Pogon's Team

Janja Sesar

Director

Janja Sesar has been the Director of Pogon since 2017. She graduated in Croatian and German Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and earned a Master’s Degree in Cultural and Media Management from the Free University in Berlin. She worked as a Coordinator at Alliance Operation City and was the Editor and Manager of Kulturpunkt.hr, an Internet portal for independent culture, contemporary art and civil society. In the past fifteen years she has participated in the organization of various national and international cultural projects, including the presentation and organization of the “New Tendencies“ exhibition at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. She has participated in various conferences, workshops and seminars, both as a speaker and moderator, and has received several scholarships from the German Service for Academic Exchange (DAAD). She was invited by the US State Department to take part in the International Visitors Leadership Programme in 2014, as well as to the Cultural Diplomacy Platform organized by the European Commission on Malta in 2016. She likes movies, travel and learning foreign languages.

Sonja Soldo

Senior Associate for Cultural Programs and International Cooperation

sonja.soldo@pogon.hr
091 575 1282

Sonja Soldo worked as a Programme Coordinator at Pogon between 2009 and 2015, and in 2016 she became a Senior Associate for Cultural Programmes and International Cooperation, where she also managed an artist exchange programme with the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Since 2004 she has managed various projects and programmes in the field of independent culture. Between 2004 and 2012 she worked at [BLOK] Association (a curatorial collective) on projects in the field of art in the public space. She was the Co-Manager of UrbanFestival between 2006 and 2009 and the Art Programme Coordinator of the manifestation Operation:City in 2005 and 2008, which was the result of collaboration between independent cultural scene organizations in Zagreb.

Luka Antić

head of "Pogon Jedinstvo"

voditelj.jedinstva@pogon.hr
+385 91 6110 155

Luka Antić graduated from the Industrial and Craft School in Šibenik. For years he has been working in the field of catering, sales and construction. Since 2015 he works as a coordinator of associations and cooperatives. He is a leader of various workshops and projects, and takes part in organisations of festivals and cultural events.

In his spare time, he does yoga, upcycling, poetry and refurbishing of a Posavina cabin.

Marijana Rimanić

Manager of Communications and Marketing and Information Commissioner

pr@pogon.hr
091 610 2881

Martina Kontošić is na art historian, ethnologist and tourism management specialist. From 2015 to 2024 she was a projects coordinator and head of marketing and audience development program in Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society, through which she designed and collaboratively realized workshops and meetings in the field of experimental music and sound art. She worked on numerous independent curatorial and production projects of contemporary art. From 2015 to 2019, she was an associate of Andreje Kulunčić's MAPA Association on program coordination. From 2015 to 2017, she was the co-leader of the net.cube project of internet art production, and she continued her work in this area with occasional collaborations with the Format C art organization through the mediation of digital art content. She was a long-term program and project associate of the WHW curatorial collective on large international exhibition projects and the WHW Akademija, an international educational program for artists.

Matea Munitić Mihovilović

Programme Activities Manager and Coordinator

matea.mm@pogon.hr
091 468 2464

Matea Munitić Mihovilović has a Master's degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split. Since 2008 she has volunteered for Mediterranean Film Festival Split and since 2009 for the Coalition of Youth Associations in Split. She started working in Pogon in 2014; first as a Programme Activities Coordinator within an in-service training programme, and in 2016 she became Programme Activities Manager and Coordinator. In her free time she goes to concerts, and sometimes pub quizzes, mostly music and film ones. Her favorite pastime is hanging out with her pekingese Rea.

Mario Fudurić

coordinator - head of tech

voditelj.tehnike@pogon.hr
+385 91 132 9729

Mario graduated as a carpentry technician-designer at the Forestry and woodworking school in Karlovac. Right after finishing highschool, he started working in a small tech rental company, and later volunteering as a technician at the Mala scena of Hrvatski dom in Karlovac. He worked with several tech rental companies, in clubs Močvara and Attack where he gained knowledge in the field of sound engineering and other technical fields. He conducts sound workshops and takes part in organising festivals and cultural events. In his spare time, he cycles, hikes and enjoys Mrežnica river.

Graziella Bokor

Finance and Administration Manager

graziella.bokor@pogon.hr
091 468 2465

Graziella Bokor graduated in Tourism from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb. She worked in tourism sales and as a travel agency manager for ten years. Since 2006 she has worked in profit and not-for-profit accounting and finance. She was appointed the Finance and Administration Manager at Pogon in 2016. In her free time, she enjoys dancing, running and skiing with her little family.

Lucia Janječić

administrative officer

tajnistvo@pogon.hr
01 468 2463

Lucia Janječić has a master's degree in Public Administration at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. Her first job is precisely this one - in Pogon, as a administrative officer. In her spare time she likes to work out in the gym, read, and loves to go for walks when she can soak up the sun. She is active even when not in Pogon.

Anja Pletikosa

Associate for Communication

anja.pletikosa@pogon.hr
091 762 4226

Anja Pletikosa graduated Comparative Literature and Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, and she holds an MA in Dramaturgy from the Performing Arts Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Since 2014 she has acted as a cultural worker and collaborates with numerous associations and organisations as editor, proofreader, producer and associate for communication. As a dramaturg, she worked on around 15 theater performances, and as a pedagogue, she worked on art workshops for kids, youth and adults. She is currently working on developing her own author's texts and development of the script for an animated film. She is fluent in German and English, a will soon be fluent in Italian as well. In free time she is practicing yoga and she likes dogs, friends and traveling. Anja collaborates with Pogon since 2019.