Braco Dimitrijevic first achieved international prominence in the 1970s with his series "Casual Passers-By", in which he displayed large-scale photos of unknown people on billboards and prominent buildings in European and American cities. Works from the same cycke were exhibited at Documenta V (1972) and the Venice Biennale (1976), as well as in several solo and group exhibitions.

From the mid 1970s, Dimitriejvic produced pioneering work on his Triptychos Post Historicus series in the area of the current artistic practice of "intervening" in museum collections. He created his earliest Triptychos Post Historicus installation, which was composed of an original master painting, an everyday object and an element from nature; fruit or vegetables. In 1976 he created these works at the National Gallery, Berlin, with paintings from Kandinsky, Picasso,  Manet and Mondrian. These works were later exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London, the Musée National d´Art Moderne ar the Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, the Van Abbemuseum, and many more.

At the start of the 1990s Dimitrijevic initiated a new cycle of work which gave conviction to his expression "There are no mistakes in history. All of history is a mistake." A painting of a recognized writer, painter, musician or scientist, together with everyday objects and fruit, becomes parte of the installation. As with Dimitrijevic´s further work, here there is a paradoxical turn: Based on the fact thar the faces of famous  personalities of times past were much less known than their achievements, their portraits remain almost as anonymous as those of the Passers-By.