Mladen Karan

Mladen Karan was born in 1951 at Velika (Novi Grad), today part of Serbian Republic.

After studying at the Scientific Lyceum of Novi Grad he took courses in philosophy and sociology at the University of Zagreb from 1970 to 1973.

After a short sojourn in Milan he registered at the Academy of Fine Arts of Zagreb in 1977 from which he graduated in 1982 under Vasilije Jordan.

In the Croatian capital, where he lived up until 1991, he took an active part in the group known as HDLUZ (Croatian Association of Artists of Fine Arts of Zagreb).

When civil war broke out he fled Croatia and moved to Belgrade where he lived until June 1992.

Since 1992 he has lived and worked in Florence.