Croatia.
thanks to the openness of Yugoslavia which enabled a flow of information and ideas on an international level, modernism in visual arts was flourishing in the 1950s and 1960s. Exat 51, Gorgona Group, and later on, Group of Six Artists as well as New Tendencies manifestation (1961-1973, early performances by Tom Gotovac) showed that Croatian conceptual art and performance art, geometric abstraction, kinetic art, first computer graphics were relevant and in
time with avant-garde movements in the
Western world. (more here)
Artist and Performance Art Groups
Artists
Groups
Artists and Groups not yet researched
- Quintino Bassani
- Marko Ciciliani
- Vlasta Delimar
- Filip Ivana
- Gorgona Group
- Tomislav Gotovac here and here
- Group of Six Artists – worked individually, wanted to avoid the official exhibition venues and tried to get in direct contact with the public with actions in public space.
- Aleksandar Battista Ilić
- Sanja Iveković
- Tjaša Kalkan
- Orlando Mohorovic
- Damir Segota
- Slaven Tolj
More Information:
- THE BEGINNINGS OF PERFORMANCE ART IN CROATIA OR FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL GROUP TRAVELERI TO GOTOVAC LYING NUDE ON THE ASPHALT
- Collective Actions: Moscow Conceptualism, Performance, and the Archive, 1976-1989
- The Performing Arts in Croatia
- Feminist Interventions in Croatia: Female Body in Public Space
