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Born in 1924 in Karlovac, Croatia. Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia

Education

1950 Graduated from The Academt of Fine Art, in Zagreb

Solo Exhibitions

2013
Abolition Of Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2012
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Adris, Rovinj, Croatia
Five portraits of Miroslav Krleža, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

2011
Study, Faces, Portraits 1945- 2011, Izidor Kršnjavi Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2010
Gallery EE, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa – During the time of Gorgona and Postgorgona 1961-2010, Glyptotheque -
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

2009
Pencil, Chalk, Concepts, Editions 1948-2008, Croatian National Theater, Zagreb, Croatia

2007
Josip Vaništa -The Time of Gorgona and Postgorgona, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia

2006
Josip Vaništa, Mala galerija / Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Zorin Dom, Karlovac, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, National and University Library in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Museum of Art and Crafts, Belgrade, Serbia

2005
Josip Vaništa, Academy of Arts and Science, Department of prints and drawings, Zagreb, Croatia

2003
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Forum, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Tamaris Bookstore, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Rovinj Museum, Rovinj, Croatia

2002
Josip Vaništa, National and Univerisity Library, Zagreb, Croatia

2000
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Milan and Ivo Steiner, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Karas, Karlovac, Croatia

1998
Josip Vaništa, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Kula, Split, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Svetog Krševana, Šibenik, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Sebastian, Dubrovnik, Croatia

1997
Josip Vaništa, Gallery 11, Zagreb, Croatia

1996
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Forum, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Milesi Palace, Split, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Kula, Split, Croatia

1995
Josip Vaništa, Academy of Arts and Science, Department of prints and drawings, Zagreb, Croatia

1994
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Ana, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Studio D, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Karlovac, Croatia

1993
Josip Vaništa, Gallery 11, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Messing Ars, Samobor, Croatia

1990
Josip Vaništa Collection, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić, Zagreb, Croatia

1988
Josip Vaništa, Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb, Croatia

1987
Josip Vaništa, Gallery 11, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić, Zagreb, Croatia

1986
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Sebastian, Varaždin, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, City Museum, Varaždin, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, City Museum, Bjelovar, Croatia

1985
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Sebastian, Belgrade, Serbia
Josip Vaništa, Međimurje Museum, Čakovec, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Palainovka, Zagreb, Croatia

1984
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Pedišić, Zadar, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Palainovka, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Dom JNA Gallery, Dugo Selo, Croatia

1983
Josip Vaništa, Gallery 11, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery of Art, Split, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Zorin Dom, Karlovac, Croatia

1980
Josip Vaništa, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Vjekoslav Karas, Karlovac, Croatia

1979
Josip Vaništa, Vjekoslav Majer bookstore, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Drawings 1955-1979, Yugoslav Department of Arts and Science, Department
of prints and drawings, Zagreb, Croatia

1976
Josip Vaništa, Le Centre Culturel de la RSF de Yougoslavie, Paris, France

1975
Josip Vaništa, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia
Josip Vaništa, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia

1974
Josip Vaništa, Society of Architects, Zagreb, Croatia

1966
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Zorin dom, Karlovac, Croatia

1965
Josip Vaništa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

1960
Josip Vaništa, Galerie Lambert, Paris, France

1959
Josip Vaništa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Vaništa - Drawings, Gallery Mala, Opatija, Croatia

1958
Josip Vaništa, City Library, Karlovac, Croatia
Josip Vaništa - Drawings, Zagreb, Croatia

1957
Josip Vaništa, Youth Club, Zagreb, Croatia

Group Exhibitions

2013
Zero Point of Meaning, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
Please attend, Zak/Branicka, Berlin, Germany

2012
Please attend, Museum Macura, Novi Banovci, Serbia

2011
Scenes from Zagreb: Artist’s, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Gorgona (…Knifer, Mangelos, Vaništa…), Galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Museum of Parallel Narratives. In the framework of L’Internationale, MACBA, Barcelona,
Spain
Treasure of the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatian art from the end of the 19th
century until the present day, Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia
Standstill, Ship Seagull, Rijeka, Croatia

2010
Les Promesses du Passé, curated by Christine Macel and Joanna Mytkowska, Centre
Pompidou, Paris, France
You are Kindly Invited To Attend, Aanant & Zoo/ Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany

