Diploma in sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
Artist residency
2022 – Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2019 – KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria
2018 – StAiR, Graz, Austria
2017 – Q21 Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
2016 – Donostia European Capital of Culture, Donostia, Spain
Work experience
2010, 2015 – President of the artboard of the Croatian Society of Artists Rijeka.
2009 – Co-owner of the graphics studio.
2008 – Co-founder of the Art Association Plus.
Awards
2010 – One of the winners of the Ivo Kalina Award, the city of Rijeka art award for the best exhibition in 2009 (VIA international art project)
2007 – First prize of the Croatian Society of Artists Rijeka competition in the Multimedia category, the Exhibition 60 +1 – expanded media.
Workshops
2019 – Who’s Afraid of Women, house repair workshop with women Lift lesbian festival, Budapest, Hungary
RoUm, sculpture workshop whit Roma kids, Rijeka, Croatia
Performance workshop for elderly people, for MMS Rijeka and the project 54+, Croatia
2018 – Performance workshop for young people, for Drugo More and Projekt X, Rijeka, Croatia
2017 – A silent manifesto workshop, for high school children it was a part of projectInverting Battlefields – for a borderless future, Lipa,
Croatia
Chess table, the summer school of Youth Council Benčić called
VMB+PARK|I|G|RALIŠTE was part of the Tobogan Festival, Rijeka, Croatia
Who’s Afraid of Women, house repair workshop with women, Rijeka, Croatia.
2016 – Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje, workshop for high school children, within the framework of the Pilot Program Građani svome gradu, Rijeka, Croatia
Artistic Engagement
Selected solo and group exhibitions:
2021
Don’t be so emotional, performance, Art centar Bozar, Brrusels, B
Discarded, Once up on a time exhibition, Dom im Berg, Graz, AU.
I am leaving you, performance, Me and the Place exhibition curated by Anamarija Batista, Fluc, Vienna, AU.
Manual for house repairs for women, OSTRALE biennale O21 curated by Loose Associations (Nataša Bodrožić, Ivana Meštrov), Patricija Gilyte (Kaunas 2022), Krisztian Kukla (Art Quarter Budapest), Robotron Kantine, Dresden, DE.
2020
Cornered, An uncertain exhibition, gallery Kortil, Rijeka, HR.
2019
Don’t be so emotional and The book of invisible influence, grup show for the end of the residency program Kulturkontakt Austria, Concordiaplatz, Vienna, AU
Illusions of truth, group show, “Diving In: An Inquiry Into Imagery”, curated by Anamarija Batista, Memphis Gallery, Linz, AU
Don’t be so emotional, billboard grup show, curated by Ursula Maria, Fluc, Vienna, AU
The book of invisible influence, , grup show, RITUAL & REVOLTE: What is to be done, curated by Ursula Maria Probst, onZOMIA Space, Vienna, AU
Illusions of truth, group show, Talking (about) Images, , curated by Francesca Lazzarini, Škuc Gallery,Ljubljana, SI.
Word wipping, performance, 18th Performance Days: Artistry , Varaždin, HR
Hunting season, perfromance, Ganz nove Perforacije, night of performance, Filodrammatica, Rijeka, HR
Manual for house repairs for women, HT – Contemporary Art Award, MSU, Zagreb, HR
Manual for house repairs for women, group show, Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek,Graz, AT
Cornered, performance, gallery Sehsaal, Vienna, AT
2018
Illusions of truth, group show, Talking (about) Images, curated by Francesca Lazzarini and Marta Rovetta, MLZ Art Dep, Triest, IT.
Manual for house repairs for women, group show, Productive Work – What is it supposed to be?, curated by Anamarija Batista, frei_raum Q21, Vienna, AT.
Rooted, international project Inverting battlefields, Feldbach-Mühldorf, Felbach, AT.
Illusions of truth, group show, Talking (about) Images, curated by Francesca Lazzarini and Marta Rovetta, Kunsthalle Graz, AT.
Illusions of truth, group show, Talking (about) Images, curated by Francesca Lazzarini and Marta Rovetta, gallery Kortil, Rijeka, HR.
2017
Word whipping, performance, Korzo, Smoqua- festival of queer and feminist culture, Rijeka, HR.
Chess table, site-specific work in collaboration with MMSU Rijeka project Spajalica and Vijeće Mladih Benčić, Rijeka, HR.
Word whipping, performance, Summer in MSU, MSU, Zagreb, HR.
THE LINE, Art intervention by Nika Rukavina and presentation of the workshop “A silent manifesto” by the students of the Civil Engineering School from Rijeka, Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers, Šapjane, HR.
Word whipping, performance, group show The Munchhausen-Effect On Time in Times of Having no Time” curated by Anamarija Batista and Ksenija Orelj., Galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT.
Rdeča reka, group exhibition, GT22, Festival Lent, Mribor, SI.
PUNKT TOČKA PUNTO, group exhibition, Galerija Toolbox, Prima Center Berlin, InteriorDAsein, Berlin, DE.
PUNKT TOČKA PUNTO, group exhibition, gallery Fonticus, Grožnjan, HR.
