Mladen Stilinović

The recorded working language is Croatian. Work by Mladen Stilinović is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museum of Modern Art, Exploitation of the Dead Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb and Van Abbemuseum. Distinctions recorded are Vladimir Nazor Award.

• Name — Mladen Stilinović • Born — 10 April 1947 • Birthplace — Belgrade, Serbia • Died — 18 July 2016 • Place of death — Pula, Croatia • Occupation — Conceptual artist • Years Active — 1969-2016 • Known for — Group of Six Artists • Notable Works — An Artist Who Cannot Speak English Is No Artist, 1992 • Website — https: mladenstilinovic.com/

Stilinović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, to father Marijan Stilinović, who early in his career was an editor of the newspaper Borba, ambassador to Argentina, and later head of Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, and mother Nada Stilinović (née Popović).

Stilinović's works are based on the idea of social and art critique. They are often witty, and come with a dose of irony and cynicism illustrated for example in his work, Money is Money, Art is Art. He was one of the founding members of the informal neo-avantgarde, Group of Six Artists (Grupa šestorice autora), together with Vlado Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. The group was active in Zagreb from 1975 to 1979. In addition to his artistic creative output, he also managed the Extended Media Gallery (1981–1991), and was one of the co-founders of the Podroom Gallery (1978–1980). From 1969 to 1976 he was dedicated to experimental film. He collaborated with the group IRWIN on the project Retroavangarde (1994). He is especially famous for his Exploitation of the Dead series (1984–1990) which has been exhibited at many shows, such as documenta in Kassel (2007).

He has had many exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, among the more recent being: The Cynicism of the Poor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, (2001–2002), In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, (2002), Blood & Honey – Art in the Balkans, Klosterneuburg, Vienna (2003), Sing!, Ludwig Múzeum (2011) and In the Gorges of the Balkans which was shown in the Kunsthalle Fridericianeum (Kassel, 2003), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul, 2007) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 2008). • Illustration — Mladen Stilinovic in Moderna Museet Igor Zabel, the renowned Slovenian curator, chose him as a guest artist at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) where Stilinović exhibited his work Dictionary – Pain (2000–2003) in which he used white colour to blank out many of the definitions of words in a dictionary replacing them with the word pain.. In 2017, he was selected as one of 120 artists in the world to participate in the 57th International Art Exhibition, VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel. His works belong to many museum and gallery collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, museums of modern art collections in Stockholm, Vienna, Ljubljana, Zagreb and Banja Luka and in private collections such as the Filip Trade Collection, Zagreb.

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Mladen Stilinović is recorded with the occupation photographer. It is also recorded that mladen Stilinović is recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded with the occupation conceptual artist. Recorded with the occupation video artist. The register further records that mladen Stilinović is recorded with the occupation installation artist. It is also recorded that mladen Stilinović is recorded as a citizen of Croatia. It is also recorded that mladen Stilinović is recorded with the gender male. Institutional cataloguing adds that mladen Stilinović was born on 1 January 1947. Stilinović died on 1 January 2016.