PROCES (NE)VIDLJIVOG

2011

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KOLEKCIONARSKA POPUDBINA VINKA PERČIĆA - SRB

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ZLATKO KOPLJAR - K - CRO

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SAVA HALUGIN - Adumbracije - SRB

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SALVADOR DALI - Beskrajni minut - saradanja, Visconti Art Gallery, Ljubljana - SLO

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KRISTIAN KOŽUL - The Old Cabinet - kustoskinje Suzana Vuksanović i Vanja Žanko, LAUBA/ Zagreb - CRO

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VLASTA DELIMAR & MILAN BOŽIĆ - Performance Milan Božić & izložba Vlaste Delimar - CRO

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IGOR BOŠNJAK - Messiah - BIH

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2012

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ANDY WARHOL - 15 minuta slave - saradnja, Visconti Art Gallery, Ljubljana - SLO

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SRĐAN MILODANOVIĆ, EMIL KADIRIĆ - prateći program MIROSLAV LAZENDIĆ, WB41 - SRB

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VLASTA ŽANIĆ - Kruške i jabuke - CRO

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IVANA SMILJANIĆ - Ženske priče - SRB

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2013

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BRANKO FRANCESCHI, kustos - Ljubav prema
subverziji ( Hrvatski filmski savez, Kolekcija
Marinko Sudac/ Muzej Avangarde, Muzej
suvremene umjetnosti,Zagreb: Gorgona, Traveleri,
Josip Seissel, Željko Kipke, Crveni Peristil, Era
Milivojević, Attila Csernik, Željko Jerman, Balint
Szombathy, Porodica iz Šempasa, Bogdanka
Poznanović,Tomislav Gotovac, Ljubomir Šimunić,
Slobodan Šijan,Vladimir Petek, Naška Križnar,
Marjan Ciglić,Ante Verzotti, Ivan Martinc, Miroslav
Mikuljan, Petar Trinajstić, Marijan Molnar, Slavko
Matković, Grupa OHO, Marina Abramović)- CRO

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UROŠ ĐURIĆ - Danas sam naleteo ponovo na tebe i nemam predstavu šta hoćeš - SRB

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VATROSLAV KULIS, ZOLTAN NOVAK, BANE MILENKOVIĆ - Hommage slikarstvu
Gradski ured za obrazovanje, kulturu i sport/ Zagreb - CRO

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2014

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ANA ADAMOVIĆ I MILICA PEKIĆ - Muzej objekta - SRB

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BÁLINT SZOMBATHY - Bili smo heroji - kustos Nebojša Milenković, suradnja Moderna Galerija Likovni Susret, Subotica - SRB

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ANDREJA KULUNČIĆ - Drugo lice demokratije - CRO

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2015

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BEATE WILD - Comixconnection projekt koordinacije Istočne, Srednje i Jugoistočne Evrope
pri Muzeju europskih kultura, nacionalnih muzeja Berlina - DEU

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IGOR KORDEJ - Izložba originalnih strip tabli - CRO

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ILIJA ŠOŠKIĆ - Token - ITA

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MAJA RAKOČEVIĆ CVIJANOV - Authentic - SRB

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2016

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GORAN TRBULJAK - Umjetnik bez galerije je isto što i krompir bez friteze - CRO

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MARICA RADOJČIĆ - Grananje 2012 - SRB

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STEVAN KOJIĆ - Samoodrživi sistemi apsurda - SRB

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ŽELJKO KIPKE - Ilustrirani tjednici i filmovi - CRO

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VESNA PERUNOVIĆ - Politika kretanja - kustoskinja Svetlana Mladenov - SRB

