Martina Bobinac

Biography

Martina Bobinac graduated in Art History (module: Modern and Contemporary Art) and French Language and Literature (Translation Studies) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2021). Since September 2021, she has been employed at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb as a research assistant and doctoral candidate.

Since December 2023, she has been a team member of two scientific projects at the Institute: DIGitART – “Digital network, spatial and (con)textual analysis of artistic phenomena and heritage of the 20th century,” led by Sanja Horvatinčić, Phd, and UrbArH – “Architecture and Fine Arts of Urban Units in Croatia,” led by Matko Matijević Marušić, Phd.

From October 2022 to 2024, she was a team member of the TRACTS project – “Traces as an Agenda in Climate Change, Technology, and Social Justice Research” (CA20134) within Working Group 2: Traces and Social Justice (WG2), under the leadership of Sanja Horvatinčić, Phd.

From September 2021 to January 2024, she was a team member on the bilateral research project Globe_Exchange “Models and Practices of Global and Cultural Exchange and the Non-Aligned Movement: Researching the Spatio-Temporal Cultural Dynamics,” led by Ljiljana Kolešnik, Phd, and funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ).

Under the mentorship of Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Phd, she is currently preparing her doctoral dissertation titled Urban and Housing Reconstruction Models After Natural Disasters in Yugoslavia and the Global South, 1962–1972. She is pursuing her doctoral studies at the University of Zadar, where she defended her dissertation synopsis in October 2023. The preliminary research results were presented at a public lecture within the PhD Café program (Croatian Science Foundation, Literary Club Booksa, December 2023).

Her research focuses on cultural exchange and diplomacy, as well as the activities of international organizations. She is also interested in issues of collective memory and memorialization of sites of memory, focusing on the decolonization processes in the context of 20th-century art history, architecture, and urbanism, with a strong emphasis on the use of digital tools and the application of digital art history methodologies in research.

She speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian, and German.

Scientific Papers

“A Discursive Analysis of 1950-1990 Articles on Croatia’s 'Non-European' Ethnographic Collection: A Contribution to Digital Art History”, in: Život umjetnosti, 114, 2024, pp. 92–107

Book Chapters

“Opatovina 31: The Urban House”, in: Comprehensive Renovation Program of the Historical Urban Area of Zagreb. Upper Town (Block 11) and Kaptol (Opatovina), ed. Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Institute of Art History, Zagreb, 2022, pp. 223–229

“Opatovina 33: The Barić House”, in: Comprehensive Renovation Program of the Historical Urban Area of Zagreb. Upper Town (Block 11) and Kaptol (Opatovina), ed. Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Institute of Art History, Zagreb, 2022, pp. 229–234

Professional Papers

“Conference on the Future of Europe – Meetings at the Institute” (co-authored with Lana Lovrenčić and Iva Vidović), in: Kvartal – Chronicle of Art History in Croatia, Vol. XII, No. 1/2, 2022, pp. 156–164

Edited Conference Proceedings

Proceedings from the VIth International Congress of Art History Students: Interdisciplinarity in Art History, ed. Matea Bilogrivić, Martina Bobinac, Mara Korunić, Filip Lovrić, Lucija Sukalić, FF Press, Zagreb, 2022.

Conference Presentations and Lectures

Forgotten heritage: Prefabricated settlements of Skopje, Zagreb, and Osijek, 10TH DOCTORAL WORKSHOP: Why Socialism Matters? Approaches to Research of the Political Idea and the Historical Period, University of Juraj Dobrila, Pula, 28–30 August 2024, international workshop (presentation, abstract)

Reviewing the position of the 'Other' in Croatia's 'Non-European' collections in the second half of the 20th Century using NLP, The 17th NOOJ International Conference 2023, Zadar, University of Zadar, NOOJ Association, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, 31 May – 2 June 2023, international conference (presentation, abstract).

The 'Other' in Zagreb’s Ethnographic Museum: the collection of World Cultures, Trancing Temporalities / Unearthing Archives, COST Action, Humboldt University, Berlin, RIFS Research Institute for Sustainability, Potsdam, 26–29 April 2023, international conference (presentation, abstract).

Case Study: Retkovec Settlement as an Example of Emergency Planning in the Second Half of the 20th Century, Vth Congress of Croatian Art Historians, Zagreb, 10–12 November 2022 (presentation, abstract).

