NOTICE ON THE RESULTS OF THE international, public, visual arts competition THE VICTIM OF VUKOVAR 1991

 

INVESTOR AND TENDERER of the competition is:

Ministry of Croatian Veterans’ Affairs, 1 Trg Nevenke Topalušić, 10 000 Zagreb,

OIB (PIN): 95131524528, Phone: 01/2308-833, 01/2308-524, Fax: 01/2308-894

Website: www.branitelji.hr

Person responsible: Tomo Medved, Deputy Prime Minister and Veterans’ Affairs Minister

 

Institution in charge of ORGANISING and IMPLEMENTING the competition:

Croatian Association of Artists – HDLU (hereinafter: the Implementing Body), 16 Trg žrtava fašizma, 10 000 Zagreb,

OIB (PIN): 89246742324, Tel: 01/ 4611- 818

Website: www.hdlu.hr

Person responsible je: Tomislav Buntak, President

 

TYPE OF COMPETITION: international, public, in the field of visual arts

 

SUBJECT AND PURPOSE OF THE COMPETITION:

The aim of the international visual arts competition The Victim of Vukovar 1991 is to establish a dialogue with contemporary art practices based on the culture of memory and symbolism of war suffering of the city of Vukovar and generate artworks that will be inscribed in collective memory. The competition was looking for four new works of art that had never been presented to the public.

 

EVALUATION AND DECISION-MAKING CRITERIA:

In addition to the compliance of the works with the conditions of the competition (in terms of the content, deadlines and mandatory attachments), when evaluating the works, the Jury considered the following:

• artistic excellence of the work;
• research approach in the context of the culture of remembrance and symbolic value in commemorating historical trauma;
• recognizability and clarity of the artistic expression and media poetics;
• artist’s references.

 

JURY:

1. Branko Franceschi, art historian
2. Kristijan Milić, film director
3. Božica Dea Matasić, full professor of arts
4. Tomislav Buntak, associate professor of arts
5. Ana Holjevac Tuković, PhD in History
6. Alen Novoselec, associate professor of arts
7. Ivanka Bušić, mag.soc.

 

Advisor:

1. Ruža Marić, Director of the Vukovar Municipal Museum

 

SELECTION:

1. A-létheia, sound spatial installation

Artists: Ida Blažičko and Alex Brajković

 

2. Vukovar in Situ, photograph

Artist: Vjeran Hrpka

 

3. Slušatelj (Listener), spatial installation

Artist: Vladimir Novak

 

4. Fragmenti (Fragments), painting

Artist: Stjepan Šandrk

 

EXHIBITION OF COMPETITION WORKS:

The competition works will be exhibited in the National and University Library,  4 Ul. Hrvatske Bratske Zajednice in Zagreb. The exhibition opening will be held on 17 November 2021.