Mladen Stilinović

Mladen Stilinović (1947–2016) was a Zagreb-based artist and a central figure of the Yugoslav conceptual scene. Working across text, painting, performance, and publication, his practice examined language, ideology, labour, money, and the structures that determine artistic value. The Praise of Laziness, first written in the early 1990s in the aftermath of the Cold War, has become one of his most widely circulated texts — a concise proposition that laziness constitutes a form of resistance to the demands of productivity, efficiency, and cultural overproduction. His publications and printed matter continue to circulate through artist-led presses and independent editions.

  • Cover of Mladen Stilinović, The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015, showing the title in large pale pink rounded serif type on a vivid magenta risograph-printed wrapper, with the author name mladen stilinovic below in smaller type. Reverse of Mladen Stilinović, The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015, showing a risograph-printed pale pink seated cat with hollow circular eyes on a magenta ground.

    Mladen Stilinović — The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015

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    Mladen Stilinović — The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015

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