Curriculum vitae

born 1951 in Zagreb, Croatia
lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia

Solo exhibitions

2015 The boundaries of language, Wroclaw contemporary museum, Wroclaw (PL)
Vlado Martek, Cifte Amam, Skopje (MK)
2014 Pictographic alphabet, Gallery Galzenica, Velika Gorica (HR)
Zureden ohne Unruhe, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany (D)
2012 The power of support/Die Kraft des Untergrundes, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (D)
2011 Lisez Mallarmé, Gallery Frank Elbaz, Paris (F)
2010 Poetry in action, Gallery P – 74, Ljubljana & Gallery Kraljević, Zagreb (HR)
2008 Retrospective, Modern gallery, Zagreb (HR)
2004 Small exhibiton, Mala galerija, Museum of modern art, Ljubljana (SLO)
1998 Samizdats, City library, Zagreb (HR)
1996 Troubles with the content, Gallery Zvonimir, Zagreb (HR)
Troubles with ethics, Š-o-u-galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana (SLO)
1988 Arbeiten auf Papier, Gallery Ingird Dacić, Tübingen (D)
1985 Vlado Martek – Hermafroditski bojevnik, Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana (SLO)
1984 Vlado Martek, Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana (SLO)
1982 (Pre)poetry environment, Studio gallery of contemporary art, Zagreb (HR)
1980 Book-work, with Mladen Stilinović, Galerija studentskog centra, Zagreb (HR)
1979 Elementary processes in poetry, Podroom, Zagreb (HR)

Group exhibitions

2016 Non-Aligned modernity/Modernità non allineata. Eastern-European Art and Archives from Marinko Sudac Collection, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Milan (I)
2015 How to do art with words, MUSAC, León (ES)
What we call love, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IRL)
The fourth prose, gallery Laura Bulian, Milan (I)
Hommage à Malevich - 100 years of the black square, Mestna galerija ljubljana, Ljubljana (SLO)
BASAL, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (D)
Art has no alternative, transzit.sk, Bratislava (SK)
KONTAKT, works from the collection of Erste bank group, transzit.sk, Bratislava (SK)
2014 Personal cuts, Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes (F)
2013 Material conceptualism, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (D)
A group of six artists, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, (D)
2012 From the age of the poets, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (D)
You are kindly invited to attend, open systems – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna (A)
The present and presence, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (SLO)
2011 Scenes from Zagreb: artists´ publications of the new art practice, MoMa - Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
Multiplizieren ist menschlich, Edition Block, Berlin (D)
Kontakt collection, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia (BG)
Curated by Vienna 2011: east by south west, Georg Kargl Fine Arts & Georg Kargl
Box, Vienna (A)
Museo de las narrativas paralelas. En el marco de la internacional, MACBA, Barcelona (ES)
Volume collection, MMSU – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Rijeka (HR)
2010 You are kindly invited to attend, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (D)
Volume collection, Fondazione Bevillacqua la Masa, Venice (I)
Ground floor America, Den Frei Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (DK)
Art always has its consequences, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Lodz (PL)
Quartet-four biennials reflected in prints, International Centre of Graphic
Arts, Ljubljana (SL)
2009 Gender check, Museum moderner Kunst SLW, Vienna (A)
Who killed the painting?, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (D)
2006 Kontakt... aus der Sammlung der Erste Bank-Gruppe, Museum moderner Kunst SLW, Vienna, (A)
Art, life and confusion, October salon, Belgrad (SRB)
O nepoznatim radovima/On unknown works, Galerija Nova (HR)
2005 Collective creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (D)
2003 In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (D)
2002 The misfit, Art Moscow, Moscow (RU)
Imaginary Balkans, Site Gallery, Sheffield (UK)
In search of Balkania, Neue Galerie, Graz (A)
2000 Construction in process, Bydgoszcz/Ostrowitze (PL)
Chinese whispers, Apex Art gallery, New York (USA)
1999 Aspekte/Positionen, Museum Moderner Kunst SLW, Vienna (A)
1993 The horse who sings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (AU)
1990 Zeichen im Fluss, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna (A)
1976 Confrontation, Gallery of contemporary art, Zagreb (HR)
5th april meeting, Gallery SKC, Belgrad (SRB)

Catalogues / publications

Vlado Martek: Pripremanje za poeziju: artyoga, Zagreb: Algoritam, 2015.
Tonko Maroević: Vlado Martek, Art slučaj Martek, Split: Galerija Kula, 2014.
Vlado Martek: Sonetomanija = Manie de sonnets, Zagreb: DAF, 2014.
Dubravka Đurić: Vlado Martek Konceptualistička poezija (1975. - 1983.), Zagreb: Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, 2010.
Branka Stipančić: Vlado Martek – Poezija u akciji / Poetry in action, Zagreb: DeLVe, 2010.
Zdenko Rus: Vlado Martek 1973-2007, Zagreb: Moderna Galerija, 2008.
Vlado Martek: Predpoezija, Zagreb: Hrvatsko društvo pisaca, 2006.
Markita Franulić: Pazi, tužni Radovi/Attention, sad works, Novigrad: Muzej Lapidarium, 2007.
Muzej grada Koprivnice: Dossier Martek, Koprivnica, 2004.
Vlado Martek: Volim čitati poeziju, Zagreb: Naklada MD, 2001.
Vlado Martek: Akcije pisanja, Zagreb, 1997.
Vlado Martek: Troubles with content, Zagreb: Galerija Zvonimir, 1996.
Vlado Martek: Umjetnost nema alternative/Art has no alternative, Zagreb, 1991.

Collections

DER ZUSCHLAG FÜR BIOGRAPHIE, Collection: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
COLLECTION EAST ART 2000, Modern gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia Museum moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
National Museum, Cetinje, Montenegro
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA
ART COLLECTION TELEKOM, EMST ATHENS