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The exhibition Parallel Lines / High Modernism in Croatia 1949 – 1998, from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, was opened at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in Bucharest

The exhibition Parallel Lines / High Modernism in Croatia 1949 – 1998, from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, was officially opened at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in Bucharest on 12 December, in the presence of Ms. Marija Kapitanović, the extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to Romania, and the envoy of the President of the Croatian Parliament, Mr. Gordan Jandroković.
This exhibition, which marks the first presentation of Croatian visual art in Romania, is staged in the impressive gallery space of 1,500 square metres on the first floor of the Palace of the Parliament, and is based on the curatorial concept developed by the NMMU Director, Branko Franceschi.

Artists featured in the exhibition: Kosta Angeli Radovani, Vojin Bakić, Petar Barišić, Peruško Bogdanić, Jagoda Buić, Boris Bućan, Ivo Deković, Vlasta Delimar, Boris Demur, Josip Diminić, Braco Dimitrijević, Juraj Dobrović, Slavomir Drinković, Ivo Dulčić, Dušan Džamonja, Joško Eterović, Jadranka Fatur, Eugen Feller, Zvjezdana Fio, Ivo Friščić, Goran Fruk, Mladen Galić, Ivo Gattin, Vladimir Gašparić (Gapa), Oton Gliha, Tomislav Gotovac, Stjepan Gračan, Grupa Šestorice autora, Krsto Hegedušić, Željko Hegedušić, Hrvoje Šercar, Ljubo Ivančić, Sanja Iveković, Vlado Jakelić, Đorđe Jandrić, Stanko Jančić, Božidar Jelinić, Anto Jerković, Željko Jerman, Marijan Jevšovar, Dean Jokanović Toumin, Vasilije Jordan, Ivo Kalina, Ksenija Kantoci, Zlatko Kauzlarić-Atač, Nives Kavurić-Kurtović, Albert Kinert, Željko Kipke, Josip Klarica, Julije Knifer, Eugen Kokot, Slavko Kopač, Zlatko Kopljar, Kuzma Kovačić, Ivan Kožarić, Vladimir Kristl, Vatroslav Kuliš, Ferdinand Kulmer, Rudolf Labaš, Milena Lah, Željko Lapuh, Branko Lepen, Vlado Martek, Dalibor Martinis, Valerije Michieli, Antun Motika, Marijana Muljević, Edo Murtić, Sofija Naletilić Penavuša, Jelena Perić, Ordan Petlevski, Ratko Petrić, Ivan Picelj, Srećko Planinić, Vesna Popržan, Oton Postružnik, Zlatko Prica, Vanja Radauš, Dubravka Rakoci, Božidar Rašica, Ante Rašić, Vjenceslav Richter, Arsen Roje, Igor Rončević, Branko Ružić, Edita Schubert, Đuro Seder, Damir Sokić, Aleksandar Srnec, Miljenko Stančić, Sven Stilinović, Mladen Stilinović, Goran Trbuljak, Matko Trebotić, Jasenka Tućan, Josip Vaništa, Zlatan Vrkljan, Goranka Vrus Murtić, Miro Vuco, Šime Vulas, Fedor Vučemilović, Đurđica Zanoški-Gudlin, Mirko Zrinščak, Ivo Šebalj, Ljerka Šibenik, Šime Perić, Miroslav Šutej, Vlasta Žanić

The exhibition Parallel Lines / High Modernism in Croatia 1949 – 1998, from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, which is on view at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest until 13 April 2025, has been made possible with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb, and the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Bucharest. It is presented under the high patronage of the Croatian Parliament.
Exhibition sponsor: Orbico Ltd.

Translated by: Robertina Tomić
📷 Mateja Horvat (Croatian Embassy in Romania)
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“In Memory of Munir’s Pastorals or the World of Yesterday” exhibition opened at the Josip Račić Gallery

The opening of the small, intimate exhibition “In Memory of Munir’s Pastorals or the World of Yesterday” at the Josip Račić Gallery on 5 December brought together friends, colleagues, and admirers of Munir Vejzović’s work. This distinguished Croatian sculptor and graphic artist held numerous retrospective, thematic, and monographic exhibitions at this iconic Zagreb gallery, where he was a long-standing member, as well as at the National Museum of Modern Art, with which he collaborated extensively. In this sense, the exhibition serves as a symbolic farewell to the artist, who passed away in September of this year.
On this occasion, Tihana Galić, curator of the National Museum of Modern Art and head of the Josip Račić Gallery, welcomed the guests on behalf of the institution. The exhibition concept was introduced by Iva Körbler, the exhibition’s author, art historian, and critic, who curated the selection of works, designed the visual layout, and authored the text for the accompanying catalogue. The artist’s wife, Mizana Vejzović, thanked everyone involved in the exhibition’s organisation and those who supported its realisation.
The exhibition of Munir Vejzović’s works from the Biškupić Collection, held at the Josip Račić Gallery with support from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the Orbico Group, will be on view until 5 January 2025.

