Lecture by Janka Vukmir, art historian, curator and art critic from Zagreb and co-founder and president of the Institute for Contemporary Art, entitled: Invisible Knifer on Friday, February 7, in Osijek, in Galerija Waldinger.

The lecture Invisible Knifer points out the fact that Julije Knifer, one of the most frequently mentioned Croatian artists, is one of those artists whose works are difficult to find in permanent museum or gallery exhibitions. At the same time, research into his vast and over fifty-year-long oeuvre, although being processed, is far from complete and is progressing very slowly. During 2024, which marked the 100th anniversary of Knifer’s birth and the 20th anniversary of his death, the international conference Knifer 100 and the exhibition Julije Knifer: from the MSU collections were organized 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 his death in 2004, which are still largely unread, and which the lecture will discuss, step by step reveals the methods and processes of Knifer’s work, his thoughts and various previously unknown details that help us understand his work and works, and sometimes his life. The 29th Slavonian Biennale, which is still ongoing until the end of February 2025, entitled Institute of the Invisible, relies on the meanings we learn from Knifer’s work, on the processing and materialization of the absurd. The lecture will be held at the Osijek City Gallery – Waldinger Gallery at 7 pm.