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2017

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CROART / KRUPART - Skupna izložba likovnih udruga
CROART: Goran Kujundžić, Lea Vidaković, Josip Ago Skenderović, Tanja Uverić, Šandor Kerekeš, Hristina Zafirovska, Serban Sabin
Rosca, Zita Šuhajda, Varga Patricia Minerva, Sebasyen Janos, Ovidiu Corneliu Salagean, Francu Tudor, Mirko Molnar, Iris Dvornik
Bondara, Hangan Radu Cristian, Nera Matijević, Nora Evetović, Ivica Mareković, Dubravko Makrović.
KRUPART: Bojan Novaković, Bojan Mikulić, Petar Šadi, Jasmina Jovančić Vidaković, Miroslav Jovančić, Jelena Sredanović, Višnja
Nikolić, Radovan Jandrić, Olivera Šipka, Jelena Vićentić, Biljana Milenković, Snježana Domažet, Ivana Živić, Isidora Ivanović,
Andrea Krnetić Grbić, Milivoj Kostić, Ksenija Kovačević, Aleksandra Grbović, Srđan Milodanović, Vesna Lenić Kreže, Tatjana
Ratković, Simonida Radonjić - SRB

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KSENIJA KOVAČEVIĆ - Da se zakuva i da ispratim - SRB

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2018

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IVAN MESEK - Whispering walls - CRO

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IZBOR IZ LEGATA GALERIJE - Zbirka dr. Vinko Perčić, (Šabić Stipan,Skenderović Josip Ago,Ivan Balažević Prica Zlatko, Kopilović
Stipan, Balázs G.Árpád, ,Čović Jelena, Hangya András,Szilágyi László,Orčić Nesto, Hódi Géza, Konjović Milan, Petrović Zoran,Biró
Miklós, Stojanović Dragoslav Sip, Radojević Radmila, Gyelmis Lukács, Nagy István,Lacković Ivan Croata, Chincsák Elemér, Petar
Lubarda, Miličević Kosta, Lenkey Jenő, Mačković Angela,Benes József, Farkas Béla, Matković Gustav,Ács József, Farágo Endre,Nemon
Oskar,Petrik Pál, Sáfrány Imre, Pehán József) - SRB

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ROBERT SAMARDŽIĆ, MARTINA GRACIN, IZABELA HREN - Hrvatsko nacionalno vijeće i Zagrebačka županija - CRO

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IVAN POSAVEC - omladinski časopis “Polet”/ u srazu slenga i seoske kletve - CRO

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MARINA MARKOVIĆ, EDITA KADIRIĆ. IVANA IVKOVIĆ - Telo kao Medij - Maja Rakočević/umetnik- kustos - SRB

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KSENIJA KOVAČEVIĆ, umetnik- pedagog i Petar Bojić, programer - prezentacija Klangfarbenmelodie video igrice - SRB

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2019

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BRANISLAV BRANKOV - Grtačev ugovor - Čedomir Janičić, muzejski savetnik, Gradski muzej Sombor - SRB

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MARIJAN CRTALIĆ - Njih su dvojica a mi smo sami II/ Predstava - CRO

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MELINDA ŠEFČIĆ - Introspekcija - CRO

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IVAN ŠEREMET - Jučer, Danas, Sutra - CRO

