Jury
Member of the Jury
Davor Konjikušić
Davor Konjikušić (b. 1979) is an artist and researcher. He holds a BA in cinematography and an MA in photography from the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb. He is the author of the photobook Naša kuća (Our House; Ured za fotografiju, 2019), co-author of Tu nema ničega (There Is Nothing Here; Multimedijalni institut, 2020) with Dubravka Ugrešić, and author of Red Glow: Yugoslav Partisan Photography and Social Movement, 1941–1945, published in German and English by Deutscher Kunstverlag / De Gruyter. It won a silver medal at the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 23/24. He has had over twenty solo and numerous group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. His awards include the Rovinj Photodays awards for Genogram and Sveti ljudi (Holy People) and the Ex Aequo award of the Slavonian Biennial. In 2018, he was a finalist for the Radoslav Putar Award for best young Croatian artist. He is an assistant professor at the Chair of Photography, Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb. www.davorko.net
Member of the Jury
Jelena Matić
Jelena Matić (born in 1977 in Belgrade) works in the fields of the history and theory of photography and contemporary art. She graduated in art history from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 2004. In 2009, she earned her master’s degree in the Theory of Art and Media programme at the University of Arts in Belgrade, under the supervision of Professor Miodrag Šuvaković. She completed her PhD under the same supervisor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade in 2024. From 2003 to 2015, she was a contributor to Refoto magazine. In 2015, she served as artistic director of the Artget Gallery at the Cultural Centre of Belgrade. Two years later, the Cultural Centre of Belgrade published her book A Brief History of Photography. She has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions featuring artists from Serbia and abroad. She has written extensively on the history and theory of photography, authoring exhibition catalogues and contributing texts to books and academic journals. Since 2018, she has worked as a teaching associate on the Development of the Photographic Medium course within the Department of Applied Graphics (Photography module) at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. She has been a member of ULUPUDS (the Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia) since 2009 and received the association’s award for 2015 and 2022.
Member of the jury
Mane Radmanović
Mane Radmanović (born in Belgrade in 1976) is a visual artist, photographer and graphic designer. He studied at the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the Faculty of Applied Arts and the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, where he teaches as a professor in the Department of Digital Arts. Through his photographic practice, he explores and experiments with the possibilities of the medium, both by creating his own work and by considering its placement in space and different approaches to presentation. He is a longstanding member of the photography collective Belgrade Raw, with which he organises and runs exhibitions and workshops and participates in various forms of research into photography and contemporary visual culture. To date, he has held nine solo exhibitions and participated in more than thirty group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad.
Alongside photography, he has worked in graphic design for more than twenty years, primarily within the independent cultural scene and in collaboration with cultural institutions. His design practice encompasses visual identities, publications, exhibition projects and other forms of visual communication. He has received several awards, including recognition for his sustained creative contribution to graphic design at the regional Grifon competition in 2018 and the Grifon Grand Prix in 2021. In early 2023, he presented the retrospective exhibition Independent and Interdependent – 20 Years of Design for the Independent Scene at the Croatian Designers Association (HDD) Gallery in Zagreb. Alongside his artistic and design practice, he works in education and leads workshops in visual communication and photography at festivals and conferences in Serbia and the region. He lives and works in Belgrade.
Member of the Jury
Marin Margeta
Marin Margeta was born in 1982 in Mostar, where he lives and works. His practice encompasses documentary, commercial and fine art photography, with a particular interest in people, industrial heritage, urban space and social contexts. He gained his first professional experience at a local television station, working on filming and producing television content and collaborating with leading broadcasters from the region. This experience shaped his approach to visual storytelling, lighting, composition and the documentary recording of reality.
He began working in photography through commercial and documentary projects, developing collaborations with private and public institutions, organisations and media outlets. His photographs have appeared in children’s textbooks, on book and music album covers, and in professional journals and publications both nationally and internationally. He has participated in around fifty international group exhibitions held under the patronage of the international photographic organisations FIAP, IAAP and PSA. He is the official photographer for the EU House project in the Herzegovina region and also contributes as a collaborating photographer to projects run by the Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a freelance contributing photographer for the news portal Bljesak.info.
He is a co-founder and vice-president of Foto klub Mostar, where he contributes to the development of photographic culture, member education, exhibitions and individual artistic projects. He is a member of Foto klub Color in Rijeka, the Association for Art Photography of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AUF BiH), and the BH Fotografi association, where he holds distinguished member status. His photographic practice combines a documentary approach with visual research and artistic reflection on space and society. He pays particular attention to the relationship between people, industrial landscapes, light and time.
Member of the Jury
Lucija Čibals
Lucija Čibals is an art historian, curator and specialist in English language and literature. Her professional work focuses on curatorial practice and the production of arts programmes. She works at DLightful Services in Split, where she contributes to the development and delivery of curatorial projects, liaises with artists and supports the development of their artistic practices. She previously worked as a curatorial trainee at the Ivan Meštrović Museums, where she was involved in organising exhibitions and educational programmes. During this time, she developed the exhibition concept Homeland as a Source of Inspiration: The Traditions of the Dalmatian Hinterland in the Art of Ivan Meštrović and the programme In Search of Meštrović. She also gained experience working in Sanja Iveković’s archive and on the project Points of Encounter: Documents in the Making – Sanja Iveković for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (MMSU). She further developed her professional skills through internships at Kula Gallery in Split and, through Erasmus+, at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, Latvia, where she worked on the organisation of the international contemporary art festival Survival Kit. She has been a member of the curatorial section of HULU Split since 2022 and occasionally writes about contemporary art. Her work focuses on modern and contemporary art, with a particular interest in how art is interpreted and presented to audiences.