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Katarina Mohar, PhD
Research Associate, Assistant Professor

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katarina.mohar@zrc-sazu.si




20th century art (post-war art in Slovenia, Yugoslavia and USSR), art and politics, socialist realism, digital art history.

2015 Grant by The Getty Foundation (USA) and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (USA) for the Visualizing Venice Digital Visualization Workshop: The Biennale and the City, Venice International University, Italy
2013–14 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
2004–05 Erasmus Programme Scholarship, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

MOHAR, Katarina. Nacistično plenjenje umetnostne dediščine na Gorenjskem med drugo svetovno vojno in primer oltarjev iz cerkve sv. Lucije v Dražgošah. Acta historiae artis Slovenica. [Tiskana izd.]. 2020, 25, [št.] 1, str. 213-231, 277-278, ilustr. ISSN 1408-0419. DOI: 10.3986/ahas.25.1.09. [COBISS.SI-ID 23322627]

MOHAR, Katarina. Gradnja cerkva na Slovenskem v prvih desetletjih po drugi svetovni vojni : primer cerkve sv. Lucije v Dražgošah. V: OTER GORENČIČ, Mija (ur.). Profano v sakralnem : študije o vizualizaciji posvetnih teženj in motivov v sakralni umetnosti. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2019. Str. 283-313, ilustr. Opera instituti artis historiae. ISBN 978-961-05-0147-3. [COBISS.SI-ID 44420141]

MOHAR, Katarina. Architectural history of the Suvobor Manor in Bled. Zbornik Narodnog muzeja. 2, Istorija umetnosti. 2, Histoire de l'art. 2018, knj. 23, sv. 2, str. 199-216, ilustr. ISSN 0352-2466. [COBISS.SI-ID 269568268]

MOHAR, Katarina. Velike teme, velike slike : stensko slikarstvo Marija Preglja = Big themes, big paintings : Marij Pregelj's mural paintings. V: VOVK, Martina (ur.), PREGELJ, Marij. Marij Pregelj : [retrospektiva = a retrospective : Moderna galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 14. 12. 2017-20. 5. 2018]. Ljubljana: Moderna galerija: = Museum of Modern Art, 2017. Str. 97-109, 420-426, ilustr. ISBN 978-961-206-127-2. [COBISS.SI-ID 42506797]

MOHAR, Katarina. Stensko slikarstvo Slavka Pengova pred in po letu 1945. Studia Historica Slovenica : časopis za humanistične in družboslovne študije. [Tiskana izd.]. 2016, letn. 16, št. 3, str. 749-767, 807, ilustr. ISSN 1580-8122. [COBISS.SI-ID 1477253]

MOHAR, Katarina. Representations of the national and supranational in Socialist Slovenia : a case study of two historical frescoes. V: ZIMMERMANN, Tanja (ur.). Brüderlichkeit und Bruderzwist : Mediale Inszenierungen des Aufbaus und die Niedergangs politischer Gemeinschaften in Ost- und Südosteuropa. Göttingen: V & R unipress, cop. 2014. Str. 249-261, ilustr. Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas, Bd. 2. ISBN 978-3-8471-0136-9, ISBN 978-3-8470-0136-2. [COBISS.SI-ID 37600301]

MOHAR, Katarina. "Freedom is a monument" : the Victory Monument in Murska Sobota - its erection, destiny and context = "Svoboda je spomenik" : Spomenik zmage v Murski Soboti - nastanek, usoda, kontekst. Acta historiae artis Slovenica. [Tiskana izd.]. 2013, [letn.] 18, [št.] 2, str. 115-130, 131-145, 186, ilustr. ISSN 1408-0419. [COBISS.SI-ID 36481069]

EDUCATION

2015                    PhD

                            Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Slovenia

2010                    Master

                            Faculty of Arts/Departments of Art History and Russian Language and Literature, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

CURRENT POSITIONS

2018–                  Research Fellow

                            France Stele Institute of Art History ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana

2017–                  Assistant Professor

                            Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia

 

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2010–18             Research Assistant (Post-doc from 2015)

                           France Stele Institute of Art History ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2015–17             Teaching Assistant

                           Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia

2010                   Graduate Intern

                           Russian Art Department, Christie’s London, United Kingdom

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2017–                 Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia

                           course leader: History of Art V–20th Century (BA), Art and the Culture of Memory (MA), Studies in Art and Architecture after 1945 (PhD), History of Photography (BA, 2017–21)

 

MEMBERSHIPS

2020–                  Member of the Working Group for Open Science, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

EDITORIAL WORK

2021–                  Editor-in-Chief, Acta historiae artis Slovenica Journal, France Stele Institute of Art History, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2019–                  Editoral Board Member, Acta historiae artis Slovenica Journal, France Stele Institute of Art History, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

 

Projects funded by Slovenian Research Agency:  link

 

International projects:

EU-funded research projects:

-         TransCultAA: Transfer of cultural objects in the Alpe Adria Region in the 20th Century, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, funding body: HERA Joint Research Programme “Uses of the Past” (2016–19), role: project team member 

-         MoMoWo: Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement, Politecninco di Torino, co-funded by the European Commission from the Creative Europe programme, Slovenian Research Agency and Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia (2014–18), role: project team member 

Bilateral projects:

-         BI-FI/20-22-005 (with Finland): “Women Power”. Establishment of women in natural and cultural heritage preservation in Finland and Slovenia since 1918 (2020–22), role: project team member 

-         (with Serbia): State, Nation and Religion in (Common) Slovenian and Serbian Art History (2014–15), role: project team member

-         (with Serbia): Artistic Exchange and Creation of Yugoslav Identity in Visual Culture 1848–1990: Serbia-Slovenia/Slovenia-Serbia (2013–14), role: project team member

 

Other projects:

-         PKP: Digital Guide, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor Art Gallery and Semantika d.o.o., Creative path to knowledge programme, co-funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport and the European Union under the European Social Fund (2020), role: project leader

-         PKP: Virtual Legends, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor Art Gallery and Semantika d.o.o.,Creative path to knowledge programme, co-funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport and the European Union under the European Social Fund (2019), role: project supervisor

-         PKP: Click to Art, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor Art Gallery and Semantika d.o.o., Creative path to knowledge programme, co-funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport and the European Union under the European Social Fund (2018), role: project leader