FEMALE CORRESPONDENCE PROJECT
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Sonja Švec Španjol
Sonja has been a collaborator of the Female Correspondence project since the beginning of 2021, and is the author of the foreword included in the Female Correspondence exhibition catalogue for 2021.
Sonja Švec Španjol was born in Zagreb in 1983. In 2008 she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, majoring in Art History and Slovak Language and Literature. In 2010 she completed the additional two-year study programme of Museology. She did her internship at Atelier Meštrović in Zagreb. In 2012 she passed the state professional exam and became a curator.
Since 2013 she has been working as a freelance curator and art critic. She is a founder and editor-in-chief of PerceiveArt.com website. She has published a number of articles in Kontura art magazine, Vijenac literary journal for art, culture and science, as well as on the website Arteist. Since 2018 she has also been writing columns on art for Grazia lifestyle magazine.
Since 2016 she has been the president of the artistic board of ZILIK (winter art colony in Karlovac), as well as its selector. In 2017 she was the concept author, juror and curator of The Notion of Self, the 4th Triennial of Self-Portraits, organized by the Prica Gallery in Samobor. In 2018 she initiated and set up a group exhibition to mark the fifth anniversary of her PerceiveArt.com website. Seventeen artists were included in the exhibition, which was held at the Zvonimir Art Gallery in Zagreb. Since 2019 she has been a member of the Bunker Gallery arts council, which is a part of the Bunker Youth Center in Samobor. She has also been a member of the Kortil Gallery and The Ideal City Gallery programme councils.
In 2020 she started a show on art and culture KolibriS, which she also hosts. During the last eight years she has curated and opened more than 160 exhibitions.
She is a member of the Croatian Society of Art Historians (DPUH), Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HULU) and Croatian Freelance Artists' Association (HZSU).
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