Branka Donassy
Branka Donassy was born on the 7th of March 1952 in Zagreb, where she studied ethnology and art history at the Philosophical Faculty of Zagreb University. She is member of ULUPUH (Association of Fine Artists in the Applied Arts of Croatia) since 1985. As a free artist she creates women's clothing from exclusive originals to prêt-à-porter collections. Since 1985 she continuously takes part in fashion shows at home and abroad, exhibits her works in galleries and museums and designs costumes for contemporary ballet and films. She is engaged in research on fashion art design (installations and sculptures). In 2002 she founded her own company „Donassy d.o.o.“, with the label „Donassy“, which has been present on the European and international market since 2004. Current show locations are Paris and New York. She lives and works in Zagreb.
International Fairs
2004-11
Paris: Atmosphère, Paris Sur Mode, Prêt-à-porter; New York: Fashion Coterie, The Train, Pacific Designer Collection; London: London Fashion Week; Düsseldorf: CPD Igedo - Fashion Gallery; Milano: White, Zip Zone; Berlin: Premium, Femme+; München: Munich Fashion Fair; Zagreb: Fashion.hr, Fashion Week Zagreb; Zadar: Fashion.hr; Varazdin: Fashion.hr; Bol: Fashion.hr
Exhibitions and exemplary works
2008
Los Angeles: Invitation to the „World Fashion Awards – World Fashion Week“ 2008, representing designer for Croatia; Kodak Theatre, Hollywood
2007
Zagreb: Exhibition "Havaianas customization", Fashion Week Zagreb
2003
Zagreb: 38th Zagreb Salon, Artistic pavilion
Zagreb: Open Scene (exhibition of costume design of the Croatian National Theatre from ‘90 –‘03), Artistic pavilion
Zagreb: „New Angie“, Audi Fashion Week Zagreb, Museum of Art and Craft (MUO)
2002
Zagreb: Visions 2003, Gallery ULUPUH
2001
Berlin: 2 times Donassy, "Art and Fashion - 2D & 3D", IFS Institute for Language and International Cultural Exchange
Zagreb: „Touch me / change me“, 36th Zagreb Salon, Artistic pavilion
Design of Uniforms for the Telecommunication Company “Hrvatski Telekom”
2000
Design of Uniforms for the Airline “Croatia Airlines”
Design of Uniforms for the Museum of the City Zagreb
1999
Zagreb: ZGRAF 8, Artistic pavilion
Zagreb: 34th Zagreb Salon, House of the Croatian Fine Artists (HDLU)
Zagreb: Visions 2000, Gallery ULUPUH
1998
Zagreb: Exhibition of the virtual collection "donna", Gallery ULUPUH
Zagreb: „Faces of Eva“, Modagrameraj, Dramaturgy Theater Gavella
Ljubljana: BIO - 16th Biennial of Industrial Design
1997
Split: “Awakening”, Banovina
Antwerp and Internet: Presentation of the whole "donna" project and workshop in cooperation with the Flanders Fashion Institute (Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts), Museum van Hedendaagsekunst Antwerp (MUHKA)
Hannover: "donna" - art, design & fashion online, Cebit
Zagreb: Old Handcraft in the Contemporary Fashionable Expression, Gallery ULUPUH
Zagreb: Century of Croatian Design, Centre of Museums and Galleries (Klovicevi dvori)
1996
Düsseldorf: Invited Designer Igedo, Exhibition Grounds
Vienna: Fashion Days, Vienna Kursalon
Split: Croatian Autumn, Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments
Sydney: "Cultural Heritage in the Contemporary", Museum of Contemporary Art
1995
Zagreb: "Cultural Heritage in the Contemporary ", Museum Mimara
1994
Zagreb: 29 th Zagreb Salon, Museum Space
1991
Zagreb: Visions '92, Intertekstil – fair
1989
Zagreb: Visions '90, Intertekstil – fair
Stockholm: “Collection“, Gallery Helland Weterlling
1988
Triest: "L'arte vestita", TK Gallery
Zagreb: Visions '89, Intertekstil – fair
Velika Gorica: "Odijelo - otvoreno djelo" (“clothes – open act”), Gallery Galzenica
Pula: Congress SPID-YU, August Temple
Munich: Fashion Start, Fashion Week
1987
Zagreb: “Dress I – Research”, Glyptotek of the Croatian Academy (HAZU)
1986
Zagreb: Visions '87, Fashion Week
Zagreb: “Geometry“ 21st Zagreb Salon, Artistic pavilion
Pula: Alps-Adria, World of Fashion – World of Sport
1985
Zagreb: Visions '86 Fashion Week
Costume Design
2011
Maribor: "Charles-François Gounod: Roméo et Juliette", Slovene National Theatre Maribor
2006
Zagreb: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, Theater (Žar ptica)
2004
Zagreb: “Almost crazy”, Croatian National Theater (HNK)
2000
Zagreb: ’Who turned off the light’: "Without Luggage " and "Bang"Croatian National Theater (HNK)
Zagreb: "Cartographies", Centre of Museums and Galleries (Klovicevi dvori)
Zagreb: "Slow Giving Up", Cinema film
1998
Zagreb: "Who sings, doesn´t think bad", Comedy Theater (Komedia)
1996
Zagreb: "Under the Rainbow", Theater (ZKM)
Kairo: "Under the Rainbow"
Zagreb: "Parallel Travellers", Croatian National Theater (HNK)
Lissabon: "Parallel Travellers", 15th anniversary of UNICEF
Porto: "Parallel Travellers", 15th anniversary of UNICEF
1994
Zagreb: "Eros and Psyche", Theater (ZKM)
1993
Zagreb: "Touch the Indecent Woman", Theater (ZKM)
Stockholm: "Touch the Indecent Woman"
1992
Zagreb: "Sunshades", Theater (ZKM)
Awards
1995
‘Tia Maria’, Best Designer Dress Award, "Miss World '95", Sun City
1994
‘Applied Art Award’ for "Aquarium-Bra", 29th Zagreb Salon
1991
‘Crystal World’, (as group Modagramm) for Visionen,92, Intertekstil – fair
1989
‘Crystal World’ for Visions '90, Intertekstil – fair
1985
‘Award for Artistic Impression’ for Visions '86, Fashion Week, awarded by the Chamber of Commerce Zagreb