Filip Trade Collection
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The Filip Trade Collection (Croatian: Zbirka Filip Trade) is a large private collection of contemporary Croatian art. The collection is a subsidiary of Filip Trade, a distribution company with its offices located in the capital city of Croatia, Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

. The offices and collection are currently undergoing a move and will soon be relocated in a purpose built venue in the Črnomerec
Crnomerec
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 district of Zagreb, Croatia. The collection was founded in the nineties with the acquisition of the Drystone Walls graphic by artist Oton Gliha
Oton Gliha
Oton Gliha was a Croatian painter of Slovenian descent. He was born on May 21, 1914 in Črnomelj, Slovenia, in a Slovenian family originating from Istra, . The families residence was dictated by his father's civil service. Until the age of ten, he lived in Slavonia, , and later moved to Zagreb...

, an acquisition suggested by the Croatian art critic and connoisseur Radovan Beck. Nowadays, the collection holds works of Croatian artists created from the 1950s, up to today. The earliest piece in the collection dates back to 1949 and is the bronze sculpture Bara with a Chicken by the Croatian sculptor Ivan Kožarić
Ivan Kožarić
Ivan Kožarić is a Croatian artist who works primarily with sculpture but also works in a wide variety of media, including: permanent and temporary sculptures, assemblages, proclamations, photographs, paintings and installations...

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In the past several years the Collection has been more focused on the current production of artists of a younger and middle generation. The collection keeps longstanding relationships with some artists. For example the collection has 33 works over a 12 year relationship with the Croatian painter Lovro Artuković
Lovro Artuković
Lovro Artuković is a contemporary Croatian painter and graphic artist who primarily paints large scale figurative canvases. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.-Artistic career:...

. However the collection is also continually accepting new artists, in the last year 4 new artists were brought into the collection Silvia Sofija, Andreja Kulunčić
Andreja Kulunčić
Andreja Kulunčić is a contemporary Croatian artist, living and working in Zagreb, Croatia.In her art practice she deals with current social issues by appropriating various conventional forms of communication, for example: radio shows, advertisements, newspaper articles, etc...

, Silvo Šarić and the youngest artist in the collection, Igor Ruf, born 1984. The collection also has significant works from the artists involved in key periods and groups in Croatian art history, for example Exat 51, New Tendencies, Gorgona Group
Gorgona Group
The Gorgona Group , was a Croatian avant-garde art group which consisted of artists and art historians: Dimitrije Bašičević-Mangelos, Miljenko Horvat, Marijan Jevšovar, Julije Knifer, Ivan Kožarić, Matko Meštrović, Radoslav Putar, Đuro Seder, Josip Vaništa, operated along the lines of anti-art in...

 and Informel.

The collection is very involved in the contemporary art scene of Croatia. The Filip Trade award was distributed yearly from 2002 until 2005 to a young emerging Croatian artist. In 2002 the Filip Trade award was given to David Maljković, in 2003 the winner of the award was Matko Vekić
Matko Vekić
Matko Vekić was born in 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia. He is a contemporary Croatian artist working in the medium of painting. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia....

, Kristian Kožul was the recipient in 2004 and in 2005 the Filip Trade award was presented to Viktor Popović. The collection has also worked with artists, independent artist associations and cultural institutions to organise various art projects and exhibitions throughout Europe. For example, the Filip Trade Collection organised a number of independent exhibitions which comprised the Linienstrasse113 project, organised in Berlin. The collection also regularly holds an exhibition hosted by Gallery 5 Kula at the yearly Motovun Film Festival
Motovun Film Festival
Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in Motovun, Croatia. It usually takes place over 5–6 days in late July or early August...

 in Istria, Croatia. They have also supported the publication of the artist book, Data book on Hydrocarbons, by one of their featured artists who works under the name, Puma 34.

List of artists represented in the Filip Trade Collection

  • Stanko Abadžić
    Stanko Abadžić
    Stanko Abadžić is a Croatian photographer and photojournalist. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.Stanko Abadžić began his professional career in photography as a photojournalist for the Croatian daily newspaper Vjesnik. During that period he made well-known reportages from Tunisia, Malta,...

