Slaven Tolj | |
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| Born | (1964-04-14)14 April 1964 (age 60) |
Slaven Tolj (born 14 April 1964) is a Croatian conceptual, performance, and mediaartist, curator, and cultural worker fromDubrovnik,Croatia. He achieved international recognition for hisinstallations,body art, andperformances presenting distinctpolitical and social-culturalcriticism.
The beginning of Slaven Tolj’s work, as an artist, was determined by his experiences of theYugoslav War, theSiege of Dubrovnik by the Yugoslavian army in the years 1991-1992, as well as the disintegration offormer Yugoslavia.In the course of the late 1990s Slaven Tolj gradually extended the scope of his art, incorporating themes and issues related to political transformation and the emergence ofmulticulturalism andglobalization.
Slaven Tolj has also been involved in organisational and curatorial activities. He is one of the founders ofArt Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik – a key institution for the contemporary art scene in Dubrovnik and Croatia. He was a director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art inRijeka from 2012 until 2020, as well as the artistic director of Rijeka 2020 European Capitol of Culture.[1][2]
In 2005 he was the commissioner of the Croatian pavilion at theVenice Biennale.[3]
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