Sudac Collection

The Marinko Sudac Collection, based in Zagreb encompasses a large number of artworks of progressive avant-garde, neo-avant-garde, and post-avant-garde art, including morphologically and conceptually similar artistic developments, as well as various practices of experimental art across Europe and beyond from the beginning of the 20th century until the fall of the Berlin Wall. The heterogeneous Collection contains many artworks - from paintings, drawings, collages, graphics, and other art techniques, to photographs, photo-grams and other photographic experiments, films and experimental anti-films. It also includes art concepts, projects, sketches, sculptures, objects, installations, and ambients alongside artists' and experts' correspondences, in some cases entire archives. In the twenty years of continual work, the Marinko Sudac Collection/Museum of Avant-Garde broadened its field of research from the area of former Yugoslavia, and now encompasses the entire Central and Eastern Europe, even beyond, from the Baltic to the Black Sea.[1]

Collection strategy

The Collection's interest extends from the Baltic area to the Black Sea, with particular emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. The collector's strategy is directed towards systematic exploration, research, and promotion of Avant-Garde practices that have been marginalized, forbidden, and at times completely rejected, due to historical, social and political circumstances. In this respect, the Collection is, in relation to already existing European art collections, regionally cohesive, and presents an inexhaustible resource for the research of Avant-Garde art and a dynamic platform for the exchange of knowledge on the phenomenon of Avant-Garde. This can be seen in numerous topical and retrospective exhibitions, organized events, followed by connected detailed publications or studies, articles in professional journals, some published in the framework of research projects and collaborations with numerous important institutions, experts, theoreticians, art historians, and artists from the entire world.[1]

Museum of Avant-Garde Art, Zagreb

The Marinko Sudac Collection, based in Zagreb, is a regionally unique collection of Avant-Garde art created in Europe and beyond in the period from 1914 until 1989, or until the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well similar unconventional forms of artistic practices of the period. The Collection encompasses paintings, graphics, drawings, photographs, experimental, documentary, and animated films, sculptures, objects, and ambients. It also includes extensive archives, entire artists' oeuvres, and similar unconventional, often unofficial and marginalized artistic practices. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, which also marked a symbolic fall of the border between the East and the West, in the 1990s there was an increased interest of the West for the artistic tendencies in the countries behind, what was known as, the Iron Curtain. In this context, the transfer of the Marinko Sudac Collection to the sphere of the Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde created an interdisciplinary platform focused on collecting, researching and revalorizing, securing archiving standards appropriate for the material, presenting and mediating the phenomenon of the Avant-Garde. In this interim phase, until there is physical building of the Museum, there is a virtual sphere spurred on by the long-term cooperation with notable experts from the entire world. Many topical and retrospective exhibitions have been organized, mostly of the artists from Eastern European areas and of other art phenomena. These exhibitions have been followed up by related publications, monographies published by the Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde, numerous discussions, as well as congresses focused on positioning and the revalorisation of Avant-Garde art.

The Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde, based on the Marinko Sudac Collection, was created in 2009. It presents the digital database of the Collection through which you can see the overview of Avant-Garde art in the countries of former Yugoslavia structured according to authors, artworks, time periods, and geographical areas, as well as links and influences of the artists with cultural happenings and artistic centres in the region and the world. The website, beside the high-quality digitized artworks, contains biographies and bibliographies, alongside the connection of the artists with other artists, art institutions and cultural forums, as well as selected publications.

The online database show only a small part of the Collection. Speedy digitization of the material is crucial to accomplish the Museum’s main aim, which is to make it a centre for information on the regional Avant-Garde practices.

The Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde is a free online platform to research all forms of Avant-Garde art of Eastern and Central Europe, to show connection with the rest of the world, to be a place for free thought and making realisations on the relevant cultural phenomena of Avant-Garde thought and artistic doing, to be a space for creating and publishing expert materials and research on the phenomena of the Avant-Garde. In its work, the Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde managed to become a meeting point of experts and intellectuals from the region and the artists, as well as interested public who can, in one place, find many information on the Avant-Garde movement in this area.[1]

Artists

Former Yugoslavia

1915–1946

1946–1968

1968–1989

International

Czech Republic

Hungary

Poland

Germany

Slovakia

Italy

Russia

United States

Romania

Israel

Japan

Projects

Since its beginning, the Marinko Sudac Collection has been open to collaboration with various institutions. Through the years, the works from the Collection have been exhibited both locally and internationally. The Collection has been recognised as a good partner and the growing interest in different types of collaborations (exhibitions, conferences, projects, movies, publications) shows the quality of the Collections and its open character.

