Igor Grubić (b. 1969, Croatia) has been active as a multimedia artist in Zagreb since the early 1990s, making photography, video, and site-specific actions. These interventions into public space, along with video works that employ montage and jump cuts, represent past and present political situations while cutting through the fabric of reality.
East Side Story (2006–8) focuses on LGBTQ rights following violence against two pride parades in Belgrade and Zagreb in the early 2000s, through both televised images and scenes re-embodied by dancers. 366 Liberation Rituals is a performative diary turned historical document consisting of photographs of the artist’s micropolitical actions enacted each day from 2008–9 as a form of resistance. The experimental films Capitalism follows socialism (2012) and Monument (2015), which captures the Brutalist concrete Spomenik built by the former Yugoslav state for the victims of WWII fascism, consider post-transitional Croatia, and the monolithic – or fragile – construction of national memory.
Grubić represents Croatia in the 57th Venice Biennale and has participated in Manifesta 4 and 9, the 11th Istanbul Biennial, and the 20th Gwangju Biennale, as well as in numerous film festivals. His work has been acquired by TATE Modern, the Museums of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and Zagreb, MWW – Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, and Kadist in San Francisco, among others.
Igor Grubić, Missing architecture
Igor Grubić, Monuments
Trailer: Spomenik / Monument from Kreativni Sindikat on Vimeo.
Igor Grubić, 366 Liberation Rituals,
Priča s istočne strane / East Side Story from Kreativni Sindikat on Vimeo.
Igor Grubić, Est Side Story
Igor Grubić, Smash the Myth, Berlin
Igor Grubić Do Animals
Igor Grubić, Velvet Underground
Igor Grubić, Angels with Dirty Faces
