Vlado Martek
Born 1951 in Zagreb, HR
Lives and works in Zagreb, HR
The base of Martek's artistic praxis consists of writing, poetry, and language. By vocation, he is a multimedia conceptual artist, poet and writer, and his oeuvre includes actions, agitations, ambiances, murals, graffiti, texts on his own art, prints, artpostcards, sculptures, poetic objects, paintings, art books and staged photography. Since the 1970s he has worked across different mediums in order to renegotiate and find new forms of language.
Through his work, he offers analytical, critical, ironic and humorous comments on societal structures and constructs. Typically he engages in linguistic subversion, oscillating between the visual arts, poetry and his own artforms of pre- and post-poerty.
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Gallery Exhibitions
basal, 2015, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany (group)Zureden ohne Unruhe, 2014, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Material Conceptualism, 2013, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany (group)
A Group of Six Artists, 2013, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany (group
From the Age of the Poets, 2012, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany (group)
The Power of Support/Die Kraft des Untergrundes, 2012, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany (solo)
You are kindly invited to attend, 2010, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany (group)
Other Exhibitions (Selection)
Personal Cuts, 2014 - 2015, Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes (group)
Retrospective, 2008, Modern Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (solo)
Small Exhibition, 2004, Mala Galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)
In den schluchten des Balkan, 2003, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (group)
The Misfit, 2002, Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia (group)
Construction in Process, 2000, Bydgoszcz/Ostrowitze, Poland (group)
Chinese Whispers, 2000, Apex Art Gallery, New York, NY (group)
Aspekte/Positionen, 1999, Museum Moderner Kunst SLW, Vienna, Austria (group)
Samiydats, 1998, City Library, Zagreb, Croatia (solo)
Troubles with the content, 1996, Galerie Zvonimir, Zagreb, Croatia (solo)
Zeichen im Fluss, 1990, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria (group)
Arbeiten auf Papier, 1988, Galerie Ingird Daci?, Tübingen, Germany (solo)
(PRE)Poetry Environment, 1982, Studio Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (solo)
Elemetary Processes in Poetry, 1979, Podroom, Zagreb, Croatia (solo)
Confrontation, 1976, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (group)
5th April Meeting, 1976, Gallery SKC, Belgrad, Serbia (group)