2009
Hello Goodbye Thank You Again, Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France

2008
As soon as I open my eyes I see a film, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Etching - 20th Century, collection Solis, Museum Palace Arsan, Cres, Croatia

2007
On unknown Works, Gallery SKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Evryday life of Chairs/Gorgona - from the Macura Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art
Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Museum collection and the collections of Istria, MMC Luka Pula, Croatia
35 authors for 35 years of the Gallery, Gallery Sebastian, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Edge Specials: Avant-garde art in the region, MMSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka,
Croatia
Spring auction Kontura, Museum Mimara, Zagreb, Croatia

2006
On unknown Works, Gallery Nova, Zagreb / Art workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Re-collecting city / Re-collecting time, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Collected Views from East and West, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Living Art on the Edge of Europe, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kontakt …aus der Sammlung der Erste Bank Gruppe, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Collection Macura - Gorgona, Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Eye on Europe - prints, book and multiples - 1960 to now, MOMA - The Museum of Modern
Art, New York, USA
Birthing centers of civilization, Gallery King Tomislav, Čapljina, Bosnia
Early drawings by doyens of Croatian artists after the World War II, Glyptotheque - Croatian
Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Open Scene, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
Goat, Labin Museum, Labin, Croatia
Goat, Buzet Museum, Buzet, Croatia

2005
Kollektive Kreativitat, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Josip Vaništa, Gallery Mala, Zagreb, Croatia
From the collection of Memorial Museum, Memorial Museum of Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer,
Đakovo, Croatia
Portraits of D. Tadijanovi, Gallery Vladimir Becić, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Edge particularities, Varaždin Museum, Varaždin, Croatia
Collection Macura - Wien, Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade, Serbia

2004
Watercolors from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, The Art Gallery,
Slavonski Brod, Croatia
The Monstrous, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
The Popular prints, Gallery Stari grad, Đurđevac, Croatia
Fifties in Croatian art, Croatian Association of Artists Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2003
Contribution to the visual arts, theater, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia, London, UK
Poster exhibition of the Croatian National Theatre, Gallery Events, Zagreb, Croatia
Open stage, Art pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia

2002
The Misfits - Conceptualist Strategies in Croatian Contemporary Art, Art Moscow; Kunstamt
Kreutzberg, Germany; Bethanien, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Republic of
Macedonia
Abstraction in Croatia in the 60s and the 70s, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia
Living room, Gallery Art-Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Exhibition of watercolors from the of the Karlovac Museum collection, Art Salon Vladimir
Becić, Slavonski brod, Croatia

2001
The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West, Orangerie Congress, Innsbruck,
Austria
Poster exhibition of the Croatian National Theatre, National Theater of Nova Gorica, Nova
Gorica, Slovenia
Acquisitions 1997 - 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Exhibition from the collection of City Museum, Karlovac, Croatia
Miroslav Krleža, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Portraits from the Collection Ivan Lacković Croata, Gallery Old Town, Đurđevac, Croatia
Croatian painting from Šulentić to Stanić, Gallery Mona Lisa, Zagreb, Croatia

2000
2000+ Arteast Collection: The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West; From the
1960s to the Present, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Art in Central Europe 1949 - 1999, Fundacion Joan MiroÅL, Barcelona, Spain
Poster exhibition of the Croatian National Theatre, National Theatre of Zagreb, Zagreb,
Croatia

1999
Aspekte / Positionen - 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa, 1949-1999, Museum Moderner
Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria / Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary
Poster exhibition of the Croatian National Theatre, Gallery Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
Art print collection of Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, Krapina Museum, Krapina, Croatia

1998
Three centuries of art, Osijek, Croatia

1997
Gorgona, Gorgonesco, Gorgonico, Biennale di Venezia, Villa Pisani, Italy
Four Croatian painters, Gallery Kula, Split, Croatia
Silent solemnity of Croatian figuration, Gallery Rubin, Zagreb, Croatia
Cardinal’s memories of the ruined churches, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Donation Ivan Lacković Croata, Gallery Gradec, Zagreb; Đurđevac, Croatia

1996
Collection Kanižaj, Gallery Gradec, Zagreb, Croatia
Silent solemnity Croatian figuration, Gallery Rubin, Zagreb, Croatia
125 masterpieces of Croatian art, Croatian Association of Artists Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Contemporary Croatian Drawing, Beijing, China
Collection Mirjana Ferić, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia
Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, Mali salon, Zagreb, Croatia

