Vitar Drinković ( Zagreb, Croatia )
Received his master's degree in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2008. During the course of his studies, he took a semester at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.
In 2014, he completed his Master's degree in Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he participated in student exchange at the London Metropolitan University, England.
Artist statement
For the past few years my work is about exploration and making of circumstances- conditions for a different perception of everyday life using interactive art apparatuses, sculptures - inventions and installations as mediators, “ filters” in communication between people.
Beginning from the basic, simple, biological forms of communication-exchange that affect perception and deconstruct the way it is made- shaped through the information that we are surrounded by.
Fields of my interest and exploration are: everyday life, the connection between perception -information and biology, development and influence of information and technology on the development of human society and way of life, sustainability, the connection between art, science and economy.
List of professional artistic activity:
Residencies
2018. Creart, Rouen, France
2018. Second home, Etno hvar festival, Magic Carpets, Humac, Hvar, Croatia
2014. Open air artist in residence, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Awards, commendations, grants
2019. Production grant from Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
Production grant from the city of Zagreb
2017. Production grant from the city of Zagreb
2015. Production grant from the city of Zagreb
2012. Prize at INA d.d. and ALU, INA Energy competition
2007. One of the winners of the competition on the theme „Movement“ by the Agency for Commercial Activity( AKD)
2006. Academic council commendation for successful work in the academic year
Recognition of Excellence inn Academic Achievement and Qualification for the Deans List,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania- for academic semester Spring 2006
Certificate of recognition: International achievement award
Special rector of the Zagreb University award for the project „ Jelsa-punta 2005“
2005. Grant of the University in Zagreb
Academic council commendation for successful work in the academic year
2004. Government grant of the Ministry of science, education and sport
Solo exhibitions
2019. EP 2.1, Gallery MKC Split, Croatia
Digitalni rendez-vous numérique ( with Nicolas Clauss ), French Cultural Institute, Zagreb
Feedback 1.2, Gallery Šira, Zagreb, Croatia
2018. Plant blindness, Gallery 90 60 90, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
Feedback, Museum of Fine Arts, Split ( within the project „Katamaran art“ ), Croatia
Feedback, Gallery Kravata, Jelsa, Hvar ( within the project „Katamaran art“ ), Croatia
Plant blindness, Grapčeva cave, Hvar ( within the project „Etno hvar festival: second home" Dual exhibition: Living memory (with Julie Tocquille), Porte 10, Rouen, France
2017. Evolution of perception 2.0, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Experimenting the machine ( with Goran Škofić ), Gallery Vladimir Bužančić, Zagreb, Croatia
Sale exhibition, Gallery laval Nugent, Zagreb, Croatia
2016. Evolution of perception 1.3, Basement halls of the Diocletians palace, Split, Croatia
2015. Evolution of perception, part 1, Gallery Karas, Zagreb, Croatia
Evolution of perception 1.2, Gallery Atelieri Koprivnica, Koprivnica, Croatia
Fear and wonder, Boonika, Zagreb, Croatia
Ancient verticals ( with Vojin Hraste and Milena Lah), Gallery Sv Krševan, Šibenik, Croatia
2010. TerminArtor, Gallery Nano, Zagreb, Croatia
Structures of thought, Gallery Matica Hrvatska, Zagreb, Croatia
2009. Architecture of the unconscious, Gallery Salon Galić, Split, Croatia
Recapitulation of past events, Gallery Circle, Rijeka, Croatia
2008. Fragments of a wax mind, Gallery Modulor, Zagreb, Croatia
Juried group exhibitions
2019. Extravagant bodies: Extravagant love, hall V Technical museum Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia
Ganz nove Perforacije & Homesick festival, hall V Technical museum Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Cro
Ganz nove Perforacije & Homesick festival, Koprivnica, Croatia
Almissa Open Art Festival: Where are we going?, fort Mirabella, Omiš, Croatia
2018. Nesvrstani, Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia
34. Youth salon: Panoptikon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
13th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia
Transient hole variations VII, Gallery Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
58. Annale: Nature culture and other stories, Istrian Assembly Hall, Poreč, Croatia
ZEZ festival: exhibition of sound #3, KSET, Zagreb, Croatia
2017. Mind and Body, Gallery Kazamat, Osijek, Croatia
Tesla – mind from the future, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2016. The 51. Zagreb Salon, Gallery Bačva, Zagreb, Croatia
Extravagant bodies ; crime and punishment, Pogon , Zagreb Croatia
Device art 5. 016, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
Ministry for experimental sound; Exhibition of sound #2, KSET, Croatia
Design district festival, Zagreb, Croatia
Networked encounters, Dalmaciavino factory, Jelsa, Croatia
Black through the prism, Gallery Oris, Zagreb, Croatia
2015. 12th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia
Device art 5.015, Gallery Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia
Sound Art Incubator, Gallery Močvara, Zagreb, Croatia
2014. In the rhythm of touch, Gallery Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia
32. Youth salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
NE fest, points of view, Sofia, Bulgaria
Touch me festival: Time, Gallery Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia
2013. NUS, international festival of contemporary art , MKC Split, Croatia
Last one we had recently, Gallery Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
Basement Gallery beneath Bank space, London, England
Drava ART Biannual, Gallery Koprivnica, Koprivnica, Croatia
LN 360, salon Laval Nugent, Zagreb , Croatia
2012. Ways of explainig artworks, gallery PM, Zagreb, Croatia
INA Energy 2012, gallery ALU, Croatia
Ostrale, Homegrown, Dresden, Germany
11th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia
Neue kroatische kunst , Medika, Zagreb, Croatia
Exhibition of recent works by members of HDLU, PM, Zagreb, Croatia
Light-dark matter, MM center, Zagreb, Croatia
2011. Artfair 7, student center, Zagreb, Croatia
Gallery Makek, Rab, Croatia
Gallery Makek, Zagreb, Croatia
Sculptors and wood, Dugo selo, Croatia
Sculpture sympozium, Trajsdorf, Austria
2010. Huntenkunst, Doetinchem, Netherlands
Galerie bij de Boeken, Ulft, Netherlands
De Gruitpoort, Doetinchem, Netherlands
The youth salon, Gallery Likum, Zagreb, Croatia
Exhibition of recent works by member of HDLU, Gallery Bačva, Zagreb, Croatia
Gorgona uber alles, Gallery Vladimir Buzancic, Zagreb, Croatia
2009. 10th Triennial of Croatian sculpture, Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia
Artfair 6, Students in space, Gallery Student center, Zagreb, Croatia
Presentations, public talks
2019. Start 19, MSU, Zagreb
2017. Beyond the surface- optical sound, Salon Izidor Kršnjavi, Zagreb
2016. Art in public space, Networked encounters, Jelsa, Hvar, Croatia
Art workshops
2019. TRANSMISSIONS: working beyond sectors and media
Communications & marketing workshop for artists, MSU, Zagreb
2017. leader of a workshop for school children with disabilities, SUVAG, Zagreb, Croatia
2016. assistant on the workshop Trails of light 2016., Bjelovar, Croatia
2013. Austerity, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
2012. leader of an art workshop organized by HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2011. International art colony Paradiso, Rab, Croatia
All the art thats fit to show, Gallery Sc, Zagreb, Croatia
Sculpture sympozium Trajsdorf, Austria
11th meeting of artists, Dugo selo, Croatia
2007. Trails of light 2007, Bjelovar, Croatia
2006. Trails of light 2006, Bjelovar, Croatia
Jelsa punta 2006, Jelsa, Hvar, Croatia
2005. Trails of light 2005, Bjelovar, Croatia
Jelsa punta 2005, Jelsa, Hvar, Croatia