  • Marina Abramović
    Marina Abramovic
    Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...

  • Getulio Alviani
    Getulio Alviani
    Getulio Alviani is an Italian painter born in Udine. He is considered to be an important International Optical - Kinetic artist.-Life and work:Since childhood Alviani showed talent for design and geometric drawing...

  • Lovro Artuković
    Lovro Artuković
    Lovro Artuković is a contemporary Croatian painter and graphic artist who primarily paints large scale figurative canvases. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.-Artistic career:...

  • Damir Babi
  • Željko Badurina
  • Gordana Bakić
  • Vojin Bakić
    Vojin Bakić
    Vojin Bakić was a prominent Croatian sculptor of Serbian descent.-Work and Artistic Career:Bakić was an important figure, particularly in the 50’s and 60’s Croatian contemporary art scene, and collaborated with the group EXAT-51 and the Nove tendencije movement...

  • Breda Beban
  • Milivoj Bijelić
  • Tomislav Brajnović
  • Gordana Bralić
  • Ante Brkan
  • Stojan Ćelić
  • Boris Cvjetanović
    Boris Cvjetanović
    Boris Cvjetanović is a Croatian photographer. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.From 1976 to 1984 he worked as a restoration sculptor at the Croatian Restoration Institute. From 1981 he started publishing his photographs in student papers...

  • Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan
  • Boris Demur
  • Braco Dimitrijević
    Braco Dimitrijevic
    Slobodan Dimitrijević , known as Braco Dimitrijević is a Paris-based Yugoslavian artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it....

  • Juraj Dobrović
    Juraj Dobrović
    Juraj Dobrović Juraj Dobrović Juraj Dobrović (born, 1928 in Jelsa, Croatia is a Croatian artist working in the media of sculpture, painting and graphic arts. The focus of his art is mainly oriented towards geometrical structures. He makes use of light effects to emphasize the plasticity of the...

  • Zlatan Dumanić
  • Dušan Džamonja
    Dušan Džamonja
    Dušan Džamonja was a contemporary Croatian sculptor of Macedonian origin.Džamonja's work shows a tendency towards technical and formative experiments, reducing form to the dynamic and intense shapes of symbolical meaning...

  • Eugen Feller
  • Ivan Fijolić
    Ivan Fijolić
    Ivan Fijolić is a contemporary Croatian artist working primarily in the medium of sculpture. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia....

  • Ivana Franke
  • Mladen Galić
  • Ivo Gattin
  • Vilko Gecan
    Vilko Gecan
    Vilko Gecan was a Croatian artist, influential in the Zagreb modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s. He is best known for his expressionist paintings and drawings, and for his contributions to the avantgarde magazine Zenit. He showed his work in many solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad...

  • Grubimiks Labyrinth
  • Boris Guina
  • Tina Gverović
  • Stanko Herceg
  • Oskar Herman
    Oskar Herman
    Oskar Herman was a Croatian Jewish painter. He was one of the group of Croatian artists known as the Munich Circle, who had a strong influence on modern art in Croatia.-Biography:...

  • Vlatka Horvat
  • Nina Ivančić
    Nina Ivančić
    Nina Ivančić was born in 1953 in Zagreb, Croatia. She is a contemporary Croatian artist working mainly in the mediums of painting and drawing....

  • Nikolina Ivezić
  • Ratko Janjić-Jobo
  • Paulina Jazvić
  • Anto Jerković
  • Željko Jerman
    Željko Jerman
    Željko Jerman , was a Croatian photographer who experimented the possibilities of photography as a medium....

  • Marijan Jevšovar
    Marijan Jevšovar
    Marijan Jevšovar was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group....

  • Duje Jurić
    Duje Jurić
    Duje Jurić is a Croatian contemporary artist and one of the key figures of the New Geometry movement of the 1980s. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia....

  • Albert Kinert
    Albert Kinert
    Albert Kinert, born in 1919 in Vinkovci, Croatia and died in 1987 in Zagreb, Croatia, was a Croatian artist and illustrator who worked in the media of painting and graphic arts....

