Zdenko Buzek

1957 born in Helsinki, Finland
1984 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia

Performance

2002 The Conversation with visitors, interactive performance for The Second Day of Croatian Performance, caffe bar Sermage, Varazdin
Gravce na tavce (Overdone bean), interactive performance, KSET, Zagreb
2001 Planting a tree, performance, Gluscic hill near Samobor
Davor Krelja, interactive performance, Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
Personal contacts, interactive performance, project Capital and Gender by Suzana Milevska, Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje
2000 Planting a tree, performance, Matrix Croatica Square, Samobor
Planting a tree, performance, Gluscic hill near Samobor
Closed for public, performance, Matrix Croatica Gallery, Zagreb
1999 Always Already Apocalypse, project by Suzana Milevska, Institute for Earthquake Engineering and Engineer Seismology, Skopje; Yüksel Sabanci, Istanbul
1998 Jokes, performance, Pubs in Skopje, Rabac, Zagreb, Poree etc

Installations

2003 United colors of Buzek, SC, Zagreb
2001 The Resort of Homeless Ideas, web-project (work in progress) together with Magnus Bärtas, Internet, http://www.homeless-ideas.org
Objects that will have a museum value in hundert years, ready-made objects, Gallery VN, Zagreb
2000 Four Autopsychoanalysis, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia
Things that are terribly disturbing people in other people's everyday behavior, web-project (work in progress) together with Nikola Iskra, Internet, http://www.ring.net/buzek
1999 Biographies, installation, with Magnus Bärtas and Zeljko Zorica, Gallery VN, Zagreb
1998 Little big stories, project by Suzana Milevska, National University Library, Skopje; Riksarkivet, Stockholm
1997 Nostalgia, Gallery Lamparna, Labin
Tito - Buzek, land-art project, backyard of the artist's studio, Skopje
Cifte Hamam 3, Cifte Hamam, Skopje

Selected solo exhibitions

2003 Selected works, exhibition of books, Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
The Resort of Homeless Ideas, exhibition of ideas together with Magnus Bärtas, Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
First part of The Idiot by Fyodor Mickhailovich Dostoyevsky, reprint, Gallery VN, Zagreb
2002 The Resort of Homeless Ideas, exhibition of ideas together with Magnus Bärtas, Multimedia Center, Rijeka
1999 Fragments, paintings, Gallery Cekao, Zagreb
1997 Expanding appearances, collages and paintings, Gallery Matrix Croatica, Zagreb
Prints, Art Salon DLUB (artists association), Bitola
1995 Posthistoric cycle, paintings, Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
1994 Retrospective, drawings, graphics and paintings, Artists studio, Zagreb
1993 Porno, paintings, Gallery Cekao, Zagreb
1992 Posthistoric cycle, paintings, Gallery Karas, Zagreb
Posthistoric cycle, paintings, Bookshop Modern Times, Zagreb
1988 Paysages, paintings, Studio of the Gallery Karas, Zagreb
1985 Drawings, Gallery VN, Zagreb

Selected group exhibitions

2004 I am here and you are there..., project by Barbara Steiner, Gallery of contemporary art Leipzig, Leipzig
2003 Conceptual art in Macedonia, Museum of contemporary art, Skopje
1999 2nd Croatian triennial of drawings, House of Croatian Visual Artists, Zagreb
1997 Nostalgia, Gallery Lamparna, Labin
2nd international graphic triennial Bitola 1997, Museum and Gallery Bitola, Bitola
1993 Kunstband durch Europa, Künstlerclub DIE MÖWE, Berlin-Mitte; Südosteuropa Kulture e. V., Berlin Kreuzberg; Frauen-Museum, Bonn; Memorial Gallery Aleksandar Rukavina, Brtonigla; Gallery Fonticus - Gallery of the City of Artists, Grožnjan
1991 16th youth biennial, Gallery of Modern art, Rijeka
1990 25th Zagreb salon, Gliptoteka JAZU, Zagreb
1989 Who Are You Mr. Umpah Pah?!, collages, project by Hrvoje Bozicevic, 21st youth salon, Gallery Karas, Zagreb; Bologna; Ljubljana
1988 20th youth salon, Art pavilion, Zagreb
1987 14th youth biennial, Gallery of Modern art, Rijeka
18th youth salon, Modern Gallery, Zagreb
1986 14th exhibition of selected works of the members of SHDLU (Artists association), Gallery Karas, Zagreb
17th youth salon, Gallery Karas, Zagreb

Selected exhibitions with the group Circle

2004 Winners of the award Vladimir Belogaski, Museum of the city of Skopje, Skopje
1999 Shadows, drawings, Gallery Matrix Croatica, Zagreb
1998 Expanding appearances, collages, Gallery 21, Aachen
1997 Expanding appearances, collages, Stenenbrug 4a, Maastricht
1996 Expanding appearances, collages, Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, (award Vladimir Belogaski)
1995 Kandinsky's abstractions, paintings, Gallery Stobi, Skopje
1985 Idiolalia - Calligrams, Cultural center, Ohrid

