Marinko Sudac Collection


The Marinko Sudac Collection, based in Zagreb, Croatia, has been created with a clear collecting strategy based on the region of Central and Eastern Europe, additionally spanning from the Baltic area to the Black Sea. The guiding principle of the Collection is systematic exploration, researching, and promotion of the avant-garde practices which have been marginalized, forbidden, and at times completely negated due to the historical, social and political circumstances. In this context, the Marinko Sudac Collection gives the most complete and comprehensive overview on the art of this region. The Collection starts at 1909, and it show the continuity from the first Avant-Gardes, through neo-avant-garde and New Artistic Practices, ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The global uniqueness of the Marinko Sudac Collection is also seen in the kind of media it contains. It contains not only traditional artworks, such as paintings, sculptures, and photographs, but it gives equal importance to documentary and archival material. Great importance is put on these almost forgotten media, which enable research of specific phenomena, artists and the socio-political situation which affected this type of art. The Collection contains a great number of museological units, and it treats the documentary and archival material on the same level as traditional artworks. By examining the units contained in the Marinko Sudac Collection, one can read not only the art scene or the art production of a certain artist, but the full status of the society, the socio-political atmosphere of the region in which this art was created in.
This Collection is not merely a process of gathering artworks, but a contextualisation of the art of region in the global history of art and an effort of putting it on its deserved place in history. The aim of the Marinko Sudac Collection is to preserve the cultural heritage of the Central and Eastern European region from globalisation, by maintaining it in a contextual unity. The end goal is to place the Collection in an architectural, physical building of the Museum of Avant-Garde, in which this art will be valorised, museologically processed, open to researchers and experts, and presented to the public. A part of the works from the Marinko Sudac Collection is available in digital form on an innovative platform of the Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde, which unites the work of the Virtual Museum of the Avant-Garde, the Marinko Sudac Collection, and the Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde, with a goal to form a central database for the researching of the phenomena of the Avant-Garde. The Marinko Sudac Foundation was established in 2022.
Alongside more than 170 already accomplished successful collaborations with museum institutions and independently organized exhibition in great museum centres such as Tate Modern, London; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Haus der Kunst, Munich; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb,... or exhibitions of the Collection in unofficial places such as Marshall Josip Broz Tito's boat Seagull, Marinko Sudac is also an editor of numerous publications – art monographs, exhibition catalogues and collections of texts, and an author of a successful artist residence project Artist on Vacation, held annually since 2012, which hosted over 90 of the leading world artists which continue the tradition of the Avant-Garde.

Collection strategy

The Collection's interest extends from the Baltic area to the Black Sea, with particular emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. The collector's strategy is directed towards systematic exploration, research, and promotion of Avant-Garde practices that have been marginalized, forbidden, and at times completely rejected, due to historical, social and political circumstances. In this respect, the Collection is, in relation to already existing European art collections, regionally cohesive, and presents an inexhaustible resource for the research of Avant-Garde art and a dynamic platform for the exchange of knowledge on the phenomenon of Avant-Garde. This can be seen in numerous topical and retrospective exhibitions, organised events, followed by connected detailed publications or studies, articles in professional journals, some published in the framework of research projects and collaborations with numerous important institutions, experts, theoreticians, art historians, and artists from the entire world.

Museum of Avant-Garde

The Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde, based on the Marinko Sudac Collection, was created in 2009. It presents the digital database of the Collection through which you can see the overview of Avant-Garde art in the countries of former Yugoslavia structured according to authors, artworks, time periods, and geographical areas, as well as links and influences of the artists with cultural happenings and artistic centers in the region and the world. The website, beside the high-quality digitized artworks, contains biographies and bibliographies, alongside the connection of the artists with other artists, art institutions and cultural forums, as well as selected publications.
The online database show only a small part of the Collection. Speedy digitization of the material is crucial to accomplish the Museum's main aim, which is to make it a centre for information on the regional Avant-Garde practices.
The Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde is a free online platform to research all forms of Avant-Garde art of Eastern and Central Europe, to show connection with the rest of the world, to be a place for free thought and presenting the relevant cultural phenomena of Avant-Garde thought and artistic doing, to be a space for creating and publishing expert materials and research on the phenomena of the Avant-Garde. In its work, the Virtual Museum of Avant-Garde managed to become a meeting point of experts and intellectuals from the region and the artists, as well as interested public who can, in one place, find many information on the Avant-Garde movement in this area.

