Kristina Pranjić is a researcher at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, and an associate professor at the University of Nova Gorica. Her research focuses on avant-garde, intermedia, and ecocritical artistic practices, especially in East-Central European contexts. Her work examines transnational and peripheral avant-garde networks and the relations between art and socio-political contexts. She is interested in experimental literature and art, visual, performative, and intermedia practices, abstraction, objectlessness, cosmism, and early ecological thought. She holds a PhD in Slavic Studies from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
In her current research, she develops ecocritical and ecofeminist approaches to avant-garde studies, with particular emphasis on the Northern Adriatic. Within the project ADRIATIC AVANT-GARDE, she collaborates with the University of Graz, the Department of Slavic Studies, and the Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europe.” Her work brings together research, editorial work, teaching, as well as art-research and curatorial practices.
Kristina Pranjić’s main research areas extend from the history and theory of the avant-garde in East-Central Europe to the study of experimental and intermedia artistic practices. She focuses on how avant-garde art and literature exceed national and normative linguistic and visual frameworks, how they shape anti-imperial alliances, and how marginal and peripheral regions co-create the European art-historical landscape.
Her current work connects avant-garde studies with the environmental humanities, especially through ecocritical and ecofeminist approaches and critical cartography. She approaches the Northern Adriatic as a specific cultural, material, and methodological space that opens new possibilities for writing transnational art and literary history.
Her research combines literary and art theory, aesthetics, media studies, critical theory, and archival, comparative, and spatial methodologies. She led the postdoctoral project Yugoslav Avant-Gardes and Metropolitan Dada (1916–1927): A Multidirectional and Transnational Genealogy and is the author of the monograph Jugoslovanska avantgarda in metropolitanska dada (2024). She co-edited the volumes World as Objectlessness (2018) and Cosmic Anarchism (2021), as well as three thematic issues titled Avant-Garde and the End of the World (2025).
She is a member of the research programme Transdisciplinary Research of Identities and Cultures at the Research Centre for Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, presenting her work at international conferences and giving invited lectures at universities and research institutions in Slovenia and abroad. She conceived several international scholarly conferences with artistic programmes and co-developed interdisciplinary research and art-research projects in pedagogical settings.
Hydro-Ecological Avant-Garde: Toward a Situated Aesthetics of the Northern Adriatic, Kristina Pranjić, 2025.
Decentralizacija evropskega avantgardizma in omrežje jugoslovanske avantgarde, Kristina Pranjić, 2025.
Jugoslovanska avantgarda in metropolitanska dada, Kristina Pranjić, 2024.
Taming the Forest: Embracing the Complexity of Art-Sci Research Through Microhistory, Bioeconomics and Intermedia Art, Nikita Peresin Meden, Kristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, 2024.
Spreminjanje imaginarija napredka in rasti v avantgardnih in intermedijskih umetniških praksah, Kristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, 2023.
Change Must Come: Yugoslav Avant-Gardes and Metropolitan Dada, Kristina Pranjić, 2022.
- Eco-Transversal Remapping of Northern Adriatic Avant-Gardes (research project • October 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026)
- Historical interpretations of the 20th century (research programme • January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2027)
- University of Nova Gorica: MA programme Humanities Studies, course leader for Methodology of Literary Analysis and co-lecturer of Avant-Garde and Experiment; BA programme Language and Literature in the Digital World, co-lecturer of Introduction to Literary Studies and course leader for Ecocriticism and Intermediality in the Avant-Gardes; BA programme Digital Arts and Practices, module leader for History and Theory of Art and Media (2019–2023); MA programme Media Arts and Practices, module leader for Discourses in Practice (2019–2023).
- Faculty of Media, Ljubljana: course leader for Media Art and Graphic Design, BA Media and Journalism (2018–2022).
- University of Klagenfurt, Institute of Slavic Studies: guest lecturer in Poetic and Visual Experiment in Modernism and the Avant-Garde (2018/19).
- Prešeren Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2013
- Doctoral Fellowship, Stanislav Škrabec Foundation, 2016/17
- Nomination for the best doctoral dissertation in the humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2018/19
- Associated member of the Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europe,” University of Graz
- Vice-chair of the Permanent Expert Commission for Intermedia Arts at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
- Member of the habilitation committee, University of Nova Gorica
- Member of the Senate of the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica
- Member of the programme board of the exhibition Kozmos Kosovel (National and University Library, Cankarjev dom, 2026)