2016
Left- right, performance, group show Please Empty Your Wallets, curated by Ksenija Orelj, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
In the end it’s all about the money, performance, Joan Etorriak,(European Capital of Culture 2016) Tabakalera, Donostia, Spain.
Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje, urban interventions with students from the Civil Engineering School and citizens of Rijeka, organized by Drugo more and Musagetes foundation, Rijeka, Croatia.
You’re next in line, performance, Spajalica, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.
Left –right, performance, group show Please Empty Your Wallets, curated by Ksenija Orelj, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.
The tourism of war, international project Stories from the Edge, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia.
I have earned my star, Performance, international project Stories from the Edge, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria.
The tourism of war, international project Stories from the Edge, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria.
Straightforward, Contesting / Contexting SPORT Sweat Dreams and QueerSport.LAB , performance – Korzo (in front of gallery Mali salon), Organization: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.
The tourism of war, international project Stories from the Edge, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, MLZ Art Dep, Trieste, Italy.
2015
Interference, group exhibition, gallery Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia.
Map of the New Art Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia.
Cornered, 1,2,3,4,5,6 LOST! / POSITIONS OF ABSENCE – midnight Performance – MMSU program within Rijeka Summer.
Coexistence: for a new Adriatic koinè, Fondazione Pino Pascali (Polignano a Mare (Ba), Italy.
2014
Coexistence: for a new Adriatic koinè, Magazzino del Sale, Venice, Italy.
Group exhibition HDLU, gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia.
Coexistence: for a new Adriatic koinè Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.
Family Education , multimedia responses to the discrimination in the educational system, gallery Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia .
Coexistence: for a new Adriatic koinè, National Art Gallery (Miodrag Dado Đurić), Cetinje, Montenegro.
Coexistence: for a new Adriatic koinè, Pyramida, Tirana, Albania.
Sušak Action, urban interventions in the Civil Engineering School’s surroundings in collaboration with students from the Civil Engineering School and mentors Branka Batričević and Asja Rukavina Bikić, Organization: MMSU-Spajalica.
The unstoppable desire of having, performans, Korzo (ispred Malog salona), Organizacija: HDLUR za Dan planeta Zemlje
2013
Don’t put your cross on me, performance, Korzo (in front of gallery Mali salon), Organization: HDLUR i MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia.
Once up on a time, solo exhibition, gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia.
Tri mrtva, tri živa, solo exhibition, gallery Mali Salon, curator Ksenija Orelj, Rijeka, Croatia.
Arpeggio ostinato group exhibition, Gradska galerija Fonticus, curator Eugen Vodopivec Borkovsky, Rijeka, Croatia.
Exhibition of 8 artist, Domizil des BGK, Bund Gelsenkirchener Künstler e. V.,Bergmannstraße 53, 45886 Gelsenkirchen.
2012.
Pier Shear, International Project, group exhibition, Commissioned by Musagetes, Pier, Rijeka, Croatia.
Vlasništvo sudbine,group exhibition, Gallery Fonticus, Groznjan, Croatia.
2011
VIA International Project, group exhibition, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales,UK.
In One Voice, Dialogue, group exhibition, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia.
Plavo, group exhibition,, Gradska galerija Fonticus, Grožnjan, Croatia.
The crisis of illusion, group exhibition, Gallery Fonticus, Groznjan, Croatia.
2010
Possessions, group exhibition, Gallery Orsola, Buje, Croatia.
VIA International Project, group exhibition, Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia.
2009
Igra, group exhibition, Gallery Palach, Rijeka, Croatia.
VIA International Project, group exhibition, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia.
Overall, solo exhibition, Gallery Kružna, Rijeka, Croatia.
2008
Pojilište, solo exhibition, Gallery Fonticus, Groznjan, Croatia.
Fish, group exhibition of winners of the annual competition 60 + 1, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia.
Say What, solo exhibition, Stand Up, the Art Action, Gallery Camera Obscura, Rijeka, Croatia.
2007
Pojilište, group exhibition, 60 + 1- extended media, Gallery Klović, Rijeka, Croatia
Loveroom, group exhibition Queer to Queer, Gallery A + A, Venice, Italy.
Sea, group exhibition, Gallery Fonticus, Groznjan, Croatia
2006
Purify your emotions, group exhibition of newly recruited Artists in the Croatian Society of Artists Rijeka, Gallery Klović, Rijeka, Croatia.
Purify your emotions, group exhibition Dissertare / Disertare, selection of the curators of the Start Association, Genazzano, Rome, Italy.
Sea, group exhibition Senza Critica curated by G.Ulian, F. Falanga and G. Buzzoni, Gallery Spazio Eventi, Libreria Mondadori, San Marco, Venice, Italy.
Row, group exhibition, Gallery Fonticus, Groznjan, Croatia
2005
Purify your emotions, group exhibition 89.ma collettiva Giovani (curators S. Coletto i M. Venanzi), Gallery Bevilacqua La Masa, San Marco, Venice, Italy.
Pojilište, solo exhibition, curators C. Seibezzi and V. Urban, Gallery Nuova Icona, Giudecca, Venice, Italy.
2004
Fish, solo exhibition, Gallery Fonticus, Groznjan, Croatia.
B.old, Venice Video, international short film competition, Venice, Italy.
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