Ivan Kokeza was born in Split in 1992. He finished elementary school and „Marko Marulić“ high school in his home town. From 2011 until 2016 he studied Art History and History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Split). There he earned his bachelor’s degree with a thesis Residential architecture in the 17th and 18th century in the Trogir and Čiovo area. He earned his master’s degree at the same Faculty with a thesis Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski’s activities in art history (under the mentorship of Full Professor Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić). During the winter semester of the academic year 2015/2016 he attended the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) within the Erasmus + student exchange program. Since 2016 he has been a student in the Postgraduate Doctoral Program – Art History, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb). There he is preparing a doctoral thesis entitled Historical painting in Croatia from the Illyrian movement until the Second World War (under the mentorship of Associate Professor Dragan Damjanović). From 2016 to 2018 he participated as an external associate in conducting seminars and classes at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Split). Since 2020 he has been employed as trainee curator at the Collection of Paintings, Prints and Sculptures of the Croatian History Museum in Zagreb.
Ivan Kokeza, PhD student, trainee curator, Croatian History Museum, Zagreb
Contact: i.kokeza@hismus.hr