Jelena Mićić

Jelena Mićić (b. 1989) graduated in 2015 with a double major in Art History and French Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, with an integrated master's thesis titled "Late Gothic and Early Renaissance in monuments in Hvar – Le Gothique de la Renaissance." During her studies, she completed an Erasmus+ traineeship in France (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand) and after graduation, she underwent professional development at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (2016). She completed her traineeship in the research field of art history at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb as a research assistant in 2016 and 2017. As part of her traineeship, she participated in the preparation of conservation studies, archival and documentary research, field research, the creation of digital databases, and the organization of scientific symposia.

At Vern University, she completed an education program for tour guides and in 2018/2019, passed the professional exam and obtained a license for guiding in English and French. As part of the Split-Dalmatia County project – Dalmatia Storytelling Destination, realized in cooperation with the Public Institution Agency for the Management of Stari Grad Plain, after training as a costumed heritage interpreter, she created and performs the interpretive tour – Uz Selino through ancient Pharos (since the summer of 2021).

Since the spring of 2018, he has been working with Juro Radnić as artistic director and producer of the Hvar Summer Festival (www.hvarsummerfestival.hr). The festival's management over five program years included the creation of the artistic program; organizational, production, and promotional activities within the realization of the festival itself, such as writing grant applications to secure funds, creating budgets and monitoring their expenditure, coordinating all project stakeholders, preparing official correspondence, updating the website and social media, collaborating with accounting, writing reports in the post-production period, as well as evaluation and other administrative tasks.

Since autumn 2020, she has been a permanent collaborator of the creative agency Lab852 (www.lab852.com) from Zagreb, which is involved in the implementation of European cultural projects. As part of the curatorial and production team, she participated in the implementation of the contemporary visual arts festival Jelsa Art Biennale (2021), as a curator in the realization of the international platform Magic Carpets (www.magiccarpets.eu), and since August 2022, as a communication and social media collaborator on the Ambulanta SPARK: solidarity, participation, co-creation project, co-financed by the European Social Fund, implemented by the association Održivi otok.
As a producer, he also collaborates with the artistic organization YELO (www.yelo.hr), which focuses on bringing cultural and artistic projects closer through digital technologies, specifically on the projects Croatian Sound Record, Reading Room, and Slavic Soundwalking.

In addition to her work as part of the Lab852 team, she gained curatorial experience and practice in realizing exhibitions of academic artists John Miličić (Potemkin's Guest, Arsenal Gallery, Hvar 2020.), Lucija Bužančić (The Secret of a Well-Dressed Woman, Street Closet 2021.; Artupunktura, Zagreb 2022.), Jelena Remetin (For vs. Against, Zagreb Dance Center, Zagreb, 2018.; Youth Center - Split, 2021.), and Dino Bićanić and John Miličić (Half-Half, Arsenal Gallery, 2024.).

During 2019 and 2020, she underwent professional development in an educational program organized by the Belgian organization Marcel Hicter, earning a European Diploma in Cultural Project Management. The two main goals of the education are to enable better integration of collaborative projects by cultural managers that link identity, culture, and economy from a European perspective, and to include European projects in regional cultural development policies.

Actively participates in the creation and implementation of artistic, interdisciplinary projects of cultural associations on the island of Hvar through the activities of the Hvar Youth Drama Studio and the association Sustainable Island. Together with actors Lukrecija Tudor and Jure Radnić, she founded the artistic organization connect4 in 2021. The aim of the artistic organization is audience activation and development through contemporary performance forms that are historically rooted in the local community. With this goal in mind, Format – the festival of small-form performing arts and various artistic residency projects were launched in collaboration with the Hvar Public Library and Reading Room.
In 2022, she utilized her entrepreneurial skills to launch her own business, To-Do Lab, focusing on digital marketing and communication through the lens of cultural entrepreneurship, and also secured state support for self-employment.

She currently holds the position of director at the Public Cultural Institution HVAR 1612 in the town of Hvar.