Shows with Multimedia group Udarna Grupa Poskok (Delta Force Horned Viper)

1988 Everyday rituals, materials for the last multimedia play that was never realized, Youth Club Crnomerec, Zagreb
1987 Everyday rituals, performance, Youth Center, Slavonski Brod
1986 Bite a stone and sacrifice ears for fine things, retrospective exhibition of U. G. Poskok works, Gallery DDP, Zagreb
Putting and taking down the poster for the exhibition Bite a stone and sacrifice ears for fine things, action, corner of the Gajeve and Varsavske street, Zagreb
U. G. Poskok buttons, 17th Youth Salon, project "Image and word on clothing" by Vedrana Krsinic, Maja Povrzanovic and Hrvoje Zucko, Gallery Karas, Zagreb
1985 Intervention Zagreb 85, U. G. Poskok proposed eleven interventions for the occasion, which were so radical that only one was excepted, and for that one the organizer found another performer
Conan II (Integral version), multimedia play, Lapidarij, Zagreb
Hat show, performance together with Ana Lendvaj and Matija Vujica, Lapidarij, Zagreb
Finding the Center of the Universe, wall painting by Stijacic and Buzek, PUNZ (spring in New Zagreb), Zagreb
Camomile, music and scene play version by Stijacic and Buzek, PUNZ (spring in New Zagreb), Zagreb
Demonstration of the Sound, performance by Stijacic, Buzek and guests, PUNZ (spring in New Zagreb), Zagreb
1984 Cities, exhibition of architecture, Kalemegdan and Old Brewery, Belgrade
That's what I own to myself, performance, FLU, Belgrade
Fly, performance by Miucin for the opening of the mail-art exhibition of Greiner & Kropilak, Gallery DDP, Zagreb
Titania, texts by Buzek, Iskra and Miucin, illustrations by Miucin, magazine Polet
Scene games, performance for the opening of the Gallery on the open, Gallery on the open, Crikvenica
The Big Bang Bad Band, performance, Bezistan, Belgrade
Yugoslav Alternative Scene, songs and recites, separate for the Swedish radio on the occasion of the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo, recorded in Studio B, RTB, Belgrade
Nebojsa Stijacic with U. G. Poskok, Concert, YURM (YU Rock Moment), Lapidarij, Zagreb
1982 Poskok live, Radio emission, Radio 101, Zagreb
1981 Dedicated to a woman, performance, KST, Belgrade

Bibliography

Barbara Steiner, I am here and you are there..., (catalogue), Gallery of contemporary art Leipzig, Leipzig, 2004
Barbara Steiner, forward for the book of Jokes for german edition, Gallery of contemporary art Leipzig, Leipzig, 2004
Vladimir Velickovski, Art groups in Macedonia, Edition Psike, Museum of contemporary art, Skopje 2003
Robert Zlovic, Citate in Zdenko Bužek's works, (catalogue), Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 2003
Milos Djurdjevic, Zdenko Buzek's textual replicas, (catalogue), Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 2003
Milos Djurdjevic, Reading as a art technique, (catalogue), Gallery VN, Zagreb, January 2003
Davor Krelja, Statement about Zdenko Buzek's exhibition/performance "Davor Krelja", (catalogue), Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 2000
Konca Pirkoska, Four Autopsychoanalysis, (catalogue), Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia, 18th November - 12th December 2000
Vanja Babic, Closed for public, (catalogue), Matrix Croatica Gallery, Zagreb, 25.-29.2.2000
Nina Butic, Biographies, mag for cult and soc matters Zarez I/19, Zagreb, 25.11.1999
Suzana Milevska, Life is life or how to do things with words, (catalogue), Gallery VN, Zagreb, 28.10.-13.11.1999
Magnus Bärtas, Who is Zdenko Buzek?, (catalogue), Gallery VN, Zagreb, 28.10.-13.11.1999
Suzana Milevska, Always Already Apocalypse, (catalogue), Institute for Earthquake Engineering and Engineer Seismology, Skopje, 26.7.1999; Yüksel Sabanci Art Center, Istanbul, 18.9.1999
Nina Butic, Working on eternal issues, mag for cult and soc matters Zarez I/11, Zagreb, 1999
Vanja Babic, Group Circle, (catalogue), Matrix Croatica Gallery, Zagreb, 15.6.1999
Vladimir Velickovski, Fragmented values (toward study of conceptualism and Macedonian art), mag for visual art The Large Glass 7/8, Skopje, 1998
Lazo Plavevski, Zdenko Buzek (Tito - Buzek), mag for visual art The Large Glass 7/8, Skopje, 1998
Milou Allerholm, Stories about little heroes, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 24.8.1998
Hakan Nilsson, Artists as story tellers, Swenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, 22.8.1998
Suzana Milevska, Little big stories, (catalogue), National University Library, Skopje, 28.7.1998; Riksarkivet, Stockholm, 15.-25.8.1998
Suzana Milevska, Was Tito a postmodernist?, weekly magazine Forum, Skopje, 27.3.1998
Suzana Milevska, Tito and Buzek, postmodernists?, (catalogue), Skopje, 21.3.1998
Enes Quien, Holes in Conscience, art mag Kontura, Zagreb, autumn 1997
Enes Quien, Chaotic Appearances, (catalogue), Matrix Croatica Gallery, Zagreb, 12.12.1997
Konca Pirkoska and Suzana Milevska, Cifte Hamam 3, (catalogue), Cifte Hamam, Skopje, 27.5.-5.6.1997
M. Andonovska, Autonomous & together, Vecer, Skopje, 16.7.1996
Lazo Plavevski, Group Circle, (catalogue), Museum of the city of Skopje, Skopje, July 1996
Viktorija Vaseva Dimeska, Circle, (catalogue), Gallery Stobi, Skopje, 9.-22.9.1995
Sanda Stanacev, Zdenko Buzek, art mag Kontura, Zagreb, January-February 1995
Goran Blagus, Color Circles, Vjesnik, Zagreb, 16.1.1995
S. Nikitovic, Gay Hedonism, Vecernji list, Zagreb, 11.1.1995
Enes Quien, Today's Broken Mirrors, (catalogue), Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 5.-23.1.1995
Enes Quien, Porno, (catalogue), Gallery Cekao, Zagreb, 14.9.-18.10.1993
Ana Lendvaj, From known to new, Vecernji list, Zagreb, 28.5.1992
Nada Beros, The Choice of the week, Novi Vjesnik, Zagreb, 20.5.1992
Milos Djurdjevic, Culture, Radio 101, Zagreb, 16.5.1992
Damir Grubic, The Posthistoric Cycle, (catalogue), Salon of the Gallery Karas, Zagreb, 14.-31.5.1992
Hrvoje Bozicevic, Who Are You Mr. Umpah Pah?!, (catalogue of the 21st youth salon), Gallery Karas, Zagreb, 10.-28.10.1989
Maja Povrzanovic, Image and word on clothing: messages to the ethnologist - contribution to the study of Contemporary Folklore in Croatia, Institute of Folklore Research, Zagreb, 1988
S. Nikitovic, Second part, Vecernji list, Zagreb, 9.12.1988
Tonko Maroevic, Zdenko Buzek, (catalogue), Studio of the Gallery Karas, Zagreb, 26.9.-5.10.1988
Tonko Maroevic, Zdenko Buzek, (catalogue), Gallery VN, Zagreb, 7.-27.3.1985
Tonko Maroevic, Zdenko Buzek, (catalogue), Bookshop Mladost, Zagreb, 3.1.-1.2.1983

