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