ABSTRACT
The case study examines New Tendencies, an international art movement anchored in a series of exhibitions and symposia that took place between 1961 and 1973 at the Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti [Gallery of Contemporary Art] in Zagreb. New Tendencies occupies a legendary place within Croatian and Yugoslav art histories, marking a time when the local art scene was not only on a par with international developments, but acted as a leading protagonist in instituting new trends and posing critical questions on the relations between art, science, and society. In the words of art critic Ješa Denegri, the first New Tendencies exhibition was “probably the only moment when an international artistic avant-garde of its time saw its first gathering in an exhibition initiated and organized by experts who worked in one of our cultural institutions and around it.”