  • Željko Kipke
    Željko Kipke
    Željko Kipke is a Croatian artist. His practice is based on painting and experimental film, but he is also a published art critic and theoretician. He was born in Čakovec, Croatia, but lives and works in Zagreb....

  • Josip Klarica
  • Julije Knifer
    Julije Knifer
    Julije Knifer was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group....

  • Zlatko Kopljar
    Zlatko Kopljar
    Zlatko Kopljar is a contemporary artist living and working in Zagreb, Croatia. He works in a variety of different media including photography, video and performance....

  • Alem Korkut
  • Daniel Kovač
  • Nikola Koydl
  • Ivan Kožarić
    Ivan Kožarić
    Ivan Kožarić is a Croatian artist who works primarily with sculpture but also works in a wide variety of media, including: permanent and temporary sculptures, assemblages, proclamations, photographs, paintings and installations...

  • Kristian Kozul
  • Ines Krasić
  • Vlado Kristl
    Vlado Kristl
    Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl was a filmmaker and artist from Zagreb, Croatia, best known for his celebrated animations and short films....

  • Andreja Kulunčić
    Andreja Kulunčić
    Andreja Kulunčić is a contemporary Croatian artist, living and working in Zagreb, Croatia.In her art practice she deals with current social issues by appropriating various conventional forms of communication, for example: radio shows, advertisements, newspaper articles, etc...

  • Julio Le Parc
    Julio Le Parc
    Julio le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic artist born in 1928 and active mainly in Argentina. He is also an Op artist.-External links:**...

  • Kristina Lenard
  • Zvonimir Lončarić
    Zvonimir Loncaric
    Zvonimir Lončarić was a Croatian sculptor and painter.In 1955, he graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts at the University of Zagreb....

  • Siniša Majkus
    Siniša Majkus
    Siniša Majkus was born in 1962 in Rijeka, Croatia. He is a contemporary sculptor who, using metal wire, creates sculptures which have the characteristics of spatial drawings. He currently lives and works in Matulji, Croatia....

  • David Maljković
  • Dimitrije Bašičević
    Dimitrije Basicevic
    Dimitrije Bašičević was an artist, critic and curator, working under the pseudonym Mangelos. He made handmade books, sculptures and paintings....

    , (Working under the name, Mangelos)
  • Antun Maračić
  • Ines Matijević Cakić
  • Kata Mijatović
  • Jadranka Mlinar
  • Marijana Muljević
  • Sofija Naletilić Penavuša
  • Damir Očko
  • Ljubo Perčinlić
  • Jelena Perić
  • Petikat
  • Ordan Petlevski
  • Ivan Picelj
    Ivan Picelj
    Ivan Picelj was a contemporary Croatian painter, sculptor and graphic designer.Picelj developed a specific variation of geometric abstraction in Croatian painting by using primary colours and by reducing the shapes to geometric elements. He made sculptures and reliefs in wood and in metal...

  • Viktor Popović
  • Puma 34
  • Nika Radić
  • Kosta Angeli Radovani
    Kosta Angeli Radovani
    Kosta Angeli Radovani was a Croatian sculptor and member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.After World War II he was one of the founders of the Zagreb Academy of Applied Arts in 1950 where he was the head of the department of sculpture until the academy closed in 1955...

  • Lala Raščić
  • Božidar Rašica
    Božidar Rašica
    Božidar Rašica was an architect, scenographer and painter.-Career:He studied in Rome, Belgrade, Warsaw and Zagreb where he graduated in 1942...

  • Josip Restek
  • Vjenceslav Richter
    Vjenceslav Richter
    Vjenceslav Richter was a Croatian architect. He was also known for his work in the fields of urbanism, sculpture, graphic arts, painting and stage design.-Career:...

  • Igor Rončević
  • Igor Ruf
  • Silvo Šarić
  • Tomo Gecan Savic
  • Edita Schubert
  • Đuro Seder
    Đuro Seder
    Đuro Seder is a Croatian painter. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.At the beginning of his career he worked as an illustrator, image editor and designer at various magazines...

