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Croatian visual artist and fashion designer (born 1978)
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Silvio Vujičić (born 10 November 1978 in Zagreb) is a Croatian visual artist and fashion designer. He works in printmaking, sculpture, installation art and performance art, and has used laboratory techniques such as crystallization, distillation and sublimation to make artworks from rare or hazardous materials.[1][2][3]
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Silvio Vujičić | |
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| Born | November 10, 1978 |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb; Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb |
| Known for | Installation art, sculpture, printmaking, performance art, fashion design |
| Notable work | Under the Daisies (2005); Exposed to Virus and Fashion (2006); Alchemical Polyptych (2009); Nocturno (2025); Metaanswer (2025) |
| Movement | Contemporary art |
| Website | silviovujicic |
Early life and education
Vujičić was born in Zagreb in 1978.[1] He attended a technical secondary school before studying art.[3] He studied printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and trained as a textile and clothing designer at the Faculty of Textile Technology of the University of Zagreb.[1][4]
Career
Fashion and early work
Vujičić began his career in fashion and has also worked as a costume designer in theatre. In 2002 he founded the fashion label E.A. 1/1 S.V.[3][5][2]
His installation E.A. 1/1 S.V. Menswear Store #1 (2004) converted a Zagreb gallery and its street façade into a fashion boutique filled with paper and textile garments and monitored by surveillance cameras.[2] In Exposed to Virus and Fashion (2006), shown as part of Queer Zagreb, he introduced a fault into the software of textile-making machines so the resulting garments came out damaged and partly disintegrated; these were then presented on a runway.[4]
Materials and process
Vujičić makes materials from his own recipes using laboratory methods, working with plant extracts, pure caffeine, mineral and organic pigments, crystals and biological fluids.[1][4] Journalists have compared his Zagreb studio to a chemical laboratory.[4][3] In several works, the piece changes or disappears over time, colours fade, alcohol evaporates, crystals grow.[4][3] For the performance Perfume (2006), shown at the Device Art festival, he produced perfume from visitors' bodily fluids using laboratory equipment.[2]
For Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or doesn't yet exist (2015), at the French Pavilion of the Student Centre in Zagreb, he installed a garden of edible plants alongside carpets of dyed wool and a perfume made from bodily secretions; the art historian Sanja Cvetnić linked the work to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights.[6]
He has extracted the red pigment carmine from cochineal insects (Dactylopius coccus) to make self-portraits, and made prints using cyanogenic glycosides extracted from Hydrangea flowers.[4][2] Cvetnić has also written about his paired works Unstable Fountain and Stable Fountain (first shown 2015; reworked 2024), made of blown borosilicate glass containing circulating extracts, crystallizing chromium alum, seeds and biological fluids, connecting them to Bosch's triptych.[2]
Recent work
With the artist and researcher Miro Roman, Vujičić developed SOLL, an artificial-intelligence "designer" trained in part on the archive of his fashion brand, used in projects such as Mediterranean Space Exploration Suit.[3][7]
His installation Nocturno (2025), part of the exhibition Tko je Elsa Fluid, to se zna produced by the Art Pavilion in Zagreb and curated by Irena Bekić, was staged in the pavilion of the Zagreb Botanical Garden. He used alkaloids extracted from the Datura plant to produce chromatographic plates carrying silkscreen-printed text that separated into layers and evaporated within seconds under solvent vapour.[1][3]
For the 60th Zagreb Salon (2025) he presented Metaanswer (Metaodgovor), an interactive installation built from several thousand short video clips recorded over five days from about 10,000 sentences the artist wrote. A visitor asks a question and the system recombines the clips into a response, generating a different result each time. The role of the oracle is performed by John East Thomas, described as an artist, sex worker and activist.[3][8][9]
Also in 2025 he showed SKIN(S)CARE, a project styled as a cosmetics line made from toxic and irritant plants, at the KONTEJNER space in Zagreb, curated by Olga Majcen Linn.[5][10]
Reception
Writing in Vizkultura in 2025, Zvonimir Duka described Vujičić's practice as operating between laboratory, fashion show and theatre.[4] Journalists covering his exhibitions have repeatedly compared his studio and installations to a chemical laboratory or alchemical cabinet.[5][3] In interviews he has described art as functioning "like a virus" that infiltrates and changes systems from within.[4]
Selected exhibitions
Vujičić has exhibited in solo and group shows in Croatia and internationally since 2002, in countries including Austria, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, China, Japan and the United States.[1]
Selected solo exhibitions:
- Under the Daisies, Modern Gallery, Studio Josip Račić, Zagreb (2005)[11][12]
- Alchemical Polyptych, Museum of Contemporary Art shop, Zagreb (2009)[13]
- Caput Mortuum, Student Centre Gallery, Zagreb (2010)[14]
- Destrudo, Richter Collection / Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2012)[4]
- Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or doesn't yet exist, French Pavilion, Student Centre, Zagreb (2015)[4]
- Fountains, Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka (2024)[2]
- Nocturno, pavilion of the Zagreb Botanical Garden / Art Pavilion in Zagreb (2025)[1]
- SKIN(S)CARE, KONTEJNER, Zagreb (2025)[10]
Selected group exhibitions:
- Aspects of Collecting, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (2009)[12]
- Translife – International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2011)[2]
- Star-Dust, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2012)[15]
- Exploring the Media Boundaries, Digiark, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2014)[16]
- Thingworld – International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2014)[17]
- 8th Croatian Triennial of Graphic Arts, Gliptoteka HAZU, Zagreb (2019)
Public collections
Vujičić's work is held in public and private collections in Croatia and abroad, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; the Filip Trade Collection; and the Lauba collection, Zagreb.[1][18]
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