Study exhibitions

• Ivan Meštrović - Nude Studies (Drawings and Sculptures)

Split, the Milesi Palace, 29th May – 22nd June 1995
Dubrovnik, Umjetnička galerija (the Art Gallery), 30th June – 22nd July 1995
Rijeka, Moderna galerija (the Gallery of Modern Art), 30th June – 22nd July 1995
Curator: Božo Majstorović

• Traces of Violence - Otavice, The Most Holy Redeemer Church - Ivan Meštrović's Family Vault

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Split, the Milesi Palace, 11th - 29th April 1996
Curator: Božo Majstorović

• Architectonic Plans of the Ivan Meštrović Gallery in Split

Split, the old hospital (now the premises of the Galerija umjetnina /the Art Gallery/), December 1999 – January 2000
Curator: Jasminka Babić

• Ivan Meštrović

Rovinj, Galerija Tvornice duhana Rovinj, (the Gallery of the Rovinj Tobacco Factory), 19th July – 1st September 2002
The Rovinj Tobacco Factory, the Ivan Meštrović Foundation (Split, Zagreb), and the Modern Gallery (Zagreb) jointly put on the exhibition.
Exhibition concept and design: Igor Zidić

• Ivan Meštrović’s Drawings (from the holdings of the Meštrović Gallery in Split)

Split, the Milesi Palace, 16th January-16th February 2004
Zagreb, the Klovićevi dvori Gallery, 6th May-6th June 2004
Cavtat, the Bukovac Gallery, 25th June-25 July 2004
Hvar, the Modern Art Gallery Arsenal, 4th -25th August 2004
Curator: Dalibor Prančević

• Illustration and Interpretation – Ivan Meštrović’s early works inspired by Dante’s Hell

Zagreb, Gliptoteka HAZU (the Plaster Cast Collection of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), March 2004
Author: Ljiljana Čerina
Concept and design: Mario Beusan
Digital music background: Ivo Parač

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Group exhibitions - selected

• The Holy Trace - Sacral Art of the Archbishopric of Zagreb

Zagreb, Muzej “Mimara” (the Mimara Museum), September – December 1994.
The following Meštrović’s sculptures from the holdings of the Meštrović Atelier in Zagreb were exhibited: Pieta, 1932, bronze, 165×95×34 cm; Crucifix (for St. Mark’s church), 1931, bronze, 113×58×17 cm; Nativity (for St. Mark’s church), 1931-1932, relief, plaster, 205×69×15.5 cm; Madonna with Jesus, 1932-1934, relief, plaster, 148×115×58 cm (deposit).

• Per una storia del gusto – part of the Venice Biennial
  Venice, Palazzo Ducale (the Ducal Palace), 2nd June- 25th September 1995 Ivan Meštrović's sculpture Dancer
  (1912, marble, 49×40×16 cm) from the permanent display of the Meštrović Gallery in Split was exhibited.

• 125 Masterpieces of Croatian Art

Zagreb, HDLU (the Croatian Artists House), 20th February - 10th April 1996 Ivan Meštrović's sculpture A Woman in Cramp (1928, bronze, 103×13.9×65 cm) from the holdings of the Meštrović Atelier in Zagreb was exhibited.

• 90 Years of The Academy of Fine Arts

Zagreb, HDLU (the Croatian Artists House), 5th December 1997 - 25th January 1998 The Croatian Association of Visual Artists and the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts organized the exhibition to mark the Academy's 90th anniversary. The items displayed encompassed the works of many prominent artists who taught at the Academy from its beginnings till this day. Among others, three works of Ivan Meštrović, the professor and Dean of the Academy between the two World Wars, were exhibited: Mother and Child, 1942, wood, 134×78×91 cm; Moses (Head), 1918, marble, 62×41×34 cm; Memories II, 1929, bronze, 145×47×159 cm. All three items were borrowed from the permanent display of the Meštrović Atelier in Zagreb.

• 90 anni della presenza dell’Academia di belle arti di Zagabria, Croatia,
  alla Bienalle di Venezia 1907 – 1997.

Venice, Schola Santa Apolonia, Ponte della Canonica, 12th June - 12th December 1997 The following sculptures from the permanent display of the Meštrović Atelier in Zagreb and the Meštrović Gallery in Split were exhibited: Widow (Study), 1908, bronze, 87×24×46 cm; The Katunarić Family, 1906, bronze, 85.5×76.5×81 cm.

• Art contemporain Croate

Paris, Mairie du VI, Salle des Fetes, Place Saint- Sulpice 78, rue Bonaparte 8th - 29th April 1998 The exhibition was organized by the Croatian-French Association AMCA - Paris. The historic section of the exhibition included showcases with photo-documentary material on Croatian artists having worked in France between the end of the 19th century and the Second World War. The showcases contained photographs (reproductions) of the following Ivan Meštrović's works: Memories, 1908; Portrait of Auguste Rodin, 1914; Woman at Prayer, 1917; Girl with Lute, 1918. The exhibition also included texts relating to Meštrović's work (copies of newspaper articles, reviews, catalogues…).

