Invisible Galleries
view in croatian- 2009
- 22'21"
- video
- color
- Orig. Title: Nevidljive galerije
Painter, writer and filmmaker Željko Kipke, undoubtedly one of Croatia’s most famous conceptual artists, revisits the location of six art galleries and venues where the history of contemporary art in Croatia was forged during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s which are slowly disappearing from the cultural map of Zagreb. Of the six art galleries and venues that shaped the contemporary arts scene in Croatia, only two are still in existence today: the Museum of Contemporary Art and Extended Media gallery.
- Director
- Željko Kipke
- Screenplay
- Željko Kipke
- Cinematography
- Vedran Šamanović
- Editing
- Staša Čelan
- Producer
- Vera Robić-Škarica
- Production
- Hrvatski filmski savez (HFS)
Željko Kipke (1953) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He took part in the Artists’ Space exhibition in New York in 1989 and held a solo exhibition in Marseilles in 1991. His paintings have been bought by the Peter Stuyvesant Collection in Amsterdam, the FRAC collection in Toulouse (Les Abattoirs) and the Museum der Moderner Kunst in Vienna. He represented Croatia at the Venetian Biennale in 1993, and the Cairo Biennale two years later. He has been a fully accredited member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) since 1997, and writes essays and reviews on experimental film and art. He was appointed commissioner of the Croatian pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2007. He has published six books.
