Art and research project What are we supposed to do with an art collection? was started in 2016 by Katerina Duda within the framework of Open Studio in the Gallery Miroslav Kraljević. The artist focused on the Gallery’s history and themoving out of INA’s employees from their building in Subiceva 29which happened at that time. Narrations about the building inevitably uncovered the stories around the history of Arts and Culture Society INA established in 1977.
Although in the beginning it was envisioned only as an exhibition space for amateur visual artists the change in the conception of the program occurred in 1990s and the gallery was focused on exhibiting contemporary artistic practices. The practice of exhibiting both works of amateur and professional artists’ works contributed in creating a hybrid gallery collection that circulated in between storage spaces in the gallery, offices in INA building and private homes of former INA employees.
Together with curators in Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic the artist enters the Gallery archive, talks with the former members and directors or ACSand former curators in the Gallery in order to clarify what role INA had in collecting of the artworks and towards the artistswho exhibited in the gallery. What werethe conditions the artists workedand exhibitedin? How is their market and collection value formed and who has the right to the collection established within the self-governing economic system and the paradigm culture to the workers?
Exhibition and publication supported by: Ministry of culture of Republic of Croatia.
Katerina Duda graduated in New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts, and Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. The starting point in her work is the city and public space, her approach is usually site-specific and combines the media of video, intervention and action in public space and social practice. She exhibited in solo and group shows in Croatia and abroad. Lives and works in Zagreb.
