Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

Profil

Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti Zagreb |Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb| was established on 21 December 1954, when the National Council of the City of Zagreb issued a decree on founding the Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art.

The mission of the museum is researching, documenting, and promoting events, styles, and phenomena in contemporary art. Museum of Contemporary Art is the present-day name for Zagreb Municipal Galleries, which formerly consisted of Contemporary Art Gallery, Centre for Photography, Film, and Television, Benko Horvat Collection, Library, and Documentation Department. Prior to its separation, the institution also included Atelier Meštrovic (today's Meštrovic Foundation), Primitive Art Gallery (Croatian Museum of Naive Art), and "Jozo Kljakovic" Collection (now managed by Centre for Visual Art Education). Since the very beginnings, the museum's goal has been to assemble a relevant collection and to operate in accordance with modern principles of museology. Only ten years after its foundation, it was invited by the 32nd Venice Biennale to present a selection from its collections in the exhibition "Arte d'oggi nei musei" ("Today's Art in Museums"), together with seventeen top world museums. In 1966, at the "2ème Salon International des Galeries Pilotes" in Lausanne, it was in the company of fifteen most famous galleries from Europe, USA, and Japan.

Künstler der Galerie bzw der Sammlung

Marina Abramovic     Marc Adrian     Jean Arp     John Baldessari     Jovan Balov     Joseph Beuys     Max Bill     Hartmut Böhm     Christian Boltanski     Sonia Delaunay     Vlasta Delimar     Johannes Deutsch     Braco Dimitrijevic     Piero Dorazio     Dusan Dzamonja     Jan Fabre     Alen Floricic     Tomislav Gotovac     Izabella Gustowska     Hans Haacke     Nan Hoover     Sanja Ivekovic     Marijan Jevsovar     On Kawara     Julije Knifer     Ivan Kozaric     Katarzyna Kozyra     Julio Le Parc     Fernand Léger     Adolf Luther     Mangelos

Vlado Martek     Almir Mavignier     Annette Messager     Boris Mikhailov     Joan Miró     Manfred Mohr     Henry Moore     François Morellet     Edo Murtic     Maurizio Nannucci     Nam June Paik     Goran Petercol     Pablo Picasso     Otto Piene     Lala Rascic     Man Ray     Ulrike Rosenbach     Ed Ruscha     Sarkis     Julião Sarmento     Hubert Schmalix     Andres Serrano     Jesús Rafael Soto     Aleksandar Srnec     Mladen Stilinovic     Toyen     Goran Trbuljak     Victor Vasarely