Artists in the Marinko Sudac Collection

Source:

Former Yugoslavia

Hungary

Czechoslovakia

Poland

Russia

United States

United Kingdom

Romania

Ukraine

Turkey

The Netherlands

Italy

Switzerland

Germany

Bulgaria

France

Denmark

Austria

Finland

Japan

Projects

Since its beginning, the Marinko Sudac Collection has been open to collaboration with various institutions. Through the years, the works from the Collection have been exhibited both locally and internationally.
The collection has been recognised as a good partner and the growing interest in different types of collaborations shows the quality of the Collections and its open character.

List of independently organised projects

  • Baldo Diodato – Analytical Documentation of Urban Structures, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2025
  • Paolo Patelli: Painted Surfaces. Marinko Sudac Collection, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2024
  • Lucia di Luciano, Giovanni Pizzo: Arte Programmata - NFT's Point Zero, Ras Al Khaimah Art, UAE, 2024
  • Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan: Three-dimensional Painting, Ras Al Khaimah Art, UAE, 2024
  • Autopsia: Public Lesson in History. Marinko Sudac Collection, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2023
  • The Legacy of the OHO Group - Marko Pogačnik, Portal of Peace; David Nez, Zoology of Absence, Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, 2023
  • Gorgona. The Solitude of Thought. On the Concept of an Experimental Re-examination of the Arts, Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, 2023
  • The Freedom of My Mind. Avant-garde Women Artists from the Marinko Sudac Collection, Vršilnica, Zaprešić, Croatia, 2023
  • 62nd Poreč Annale: New Fundamental Tendencies, Istrian Assembly Hall; Small Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2022
  • Stano Filko. Marinko Sudac Collection, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2022
  • Bosch+Bosch Group. Marinko Sudac Collection, Museum of Art Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2022
  • Lucia di Luciano, Giovanni Pizzo - Programmed Art, 1964 - 1967 | Marinko Sudac Collection, Varaždin City Museum, Exhibition Salon of the Sermage Palace, 2022
  • Lucia di Luciano & Giovanni Pizzo "Programmed Art" | Marinko Sudac Collection, "Josip Račić" Gallery of the National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 2022
  • Boris Demur – Analytical Works. Marinko Sudac Collection, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2021
  • Commemorating the 100 years of the "Zenit" magazine, National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 2021
  • Bosch + Bosch. Hungarian Art Movement in Vojvodina, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
  • Boris Demur. Analytical workd | Art Photo Budapest presentation, Millenáris park, Budapest, Hungary / virtual, 2020
  • ICDHS 12 Conference, online project, Zagreb, Croatia, 2020
  • Bogdanka Poznanović, Marinko Sudac Collection, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2020
  • Gorgona. Works from the Marinko Sudac Collection, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, 2019
  • Philip Corner – No Notes Nonce | Other Aspects, Holland House, Sisak, Croatia, 2019
  • Radoslav Putar and Miljenko Horvat. A Retrospective, Varaždin City Museum, Varaždin, Croatia, 2019
  • Gorgona 1959 – 1968. Independent Artistic Practices in Zagreb. Retrospective Exhibition from the Marinko Sudac Collection, Kassák Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
  • Bosch+Bosch Group and the Vojvodina Neo-Avantgarde MovementT, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
  • The Oho Group, 1962 – 1971, Marinko Sudac Collection, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2019
  • "Artist on Vacation 2018" by Valamar, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019
  • Autopsia Archive 1979 – 1989, City Gallery Striegl, Sisak, Croatia, 2019
  • Paralelni narativi. Galerija umjetnina / Kolekcija Marinko Sudac, Gallery of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia, 2019
  • Andrzej Lachowicz – A Form of Consciousness, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2018
  • "Artist on Vacation 2017" by Valamar, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 2018
  • "In Memoriam" – Josip Vaništa, Šira Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, 2018
  • , Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2017
  • Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan, Paintings. 2009 – 2012, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2017
