undergraduate

• Contemporary Art (69499) - Lecturer in charge

graduate

• Art Pedagogy and Mediation in museums, galleries and extrainstitutional initiatives in the XXth and XXIst century (177553) - Lecturer in charge
• The Art-History Workshop 1 (71163) - Lecturer in charge
• The Art-History Workshop 2 (71166) - Lecturer in charge
• The Art-History Workshop 3 (117669) - Lecturer in charge
• The History of Exhibiting and Art through Contemporary Exhibition Practices (181342) - Lecturer in charge

Dalibor Prančević graduated in Art History and Italian Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, having defended his diploma thesis entitled “Edita Schubert: From the Trapeze to the Flat - Artistic Activity from 1985 to 1999”, under the supervision of Professor Zvonko Maković, PhD. He defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled “Ivan Meštrović in the Context of Expressionism and Art Deco”, in 2012 at the same faculty, under the supervision of Professor Ive Šimat Banov, PhD.

He is a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Život umjetnosti: Journal of Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture, published by the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. This is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to modern and contemporary art, architecture, urbanism and design, with a long tradition of continuous publication. The journal is indexed in relevant international databases, including the Web of Science Core Collection - Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Scopus and EBSCO Art Source.

He is also a member of the editorial board of Anali Galerije Antuna Augustinčića, published by the Antun Augustinčić Gallery, that is, by the Croatian Zagorje Museums – Antun Augustinčić Gallery in Klanjec. The journal has developed a distinctive profile as a museum-based and scholarly-professional publication, with particular emphasis on issues relating to sculpture, memorial sculpture and sculptural heritage. He was previously a member of the editorial board of Mogućnosti: Journal of Literature, Art and Cultural Issues, one of Croatia's longest-running literary and cultural journals, published by the Književni krug Split.

In the course of his scholarly and professional work, he has been awarded a number of distinguished research fellowships and residencies at international institutions. In 2005, he was in residence at The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, a research centre dedicated to the study of sculpture, where he worked on the topic Ivan Meštrović and England. In 2007, he was a fellow of The J. Paul Getty Foundation / Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, where he investigated the relationship between Malvina Hoffman and Ivan Meštrović, particularly in the context of the artistic, biographical and cultural intersections between the two sculptural oeuvres.

Among his more recent international distinctions, particular note should be made of the Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which he held in the 2017/2018 academic year as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. He undertook this research residency at Syracuse University in the United States of America, within the framework of the project “Ivan Meštrović and the Anglophone Cultures: Example of Cross-cutting of Various Cultural, Historic and Artistic Experiences”. This project further deepened his research interest in the reception, international relations and transcultural dimensions of Meštrović's artistic practice.

PRANČEVIĆ, Dalibor. Ivan Meštrović and the Culture of Modernism: Expressionism and Art Deco. Split: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split; Ivan Meštrović Museums, 2017. ISBN 978-953-352-021-6; 978-953-7396-45-9.

PRANČEVIĆ, Dalibor. Frano Missia: The Itinerant Painter: A Chronicle of an Artistic Journey. Split: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split; Split City Museum, 2019. ISBN 978-953-352-033-9; 978-953-6638-85-7.

PRANČEVIĆ, Dalibor, ed. Manifestations of Modern Sculpture in Croatia: Protagonists, Works, Contexts. Split: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, 2021. ISBN 978-953-352-046-9.

PRANČEVIĆ, Dalibor. Ante Mandarić: Spaces of Artistic Search. Exhibition catalogue, Emanuel Vidović Gallery, Split, June-August 2022. Split: Split City Museum, 2022. ISBN 978-953-8424-02-1.

PRANČEVIĆ, Dalibor. Frano Missia: Creative Ferment. Exhibition catalogue, Old City Hall, Split, 10 September-3 November 2024. Split: Split City Museum, 2024. ISBN 978-953-8424-18-2.

Dalibor Prančević's research interests focus on issues in twentieth-century and contemporary art and visual culture, with particular emphasis on the interpretation of artistic, exhibition and curatorial practices within a broader cultural and social context. In his scholarly and professional work, he addresses the history of exhibitions, exhibition formats, and the spaces in which curatorial discourses are formed and articulated. He has developed a particular research interest in the artistic oeuvre of Ivan Meštrović and in its art-historical, cultural and reception-related aspects.

