fascism 1936 – 1945.” She is a member of the feminist collective fAKTIV.
Ana Škegro is a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. In the last few years, together with the MSU Youth Club, she has been engaged in the projects “At Works! European Culture of Resistance and Liberation” and “The Arts of Resistance” which explore the historical, cultural and social dimensions of resistance to fascism in the past and today, with the aim of creating new works of art through co-creative work and collaboration between artists and young people.
- 6/9/2025, Saturday / 18:00–19:00