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Nebojsa Milenković Through his scientific and organizational work, but also
Dr. Vinko Perčić Gallery: Modernity as a Guarantee of direct medical practice, Dr. Perčić made his city the center of
Institutional Vitality and Relevance gastroenterology in the entire SFRY. He had first more direct
contact with art, which, by his own admission, remained his
About Perčić, a doctor and a collector greatest passion and love until his death, during his studies
Apart from convincingly testifying to an era and its values, the in Graz - but also numerous professional developments, i.e.
art and life case of the famous Subotica doctor and collector his staying in art metropolises such as Paris, London (where
Dr. Vinko Perčić is a suggestive and on several levels indicative Perčić worked as an official doctor of our country’s diplomatic
story about ourselves. Before delving into the topic, I will mission), New York and Washington, where he formed his own
remind you very briefly of the key biographical details artistic taste by visiting large museums. Apart from working
at the Subotica hospital, as one of the leading European
Dr. Vinko Perčić was born in Hrvatski Majur on February 20, gastroenterologists, Perčić also opened a private practice2,
1911. He was educated in Subotica, then studied in Graz and since he did not marry or have children, he invested the
and Paris. Having gained the doctor of medical sciences money he earned in buying works of art - both from the artists
title, after an internship in 1938, he began working at the themselves, by exchanges, and by visits to auction houses like
Subotica Hospital in the Internal Medicine Department. Sotheby’s and Christie’s. He came into contact with painters
Following World War II, in 1947, he was appointed head of the from his homeland thanks to his acquaintance with colleague
Department. He specialized in London and Washington in the doctor Ferenc Kinka3, with whom he visited many colonies
fields of gastroenterology and endoscopy. (among others, the locally significant ones in Bačka Topola,
After returning to Subotica in 1959, he continued his medical Ečka or Senta). Being curious and discoverer in nature, Perčić
career. He significantly established himself as a scientist collected works by many great European artists (mainly
and researcher, advancing the field of gastroenterology by drawings and graphics) such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt
initiating the establishment of an international conference of van Rijn, Francisco Goya, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Edouard
Internal Medicine Days held in Subotica from 1961 to 1974.
He spent his whole successful medical career in the hospital 2 In addition to his family wealth, there were rumors of the penicillin among the “secrets”
in Subotica, where he retired in the early eighties. He died in of his then-sizable fortune - then a miraculous cure for tuberculosis that had been
Subotica on November 24, 1989.1 incurable until the discovery of penicillin, and which only the wealthiest could afford.
3 Dr. Ferenc Kinka is also responsible for the discovery of the work of famous Hungarian
1 Biography of Dr. Perčić taken from: http://www.zbirkapercic.info/O_dr_Vinku_Percicu. graphic artist Szalay Lajos (1900 - 1995), also from Subotica - a great traveler and art
aspx, accessed on October 31, 2020. researcher, who left a significant mark in both Hungarian and Argentine art. As an
anecdote, there is a saying by Pablo Picasso that “in the 20th century there are two good
graphic artists: The first is Szalay Lajos and the second is me.” See: https://gradsubotica.
co.rs/dedovina-velikog-umetnika-na-prozivci/, accessed on November 2, 2020.

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Monet, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Juan Miró, Marc Chagall, Subotica, triggering numerous media provocations against
ernand Léger, Oskar Kokoschka, Victor Vasarely and many city officials6, but that same year Dr. Perčić died. Despite the
others. His collection also included paintings and sculptures misunderstanding of those who ran the city at that time, Dr.
by important Yugoslav artists such as Ivan Tabaković, Vlaho Perčić, however, expressed his love for the city in a will in which
Bukovac, Ivan Meštrović, Petar Lubarda, Jovan Bijelić, Marko he left the second part of the collection - made up mostly of
Čelebonović, Milo Milunović, Krsto Hegedušić, Ignjat Job, intimate works and works by local painters, numerous objects
Ivan Generalić, Paja Jovanović, Uroš Predić. During his life, Dr. of applied art, but also his study - to Subotica. The moment
Perčić was a frequent and convenient model to many artists when Subotica finally corrected the wrong committed
- in Dr. Vinko Perčić Gallery in Subotica 9 of his portraits are against its famous fellow citizen was June 27, 2006, when
kept, while in the Perčić Collection in Klovićevi dvori Gallery the Municipality of Subotica made a decision to establish an
in Zagreb, there are 168 portraits of Perčić, signed by Milan independent museum-gallery institution “Dr. Vinko Perčić”
Konjović, Božidar Jakac, Pal Petrik, Josip Generalić, Arpad G. Gallery7 the seat of which is still in the neo-baroque house at
Balaž, Ištvan Sajko and others. After a flood in the house at 22 Maksima Gorkog Street, which the collector bequeathed
22 Maksima Gorkog Street in Subotica, which Perčić initially to the city in which he lived8. These are, therefore, facts, and
bought to use it a practice and then intended to house his no matter how unpleasant they are for us - they should be
collection, which he intended to donate to his own city - confronted. If not as a lesson for the future - since patrons like
provided he was surrounded by his works of art until his death: Perčić are relatively rare, not to say completely extinct, in the

