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Ana Ivanović
Hidden Histories: The First Women of Montenegrin Art
The lecture tells a story of presence in Montenegrin art history, exploring how women artists, despite being active participants in the cultural life of the postwar period, remained largely invisible within institutional collections, archives, and dominant narratives. Framed through the politics of visibility, the lecture traces the ways language, education, and cultural structures shaped both artistic opportunity and historical memory. At its center are three pioneering figures, Danica Danja Đurović, Ksenija Vujović Tošić, and Nada Marović Stanić, whose artistic paths reveal persistence, creative autonomy, and quiet resistance within a deeply patriarchal context. Their works and professional lives unfolded alongside the formation of Montenegro’s art institutions yet rarely entered the official canon. By foregrounding these stories, the lecture invites a rethinking of how art histories are written and how they circulate through memory, institutions and exhibition practices.
Ana Ivanović (b.1983), art historian and curator based in Montenegro.She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Art History Department. She works as a curator at the Art Museum of the National Museum of Montenegro. She has been involved, both within institutional frameworks and independently, in organizing various exhibitions, educational and research projects focusing on the valorization and empowerment of young artists. She is a collaborator with the Institute for Contemporary Art of Montenegro as part of the Milčik mentorship program and Award for young visual artists. She specializes in museum collections management. She served as the selector for the Herceg Novi Winter Salon (2013) and the Montenegrin Art Salon "13th November" (2017), as well as a curatorial collaborator for Montenegrin Pavillion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022).