Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

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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.

represented artists

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