The Réseau Art Nouveau Network presents the online lecture "Helena Vurnik's Decoration of Ljubljana's Most Iconic Art Nouveau Building", by Helena Seražin, which is part of the online lecture series "Women on Stage. Discovering the Artistic Female Contribution to Art Nouveau".
Helena Seražin, (1970) obtained her PhD in 2003 in art history at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She works as a Research Adviser at the France Stele Institute of Art History at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (UIFS ZRC SAZU) in Ljubljana. As an Assistant Professor she also gave lectures at University of Ljubljana and Faculty of Humanities in Capodistria. A recipient of various scholarships, she visited numerous institutions to perform research at their departments of art history or history of architecture, among them Università Ca' Foscari and IUAV in Venice and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.
In the last period she has led several applied projects related to modernist architecture and 20th-century urbanism, among them she headed the Slovenian partnership in the EU project "Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement - MoMoWo," (2014-2018), an interdisciplinary project co-funded by CREATIVE EUROPE program, www.momowo.eu). Regardless of the leadership of the above, she continuously performs research on early modern art and architecture, centering on profane and sacred architecture and art commissioning in early modern Slovenia and the territory of the Venetian Republic. She is author and editor of several scientific monographs?among them To the fore: female pioneers in Slovenian architecture, civil engineering and design?and periodicals. Among others, she is the president of Slovenian Association of Art Historians.
The lecture is free, but registration is required in advance by sending an email to info@artnouveau-net.eu. You will receive a Zoom link that will allow you to attend the lecture.
The lecture is cheduled on 11 October at 18h.