My attempts lasted for almost ten years ... They walked me for 5 See: http://www.zbirkapercic.info/Default.aspx, accessed on November 6, 2020.
years from one institution to another, I wrote a large number 6 A. Isakov, Once again about legates: Silence descends on the city, Subotičke novine,
of letters to various institutes, secretariats and commissions. June 23, 1989.
Rarely has anyone deigned to answer me. When I came in 7 Until that moment, works and objects from the Perčić collection enjoyed the protection
person, they made empty promises…4 given by the Subotica City Museum, where, under the name “Dr. Vinko Perčić” Homeland
After failed negotiations with the Matica Srpska Gallery in Gallery, they functioned as an annex.
Novi Sad, in 1989, Perčić donated a significant part of his 8 The exhibition rooms are full of exhibits displayed with the aim was to present the
collection, consisting of works by foreign and Yugoslav artists, collector’s fields of interest and those artists with whom he communicated or were
to the city of Zagreb. The collection is today kept in the in friendship. The selection of 67 names and 130 works from the Gallery’s legacy is
“Klovićevi dvori” Gallery5. This news caused quite a shock in composed of paintings and artists from the period until 1914 (Stipan Kopilović, Jelena
Čović, Béla Farkas, Angela Mačković, Sándor Oláh). From the period between 1914 and
4 Interview with Dr. Vinko Perčić, Start, Zagreb, (date unknown) 1989. 1945 the following artists are presented in the collection: Árpád G. Balázs András Hangya,
László Szilágyi, Jenő Lenkei, Géza Hódi, István Nagy. There are also some outstanding
artists of the 1930s, participants of the Drawing School: Imre Winkler, Gustav Matković,
Endre Faragó, Gábor Almási, Ivan Tikvicki,Marko Vuković. Some of the names are
remembrances to friendships with well-known artists: with Oskar Nemon in London,
Nesto Orčić in Zagreb and Petar Lubarda and Zlatko Prica. Downloaded from: http://
www.galerijapercic.com/, accessed on November 3, 2020.

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time in which we live - then certainly as a pledge for history painter Robert Rauschenberg – apart from working on the
and testimony to our immediate artistic past. museological processing and preservation of Dr. Perčić’s
legacy, Dulić invests his by no means negligible energy,
The (New) Life of the Perčić Collection knowledge and enthusiasm in his efforts to make the Gallery
Today, centers and peripheries more or less play in the same a living interpretation and presentation, exhibition, discussion
league. and educational center. Seeking to balance between heritage
Karine Vonna9 preservation on the one hand, and the presentation of
Guided by the principles and discovery spirit of Perčić himself contemporary trends on the other hand - not neglecting the
- his tolerance, openness, collecting and curious nature, and context of institutional activity, both international and local,
willingness to take risks, where art itself becomes a figure, or even local-patriotic - the “Dr. Vinko Perčić” Gallery program
that is, a form of thinking and living - “Dr. Vinko Perčić” Gallery activities are aimed at strengthening the taste and sense of
begins its new life in 2007 when visual artist and performer awareness of the Subotica community. According to the
Spartak Dulić was appointed director and curator of this famous Beuys’s principle, in the final outcome of this complex
institution. Dealing with the always current dilemma of how cultural and artistic game, the city itself becomes a work of art
to breathe new life into already rounded and defined museum - much visible on the regional art map, which is gladly visited
collections, instead of the seemingly easier, simpler and risk- by well-known and recognized visual artists from the entire
free position of heritage custodian - as a manager, Dulić former state in which Perčić worked as a collector to exhibit
initially chose a riskier, incomparably more beneficial for the with a sense of personal honor. Hence the process of (self )
institution, more active approach, in which the museum/ understanding of the institution being proportional to the
gallery is not only a mere collector but also a place generating actual effects of its sociality, based on the production and
new knowledge and meaning. Aware of the dilemmas as to generation of public knowledge.
whether contemporary art can actually erase the boundary The art gallery, therefore, becomes an instrument of culture
between art and life, as claimed by German art historian - a space to exchange information, have dialogues, produce
Hans Belting, or should “move” into the interspace, that is, meanings... By visiting the Gallery, the viewer himself is
the split existing between them, according to the American no longer a passive consumer - but someone who actively
participates, learns, understands... If I paraphrase the artistic
9 K.Vonna, Origin and originality, in: On Criticism – Between art and the public in Europe, statement of the most renowned artist Subotica has ever had,
Apollonia – European art exchanges, Strasbourg, 2005, p.16 here I certainly mean Slavko Matković - I could describe the

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