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

Experimental film

Vladimir Petek, Ivan Martinac, Mihovil Pansini, Tomislav Gotovac
Scene in Split in 1960s: Martinac, Kursar, Nakic, Zafranovic, Pivcevic, Ante Verzotti.
Ivan Ladislav Galeta

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)
• 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

• Hvorje Turkovic, "Croatian Avant-Garde Scene", Zagreb, 1993. [3]

Video art

Artists

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

Exhibitions

• Insert - Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, Sep - Oct 2005, MSU Zagreb, [4]. Mar - Apr 2006, MMSU Rijeka, [5].

Literature

• 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. [6]

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, [7]

Articles

• 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. [8]
• Andrew J Horton, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Croatia" Central European Review (November 1998) [9] (English)
• Klaudio Štefanović, "New Media Art in Croatia", 2007 [10], (Croatian)
• Darko Fritz, "Media Arts in Croatia" [11] [12]
• 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" [13]
• Heiko Daxl, "FILM- UND VIDEOKUNST IN KROATIEN. FRAGMENTARISCHE ABRISSE. EINER GESCHICHTE UND STANDORTBESTIMMUNG", August 1993, (German), [14]

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