Gender and art

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia is preparing the first retrospective exhibition of Vlasta Delimar, the most significant Croatian multimedia and performance artist. The exhibition titled Vlasta Delimar: This Is I will cover 35 years (1979–2014) of creative work of the artist, who has built an extremely valuable artistic career and earned international acclaim.

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In her works, Vlasta Delimar examined the status of a woman as social and creative being, and her multiple roles as housewife, mother, artist, lover… thus expanding the range of her own sensibility and sensuality.

Alongside her first performances—presented together with Željko Jerman—in which she examined the relationship between male and female, Vlasta Delimar also performed a series of actions which took place outside of the gallery space and were aimed at immediate, direct contact with the audience.

Vlasta Delimar : This Is I

Retrospective Exhibition 1979–2014

May 15–August 24, 2014

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

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Vlasta Delimar is a Croatian performance artist renowned for bold and very personal acts of performance, often centred on her own naked body. After 35 years of making work, this year she is preparing for a retrospective in Zagreb’s Museum of Contemporary Art. At Il Cassero, the home of Bologna’s Arcigay organisation and the Gender Bender festival, she spoke with me about rejecting feminism, scrapes with the authorities and the importance of being an individual.