IGOR GRUBIĆ

 

Born in 1969 in Zagreb, Croatia

Lives and works in Zagreb

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1999-2000 Guest student at the Academy of Dramatic Arts (editing), Zagreb       

1996-1998 Guest student at the Academy of Fine Arts (multimedia), Zagreb

1996-2000 Courses of Gestalt and Transactional analysis

1992-1996  Jesuit University of Philosophy, Zagreb

1984-1988  Educational Centre for Culture and Art, Zagreb

 

 

SOLO SHOWS AND PROJECTS (SELECTION)

 

2009   366 liberation rituals, Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2008   East Side Story, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

2008   'Before and after the storm', Otok Gallery, Dubrovnik Croatia

2006   Project: 'Sooty-faced Angels', BELEF, Beograd, Serbia

2003   Project: 'Velvet Underground', Otok Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2000   Project: 'Appeal for removal of Student Centre management', Zagreb, Croatia

1999   Project: 'Resting' in co-operation with Tanja Dabo, Mljet-Rijeka, Croatia

1998   Project: 'Black Peristil', Split-Zagreb, Croatia

1998   Project: 'Book and Society-22%', Zagreb,Croatia

1997/98 Project: 'NO KI TEKA', Zagreb, Croatia

 

GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)

 

2010  ‘Broken down walls of the crimson salon’, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2010  'Re:Public', Temple Bar Gallery & Studio, Dublin, Ireland

2009  'Gender Check', Vienna, Austria

2009  'Political practices of (post)Yugoslav art', Beograd, Srbija

2009 '11 Istanbul Biennial', Istanbul, Turkey

2009  '50 Oktober salon', Beograd, Serbia

2009  'Happy together', Tallin, Estonia

2009  '43 Zagreb salon', Zagreb, Hrvatska

2009  'No more reallity', Istanbul, Turkey

2008  'Spaport', Banja Luka, Bosna i Hercegovina

2008   '49 October salon', Belgrade, Serbia

2008   'Wie du mir', Rotor, Graz, Austria

2008   '+ - 40 years', CZKD, Belgrade, Serbia

2008   'Things you newer  saw', Art fair Roma, Italija

2007   ‘Bad Joke’, Tallin, Estonia

2007   ‘October. Exit, Desire and Memory’, Artra Gallery, Milan, Italy

2007   'Revolution is not a garden party', Holden Gallery Manchester, England

2006   Revolution is not a garden party, Trafo, Budapest, Hungary

2005  ‘New Past’, Marronier Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2004  'The Independents', G39 Gallery, Cardiff, England

2004   'Side-effects', Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia

2003  'Looking Awry', Apexart Gallery, New York, USA

2003  'U-topos', Tirana biennale 2, Albania

2003  'Balkan Matrix', Site Gallery, Mancherster, England

2002  'Here tomorrow', MSU, Zagreb, Croatia

2002­  'Imaginary Balkans', Site Gallery, Sheffield, England

2002  'Manifesta 4', Frankfurt, Germany

2002   'On way to Timbuktu', IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2001  'What, how and for whom',  Kunsthalle Exmergasse, Vienna, Austria

2001  'Design & Ethics' -  Days of Design, Zagreb, Croatia

2000  'What, how and for whom', HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia

1999  'Break 21', Ljubljana, Slovenija

1998   'Onufri 1998', Tirana, Albania

1997  Otok Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia

 

 

AWARDS

 

2nd award at ’43 Zagreb salon’, Zagreb, 2009

1st award at “Documents”, HDLU Istra, Pula, 2007

1st award at ‘Colony’, Rovinj, 2007

2nd award at "Passional Heritage", HDLU, Zagreb, 1998

2nd award at "33rd Zagreb Salon", 1998

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL  STATEMENT

 

With the outbreak of the war in my country in the early nineties, I was surprised by a primordial violence of man over man. Drawing on the experience of human madness, wishing to fathom both human nature and myself, in 1992 I enrolled on the study of philosophy, later on psychotherapeutic education based on Gestalt and Transactional analysis. As a conceptual artist, since 1996 I have mainly produced site-specific interventions in public spaces, with the aim to involve others in the creative process. Since 2000 I work as producer and journalist at «Fade In», an activist video studio (NGO), on production of documentaries, TV reports and socially committed TV advertising.

 

 

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