Translated by: Robertina Tomić
Photo Goran Vranić © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb

At this year’s Adris Foundation donation and scholarship award ceremony two projects from the National Museum of Modern Art received valuable donations in the Creativity category, as part of the Creativity, Ecology, Heritage, and Goodness programme

At this year’s Adris Foundation donation and scholarship award ceremony, held on 15 November at the Zonar Hotel in Zagreb (a multiple award-winning architectural restoration project by Lea Pelivan and Toma Plejić / Studio UP), two projects from the National Museum of Modern Art received valuable donations in the Creativity category, as part of the Creativity, Ecology, Heritage, and Goodness programme: the scientific monograph “Ties Between Croatian and Italian Painting from 1872 to 1919” by museum consultant Ivana Rončević Elezović, PhD and the extensive monograph on Jadranka Fatur, co-authored by the artist and art historian and critic Branka Hlevnjak.
A heartfelt thank you!

Translated by: Robertina Tomić

For more details, please visit the following links: https://www.adris.hr/.../zaklada.../natjecaji/natjecaj-2024/
https://youtu.be/HvMY6OSuRlk?si=w1nPGHs8Cx98qmkO
from the archive of the National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb

🔎 Find out more: https://www.adris.hr/.../zaklada.../natjecaji/natjecaj-2024/
https://youtu.be/HvMY6OSuRlk?si=w1nPGHs8Cx98qmkO
📷 From the archives of the National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb

Nina Atević Murtić’s exhibition “A Dance of the Hand” opened at the Josip Račić Gallery

The National Museum of Modern Art launched its autumn exhibition season on 10 September with the opening of Nina Atević Murtić’s exhibition “A Dance of the Hand” at the Josip Račić Gallery. On this occasion, Branko Franceschi, Director of the National Museum of Modern Art and curator of the exhibition, introduced the artist’s recent painting series to a packed gallery. He also penned the foreword to the exhibition’s accompanying catalogue.
Among the first to view the striking abstract compositions by Nina Atević Murtić, along with members of the Murtić family — painter Goranka Vrus Murtić, gallerist and director of the Murtić Foundation Ranko Murtić, architect Marko Murtić, and musician Mak Murtić — were Zdravko Zima, Special Advisor for Culture to the President of the Republic of Croatia, painters Zoltan Novak, Marijana Pende, and Matko Vekić, jewellery designer Maja Sorić, sculptor Peruško Bogdanić, visual artist Dawor Preis, interdisciplinary artist MOON Martina Zelenika, graphic designers Ana Zubić and Sanja Bachrach Krištofić, art historians Leila Topić and Iva Körbler, former Director of the former Modern Gallery (NMMU) Biserka Rauter Plančić, art and literary critic Milan Bešlić, gallerist Mirna Hromadko Reiser, HRT editor and journalist Ivana Antunović Jović, co-founder of the iconic Zagreb exhibition space for high-end designer furniture Nataša Trbović, owner of an exclusive product design shop Nina Fiolić, accompanied by her son, architect Filip Fiolić, fashion designer and cultural producer Irena Šekez Sestri, as well as actor, screenwriter, and director Goran Matović, founder and artistic director of the Miroslav Krleža Festival.
(…) Is painting a dance of the hand? I would argue that when a keen sense of colour aligns with disciplined motor skills, there is no more fitting description. And sometimes, it is as patently obvious as in Nina Atević Murtić’s recent paintings. – Branko Franceschi concludes in the accompanying catalogue text. Zagreb’s cultural audience has the opportunity to view the exhibition at the Josip Račić Gallery until 6 October.

Photo: Goran Vranić © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb and archives NMMA (in front of the Josip Račić Gallery)

Implementation of protective measures of the National Museum of Modern Art’s material assisted by grants from the European Union Solidarity Fund

 

Implementation of protective measures of the National Museum of Modern Art’s material assisted by grants from the European Union Solidarity Fund

After the two devastating earthquakes that struck Zagreb on 22 March and 29 December 2020, causing considerable material damage to numerous buildings in the historic city centre, including a large number of movable cultural goods, the renovation of one of Zagreb’s most beautiful historicist buildings, the Vranyczany – Dobrinović Palace at the corner of Hebrangova Street and Zrinjevac Park, which has been the home of the National Museum of Modern Art since 1934, is finally set to begin at the end of 2022.
In order to protect more than 11,500 valuable works of art, as part of the Republic of Croatia’s cultural heritage, which are kept at the Palace, the Museum has been allocated grants from the European Union Solidarity Fund for the Implementation of Measures for the Protection of Museum Materials, and as such has started the evacuation and temporary storage of the museum’s archival and library materials, as well as works of art, inventory and equipment into a separate space where they will be kept in adequate museological conditions in accordance with the prescribed professional standards.

The total value of the project is HRK 767,400.61

Photo: Petra Kursar © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, 2022

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