Irfan Hošić (1977) completed his Ph. D. thesis at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 2011. His scope of research is modern and contemporary arts, design, fashion, and architecture. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University in 2013 and 2014, a guest lecturer at Penny W. Stamps School for Art and Design University of Michigan in 2013, a researcher at the Screening Arts and Cultures University of Michigan in 2015 and Paderborn University in 2017. He holds the Culture Watch Award for journalists (BIRN, 2012) and Patterns Lectures Award (Erste Stiftung and WUS Austria, 2016). Irfan published dozens of scientific and journalistic texts in local, regional, and international journals. He is the author of the book Iz/Van konteksta (Out of Context, Connectum Sarajevo, 2013). He is also editor-in-chief of nomadic fanzine Revizor. Hošić was a curator of the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. He is also the author of several exhibitions, such as What is Abstraction? (2007), Art and Terrorism (2009), Alem Korkut. Sculpture (2011), Clothing as a Symbol of Identity (2012), Spomenko Škrbić. Works (2013), Artefacts of a Future Past (2020), and some others. He is also the editor of numerous theoretical and scientific publications such as attention! Clothing, Art, Identity (2014), Crisis, Arts, Action (2015), Retrography of Design (2017) and Design and Crisis (2020). He is the founder and director of the Foundation Revizor (2016) and founder of the Center for contemporary culture KRAK (Bihać, 2019). As a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Irfan spent a year at College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University in Detroit (2019/2020). Irfan is an assistant professor at the Textile Department at the University of Bihać, where he lectures Art History and Modern Art and Design. He works as an art critic and a freelance curator.

»The disintegration of the European Union, the global ecological crisis, eruptive migrations, and the current pandemic – this is the context within which we must think and understand the role of culture and art nowadays. The Risk Change project is a kind of paradigm of action in this direction, as it uses the ways of networking, connecting, organizing, and implementing border crossings and obstacles to a new socio-political moment. The project proves that culture and art have the power to shape social reality and public space, even when it seems impossible or undoable.«
– Irfan Hošić