Selected prose works

Witze, Gallery of contemporary art Leipzig, Leipzig, 2004
Metropolitan adventures, Edition Id, Zagreb 2003
Anthology of the Croatian Fragment of the eighties, Edition Id, Zagreb 2003
Jokes, Edition Id, Zagreb 2003
First part of The Idiot by Fyodor Mickhailovich Dostoyevsky, second edition, Edition Id, Zagreb 2003
Finished Castle by Franz Kafka, together with Robert Zlovic, Edition Id, Zagreb 2003
Texts for nothing by Samuel Beckett, Edition Id, Zagreb 2003
Dhammapada, Edition Id, Zagreb 2003
First part of The Idiot by Fyodor Mickhailovich Dostoyevsky, reprint, Edition Id, Zagreb 2002
The Children of the Traffic Light, minimal prose, Edition Quorum, Zagreb, 1990
Anthology of the Croatian Fragment of the eighties, magazine for lititerature Quorum No 5/6 (28/29), Zagreb, 1989
Zdenko Buzek's Full Statement of the Case - The Correction of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, magazine for literature Republika No 11-12, Zagreb, November - December 1987
The Manifest of the Source of the Experience, magazine for lititerature Quorum No ****/1, Zagreb, 1986
Torpedo, fragments, Edition Pegaz, Belgrade 1985

Bibliography of prose works

Milos Djurdjevic, Noon rain - critics and essays, Diktator, Zagreb 2003
Kresimir Bagic, Prose of the Quorum generation: 1. minimalist prose, magazine for lititerature Quorum No 2-3, Zagreb 1996
Vlaho Bogisic, Four dimensions of doubt, Edition Quorum, 1987, p 252-254
Branko Cegec, Five riders of Apocalypse - choice from the young prose production, magazine for lititerature Republika No 11-12, Zagreb, November - December 1987
Miroslav Micanovic, The reader of his own book (Torpedo), magazine for lititerature Republika No 5-6, Zagreb, May-June 1987
Nenad Bartolcic, Torpedo, magazine for lititerature Quorum No 1-2, Zagreb, 1987
Vlaho Bogisic, Torpedo, magazine for culture and social matters Oko, Zagreb, 27.3.-10.4.1986
Miodrag Jaukovic, In the sign of minimalism (Torpedo), Književne novine No 713-714, Belgrade, 1986
Branko Males, Short prose, (Z.Buzek, E.Popovic, P.Vrabec), magazine for lititerature Republika No7/8, Zagreb, July-August 1984
Branko Males, New novelists, magazine for lititerature Republika No 4, Zagreb, April 1983

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