Antonia Vodanović is an art historian, independent researcher, cultural manager, and senior curator.
After graduating from the Language High School in Makarska, she enrolled in and graduated in 2014 in Art History, with an integrated conservation and museum-gallery major, at the Department of Art History, University of Zadar. During her studies, she worked at the Buža Gallery in Zadar (2012), and
as a scholarship holder of the UNESCO Office in Venice, she completed the three-month international Advanced course on the restoration and conservation of underwater archaeological finds, organized by the Croatian Conservation Institute and the International Center for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar (2011).
From 2015 to 2016, she worked as a trainee curator at the Makarska City Museum, and in the same year she passed the professional exam for the museum title of curator at the Museum Documentation Center, and in 2025, by decision of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, she
was promoted to the title of senior curator. From 2018 to 2019, she worked as an assistant to the head of the Oris Gallery of the House of Architecture in Zagreb, and from 2019 to 2020 as the head of the Oris Gallery of the House of Architecture. Since 2020, she has been employed as the head of the
Galženica Gallery in Velika Gorica, through which she conducts numerous curatorial and discursive programs in the field of contemporary art.
She is the initiator of the opening of the Trumbetaš Gallery in the building of the Velika Gorica Open University, dedicated to the memory of the socially engaged artist Dragutin Trumbetaš. At the same time, she also works as the coordinator of the exhibition program at the Trumbetaš Gallery, intended for the local amateur scene, as well as local associations and educational institutions. She is also the program coordinator and co-organizer of Oglede – a festival of performing arts and contemporary artistic practices in Velika Gorica.
She is the co-founder and president of the Association for Research, Promotion and Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Makarska Littoral and Biokovo Hinterland ”Kačić”, through which she designed, implemented and led several programs aimed at the protection and valorization of modern architecture of the second half of the 20th century. She was the project manager for: a cycle of public lectures and film screenings ”Modernism: Architectural Heritage of the Makarska Littoral” (2018), the retrospective exhibition ”Architect Ante Rožić and the Makarska Littoral” (2019), the research ”Archiving the Children’s Health Resort in Krvavica and the Children’s Village near Promajna” (2020).
She also trained at the workshop Heritage and Heritage for Shaping the Future – Documenting Everyday Life in the Vitić Tower, the project ”Center for Shaping Everyday Life”, organized by Shadow Casters and HDD (2019).
As an independent researcher, she has presented on a few international and domestic scientific conferences held in Croatia and abroad and has published several scientific papers in scientific journals and proceedings of scientific conferences. Her scientific interests focus on interdisciplinary
research into cultural and architectural heritage, at the intersection of art history, cultural history, istorical anthropology and ethnology. She also participated in the co-organization of the international architectural symposium Dani Orisa in Zagreb (2018, 2019). She is active in organizing, producing and curating exhibitions and cultural programs.
photo: Ana Vuko