Exhibition review. The Invisible Burden. An Artistic Dialogue on Transgenerational Trauma (The Contemporary Art Gallery Subotica, June 8 – July 20, 2024)

Nela Tonković (1984), art historian with a Master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Management. From 2013 to 2018, she was the director of the Subotica Contemporary Gallery, and from 2019 to 2020, she served as the director of the National Museum in Šabac. She is currently working as a curator at the Subotica Contemporary Gallery, where she is in charge of planning and implementing the gallery’s annual work plan. In her curatorial work, she collaborated with numerous visual artists from Serbia and the region, as well as with several gallery institutions. She directed a significant portion of her interests towards researching the logic and politics of acquisition of public collections of contemporary art, as well as exhibitions as a communication tool. She actively researches the policies of collecting and exhibiting contemporary art in public institutions in Serbia. Her professional practice is focused on strategic management in institutions for the protection and sustainable use of cultural heritage, management in the field of visual art production, and mediation of contemporary art. She is a member of ICOM.