• Millennium Sketches and Notes

Zagreb, Muzej "Mimara" (the Mimara Museum), 18th May - 18th June 2000 The following Meštrović's works from the holdings of the Meštrović Atelier in Zagreb were exhibited: Archers of Domagoj, 1923, lithography, 52.5×67.8 cm; Mother and Child, 1922, bronze (relief), height 50 cm, width 47 cm.

• The Century of Change

Zagreb, Hrvatski povijesni muzej (the Croatian History Museum), December 2000 - May 2001 The following Meštrović's sculptures from the holdings of the Meštrović Atelier in Zagreb were exhibited: Self-Portrait, 1912, bronze, 53×29×35 cm; Salome, 1913, bronze (relief), height 134 cm, width 96 cm. .

• Frangeš, Valdec, Meštrović, Augustinčić

Klanjec, the Antun Augustinčić Gallery exhibition hall, 15th December 2000 - 15th January 2001 The following Meštrović's sculptures from the holdings of the Meštrović Atelier in Zagreb were exhibited: Dr. Iso Kršnjavi, 1904, bronze, 87×71×53 cm; Head of a Bearded Old Man, 1906, bronze, 58×41×41 cm; Luka Botić, 1915, bronze, 73×40×57 cm.

• The Croatians - Christianity, Culture, Art

Vatican, the Vatican Museum, 28th October 1999 - 15th January 2000 Ivan Meštrović's Crucifix (1916, wood, 410×242 cm) from the permanent display of The Holy Crucifix Church of the Kaštelet-Crikvine complex in Split was on display.

• Horse and Rider Motifs in the Croatian Sculpture of the 20th Century

Klanjec, the Antun Augustinčić Gallery exhibition hall, 18th April - 18th May 2001 Ivan Meštrović's sculpture Prince Marko on Šarac (Piebald Horse) (1910, bronze, 39×30×15 cm) from the holdings of the Meštrović Gallery in Split was exhibited.

• Secession in Croatia

Zagreb, Muzej za umjetnost i obrt (Museum of Arts and Crafts), 18th November 2003 - 18th May 2004
Ivan Meštrović’s sculpture My Mother (1908, bronze, 95.5 x 48.5 x 60 cm) from the holdings of the Meštrović Gallery was included in the exhibition.

Multimedia Exhibitions

• Ivan Bura Ivan Meštrović Tanja Ravlić Kristina Restović
  Split, the Meštrović Gallery, 24th June – 28th July 2003
  Curator: Dalibor Prančević

• GEMINE MUSE 2004 / TWIN MUSES 2004
  Young Artists in European Museums/ Europski muzeji otvoreni mladim umjetnicima

Split, the Meštrović Gallery, 2nd December 2004 – 5th January 2005
Exhibitors:
Viktor Popović (Split)
Guillaume Ségur (Lyon)
Graziano Vignolo (Genoa)

Curators:
Dalibor Prančević (Ivan Meštrović Foundation - the Meštrović Gallery)
Darko Šimičić (Institute for Contemporary Art)

Exhibition catalogue / Publisher: GAI (Associazione Circuito Giovani Artisti Italiani)
Project manager for Croatia: Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Collaborator on the project: Ivan Meštrović Foundation – the Meštrović Gallery, Split

The Twin Muses project originally started in Italy as a series of exhibitions in 28 Italian cities but museums from eight other European countries, including Croatia, eventually joined in. The project was conceived as a dialogue between different generations of artists and represented as a series of multimedia exhibitions of young artists’ works inspired by the works included in the collections of the museum they exhibited in, thus creating a link between contemporary art and the cultural heritage of each participant country.
Financial support for the Gemine Muse 2004 project: The European Commission under the Culture 2000 Programme.
The works of three young artists from Croatia, Italy and France, inspired by Ivan Meštrović’s works were on exhibition in the Meštrović Gallery in Split (2nd December 2004 – 5th January 2005). Viktor Popović (1972, Split) was represented with an untitled work consisting of ladies’ and men’s underwear, a reference to Meštrović’s sculptures Eve and Adam. Graziano Vignolo (1981, Genoa) was the author of a multimedia installation Lamenti incatenati inspired by Meštrović's sculpture Job and Guillaume Ségur (1978, Lyon) performed an actual walk through the permanent display of the museum and launched it on www.actualwalk.com

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia financially supported the country's participation in the Gemine Muse 2004 project.


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Didactic Exhibitions

• From Home to Museum

The Meštrović Atelier, 16th April - 16th May 2002 The exhibition was a part of Home, a 2002 joint educational museum campaign of the Zagreb museums. The CD ROM Ivan Meštrović and the Meštrović Atelier and The Ivan Meštrović Foundation - The Meštrović Atelier promotional videos were screened in the Meštrović Atelier as a part of the campaign. The items mentioned were meaningfully arranged all around the premises in such a way as to achieve stratified perception and emphasize the authenticity of the location that used to be the artist's home and working area. Exhibition concept and event organization: Danica Plazibat

• Clothes – formative material in Meštrović’s works

Zagreb, the Meštrović Atelier, 18th April – 18th May 2004
Author: Danica Plazibat
Concept and design: Danica Plazibat

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