1995
Contemporary Art of the Non-aligned Countries, Jakarta, India
The City of Vodovod, Osijek, Croatia

1994
Rational and spontaneous, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Steiner, Stanić, Vaništa, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić, Zagreb, Croatia
Zagreb I love you so much, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

1993
The Horse who Sings - Radical Art from Croatia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,
Australia
10 Croatian artists, Franciscan gallery, Široki Brijeg, Bosnia; Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Split,
Đakovo, Croatia
Goodwill exhibition, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Collection of Bjelovar Museum, Bjelovar, Croatia
Art print collection of Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, Old City Gallery, Đurđevac, Croatia

1992
Croatian painting 1817-1992, Pula, Croatia
Art collection of the Mostar diocese, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

1990
Ivo Horvat, Autorski izlog knjizare Zanje, Zagreb
22, Salon Mladih (gost na Salonu), Umjetnicki paviljon, Zagreb

1989
Gorgona (…Jevsovar, Knifer…), Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Gallery Loggia from Hvar, Split, Croatia
Zagorje landscapes in Modern Croatian painting, Gornja Stubica, Croatia

1988
Hovering man, Bookstore window Znanje, Zagreb, Croatia
Ready-mades - Josip Vaništa, Bookstore window Znanje, Zagreb, Croatia
Contemporaries, Gallery Kaptol, Zagreb, Croatia
Collection Nikola Perić, Karlovac, Croatia

1987
Exhibition of the members of the gallery, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić,
Zagreb, Croatia
Gallery Mlakar, Zagreb, Croatia
In memoriam Miljenko Stanić, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić, Zagreb, Croatia
Exhibition of the members of the gallery, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić,
Zagreb, Croatia
Small works, Gallery Mlakar, Zagreb, Croatia
Figurative persistence of figurative art 1950-1987, Critical Retrospective of 22nd Zagreb
Salon, Art pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
13th Autumn Salon, Loners, Banja Luka, Bosnia
New Year Exhibition, Gallery 11, Zagreb, Croatia
Artist represented by a Gallery, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić, Zagreb,
Croatia
Group Show, Gallery Kaptol, Zagreb, Croatia

1986
Gorgona i posle, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Levitating man, Bookstore window Znanje, Zagreb, Croatia
New Year Exhibition, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić, Zagreb, Croatia
New Year Exhibition, Gallery 11, Zagreb, Croatia
Encountering The Museum of Contemporary Art, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Woman in Croatian painting, Gallery 11, Zagreb, Croatia
Paintngs, The Studio of the Modern Gallery Josip Raić, Zagreb, Croatia
Pero Dragi
Ević choice, Split, Croatia

1985
Marijan Jevšovar, Julije Knifer, Ivan Kožarić, Đuro Seder, Josip Vaništa, Gallery of Fine Arts,
Osijek, Croatia
Pittori e scultori, Teatro comunale, Alessandria, Italy
From the nature of identity, to the identity of nature of images, Gallery Voćarska, Zagreb,
Croatia
XXV annals: Memories and modernity, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia
Artists from Karlovac 1945 - 1985, Gallery Vjekoslav Karas, Karlovac, Croatia
From Vjesnik collection, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Five artists from Zagreb, Osijek, Croatia
40 years of the Gallery Karas, Gallery Karas, Karlovac, Croatia

1984
Painters scenographers, Palainovka, Zagreb, Croatia
Zagreb in the works of artists, Gallery Dars, Zagreb, Croatia
New Year Exhibition, Gallery 11, Zagreb, Croatia
Painters to actors, Theater Gavela, Zagreb, Croatia
Imaginary Gallery, Karlovac, Croatia
From Karas to today, Karlovac, Croatia

1983
Interior, Gallery Lotršćak, Zagreb, Croatia
Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Continental landscape in Croatian painting, Gallery Lotršćak, Zagreb, Croatia
Minimalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Summer exbibition, Zagreb, Croatia

1982
Innovations in Croatian art practices in the 70’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb,
Croatia
Josip Vaništa (with Miljenko Stanić), Gallery Schira, Zagreb, Croatia
Sisak Museum, Sisak, Croatia
Pokupski slikari 1840-1982, Gallery Vjekoslav Karas, Karlovac, Croatia
Illustration book of poems in D. Tadijanović, Zagreb, Croatia
Miroslav Krleža and Croatian Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Acquisitions 20, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
Summer exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia
Painters from the Kupa River 1840-1982, City Museum Karlovac, Vjekoslav Karas Gallery,
National University, Old Town Ozalj, City Museum Sisak, Croatia

