Before its official opening in the autumn, Avantgarde Gallery presented Exhibition No. 0, the first introduction to its new gallery space and future programme in Zagreb.
The exhibition brings together selected works by regional and international artists, offering an initial insight into the gallery’s focus on post-war and contemporary art, historical avant-garde and neo-avant-garde positions, and artistic practices whose relevance continues to unfold through research, collecting and new international contexts.
Avantgarde Gallery builds on long-term work developed through the Marinko Sudac Collection, the Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde and the Marinko Sudac Foundation, including more than 250 projects realised in Croatia and abroad. After years of collaborations and projects connected with leading international institutions and platforms, including Tate Modern, Ludwig Museum Budapest, mumok Vienna, and the Venice Biennale, the gallery now brings this experience into its own space in Zagreb.
Exhibition No. 0 presents works by artists including Aleksandar Srnec, Ivo Gattin, Marijan Jevšovar, Đuro Seder, Julije Knifer, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, and more, alongside selected international positions. The exhibition introduces the gallery’s approach to presenting artworks not only as individual objects, but through the broader artistic, historical and institutional contexts in which they can be understood today.
As an introduction to the gallery’s future programme, Exhibition No. 0 opens a space for the presentation of artists and artistic positions that shaped avant-garde, post-war and contemporary practices, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and through their wider international connections.
