Mladen Lučić-Luc

Mladen Lučić was born in Zagreb in 1955. He graduated in art history in 1983 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Since 1976 he has worked as a research associate at the Student Center Gallery, where he began publishing art critiques. In 1983 he was employed as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (then the City of Zagreb Gallery), where in 1992 he founded the AV Center and produced numerous video films about Croatian and international contemporary art. He served as director of the Public Institution Pula Film Festival from 2004 to 2006, during which he organized the 51st, 52nd, and 53rd Feature Film Festival. From 2007 until his retirement in 2020, he worked as a curator and museum advisor at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, where, in addition to tasks related to the establishment and operation of the Museum, he organized a series of exhibitions. He is the author of 340 forewords for solo exhibitions of contemporary artists, has organized 80 thematic and monographic exhibitions, and has written 12 monographs on contemporary Croatian visual artists. He has been a member of the ULUPUH Study Section since 1978, and in 2020 he received the award of the Croatian section of the International Association of Art Critics – AICA (HS AICA) for his critical work.