  • Artist on Vacation 2016 \ Valamar, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2017
  • Jiří Valoch – The Power of the Powerless, Marinko Sudac Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2017
  • Oho Films. A Retrospective Marinko Sudac Collection, French Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia, 2017
  • El nem kötelezett művészet – Marinko Sudac gyűjteménye, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary, 2017
  • Miljenko Horvat. Gorgona and After. Photographs | Marinko Sudac Collection, Photo Gallery Lang, Samobor, Croatia, 2017
  • Slovakian Neo-Avant-Garde | Rudolf Sikora, Július Koller and the First Open Studio, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2017
  • Non-Aligned Modernity. Eastern-European Art and Archives from the Marinko Sudac Collection, FM Center for Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy, 2016
  • Jiří Valoch – The Power of the Powerless, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2016
  • Neo Dada: Gorgona | Absurd Freedom, Gallery Thalberg, Zürich, Switzerland, 2016
  • Julius Koller U. F. O. – naut J. K.?, Art Market Budapest 2015, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
  • Radical Practices from Marinko Sudac Collection, A38 Ship Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
  • Gorgona, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2015
  • Artist on Vacation 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2015
  • Gorgona – Then and Now, Villa Polesini, Poreč, Croatia, 2015
  • Blue Noses – From the Transition's Archives, Gallery of Fine Arts of the National Museum Zadar, Zadar, Croatia, 2015
  • Vlado Martek | Read the Visual, Typholological Museum, Zagreb, Croatia, 2015
  • Bucan Art from Marinko Sudac Collection, Gallery of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia, 2015
  • Jiří Valoch – Word as a Painting, Gallery of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia, 2015
  • Stano Filko – Transcendence, Art Market Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 2014
  • First World War and Avant-Garde Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014
  • Artist on Vacation 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014
  • Bucan Art,, 2014Villa Polesini, Poreč, Croatia
  • Transition and Transition – Oleg Kulig, Josip Vaništa, Blue Noses, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary, 2014
  • Good Choice! Examples of Commercial Communication from the 50s and 60s, Fuliranje, Zagreb, Croatia, 2013
  • Artist on Vacation 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2013
  • Transition – Oleg Kulig, Josip Vaništa, Blue Noses, Villa Polesini, Poreč, Croatia, 2013
  • Bauhaus by Ivana Tomljenović Meller, Worker's Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, 2012 – 2013
  • The manifestation of a spiral due to Y. Klein – Boris Demur, Damian Nenadić, Foto galerija Lang, Samobor, Croatia, 2012
  • Artist on Vacation 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2012
  • Ivan Kožarić, Novi Spa & Resorts, Novi Vinodolski, Croatia, 2012
  • Marinko Sudac Collection: Permanent Avant-Garde, KUAD Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
  • Circles of Interference. The Marinko Sudac Collection, the Petőfi Literary Museum – Kassák Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2012
  • Standstill – Activist art from the Marinko Sudac Collection, "Seagull" ship, Rijeka, Croatia, 2011
  • Branimir Donat and Visual Poetry, Glyptotheque HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia, 2011
  • Oh After Oho, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2010
  • Aleksandar Srnec: Experimental Reality, Museum Lapidarium, Novigrad, Croatia, 2010
  • Ivana Tomljenović Meller, Photographs and Photomontages Bauhaus, Dessau 1929–1930, Photo Gallery Lang, Samobor, Croatia, 2010
  • The Present Absence – Aleksandar Srnec, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2010
  • Aleksandar Srnec, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia, 2008
  • The Present Absence – Aleksandar Srnec, The Gallery of Old and New Masters, Varaždin, Croatia, 2008
  • Marginal Specificities – Regional Avant-Garde Art 1915–1989, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia, 2007
  • Marginal Specificities: Avant-Garde Art of ex-Yugoslavia 1914–1989, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2006
  • Vlado Martek... The Artist as a Mobile Map, Zlatno oko Gallery, Novi Sad, Srbija, 2006
  • Marginal Specificities – Regional Avant-Garde Art, Gallery Centre Varaždin, Varaždin, Croatia, 2005
  • Marijan Molnar, Vila Oršić, Varaždin, Croatia, 2004
  • Vlado Martek, Vila Oršić, Varaždin, Croatia, 2004