"Time After Time After Time" Exhibition Opening

I am pleased to share with you that on Thursday, September 11th, an exhibition of my work Time after Time after Time opened at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU) in Rijeka, Croatia. The exhibition showcases over 170 pieces of my work and will run until October 26th, 2025.

The curators of the exhibition are Marko Golub and Sabina Salamon.
Photos by Renato Antolović.

"Time After Time After Time" Exhibition Catalogue

Here are some of the spreads from the 112-page catalogue of my upcoming exhibition “Time after Time after Time”, opening at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU) in Rijeka, Croatia, on Thursday, September 11th at 8 pm.

"The exhibition by Mirko Ilić, entitled "Time After Time After Time", represents a different reading of his oeuvre which, in an intriguing manner, connects the works from the fields of graphic design, illustration, and comics created between the late 1970s and the present day. Drawing on the world’s largest museum collection of his works at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka and substantially expanded with the more recent creations, as well as the rarely exhibited works from all stages of his career, the exhibition is conceived more as an extensive essay on Ilić’s work and some of his creative methods, rather than a conventional overview in which the works are presented chronologically or according to the medium, technique, or character of the commission."

Curators of the exhibition are Marko Golub and Sabina Salamon.
Poster and catalog of the exhibition designed by Željko Serdarević.

By chance, if you're in the neighborhood, I hope to see you at the opening.
 

Here you can download the PDF of the complete bilingual catalogue.

Steppenmerch

 

In 1990, Nicky Lindeman and I designed and illustrated the book cover for Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, published by Henry Holt and Company. In preparation for an upcoming show of my work, I reverse image searched the cover to gather more information.

To my surprise, I came across hundreds of products from various vendors using the image of the cover or the entire cover on merchandise from t-shirts to tote bags to bibs to bedspreads. As a matter of fact, one of the vendors is selling over 100 of those items. All of this was done without asking for my permission.