Ana Panić is a senior curator and art historian born in 1978 in Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy with an MA in Art History in 2004. Since 2005, she has worked as a curator at the Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade, where she has organized numerous exhibitions on Yugoslav art, culture, and history. She has received several awards for her curatorial work, including prizes from the Museum Association of Serbia.

1. ANA PANIĆ – CURRICULUM VITAE
ANA PANIĆ
Was born in Belgrade in 1978
Home address: Belgrade, Gospodar Jovanova Street, no. 81
Mobile no: +381.64.2259322
E-mail: ana.panic@mij.rs
EDUCATION:
2015 Senior curator. Passed the state exam in order to become a senior curator.
2006 Curator. Passed the state exam in order to become a curator.
2004 Art historian. Graduated at the Belgrade University, Faculty of Philosophy, Art History
Department. (Equal with MA degree)
WORKING EXPERIENCE
From October 2015 Curator – exhibitions and program coordinator in the Museum of
Yugoslav History, Belgrade.
From January 2005 Curator of the visual arts collection in the Museum of Yugoslav
History, Belgrade.
Since May 2008 until June 2013 member of the Managing Board of the Museum of Yugoslav
History, Belgrade. Since June 2013 president of the Managing Board of the Nikola Tesla
Museum, Belgrade.
2004 Associate on educative programs of the Department of Education, National Museum in
Belgrade.
2002 Organizer of the specialized guided-tours and lectures designed for high school and
undergraduate students, Belgrade City Museum.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015 International traveling exhibition Europe. Southeast – Recorded Memories organized
by the Goethe Institute (Participating curator)
2015 Crveni kiosk K67/ Red kiosk K67, Gallery of Contemporary Art Subotica, 23.04 –
26.06.2015 (Curator of the exhibition)
2015 Guided tours Rhythm of Victory, Belgrade Days 2015, 16 – 19.04.2015. (Author and
coordinator of the program)

2. 2014 Nikad im bolje nije bilo? Modernizacija svakodnevnog života u socijalističkoj
Jugoslaviji/ They Never Had it Better? Modernization of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia,
Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 27.12.2014 – 17.02.2015; Historical Museum of
Bosnia And Heryegovina, Sarajevo, 17.10 – 17.12.2015 (Author of the project and editor of
the catalogue)
2014 Umetnost i vlast: pejzaži iz zbirke Josipa Broza Tita/ Art and authority: landscapes
from the Collection of Josip Broz Tito, Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, 25.04 –
18.06.2014; Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 4.09 – 12.10.2014; Museum of
Contemporary Art of Republic Srpska, Banjaluka, 27.08 – 17.10.2015 (Author of the
exhibition and catalogue)
2013 NEO N.O.B. (Ne)popularna kultura sećanja/ Neo N.O.B. (un)popular culture of
memory, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 29.11.2013 – 12.01.2014 (Co-curator of
the exhibition)
2012 Jugoslavija: od početka do kraja/ Yugoslavia: From the Beginning to the End, Museum
of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 1.12.2012 – 17.03.2013 (Coauthor and curator of the
exhibition and catalogue)
2012 Refleksije vremena 1945-1955/ Reflections of Time 1945-1955 in collaboration with
the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb, 12.12.2012 – 10.03.2013 (Project leader on the behalf
of the Museum of Yugoslav History)
2011 Nesvrstani – od Beograda do Beograda /Non-Aligned – from Belgrade to Belgrade,
Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 3.09 – 3.10.2011 (Curator of the exhibition)
2010 Ženska strana /Woman’ s Corner in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 15.05 – 1.08.2010 (Coauthor of the exhibition
and catalogue).
2009 Smrt u trezoru /Deadly Treasures, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 27.06 –
23.08.2009 (Coauthor of the exhibition and catalogue)
2008 Titove Nove godine /Tito’s New Years, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade,
26.12.2008 – 31.01.2009 (Author of the exhibition and catalogue)
Svet od srebra /World of Silver, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 23.05 – 1.09.2008
(Coauthor of the exhibition and catalogue)
Innocent Sinners, exhibition of New York photographer and artist Lorence Ferich, Turkish
Bath Gallery, Belgrade, 15 – 29.04.2008; Galleria, Pančevo, 3 – 17.05.2008; Modern Gallery
of National Museum in Kragujevac, 10.07 – 20.08.2008; Centre for Contemporary Art of
Montenegro, Podgorica, 29.07 – 10.08.2008 (Co-curator of the exhibition)
Cofounder & coauthor of project “ARTUR”, culture and disability.

