Maker/Artist
Vaništa, Josip
Croatian artist, writer, and teacher, 1924-2018
Vaništa studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb, graduating in 1950. He had his first institutional exhibition, with artist Miljenko Stančić, in 1952 at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb. Vaništa was a cofounder of the Gorgona Group, a collective of Yugoslav artists and thinkers that worked from 1959 to 1966. Vaništa created a varied body of work that includes collages, traditional landscapes and still lifes, as well as photographs and abstract paintings. He was a professor in the architecture department at the University of Zagreb and, in 1994, was made a full member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. A survey covering seventy years of Vaništa’s work, “Abolition of Retrospective,” was mounted at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb in 2013.
