Zeljko Kipke

Born in Djakovec in 1953. Graduated painting at the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU) in Zagreb in 1976. Attended the Painter’s Master Workshop in Zagreb from 1976 - 1981.

Took part in the Artists Space exhibition in New York 1989. Spending a part of 1991 in Marseilles wirh the result of an individual exhibition there. His paintings have been bought by the Peter Stuyvesant Collection in Amsterdam, FRAC collection in Tolouse (Les Abattoirs) and Museum der Moderner Kunst in Wienna. He represented Croatia at the Venetian biennial in 1993, and the Kairo biennial two years later.

Writes essays and critiques on experimental film and art in dailies and periodicals, and is a fully accredited member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) since 1997. Participant in Szeemann's authorial exhibition Blood & Honey / Future's in the Balkans in Klosterneuburg (Vienna) 2003. He has published six books: Illuminators of the New Cycle, Zagreb, 1989; The Subterraneous Guide, Zagreb, 1992; Beware of Immitations, Zagreb, 1993; From Abundance to the Moon, Zagreb, 1998; Any Similarity with Real People And Events Is Iintentional, Zagreb 2004; February to February, Zagreb 2005.