Mangelos

Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos
1921 born in Šid (SRB)
1987 died in Zagreb (HR)
He exhibited from 1968.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2021
Documents of an Experiment, Richter Collection, Zagreb (HR)

2019
Manifestos, Theses, Projects and Notes, Galerija Nova, Zagreb (HR)

2018
Ilija – Mangelos Phenomenon
, Goethe-Institu, Belgrade (RS)

2017
Mangelos: manifestos, thesis, projects and notes, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)
Julije Knifer/Mangelos: Investigating the Limits of Painting, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Dallas (US)

2016
Mangelos: a retrospective of exhibitions 1972–1981, Peter Freeman Inc., New York (US)

2013
Mangelos, Black Mirrors, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris (FR)

2012
Mangelos: Pythagoras, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (US)

2005
Mangelos: Les lettres et les mots, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (US)

2003–2004
Mangelos nos. 1 to 9 ½, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Fundação de Serralves, Porto (PT) ; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT) ; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (ES); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)

2001
Les paysages des mots, The Drawing Room, Berlin (DE)

1999
Theses and Manifestos, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (SI)

1998
Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (US); D`Offay Gallery, London (UK)

1997
a b c, Galerie Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin (DE)

1993
Mangelos Books, Opus Operandi, Ghent (BE)

1990
Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (HR); Mestna galerija, Ljubljana (SI)

1988
Mangelos – Paintings, Gallery PM, Zagreb (HR)

1986
Mangelos, Gallery Sebastian, Belgrade (RS)
Mangelos, Salon of the JNA, Zagreb (HR)

1981
Mangelos no.1– 9 – Retrospective, Gallery PM, Zagreb (HR)

1979
Mangelos no. 9 – Energy, Gallery Dubrava, Zagreb (HR)

1978
Mangelos no. 9 – Shid-theory, Podroom, Zagreb (HR)
Manifestos, Studio Tošo Dabac, Zagreb (HR)

1972
Picasso Phenomenon, Tribina mladih, Novi Sad (RS)



Group exhibitions (selection)

2022
curated by Asier Mendizabal: Reroute—Reorient, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)
From Scratch, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (US)

2021
Mangelos & Mladen Stilinovic: Word Images, 1 Mira Madrid Gallery, Madrid (ES)

2019
The Sensation of Space, The Warehouse, Dallas (US)

2018
Guernica, Musée Picasso, Paris (FR)
Sixties in Croatia - Myth & Reality, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb (HR)
Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades, The Warehouse, Dallas (US)
Table of Dreams: Two Contemporary Art Collections, Serralves Museum, Porto (PT)

2017 
Life, A User’s Manual, Art Encounters. Contemporary Art Biennale Timisoara, Timisoara (RO)
Meandering, Abstractly, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Dallas (US)
Serralves Collection: 1960-1980, Serralves Museum, Porto (PT)
Gorgona, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (LI)
Investigating the Limits of Painting, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Dallas (US)
Shakespeare among us, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb (HR)
Non-Aligned Art. Marinko Sudac Collection, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (HR)
Gorgona Postgorgona, P420, Bologna (IT)
Cold Front from the Balkans, Pera Museum, Istanbul (TR)
Sequences. Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, MoCAB, Belgrade (RS)

2016
Der „Geist“ ist die Memorie. Mangelos, Julije Knifer, Tomislav Gotovac, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinović, Vlado Martek, Sven Stilinović, Igor Grubić, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)
My Sweet Little Lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise), WHW, Zagreb (HR)
Knifer, Mangelos, Vaništa, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (US)
Facing the Future. Art in Europe 1945 - 1968, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (DE)
Non-Aligned Modernity. Eastern-European Art from the Marinko Sudac Collection, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (IT)

2015
Transmission: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980, MoMA, New York (US)
Modernités plurielles (de 1905 à 1970), Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)

2013
The Present and Presence: Repetition 4 –Micro-political Situations, MSUM, Ljubljana (SI)
Modernités plurielles (de 1905 à 1970), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)

2012
The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (DE); Palazzo Reale, Milan (IT); Estonian Museum of Art, Tallin (EE)

2011
The Museum of Affects, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (SI)
I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, MoMA, New York (US)
Gorgona, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris (FR)
Museum of Parallel Narratives: In the Framework of L’International, MACBA, Barcelona (ES)

2010
You are kindly invited to attend, Aanant and Zoo, Berlin (DE)
Promises of the Past – A Discontinuous History of Art in Former Eastern Europe, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)

2008
As soon as I open my eyes I see a film, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL)
Transmediale 08: Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)

2006
Eye on Europe – Prints, Books and Multiples – 1960 to Now, MoMA, New York (US)
Fluxus, Happening, Kontextkunst, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Living Art on the Edge of Europe, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)

2005
Big-Bang. Destruction and creation in 20th century art, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Living Art on the Edge of Europe, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)
Open Systems – Rethinking Art c. 1970, Tate Modern, London (UK)

2004
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)

2003
In the Gorges of the Balkans – A Report, Kunsthalle Friedericianum, Kassel (DE)

2002
In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
The Misfits, Art Moscow, Moscow (RU); Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopije (MK); Kunstamt Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin (DE)

2000
The Fifth Element – Gold or Art, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (DE)

1999
Circa 1968, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto (PT)
Aspects / Positions – 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949–1999, mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Sammlung Ludwig, Wien (AT); Museum Ludwig, Budapest (HU); Fundació Miró, Barcelona (ES); City Gallery, Southampton (UK)

1997
Gorgona, Gorgonesco, Gorgonico, Venice Biennale, Ex Macello, Dolo, Venice (IT)

1996
Galerie d’art graphique: Dessins acquisitions 1992 – 1996, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)

1993
Le Milieu du Monde, Villa Saint-Clair à Sète, Sète (FR)
The Horse who Sings – Radical Art from Croatia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (AU)

1989
Gorgona (... Jevšovar, Knifer...), FRAC de Bourgogne, Dijon (FR)

1977
Gorgona Group, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (HR); Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (DE)

1969
Typoetry, Gallery of Student Center, Zagreb (HR)

1968
Permanent Art, Gallery 212, Belgrade (RS)