Born in 1965 in Croatia. Multidisciplinary artist, cultural activist, and initiator of Community Art; Project leadership of Zagreb – Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000.
 

educational background

1986 – 1992

Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb
 

professional background

Projects of different formats: public discussions, walks, performances, workshops and films. Author and initiator of several group and collaborative projects.
Editor and co-editor of several books and magazines in the field of Contemporary Art, cultural activism and film.
Lecturer at the Department for Animated Film and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb.

2001

Initiator and co-organizer of the NGO Community Art and the non- institutional Community Art and Theory School (with Ivana Keser)

since 1995

Ten years project Weekend Art: Hallelujah the Hill, performance and series of photographs taken exclusively on Sundays in the Medvednica mountains near Zagreb (together with Ivana Keser and Tomislav Gotovac)

1991

Initiator and co-organizer of EgoEast, group project (with Ivana Keser)

solo exhibitions

2001/2004

Community Art project

2000

Sala Montcada, Fundación “la Caixa”; Barcelona
Gallery Marino Cettina; Umag

1999

“Weekend Art: Hallelujah the Hill”, Museum in Progress / Der Standard; Vienna

1998/1999

“Weekend Art: Hallelujah the Hill”, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon; Montpellier

1997

“Weekend Art: Hallelujah the Hill”, Museum of Contemporary Art; Zagreb

1994

“EgoEast”, Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art; Zagreb

1991

PM Gallery; Zagreb
SKUC Gallery; Ljubljana
 

group exhibitions (selected)

2004

“EastWest”, Performance event, Tanzquartier; Vienna
“Normalization”, Community Art discussion, Gallery Nova; Zagreb
“U prvom licu”, HDLU; Zagreb
4th Performance Art Festival; Osijek
“Double Check”, Gallery of Contemporary Art; Celje / Kunsthalle; Graz

2003

“Promenons-nous”, Gallery Commune; Tourcoing
“Carte Blanche”, Performance event, Tanzquartier; Vienna
“Slowness”, Kyoto Biennial; Kyoto

2002

“Making Nature”, Nikolaj Center for Contemporary Art; Copenhagen
“Broadcasting”, Technical Museum; Zagreb
“The Misfits”, Art Moscow; Moscow / Museum of Contemporary Art; Skopje / Künstlerhaus Bethanien; Berlin
“Making Nature”, Haus am Waldsee; Berlin / Atelier Augarten; Vienna
“Bright Nights”, Cinema performance event, Stadtkino/Kunsthalle Basel; Basel
“From Moment to Movement”, International exhibition of photography, Zagreb Art Pavilion; Zagreb
“Here Tomorrow”, Museum of Contemporary Art; Zagreb

2001

“Body and the East”, Exit Art; New York
“Devoler”, Institut d'art contemporain; Lyon
“What, How & for Whom”, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse; Vienna
“Devenirs”, National Gallery; Tirana
“Konverzacija”, Museum for Contemporary Art; Belgrade
“Marking the Territory”, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin

2000

“After the Wall”, Ludwig Museum; Budapest
Hamburger Bahnhof, Max Liebermann Haus; Berlin
“Celje Povecava/Blow up”, Gallery of Contemporary Art; Celje
“What, How & for Whom”, HDLU; Zagreb
“Crossing Over Stories”, Wexner Center; Columbus, Ohio

1999

“Rondo”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
“Midnight Walkers & City Sleepers”, Gallery W 139; Amsterdam
“Art in the City III”, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Bregenz
“Farniente”, Maison de la Culture; Amiens
“After the Wall”, Moderna Museet; Stockholm
“Public domain”, 3rd Austrian Triennial on photography; Graz

1998

“The Cityscape”, MGC; Zagreb
“Body and the East”, Modern Gallery; Ljubljana

1997

“Croatian photography of the 90-ies”; Zagreb

1994

“Skulptur in Kroatien 1950 – 1990“, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum; Duisburg
“Words & Images”, Museum of Contemporary Art; Zagreb

1993

“Croatian photography from 1950's to the Present Day”, Museum of Contemporary Art; Zagreb

1992

“Croatian Art Now”, Project Ego East, Umjetnicki paviljon; Zagreb
 

bibliography (literature on Aleksandar Battista Ilić)

2004

Ivana Mance: “Sphere of responsibility”, in: “Frakcija – Performing Arts Magazine”, No. 30/31, Zagreb, p. 108-119.

2003

Claudia Wahjudi: “The Misfits”, in: “Kunstforum”, January, p. 270- 272.
“Weekend Art”, Diatext vol. 8, Slowness str. 066 - 057, Kyoto.
Carol Kino: “Croatian Modern”, in: “Art in America”, June, p. 62-69.

2002

Nada Beros: “Weekend Art: Hallelujah the Hill”, in: The Museum of Modern Art (ed.): “Primary Documents, A sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s”, New York, p. 192-195.
Tihomir Milovac: “The Misfits!”, in: “Misfits”, catalogue, MSU Zagreb, p. 13-14.
Nada Beros: “Art has become a side issue at last!”, in: “Misfits”, catalogue, MSU Zagreb, p. 37-44.
Roxana Marcoci: “Here Tomorrow”, catalogue, Zagreb.
“Weekend Art: Hallelujah the Hill, Circles - Individuelle Sozialisation und Netzwerkarbeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst”, ZKM Karlsruhe /Revolver Frankfurt, p. 316-321.

2001

Amei Wallach: “Making Art From Splited Memories of War”, in: “The New York Times”, December 16, p. 41.

2000

David G. Torres: “Vida Politica”, catalogue, Barcelona.
Thierry Davilla: “Walking Man in the Art of the XXth Century”, catalogue, Musée Picasso Antibes, Antibes.

1999

Marina Gržinić: “Body and the East”, in: “Flash Art” (Italian edition), February/March, p. 116.
Marina Gržinić: “Weekend Art”, in: “Flash Art International”, no. 206, May/June, p. 101.
Ami Barak: “Weekend Art: Hallelujah the Hill”, catalogue, Frac Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier.
David Elliott: “After the Wall”, catalogue, volume I, p. 33.

1998

Nada Beros: “From Gorgona Esoterics to Weekend Art dematerialization”, in: “Art Press”, no. 241, p. 46-52.

1997

Werner Fenz: “Die Kunst des Sonntagsspaziergangs”, in: “Lichtungen”, no. 72.