Hidden in Plain Sight – The Case of Sisak Concentration Camp for Children, Heritage: Tracing Resistance in (Post)Socialist Europe, TRACTS Network Workshop Program, international workshop, Zagreb, 8–9 September 2022 (presentation, abstract).

Urban Crisis Planning Models in Zagreb After the 1964 Flood, course Architecture and Technology 2 (professor: Dubravko Bačić), Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, 20 May 2022 (lecture).

Getting together at IPU III: Conference on the Future of Europe, series of panel discussions, Institute of Art History, Zagreb, March–April 2022; panel discussion Reconstruction of Built Heritage, Rural and Urban Spaces After Natural Disasters, Zagreb, 5 May 2022 (lecture; participants: Tamara Bjažić-Klarin, Martina Bobinac, Franko Ćorić, Jasenka Kranjčević, Ratko Vučetić).

Children's Concentration Camp Sisak: Curatorial and Artistic Approaches to Memorialization, International Interdisciplinary Conference on Art, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Belgrade, 8–10 May 2019 (co-presented with Maja Flajsig; presentation, abstract).

Change in the Perception of the 'Other': Permanent Exhibition of World Cultures, Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, VIIth International Congress of Art History Students, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 14–16 November 2018 (presentation, abstract).

Conference Organization

Open House Days of the Institute of Art History, 14–15 February 2024.

Globe_Exchange – Models and Practices of Global and Cultural Exchange and the Non-Aligned Movement: Researching the Spatio-Temporal Cultural Dynamics, international scientific conference of long duration (Zagreb, September – October 2023).

• Racialization and the Contested Cultural Politics of Non-Alignment (organized by Paul Stubbs, 4 September 2023).
• Non-Alignment and New International Order(s) (organized by Paul Stubbs, 7 September 2023).
• Socialist Yugoslavia – 'Exporter' of Higher Education and Contemporary Construction Technologies to the Global South (organized by Tamara Bjažić Klarin, 15 September 2023).
• Perspectives of Digital Humanities Infrastructures (organized by Nikola Bojić, 25 September 2023).
• Alliances and Ruptures: The Non-Aligned Movement and its Contradictions (organized by Sanja Horvatinčić, 7 October 2023).

Digital Art History – Methods, Practices, Epistemologies IV, international scientific conference, Institute of Art History, University Computing Centre SRCE, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, National and University Library in Zagreb, DARIAH-HR, Zagreb, 3–4 October 2022 (organization with Draženko Celjak, Ana Ćurić, Sanja Horvatinčić, Ljiljana Kolešnik, Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar, Sanja Sekelj, Daša Tepina).

Digital Art History – Methods, Practices, Epistemologies III, international scientific conference, Institute of Art History, University Computing Centre SRCE, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, National and University Library in Zagreb, DARIAH-HR, Zagreb, 12–13 October 2021 (organization with Ana Ćurić, Ljiljana Kolešnik, Tihana Puc, Sanja Sekelj).

Meetings at Institute of Art History I, II, III: Conference on the Future of Europe, series of panel discussions, Institute of Art History, Zagreb, March–April 2022 (organization with Lana Lovrenčić, Iva Vidović).

VI International Congress of Art History Students, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, November 2017 (organization with Matea Bilogrivić, Mara Korunić, Filip Lovrić, Lucija Sukalić).

Professional Training

Digital Art History Summer School: Collapse, Creativity, and Imagination DAHSS, University of Malaga, University of Berkeley, Malaga, Spain, 29 August – 3 September 2022.

ERASMUS+ Traineeship, Les Archives de la critique d'art, Rennes, France (academic year 2018/2019).

Master's Theses

Croatian Art Criticism in the Context of the Yugoslav Section of the International Association of Art Critics in the 1950s, Master’s Thesis, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2021.

La peinture à l'huile: stratigraphie, dégradations, techniques d'analyse. Travail terminographique, Master’s Thesis, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2020.

Exhibitions

Design + Exhibitions: Seven Examples of Innovation, Museum Documentation Center, Croatian Designers’ Association, Zagreb, January 2020 (co-curator with Daria Vuger, Tena Starčević, Ivana Šešlek).

Virtual Museum of the Children’s Camp Sisak, project for the memorialization of Ustaša camps in Croatia, SF:ius – Interesting Untold Stories, 2017–2021 (co-author with Maja Flajsig, curator).

Emotion/Association, Beck Gallery, Zagreb, January 2018 (concept author, curator).