3. 2007 Exhibition of model boats and naval furniture intended for the blind and visually
impaired in collaboration with the Serbian Blind Association, Museum of Yugoslav History,
Belgrade, October 2007. (Author of the concept)
Scandinavian Design, the exhibition created by the National Museum of Applied Art and
Design in Oslo, curated by Dr Vidar Halen, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 06.06 –
02.09.2007. (Assistant in organization and guided tours)
Permanent exhibition of batons in the Hosue of Flowers, Museum of Yugoslav History,
Belgrade, May 2007. (Coauthor of the exhibition and catalogue)
2006 Exhibition of batons intended for the blind and visually impaired in collaboration with
the Serbian Blind Association, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, September 2006.
(Author of the concept)
ČesTITAmo /Congratulations, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 27.12.2006 –
01.03.2007; Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, 25.05 – 1.06.2007; Centre for Contemporary
Art of Montenegro, Podgorica, 10-20.12.2007; Museum of Srem, Sremska Mitrovica, 14-
28.02.2008 (Author of the exhibition)
2005 Mladost – kraljica života /Youth – the Queen of Life, Museum of Yugoslav History,
Belgrade, 15.07 – 15.09.2005 (Author of the exhibition and catalogue)
09/05/1945 – 09/05/2005, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, May-June 2005
(Coauthor of the exhibition and catalogue)
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE (Alternative education, courses, seminars and workshops):
2015 Held lecture In search of the lost socialist space - construction and deconstruction of
the myth on the 2nd international conference Socialism on the bench. Socialism:
construction and deconstruction, organized by Juraj Dobrila University of Pula and Centre for
Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism, Pula, 1 – 3.10.2015
2015 Held lecture Incorporating the socialist industrial heritage into landscapes, European
Heritage Days – Industrial and Technical Heritage, Museum of Contemporary Art Republic of
Srpska, Banjaluka, 22.09.2015
2015 Member of the international jury of the 30th
International Art Contest Mandrać –
Mandracchio 2015, Volosko – Opatija, 29 – 30.08.2015
2015 Public debate (Round table) Antifascism After All: Between Revisionism and the Street
Right on the 8th
Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb, 12.05.2015 (Speaker)
2015 Study Visits to the Sites of Memory in Germany organized by Documenta – Centre for
Dealing with the Past, Zagreb and the Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin, 22 –
27.03.2015
2014/2015 INVISIBLE MONUMENTS – A Manual on City Reading/ NEVIDLJIVI SPOMENICI
– priručnik za čitanje grada, documentary theatre performance about the memory of the
Second World War, anti-fascist struggle and the Holocaust in Belgrade. Production: Goethe-

4. Institute Kroatien, Zagreb, Bitef Theatre and Third Grammar School of Belgrade, Belgrade
(Collaborating expert)
2014 Held lecture From unwanted heritage to the most visited museum on panel discussion
Museums & Transition, organized by Belgrade Youth Center, Belgrade, 19 – 21.07.2014
2014 International workshop Exhibiting Violence organized by Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena,
Lille/ Péronne, 28.02 – 1.03.2014
2013 Held lecture Why is it (im) possible to make exhibition about Yugoslavia? on the
international conference Socialism on the Bench. Cultural and Historical Interpretations of
Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Societies, organized by Juraj Dobrila University of Pula and
Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism, Pula, 5 – 7.12.2013
2013 Held lecture Art and authority: Landscapes from the art collection of Josip Broz Tito on
the international conference The Culture of Tito´s Yugoslavia 1945-1980, organized by Don
Juan Archiv Wien in cooperation with the Institute of Art History and Musicology, Austrian
Academy of Sciences and the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität, Vienna, 18 –
20.10.2013
2013 Held lecture Yugoslavia: Individual Memory of a Collective Past on the international
Conference The politics of heritage and memory, organized by Centre for Peace Studies and
University of Zagreb, Zadar, 9 – 10.10.2013
2013 Curatorial practice. A journey to selected locations in Germany organized by Goethe
Institute. Essen – Braunschweig – Leipzig – Berlin, 2 – 9.06.2013
2013 Held lecture Museum of Yugoslavia: how to archive non-existing state on 34th
Meeting
of the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation, Sarajevo, 23 –
24.05.2013
2013 Held lecture about Museum of Yugoslav History on panel discussion Museums without
Revolution, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 19.04.2013
2013 Study Visits to the Sites of Memory in the Region organized by Documenta – Centre
for Dealing with the Past, Zagreb, Jajce – Sarajevo – Jablanica, 18 – 20.04.2013
2012 ICOM International Committee for Museology 34th
ICOFOM Annual Symposium, Tunis,
1 – 3.11.2012
2012 European Curators’ Seminar on the topic Contemporary factors in museums,
organized by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication, Paris – Angoulême –
Bordeaux, 11 – 16.06.2012
2012 The culture of memory international program Sharing Best Practices in Holocaust and
War Crimes Remembrance organized by Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past,
Zagreb and the Institute for Applied History, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, Zagreb, 15 –
20.03.2012

