Jagoda buic biography

Jagoda Buić (14 March 1930 – 17 October 2022) was a Croatian visual artist best known for her monumental fiber art installations and tapestries.
Jagoda Buić was best known for her immersive installations and work in textiles, which she began creating in the mid-1960s.
Born in Split, Croatia (then part of the former Yugoslavia), J. Buić grew up in an intellectual, politically active household.

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Selected Group Exhibitions

Jagoda Buić is a Croatian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1930. Their work is currently being shown at MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest and will be on exhibit at MCBA, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne on February 14, 2025. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Stedelijk Museum have featured Jagoda Buić's work in the past.Jagoda Buić's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 500 USD to 47,274 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2016 the record price for this artist at auction is 47,274 USD for Tapisserie Flamme, sold at Geneva Auction in 2024. Jagoda Buić has been featured in articles for Hyperallergic, Daily Art Magazine and Contemporary AND. The most recent article is “UNRAVEL – The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art” at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam written for MOUSSE Magazine in October 2024.

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This display brings together two artists who work with textile traditions, drawing on them to create new sculptural forms

Jagoda Buić and Johanna Unzueta experiment with textile techniques from Croatia and Chile respectively. Both draw attention to how indigenous and local expertise, shared over generations, has informed their own process of making. Their works recognise craft practices as a constant part of the history of art.

Through her ambitious woven works, Buić became one of the leading international artists who demonstrated the possibilities of weaving as sculpture. She was associated with the New Tapestry movement of the 1960s, which used fibre as its central medium for art. Buić used traditional Croatian weaving techniques and sometimes worked with local weavers to create her complex geometric patterns. These referenced the landscape of the Dalmatian coast of Croatia and the region’s medieval architecture, such as castle turrets.

Unzueta’s drawings relate to both textile making and architecture. After art school, she worked as an apprentice to learn weaving, spinn

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Jagoda Buić

Croatian visual artist (1930–2022)

Jagoda Buić (14 March 1930 – 17 October 2022) was a Croatian visual artist best known for her monumental fiber art installations and tapestries, which won her critical acclaim in the latter half of the 20th century.

Early years

Born in the coastal city of Split, Buić studied at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and Art History at the University of Zagreb before graduating in interior architecture and scenography, textiles and costume design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1953.^[1] After graduation she studied film set design at the Cinecittà studio in Rome and the history of costume design at the International Centre for Arts and Costume housed at Palazzo Grassi in Venice.^[2]

Work

Buić worked on more than 120 projects as a costume and stage designer in various opera, ballet, theatre and film productions at various theatres in Vienna, Zagreb, Osijek, Dubrovnik and Split.^[1] In 1965, at the Lausanne Biennial of Textile Art, Buić impressed contemporary art critics with her firs