[2] Being the only association of that sort in the Split-Dalmatia County, HULU plays a central role in the contemporary art scene of Split, often as the primary and only bearer of cultural life in the city.

[5] The foundations for the Split branch of the Croatian Association for Visual Arts were laid with the artistic efforts of an underground group that opposed fascist exhibitions during the Second World War.

[6] On November 22, 1945, the cultural and scientific workers of the Ivan Lozica society established a special association of Dalmatian visual artists, known today as HULU Split.

A move testemanting the budding need in Split to court tourism is the Diocletian Sales Gallery, promoting art for tourists, for which the Association was instrumental to open during the eighties.

In 2022, HULU Split organised a charitable manifestation, in conjunction with the cultural association of Ukrainians in Croatia Cvit, with its member's paintings up for auction in that raised 125000 Croatian kuna (around 16000 euros) for Ukraine.