Braco Dimitrijević - Biography, exhibitions, news and artist's artworks

Braco Dimitrijević was born in Sarajevo in 1948. He lives and works in Paris.

Braco Dimitrijević is one of the pioneers of conceptual art. He gained an international reputation in the seventies with his Casual passer-by series, in which gigantic photo portraits of anonymous people were displayed on prominent facades and billboards in European and American cities.

He also incorporates in his installations original paintings borrowed from museum collections. Braco Dimitrijevic's work, as well as his theoretical book Tractatus Post Historicus, (1976) were an important influence on two tendencies that dominate artistic discourse today: critical practices in public space and interventions in museum collections.