5. 2011 – 2012 Academic interdisciplinary course Culture and Art in Socialist Yugoslavia
organized by The New Academy of art, Belgrade, Serbia and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Belgrade, Serbia
2011 Post-conference session for young professionals supported by UNESCO Venice Office
on the topic "Difficult Heritage", The Best in Heritage Conference, Dubrovnik, 22 –
25.09.2011
Workshop on History organized by dvv international, Prizren, 21 – 24.06.2011
The MUSA Project, international cooperation in the Euro-Adriatic Region in the field of
preventive conservation and preservation of cultural heritage, Ravenna, 1 – 5.03.2011;
Palermo, 3 – 8.05.2011
Held lecture Heritage Metamorphoses – From Subject to Visitor on International Academic
Conference Spaces of Memory: Architecture, Heritage, Art at Belgrade University, Faculty of
Philosophy, 12 – 15.04.2011
Workshop Learning and Pedagogy at Cultural Institutions organized by the Embassy of
Sweden in Belgrade, Belgrade 3.02.2011
2010 Project Museum Development/Pedagogical practice organized by the Embassy of
Sweden in Belgrade and the Swedish Institute: a study trip to Stockholm and two week
internship in Malmö with focus on pedagogical practice and work with audiences, Stockholm
– Malmö, 5 – 25.09.2010
Workshops about preventive conservation organized by the Central Institute for
Conservation in Belgrade, Belgrade 9 – 10.03.2010; 8 – 9.07.2010; 14 – 15.12.2010
2009 Conference Why museums and to whom - Museum as Forum and Actor, Belgrade, 14
- 15.12.2009
History Project: Remember for the Future organized by dvv international, Sarajevo, 2 –
5.07.2009
Conference Museum Today: Change and Continuity, Belgrade, 24 – 27.03.2009
2007 Intersector cooperation in the field of culture, present conditions – obstacles and
challenges, different perspectives
Possibilities of EU and international financing in the field of culture – Project Balkan II
Culture of equality. Inclusivity of persons with dissabilities in culture
AWARDS
2016 The recipient of the 2015 Association of Art Historians of Serbia Best Exhibition and
Best Analytical and Critical Review Published in a Catalogue awards for the curatorial project
They Never Had It Better? Modernization of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia and an
award for the selection and article in the catalogue of the exhibition Recorded Memories
produced by Goethe Institut Belgrade.

6. 2013 The Mihailo Valtrović prize, awarded by the Museum Association of Serbia for the
exhibition Yugoslavia from the Beginning to the End, which was chosen best of the year in
2012
2009 The Mihailo Valtrović prize, awarded by the Museum Association of Serbia for the
category INDIVIDUAL for an exceptional contribution to the improvement and development
of museum work and the development of culture in Serbia in 2008. She won this prize for
the project The World of Silver (the exhibition and the accompanying publication)
MEMBERSHIP IN ASSOCIATIONS
Member of the ICOM (International Council of Museums)
Member of the ICOFOM (International Committee for Museology)
Member of Publishing Board of National Committee of ICOM
Since June 2010 until October 2014 in charge for editing specific topic in every volume of
ICOM Serbia information brochure
Member of the Serbian Museum Association
Member of Society of Art Historians

7. 2013 The Mihailo Valtrović prize, awarded by the Museum Association of Serbia for the
exhibition Yugoslavia from the Beginning to the End, which was chosen best of the year in
2012
2009 The Mihailo Valtrović prize, awarded by the Museum Association of Serbia for the
category INDIVIDUAL for an exceptional contribution to the improvement and development
of museum work and the development of culture in Serbia in 2008. She won this prize for
the project The World of Silver (the exhibition and the accompanying publication)
MEMBERSHIP IN ASSOCIATIONS
Member of the ICOM (International Council of Museums)
Member of the ICOFOM (International Committee for Museology)
Member of Publishing Board of National Committee of ICOM
Since June 2010 until October 2014 in charge for editing specific topic in every volume of
ICOM Serbia information brochure
Member of the Serbian Museum Association
Member of Society of Art Historians