Text book, 1997
ISBN 953-6181-62-2
68 pages, 28 x 18.5 cm
Bilingual (Croatian-English), softcover
Publishers: Meandar, Institute for Contemporary Art – SCCA, Zagreb
Biblioteka VAL, Visual Arts Library
Editor and author: Janka Vukmir

The book was released when Slaven Tolj, the artist from Dubrovnik,  today also the director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art in Rijeka was taking part at Documenta 10 in Kassel, Germany.
This invitation came as a result of the Annual Exhibition of the Soros
Center for Contemporary Art – Zagreb, titled Checkpoint, held in
Zagreb in 1995 when we have invited Catherine David, the curator
of Documenta to participate in the Jury of our exhibition. Slaven was
then awarded for his work.

The book was also the first publication apart of the exhibition
catalogues devoted to Slaven Tolj.

His artistic practice started during the 80ies upon his return to the
home city of Dubrovnik, Croatia from the studies in Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, and was interrupted during the wartime in
Croatia 1991 through 1995. Slaven Tolj is also a curator of
exhibitions and co-founder of the famous Art radionica Lazareti (Art
Workshop Lazareti) in Dubrovnik and the Institute for
Contemporary Art in Zagreb, both among the first independent
initiatives within contemporary art in Croatia, an active advocate for
the betterment of the position of artists within society.

Janka Vukmir, the co-founder and the president of the Institute for
Contemporary Art in Zagreb.