Vanja Žanko
Vanja is a cultural manager and curator with over ten years of experience managing exhibition spaces, cultural organisations and artist studios. Art institutions that she has collaborated with include the Tate Modern London, Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Camera Austria Graz, and the Venice Biennial. Non-profit partnerships include the United Nations, Croatian Association of Artists, Little Sun Foundation, and the Motovun Film Festival. Philantropic foundations include the Lauba Foundation Zagreb, Adris Foundation, Fondation Beyeler, and the Bloomberg Philantropies. Public service funding includes the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, Foreign Ministry of Republic of Germany, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb, and the City of Zagreb. For 6 years she has focused on working with artist Olafur Eliasson as his right-hand person. They have worked closely on strategic decisions and coordination with internal teams and external collaborators to turn his ideas into artworks, commissions, solo exhibitions, publications, and lectures.
Ana Petričić Gojanović
Ana is the owner and director of PRiredba Studio, an agency specialised in communication, production and event management, which stands behind numerous cultural, artistic and lifestyle projects and events in Croatia. Together with her team, she has been approaching each project and client individually and dedicatedly for 15 years in order to provide them with the best communication and creative marketing solutions in an efficient and innovative way. From many years of experience and long list of projects, they could emphasize the production and communication management of the exhibition of photographer Peter Lindbergh in Zagreb, as well as Brigitte Lacombe, cooperation with festivals (Sarajevo Film Festival, Pula Film Festival, Ponta Lopud Festival, Art Zagreb, Zagreb Design Week), galleries and museums (the Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Museum of contemporary Art Zagreb, Museums of Ivan Meštrović, the National Museum of Modern Art, Gallery Kranjčar Zagreb) numerous promotions of books and films, guest appearances of writers, exhibitions and performances of domestic and foreign artists.
Jelena Tamindžija Donnart
Jelena is is an art historian, curator, project manager, specialised in cultural diplomacy, economics and contemporary art market. She graduated in Art History and Croatian language and literature from the University of Zagreb and Università degli Studi di Verona in Italy. Tamindžija Donnart is a recipient of the Rector’s Award for Wikipedia Project of the Art History students at the University of Zagreb, as well as the Embassy of France Scholarship for the Excellence and CEEPUS program scholarships at the University in Vienna. She specialised in cultural diplomacy and international relationships at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin. After her internships at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, she took part in and designed numerous contemporary art exhibitions at private galleries and international art fairs in Shanghai. She currently works as a Curator at the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik.
Daria Darmaniyan
Daria is a creative strategist and communications specialist with over 10 years of experience in arts, culture and design industries. With a successful record of creating and delivering communications and development strategies for the world’s leading institutions, creative businesses and tech companies in art & design, Daria has worked with clients including: Instagram’s official account @design and International Olympic Committee; museums Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town and Museum of Art and Photography in Bangalore; art & tech platform Acute Art; Dubai Design Week and London Craft Week; as well as exhibitions and events during Art Basel and Venice Biennale. She has also worked with private collectors spanning from digital to philanthropists across Europe, Middle East and Asia; and has led educational arts projects including the launch of the first series of art market conferences in Croatia at Galerija Kranjčar; a collaboration with a Singapore based educational and art advisory platform Metis Art; and Global Grad Show in Dubai. Previous professional experience ranges from marketing at leading jewellery houses Van Cleef & Arpels and Stephen Webster; in-house roles at auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s; to organisation of events at Contemporary Art Society and individual art tours across London for young collectors. Daria holds a BA degree in Curation and Communications from Central Saint Martins and an MA degree in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
Dora Zane
Dora is is a senior product strategist at Q Agency, a startup enthusiast & a co-founder of the Fond 5.5, which raised more than 4 million euros for the victims of the Zagreb and Bania earthquake in 2020. With a proven success record of validating business ideas and putting them on the market, Dora helped more than 100 startup businesses to find a product-market fit and serve customers in the right way. She also supports corporates like Vattenfall, Philips, Disney, and Times and financial institutions like UBS, ING, and Crescendo to redefine their business propositions and develop new ones to keep up relevant towards desired customer groups. Her main strength is business creativity, which is undoubtedly inspired by many artworks and artist performances. Because of it, she finds Nomad extremely interesting as an organisation that can empower everyone who wants to open new horizons while supporting artistic creativity. Dora holds an MA in Business Administration: Strategic & Organisational management from Vrije University Amsterdam.