Spartak Dulic

Spartak Dulić is one of the most versatile artists of Vojvodina, and his artistic practice besides painting includes performance, installation and sound works. His paintings are unique blend of the tradition of organic abstraction and abstract expressionism with aesthetics and methods of contemporary urban mural painting. He belongs to the generation of artists who emerged in the nineties at the time when multi-media art became mainstream form to which converged a multitude of artistic disciplines and procedures of post-conceptual art practice. Although he had academic education, his poetics early on included the art of installation and performance. His simultaneous experiments with sound and text, as well as aesthetics of comics and street graffiti, made him a true representative of the generation that considered avant-garde the self-evident strategy of connecting academic and popular cultures, and who practiced it spontaneously. Conceptual, material and technical aspects of this extensive creative discourse, Dulić most distinctively unites in the painting segment of his oeuvre. Peculiar method of their execution Dulić had developed in the previous period, including small collages executed as the three-dimensional structure of sup...

1993-1998 Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, department of graphics-painting arts, Croatia

artist of special influence

Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Polock, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol

Styles, Subjects, Mediums

abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction,surrealism, mixed media
paintings, performance-body art,i nstallations-urban interventions, multimedia-video

Awards/Special Recognition

Special Recognition of the 4th Biennial of Paintings,Croatian Association of Artist/ HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia

Geography: Where lived and worked

from 2007- 2022 director & curator of non-profit art Gallery
“ dr. Vinko Percic “ Subotica,SRB
(founder 2006 / owner of gallery it's city of Subotica)
2007 professor of art history- Gymnasium/high school "Svetozar Markovic" Subotica,SRB
2006 Croatian Restoration Institute, Zagreb, department of mural art, CRO
2001 –2005. professor/ teacher of professional courses in School for Applied Arts, Design and Textile, Osijek, teaching drawing and painting. drawing design, advertisement drawing, script, illustration, plastic design, drawing technics. CRO
2000 teacher of Art culture Primary School, Osijek CRO
1999 Croatian Restoration Institute, Osijek, CRO
1998 Croatian Restoration Institute, Z...

(limit of 20 solo and 20 group exhibitions)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, selected

2018.Danube Dialogues, PerformaNS,Novi Sad,SRB
2017.Studio Josip Racic/ Modern gallery,National museum of Modern art, Zagreb,CRO
2017.Gallery Center,Varazdin,CRO
2016.Museum of Fine Arts/ Split,CRO
2014.13th Days of performanceVarazdin/Pula- Contemporary Art Museum of Istria,CRO
2012.Gallery Laza Kostic,Sombor,SRB
2011.Contemporary art Gallery,Pancevo,SRB
2008.Touch Me Festival,KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis,Zagreb,CRO
2008.Contemporary art Gallery,Smederevo,SRB
2006.Remont Gallery,Beograd,SRB
2006.Ghetto Gallery,Split,CRO
2005.City Museum Gallery,Vinkovci,CRO
2005.Gallery Kapelica,Ljubljana,SLO
2003.Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery,Zagreb,CRO
2003.Matica Hrvatska Gallery,Krizevci,CRO
2002.Fine Arts Gallery,Osijek,CRO
2001.Mural,street art, Osijek,CRO

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, selected

2018.Henry Stag Arts Collection - Exhibition in the "Museo della Città di Rovinj - Rovigno" CRO
2018.18th Biennial of Art- Agents of Space, Gallery of Contemporary Art of the Cultural Center, Pancevo,SRB
2018.4th Biennial of Paintings,Croatian Association of Artist,Varazdin City Museum,CRO
2017.4th Biennial of Paintings,Croatian Association of Artist/ HDLU,Zagreb,CRO
2016.Tr...