Tagged: Croatian art

Intimate Encounters: Performance Art in Zagreb

Adair Rounthwaite, This is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024), 296 pp.

The city of Zagreb occupies a special place on the map of East European performance art. The streets of that city served as the canvas for performance artists for several decades, from the walking meetings of the Gorgona Group (active 1959-1966) to the exhibition-actions of the Group of Six Authors and public interventions by Goran Trbuljak and Braco Dmitrijevic in the 1970s to iconic performances by Sanja Ivekovic (Triangle, 1979), Tomislav Gotovac and Vlasta Delimar in the … Read more

Igor Grubić, Traces of Disappearing (In Three Acts) (Croatian Pavilion; Sven Spieker)

Igor Grubić, Traces of Disappearing (In Three Acts), Croatian Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, May 11-November 24, 2019.

Igor Grubić’s long-term photographic project Traces of Disappearing (In Three Actsis a few steps down from the stately abode on the Canale Grande that is home to the Prada Foundation, where a sprawling show of the work of Jannis Kounellis is on view at the same time. The contrast between the two venues, and the works exhibited inside, could not be more striking: from the Venetian palazzo to the rough, workshop-like space with a low ceiling … Read more