What, How & for Whom/WHW (established in Zagreb in 1999) is a curatorial collective based in Zagreb and Berlin, whose members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, along with designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. Zagreb WHW team also consists of curator Ana Kovačić and financial and EU project manager Gordana Borić. In 2018 WHW collective launched an independent international study program for emerging artists called WHW Akademija, based in Zagreb. From 2003 – 2023 WHW was running the program of Gallery Nova, a city-owned gallery in Zagreb.
BLOK (founded in 2001) is a curatorial collective working on the democratization of culture and art and the articulation of resistance to the processes of cultural privatization that have fundamentally reshaped the field through the restoration of capitalism. We are engaged in the production and research of socially engaged artistic practices, publishing, political and artistic education, and organizing cultural workers in the fight for better working conditions. Since 2016, we have been running the BAZA art and activism space, located in Trešnjevka, the largest neighborhood in Zagreb. In 2018, we launched the long-term project TREŠNJEVKA NEIGHBORHOOD MUSEUM, which represents a framework for work in the local community, through the construction of a virtual fund, artistic production, and various cultural, artistic, and socially engaged programs. Our activities are permeated by cooperation with cultural and educational institutions, as well as artistic and activist initiatives at the local and international levels