  • Frano Šimunović
  • Sofija Silvia
  • Damir Sokić
  • Aleksandar Srnec
    Aleksandar Srnec
    Aleksandar Srnec was a Croatian artist. He is mainly known for his avant-garde designs and kinetic and lumino kinetic art....

  • Miljenko Stančić
    Miljenko Stančić
    Miljenko Stančić , was a Croatian painter and graphic artist. He is famous for his vast painting oeuvre of Varaždin cityscapes....

  • Mladen Stilinović
    Mladen Stilinović
    Mladen Stilinović born, 1947 in Belgrade, Serbia is a conceptual artist and one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.Stilinović's works are based on the idea of social and art critique...

  • Damir Stojnić
  • Miroslav Šutej
    Miroslav Šutej
    Miroslav Šutej was a Croatian avant-garde painter and graphic artist.Šutej was born in Duga Resa in 1936. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb and was an associate in Krsto Hegedušić's master's workshop...

  • Marko Tadić
  • Slaven Tolj
    Slaven Tolj
    Slaven Tolj , a multimedia artist from Dubrovnik, Croatia. He achieved international recognition for his installations, body art, and performances presenting distinct political and social-cultural criticism....

  • Goran Trbuljak
    Goran Trbuljak
    Goran Trbuljak is an award-winning Croatian cinematographer.Trbuljak had first studied at the graphic arts department of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated from in 1972...

  • Marija Ujević-Galetović
    Marija Ujević-Galetović
    Marija Ujević Galetović is a Croatian sculptor, but also works in the medium of painting. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.-Work and Artistic Career:...

  • Nikola Ukić
  • Viktor Vasarely
  • Zlatan Vehabović
  • Matko Vekić
    Matko Vekić
    Matko Vekić was born in 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia. He is a contemporary Croatian artist working in the medium of painting. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia....

  • Mirjana Vodopija
  • Zlatan Vrkljan
  • Silvio Vujičić
  • Vlasta Žanić


Recent history of the Filip Trade Collection

  • 2001
10 years of the Filip Trade Collection, exhibition and publication in association with the Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb.
  • 2002
Filip Trade Award, winner David Maljković for the work State of Paintings – Independent Form.
Filip Trade Collection, exhibition and publication in Gallery Manes, Prague.
  • 2003
Filip Trade Award, winner Matko Vekić for the work The Sheep That Did Not Get Lost.
  • 2004
Image and Object, exhibition and publication in the Art Gallery Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

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The Repository, exhibition and publication, Ex - TKZ, Zagreb.
Filip Trade Award, winner Kristian Kožul for the work Golden Collection.
  • 2005
Filip Trade Award, winner Viktor Popović for the work No Title.
  • 2006
64, exhibition in Gallery Josip Račić, Zagreb.
12R37, exhibition, publication and posters in the Komiža City Library, Island of Vis (island)
Vis (island)
Vis is the most outerly lying larger Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, and is part of the Central Dalmatian group of islands, with an area of 90.26 km² and a population of 3,617 . Of all the inhabited Croatian islands, it is the farthest from the coast...

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  • 2007 – 2008
Project Linienstrasse113, exhibitions and web site, Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

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  • 2008
L.A. Unfinished, Promotion of the film by Igor Mirković in Cinema Europe.
A Different Motovun, exhibition and blog, at the Motovun Film Festival, Motovun
Motovun
Motovun is a village in central Istria, Croatia. The population of the village itself is 531, with a total of 983 residents in the municipality ; 442 of the residents have Italian as their mother language...

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  • 2009
Finalists, Exhibition, publication and web site, Labin City Gallery (Sabina Salamon), Labin
Labin
Labin is a town in Istria, Croatia, with a town population of 6,884 and 11,703 in the greater municipality ....

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Why So Serious?, exhibition and artist book by Puma 34: Data book on Hydrocarbons at the Motovun Film Festival, Motovun.
This exhibition is dedicated to our grandfather K.P., exhibition and promotion of artist book: Data book on Hydrocarbons, in association with the Croatian Designers Association, Zagreb.
  • 2010
In Person, exhibition and web site at the Motovun Film Festival, Motovun.

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