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Vlasta Delimar

Since the 1980´s, the Croatian performance artist Vlasta Delimar has been questioning the freedom of female sexuality and breaking sexual taboos and their codification through stereotypical roles in a patriarchal society. Her elemental, often bare, naked body, is the main medium to her work. To counter-act, she masks it with feminine attributes such as lace, mesh, veils, etc. seeking a refuge of unprotected, female identity.

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Born into a proletarian family, Vlasta Delimar appeared on the art scene of the former Yugoslavia in the late 1970s and followed her path internationally for almost four decades. Between 1978 and 2016, she created numerous works that included performances, actions, happenings, video documents, photographs, photo collages and installations. She left an indelible mark on the evolution of visual culture and body politics in Central Eastern Europe, which was crowned in 2014 by the retrospective This is Me at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.
Against the normative concepts of behavioural regulation, which is the axis of the political, cultural and religious mainstream in socialist, post-socialist and capitalist societies, Delimar’s multiple appearances in public space, in person or through images, engage people because they touch – often very intensely – what “should” not be touched: their consciousness and conscientiousness, without leaving anyone indifferent. Her “icons” reach the observer exactly where (learned) moral and (also learned) intellectual narcissism have found a supposedly safe refuge: where they believe they know who they are while playing their role in front of others – always behind golden masks.

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To sam ja, 2007
Barthes, 1992
Lady Godiva, 2001
Untitled, 1993
Untitled, 1992
Untitled, 1986
KURAC VOLIM, 1980
Kad je umro drug Tito, 1980

Education

Vlasta Delimar is a multimedia artist. 1977 graduated from The School of Applied Arts in Zagreb. Studied History of art and Ethnology. Membership at Croatian Association of Artists and Croatian Freelance Artists Association.Vlasta Delimar started her artistic work in the late 1970s when post-conceptualist scene in Croatia and former Yugoslavia was at full intensity. From the very beginning of her activity, she has been building her artistic opus quite confidently. She rejected formal education as inadequate, conservative and outdated, and broke with traditional principles of artwork development by focusing on actions, happenings and performances. By choosing her own body as the primary medium of her work, Vlasta Delimar has defined her position as distinguished, autonomous artist with no direct successors, but also no predecessors; in the 1990s, Croatian art critics attempted to define her work as opus appertaining to feminist art, first-person artwork, body expression, an ego trip…
She is an Art Manager of the Art organization „My Earth, Štaglinec”

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Selected exhibitions

2022 Whatever u do – I love it, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria

2020 And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

2019 SPOT – exhibitions, actions and verbally prepared objects, Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

2018 Pin me up – Turn me around, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria

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