PhD Darja Radović Mahečić (Zagreb, 1963) is an art historian, researcher, author and curator based in Geneva. She graduated in Art History and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Zagreb, where she received her doctorate in 1998. As an art critic she collaborated in programs on Radio 101, Croatian Radio Television and art magazines and was an editor-in-chief of Život umjetnosti magazine in the 1990s. From 1990 to 2008 she was a researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb and led the project whose interest was the development of European cities and architecture of the 19th-21st centuries. She serves as a researcher-collaborator at the Lexicographic Institute in Zagreb since 2002, and has joined its Editorial Council in 2020.

Darja authored notable books on interwar period (Modern Architecture in Croatia in the 1930s, Zagreb, 2007; Social Housing in Zagreb between two World Wars, Zagreb, 2002; Slavko Löwy (1904-1996) – Zagreb Architect, Contributor to Modern Croatian Architecture of the Nineteen-Thirties, Zagreb, 1999), has published numerous papers and encyclopedic articles and co-curated exhibitions of artistic periods (Avant-guard tendencies in Croatian Art, 1950s etc.) and of different artists.

She completed her CAS studies Heritage and tourism at the University of Geneva in 2011. Her experiences includes fellowships at the Institute of Art History in Trieste (1998/99) and INHA in Paris (2005), working for English Heritage at Kenwood House and Eltham Palace in London (2014-2017) and guiding groups promoting heritage and artists in their studios (Atelier Portes Ouvertes in Geneva, among others).

Her current interest in curating is to understand the relationship between sedimentation of ideas which art research is and art making ... and everything that fells in between. At the moment on her desk are books: Sarah Thornton, Seven days in the Art World (London, 2008); Chris Fitch, Wild Cities – Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle (London, 2025); Jean-Paul Martinon (ed.), The Curatorial – A Philosophy of Curating (London-New York, 2013); David Crowley (ed.), Edita Schubert, Profusion (Muzeum Susch, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, 2025) and Julian Barnes, Departure(s) (London, 2026).

Time at the Three Little Birds Art Studio Residency

Residency Period May 2026