1981
16 Sao Paolo Biennal, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Jugoslawiche Malerei 1950-1965, Ost Berlin, Germany
Croatian cityscapes artists from Bukovac until now, Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik,
Croatia
Face-figure in recent Croatian painting, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia

1980
Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Acquisitions 1975-79, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Croatia
Yugoslav painting from the sixth decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Croatia

1979
Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Still life in the recent Croatian painting, Osijek, Croatia
Tendances de l’Art actuel en Yougoslavie, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Tendenze dell’arte jugoslava d’oggi, Roma, Italy

1978
12th Zagreb Salon, Zagreb, Croatia
Painting in Karlovac since 1900 to the present, Karlovac, Croatia

1977
Gorgona, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb/Stadtisches Museum, Monchengladbach,
Germany
Gorgona, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Self-portrait in the recent Croatian painting, Zagreb, Osijek, Croatia

1976
Acquisitions, Art pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia

1975
Acquisitions, Art pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
Moderne Kunst in Kroatien, Mainz, Germany

1974
100 works of contemporary Croatian art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skoplje, Macedonia

1972
100 works by 72 artists, Zagreb, Croatia
Illustrations of the writings of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

1970
4th Belgrade Triennial of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

1968
1st exhibition of Yugoslav drawing, Zagreb, Croatia
Contemporary Croatian Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Rewarded Croatian artists, Zagreb, Croatia

1967
3rd Yugoslav Belgrade Triennial of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Croatian Modern Art, Vinkovci, Croatia
Acquisitions 5, Zagreb, Croatia

1966
Acquisitions 4, Zagreb, Croatia
Moderne Kroatische Kunst, Eisenstadt, Austria

1965
22 Contemporary artists, Osijek, Croatia

1964
Acquisitions II, Zagreb, Croatia

1963
25 Paintings of Contemporary Yugoslav painting, Vukovar, Croatia
Contemporary Yugoslav painting, Vasterãs, Sweeden

1962
Collective exhibition of members of Studio G, Studio G, Zagreb, Croatia
Contemporary Yugoslav Art, Bombay, India
Contemporary Yugoslav Art, New York, USA

1961
Collective exhibition of members of Studio G, Studio G, Zagreb, Croatia
60 years of painting and sculpture in Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Painting and sculpture 61, Zagreb, Croatia
Contemporary Yugoslav Art, London, UK
3rd Adriatic biennale, Rimini, Italy
Artists with solo shows in Galerie Lambert, Galerie Lambert, Paris, France
Yugoslav painters, Ulm, Germany
Sculptures and paintings from the collection of Contemporary Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
First Exhibition from the collection of Contemporary Museum, Belgrade, Croatia
1st Triennial of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

1960
Contemporary Yugoslav Art, Boston, USA
Artists Union Exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia
Post war generation artists, Dubrovnik, Split, Croatia
Artists’ Union Exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
Prints, Varaždin, Croatia

1959
Première Biennale de Paris, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France
Yugoslav Artists presented on 1st Biennale de Paris, Belgrade, Serbia
Contemporary Yugoslav Art, Colombia
Five years of acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Salon 59, Rijeka, Croatia
Yugoslav Contemporary Artists, Paris, France
Post war generation artists, Varaždin, Croatia
Yugoslav Contemporary Artists, Washington, USA

1956
Paintings and sculptures from the1st Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, Rijeka, Croatia
13th exhibition of Croatian Artist’ Union, Zagreb, Croatia
Contemporary painting in Yugoslavia (AICA), Dubrovnik, Croatia
Young Yugoslav Artists, Milano, Italy

1955
Josip Vaništa (with Stanić, Ivanić, Michieli, Kožari), Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia
Group of artists for Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1st Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, Alexandria, Egypt
First Exhibition from the collection of Contemporary Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
Salon 56, Rijeka, Croatia

1953
60 paintings of modern Yugoslav art, Ankara, Turkey
60 paintings of modern Yugoslav art, Istambul, Greece
60 paintings of modern Yugoslav art, Damask, Greece
60 paintings of modern Yugoslav art, Beirut, Greece

1952
Josip Vaništa (with Miljenko Stanić), Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia
60 paintings of modern Yugoslav art, Athens, Greece