Željko Kipke

Who is Željko Kipke?

Željko Kipke is a Croatian artist. His practice is based on painting and experimental film, but he is also a published art critic and theoretician. He was born in Čakovec, Croatia, but lives and works in Zagreb.

He was an associate in the Master Workshop of Ljubo Ivančić and Nikola Reiser. From 1982 he started orienting himself towards theory and began to publish essays and critiques about visual art and experimental film in newspapers and magazines. During the 1980s he began creating experimental film and to date has made a series of six films entitled Six Easy Pieces along with the video art works: Rhythm and Embedding into a Black Square. He participated in Harald Szeemann’s exhibition Blood & Honey / Future’s in the Balkans in Klosterneuburg in 2003.

He has exhibited in a group show in the Artists’ Space in New York in 1989. His works are kept in many museum and gallery collections, including the Peter Stuyvesant Collection in Amsterdam, the FRAC Collection in Toulouse, and MUMOK, in Vienna. He was the Croatian representative at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and at the Cairo Biennale two years later. He was the selector for the Croatian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.