Elena Filipovic in conversation with Dirk Snauwaert (EN)
Reflections on sculpture and other paradigms of objecthood, as well as exhibition-making and collaboration, are at the center of both Baghramian and Filipovic’s thought, which will be the subject of the discussion between Elena Filipovic and Dirk Snauwaert, in the context of the current exhibition nameless.
Filipovic has collaborated with Baghramian on multiple occasions over nearly two decades, from the preparations for the 2008 Berlin Biennale to more recent projects, including Baghramian’s participation in the 2025 exhibition Medardo Rosso: Inventing Modern Sculpture.
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Biography
Elena Filipovic (born 1972) is director of the Kunstmuseum Basel. From 2014 to 2024, she was director and curator of the Kunsthalle Basel, where she organised over seventy exhibitions. Prior to that, she was senior curator at WIELS in Brussels (2008–2014). She was curator of the Croatian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Art in 2022 and was co-curator, with Adam Szymczyk, of the 5th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2008. She has a Ph.D in Art History from Princeton University and has placed writing and research at the center of her approach to art. Her writings have appeared in numerous artists’ catalogues and journals and she has edited several compendiums, and is author of David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale (Afterall Books, 2017), and The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2016).