Prof. AIDA ABADŽIĆ-HODŽIĆ, PhD

Prof. Aida Abadžić Hodžić, PhD, (Zagreb, 1970) holds a doctoral degree in the sciences of history of arts and is a full professor at the Department of History of Arts – Faculty of Philosophy of University of Sarajevo. She took her bachelor's (History of Arts and French Language and Literature) and master's degree at the Faculty of Philosophy of University of Zagreb, and was granted the PhD degree at the Faculty of Philosophy of University of Sarajevo (2008).

Within her academic activity, prof. Abadžić Hodžić has had several professional, research and study visits to European universities and institutes (Dijon, Heidelberg, Graz, Berlin, Weimar, Dessau, Zagreb, Belgrade). She has participated in organization and had presentations at many international and local academic meetings and conferences.

Prof. Aida Abadžić Hodžić, PhD, has authored eleven books (Seid Hasanefendić Trabzon: 1950-2004, Sarajevo, 2004; Enes Mundžić, Sarajevo, 2005; Bosna i Hercegovina: monograph, Sarajevo, 2006 (co-author); Stilska i normativna de-komponiranja: o modernom i postmodernom u likovnim umjetnostima u 20. stoljeću (Style and normative de-composings: about the modern and postmodern in visual arts in the 20th century). Sarajevo, 2008; Mirsad Konstantinović: monotopije (Mirsad Konstantinović: monotypes). Sarajevo, 2010 (co-author); Bosanskohercegovačka grafika 20. stoljeća: šezdesete i sedamdesete godine 20. stoljeća u kontekstu evropskog moderniteta i postmoderniteta (Printmaking of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 20th century: the 1960s and the 1970s in the context of European modernity and postmodernity), Sarajevo, 2011; Selman Selmanagić i Bauhaus, Sarajevo, 2014; Selman Selmanagic und das Bauhaus, Berlin, 2018;  Slike suvremenosti: ogledi o arhitekturi, fotografiji i umjetnosti (Images of contemporaneity: essays about architecture, photography and art), Sarajevo, 2019; Behaudin Selmanović Selman, Sarajevo, 2019; Salim Obralić, Sarajevo: 2022. (co-author) and over a hundred of academic and professional texts published in academic and professional books and reviewed local and international journals. She is the editor-in-chief of the first journal in Bosnia and Herzegovina for contemporary visual arts, art critique and theory – Vizura, which received the award at the Book and Teaching Appliances Fair in Sarajevo in 2008.

Prof. Abadžić Hodžić has authored and organized over forty exhibitions of modern and contemporary art of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the country and abroad, notably retrospectives of Omer Mujadžić in Art Pavilion in Zagreb (2003), of Safet Zec in Palais UNESCO in Paris (2004), Museo Correr in Venice (2010) and in the Memorial Center in Potočari (2020); of Mersad Berber in Pera Museum in Istanbul (2017) and in the Town Hall in Sarajevo (2017) and a grand exhibition of young artists of the Academy of Fine Arts of Sarajevo in Pera Museum in Istanbul (2015), which was the first international integral exhibition of all departments in the history of this higher-education institution. Prof. Aida Abadžić Hodžić, PhD, was the author of the ceremonial exhibition and the accompanying international symposium on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo (2012). In 2015, she was the curator of the multimedia project Hope Srebrenica/ La mémoire de Srebrenica (production: East West Center Sarajevo – 13 Productions, Paris), at the 69th Festival in Avignon, and in 2019 she was the author of international presentation of visual artists – members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH in Skopje, in the gallery of Academy of Sciences and Arts of North Macedonia (MANU). 

Since 2020, she has been the author of the conceptual design, the main curator and leader of the research team of the international research, educational and exhibition project “Under the sky of cheerful faith: Islam and Europe in the Bosnian experience” (www.iskustvobosne.ba), the goal of which is the first interdisciplinary and multimedia presentation of centuries-long history and contemporaneity of the culture of Islam in BiH (2020-2025), in cooperation with relevant local and international museums, galleries, archives, institutes and libraries.

Prof. Aida Abadžić Hodžić, PhD, has been a member of numerous international organizations and forums: Executive Board of the Forum of Slavic Cultures (2004-2010); representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the European Center for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe (2006-2010); a member of task force – experts of the Council of Ministers of BiH for distribution of works of art from diplomatic or consular missions from former Yugoslavia; an associate of the leading British art information website and a peer reviewer in the journal ArchNet : IJAR. She is an active member of AICA, the international association of art critics seated in Paris, a member of expert team “bauhaus100” for Southeast Europe, a member of UO DOCOMO BiH and New European Bauhaus for BiH.

Prof. Aida Abadžić Hodžić, PhD, has been awarded several significant recognitions for her authorial activity in the area of the history of art: the Special Award for an outstanding contribution to art for the book Bosanskohercegovačka grafika 20. stoljeća: šezdesete i sedamdesete godine 20. stoljeća u kontekstu evropskog moderniteta i postmoderniteta (Printmaking of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 20th century: the 1960s and the 1970s in the context of European modernity and postmodernity) at the 23rd International Book and Teaching Appliances Fair and the 11th Book Biennale in Sarajevo (2011). For the same book, she received award “Hasan Kaimija” for the best work in the area of social sciences and humanities published in 2011 and 2012. She was also awarded the plaque of the Council of the Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals for 2020 for outstanding work and achievements in teaching, academic and artistic activity. In 2022, she received the award of the University of Sarajevo for years-long contribution in the area of national humanities.

A special achievement in the research and academic activity of prof. Aida Abadžić Hodžić, PhD, is the book Selman Selmanagić i Bauhaus, which presented previously completely unknown life and work of Selman Selmanagić, the only student of the most significant school of European art avantgarde Bauhaus from this region and one of the most significant names in modern architecture, design and protection of monuments in Germany, which has also been translated into German and published as a separate edition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus and presented in the Bauhaus archives in Berlin within the European Cultural Heritage Year (ECHY) in 2018.