Croatia

Cities

Zagreb, Rijeka, Split, Čakovec, Dubrovnik, Kalebova Luka, Karlovac, Krizevci, Labin, Osijek, Ražanj, Zadar.

Predecessors

• Zenit avant-garde magazine (published in Zagreb, 1921-1923, later in Belgrade, 1923-1926. Initiated by Ljubomir Micić, introduced constructivism, futurism and Dadaism to Croatia and Serbia.

Books

• Jadranka Vinterhalter (ed.), Prodori avangarde u hrvatskoj umjetnosti prve polovice 20.stoljeca / Flashes od avant-garde in the croatian art of the first half of the 20th century. Zagreb: MSU, 2007. [1]

Resources

• Avantgarde Museum, [2]

Artist groups

Arts and engineering groups and collectives in CEE#Croatia

Computer and computer-aided art

New Tendencies

Experimental film

• Vladimir Petek, Ivan Martinac, Mihovil Pansini, Tomislav Gotovac.
• Split in 1960s: Martinac, Kursar, Nakic, Zafranovic, Pivcevic, Ante Verzotti.
• Ivan Ladislav Galeta
• Split in 1980s: Petar Fradelic, Branko Karabatic, Zdravko Mustac, Boris Poljak.
• 1990s: Kuduz, Knezevic, Tikulin, Bukovac, Simonovic-Narath, Zanki.

Venues

Kino-klub Split amateur club, Multi-Media Center of Student center Zagreb (*1976)

Festivals and exhibitions

• Genre Film Festival (GEFF) (1963, 1965, 1967, 1970)
• MAFAF (Interclub Amateur and Artist Film Festival) aka 'Mala Pula'
• avant-garde film exhibition in Lodz, Poland in 1978
• "Third International Avant-Garde Festival" at National Film Theatre in London, 1979
• "Film as Film" exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London, 1979
• Genoa 1980
• "The Other Side: European Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-1980", The American Federation of Art program
• This Is All Film! Experimental Film in Yugoslavia 1951-1991, 2010-2011, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana

Literature

• Ana Janevski (ed.): As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film. Experiment in the Art of Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2010. With essays by Ana Janevski (on experimental art and film in Yugoslavia), Stevan Vuković (on political upheaval in 1968 in Belgrade), and Łukasz Ronduda (on contacts between Yugoslav and Polish artists in the 1970s). [3] Interview with Ana Janevski, June 2011
• Hvorje Turkovic, "Croatian Avant-Garde Scene", Zagreb, 1993. [4]
• Heiko Daxl, "Film and Video-art in Croatia. Fragmentary Sketches of a History and a Description of the Status Quo", August 1993. (English), (German)
• Andrew J Horton, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Croatia" Central European Review (November 1998) [5] (English)

Video art

Artists

• 1970s (incl. video installations): Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis, Goran Trbuljak
• solitary video artists: Ivan Ladislav Galeta (Zagreb), Ivan Faktor (Osijek), Mladen Stilinović (Zagreb)
• Željko Kipke, Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatic

Exhibitions

• Insert - Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, Sep - Oct 2005, MSU Zagreb, [6]. Mar - Apr 2006, MMSU Rijeka, [7].

Literature

• Heiko Daxl, "Film and Video-art in Croatia. Fragmentary Sketches of a History and a Description of the Status Quo", August 1993. (English), (German)
• Tihomir Milovac (ed.): Insert / Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, MSU: Zagreb, 2008. The publication is a follow-up of the museum’s 2005 retrospective and presents the works of some one hundred video artists on 360 pages with 466 reproductions, in Croatian and English. Authors: Tihomir Milovac, Silva Kalčić, Antonija Majača, Branko Franceschi. [8]
• Andrew J Horton, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Croatia" Central European Review (November 1998) [9] (English)
• Barbara Borčić, "Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism". [10]
• Marijan Susovski, "Video u Jugoslaviji", Spot, no. 10, Zagreb 1977.
• Raša Todosijević, Video, Videosfera: video/društvo/umetnost ("The Video: Videosphere: video/society/art"), Studentski izdavački centar, ed. Mihailo Ristić, Belgrade 1986.

Art theory and art history

Matko Meštrović, Božo Bek, Dimitrije Bašičević, Željko Bujas, Grgo Gamulin, Vera Horvat-Pintarić

More artists

• Vojin Bakić
• Vlado Kristl
• Miroslav Šutej
• Juraj Dobrović
• Koloman Novak
• Fedora Orebić
• Ante Vulin
• Vilko Žiljak
• Tomislav Mikulić
• Braco Dimitrijević

Past events

• Tactical Media Camp on the island of Vis.

Media

• Stanica MIR, [11]

Publications

• Dubravka Djuric and Misko Suvakovic (eds.), Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, MIT Press, 2003. [12]
• Klaudio Štefanović, "New Media Art in Croatia", 2007 [13], (Croatian)
• Darko Fritz, "Media Arts in Croatia" [14] [15]
• Ana Peraica, "HR - A remark on art & technology research in regard to the place of origin taken as the state, place of living, as well as only a domain" [16]
• Irina Subotić, "Avant-Garde Tendencies in Yugoslavia", Art Journal, Vol. 49, No. 1, From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant-Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century (Spring, 1990), pp. 21-27. Published by: College Art Association. [17]

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