Lecture INVISIBLE KNIFER

and lecture HOW TO APPLY TO THE COMPETITION AND NOT RUIN ALL YOUR CHANCES

We are pleased to announce two lectures by Janka Vukmir, art historian, art critic, curator and head of the Institute for Contemporary Art Zagreb.

The lectures will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in the Amphitheater at Teslina 10 (first mezzanine), entrance through the building of the First Gymnasium, Split

 

1:00 PM – Lecture HOW TO APPLY TO THE COMPETITION AND NOT RUIN ALL YOUR CHANCES

(using the example of the Radoslav Putar Award competition)

Organization: HULU – Split and the Institute for Contemporary Art Zagreb

The lecture is designed as a guide for all interested candidates planning to apply to the Radoslav Putar Award Competition 2025. The lecture will provide instructions and advice that will help participants shape their applications in a way that increases their chances of success.

All interested parties can participate, regardless of age or intention to apply to this year’s Radoslav Putar Award competition.

Lecture duration: 70 minutes

Both lectures are open to the public.

 

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11:00- lecture INVISIBLE KNIFER

Organized by: Department of Painting, Academy of Arts Split (UMAS) and Institute for Contemporary Art Zagreb

The lecture Invisible Knifer points out that Julije Knifer, one of the most frequently mentioned Croatian artists, is one of those whose works are difficult to find in permanent museum or gallery exhibitions. In Split, during his lifetime, he never exhibited independently.

At the same time, research into his large and over fifty-year-long oeuvre, although being processed, is far from complete and is progressing slowly.

During 2024, which marked the 100th anniversary of Knifer’s birth and the 20th anniversary of his death, the international conference Knifer 100 was organized, as well as the exhibition Julia Knifer: from the collections of the MSU, in collaboration with the Institute for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, as well as several exhibitions in galleries in Europe and the USA.

The project of research and transcription of Knifer’s diaries, which he wrote from 1955 until he died in 2004, and which are still largely unread, which will be discussed in the lecture and which was initiated by Janka Vukmir and the Institute for Contemporary Art, reveals the methods and processes of Knifer’s work, his thoughts, and various previously unknown details with which Knifer himself helps us understand his work and works, and sometimes his life.

Lecture duration: 70 minutes