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2002

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2004

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2005

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2006

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2007

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2008

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2010

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Loans of works

2011

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Loans of works

2012

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2013

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Loans of works

2014

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Loans of works

International conference

2015

Exhibitions

Loans of works

2016

Exhibitions

Loans of works

Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde

The Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde was created in 2010 as part of the project which has as its goal to research, preserve, present and popularize regional historical Avant-Gardes. The Institute brings together the work of the Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde and the Marinko Sudac Collection. The Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde’s task is to create the work and development strategy of the Museum of Avant-Garde, make projects which promote Avant-Garde art and publish materials on the topic.

Artist on Vacation project

Since 2012, the Artist on Vacation project has gathered, hosted and presented to the public a number of internationally prestigious artists who belong to the period of historical Avant-gardes, as well as artists who continue the practice of radical art and further develop its aesthetics. In the summer months, Poreč becomes a vacation spot for international artists. In collaboration with Valamar Riviera d.d., the Institute for the Research of Avant-Garde and Marinko Sudac Collection invite artists to spend a week at an exclusive hotel and vacation on the beautiful Istrian peninsula. The project was created by Marinko Sudac as an extension of the activities of the Museum of Avant-Garde, the Institute for the Research of Avant-Garde and Marinko Sudac Collection. It complements the Collection’s mission, and gives affirmation to the artists in the social, cultural and artistic contexts. The mission of the Artists on Vacation project is to show the various legacies of the original Avant-Garde movement that have developed in different countries and contexts. The entire driving force behind our project is to present the participating artists to the Croatian public. The project is an effort to connect all the activities that aim to bring together the historical Avant-Gardes and present them to the public in a direct way, outside of an institutional environment. Artists get an opportunity to meet other artists, but also theorists, art historians, and museum professionals. This exchange of ideas and influences brings about personal and artistic developments and paves way to new collaborations and projects. The Artist on Vacation is a unique project because it does not put any requirements on the artist. We give artists an opportunity to spend their vacation in some of the best and most beautiful environments on the Adriatic coast. There, the artists can rest, swim, eat local Croatian food, explore the city and the Croatian culture and recharge their creative energy. Being exposed to such lovely environment and having the time to relax is often inspiring to artists, and many of our participating artists had decided to turn Poreč into their unofficial studio and create new art. Each year, at the end of the Project, a grand exhibition of works created during the Artist on Vacation project, as well as a presentation of the participating artists is organized at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. The Artist on Vacation exhibition marks the start of a new exhibition season in Zagreb. Also, a catalogue of a year’s project is produced. The catalogue contains all the information about the project, the participating artists, their stay at Poreč, their works etc. What is really interesting is that the catalogue is printed in over 100 000 copies. That makes our Artist on Vacation project catalogue the most printed museum catalogue in Croatia (and even the region).

Participating artists

Artist on Vacation 2015
Artist on Vacation 2014
Artist on Vacation 2013
Artist on Vacation 2012

Exhibitions

Every year, there is an exclusive one day exhibition organized during the Project.

Artist on Vacation documentary

The documentary film Artist on Vacation follows the activities of 11 world-renowned artists who have gathered in a luxurious Adriatic resort for a one-month vacation. Documentary is a collage of recorded activities and accomplishments of artists in the given space, which is a vacation destination of mostly high classes of society. The artists which we are following are: Attila Csernik (Serbia), Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan (Serbia), Željko Kipke (Croatia), Ivan Kožarić (Croatia), Vlado Martek (Croatia), Era Milivojević (Serbia), Romelo Pervolovici (Romania), Pinczehely Sandor (Hungary), Balint Szombathy (Hungary), Janos Sugar (Hungary) and Ilija Šoškić (Montenegro).

Directors: Sandra Bastašić, Damian Nenadić

Producers: Oliver Sertić, Vanja Jambrović

Co-producer and author of the concept: Marinko Sudac

Cinematographer: Damian Nenadić

Editor: Sandra Bastašić

Additional camera: Aleš Sudac

Production: Restart Laboratory and Marinko Sudac

in cooperation with: the Institute for the Research the Avant-garde and Melange production

Duration: 30 min.

Shooting Format: HD[4]

Publications

As part of its activities, the interconnected institutions of the Museum of Avant-Garde, Marinko Sudac Collection, and the Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde publish various types of publications – artist monographies, exhibition catalogues etc.

The aim of these publishing projects is to present relevant artists, artist groups, artistic movements and developments of the former Yugoslavia region, as well as of Eastern and Central Europe. By presenting them through publications, the aim is to provide them with better international recognition and valorisations, so they could be placed in their rightful position in the global art scene.

Artist monographs

Exhibition catalogues

Other publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Avantgarde Museum". www.avantgarde-museum.com. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
  2. ↑ "Avantgarde Museum". www.avantgarde-museum.com. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
  3. ↑ "INSTITUTE". www.instituteavantgarde.com. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
  4. ↑ "Restart - artist on vacation". restarted.hr. Retrieved 2015-10-24.

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