His academic work is also informed by curatorial practice, realised through collaboration with artists in Croatia and abroad and through the conception and implementation of independent curatorial projects. In this segment of his work, his research interest in contemporary artistic, exhibition and mediation practices is linked to direct participation in shaping exhibition and cultural programmes.

He is a member of the following professional associations:

Croatian Society of Art Historians

International Association of Art Critics – AICA, Croatian Section

Književni krug Split

Croatian Association of Visual Artists Split – Curatorial Section

Dalibor Prančević has participated in a series of national and international scholarly research projects addressing issues in modern and contemporary art, visual culture, the history of exhibitions, curatorial practices, sculpture and cultural heritage. As principal investigator of the Croatian Science Foundation research project “Manifestations of Modern Sculpture in Croatia: Sculpture at the Crossroads between Socio-Political Pragmatism, Economic Possibilities and Aesthetic Contemplation” – CROSCULPTURE (2017–2020), he directed the research towards a systematic and in-depth mapping of modern sculpture in Croatia, its spatial, temporal and terminological layers, and its relationship to European artistic, socio-political and cultural contexts. The project devoted particular attention to questions of centre and periphery, transnational artistic movements, the deprovincialisation of the Croatian cultural sphere, and those sculptural phenomena that had been less prominently represented in dominant art-historical narratives.

As a collaborator, he took part in the project “East Adriatic Artistic Themes: Art, Politics, Maritime Experience” (2008–2013), led by Professor Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić, PhD, as well as in the Croatian Science Foundation research project “Modern and Contemporary Artist Networks, Art Groups and Art Associations: Organisation and Communication Models of Collaborative Art Practices of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” – ARTNET (2014–2018), led by Ljiljana Kolešnik, PhD. Through these research engagements, his work further expanded towards the relations between art, politics, cultural geographies and the memory structures of the eastern Adriatic region, as well as towards models of artistic networking, collaborative practices, digital art history and the interpretation of modern and contemporary artistic networks.

In an international context, he participated in the work of the SEA-EU Research Plan Task Force (2022–2023) within the project “reSEArch-EU – reinforcing SustainablE Actions, resilience, cooperation and harmonisation across and by the SEA-EU Alliance”, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme. The project was directed towards strengthening the research and innovation dimension of the European University of the Seas alliance, shaping a shared research area, harmonising research resources and infrastructures, and developing a long-term research plan for the partner universities.

He is currently participating in the Croatian Science Foundation research project “Representation, Development, Education, Participation – Art in Society from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century” – ARTinS (2023–2027), led by Professor Dragan Damjanović, PhD. The project investigates the changing relations between art and society in Croatia from the nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on models of representation, developmental processes, the educational dimensions of art and the participatory forms of its social articulation.

He is also a participant in the international project CIRCE – “InClusive valorIsation model foR Controversial cultural hEritage in the Mediterranean Harbours and beyond” (2026–2029), funded under Horizon Europe – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges, with Professor Giuseppe Capriotti of the University of Macerata as principal investigator. The project focuses on the research, interpretation and inclusive valorisation of controversial cultural heritage in Mediterranean harbour areas and in a broader transcultural context, with particular emphasis on participatory, decolonial and public-mediation models of working with heritage.

Within the framework of University of Split projects funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, he is also participating in the project “Contact: Art in the Community” – KUZ, led by Associate Professor Vedran Perkov. The project brings together artistic research practices, exhibition programmes, workshops, public lectures and collaboration with the local community. His contribution to the project is particularly connected with scholarly, theoretical and professional discourses, collaboration with experts from other fields, and the development of the project's publication and interpretative formats.

2021–present

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split

Associate Professor

2016–2021

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split

Assistant Professor

2013–2016

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split

Research Fellow – Senior Assistant

2008–2013

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split

Research Fellow – Assistant

2001–2008

Ivan Meštrović Foundation (Meštrović Gallery, Split)

Curator for the Collection and Documentation

His scholarly, professional and curatorial work has also been recognised through awards and distinctions. As a member of the OUR association, together with the artist Alemka Đivoje and the art historian Robertina Tomić, he received Slobodna Dalmacija's annual "Jure Kaštelan" Award for Art in 2012. On 20 September 2023, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, awarded him the Award for Excellence in Scientific Research for the 2021/2022 academic year in the scientific field of the humanities.