ARTWORKS / DENIS KRASKOVIC

WHALE (ON LAKE JARUN)

2007-03-04T05:48:00.000-08:00

This is one of the most successful artworks I’ve ever done. Every day, children spend time jumping, climbing or sliding on it. There is nothing more rewarding than knowing that children adore your work. The sculpture was actually commissioned by the disco club Aquarius and I remember that its owner Ms Ana ripped me off when it came to the payment. Recently, the sculpture has been moved closer to the lake without my approval. On the whole, this was still a great job. My friends Petar Šalić and Sven Klobučar helped me make it. Plastic manufacturer Boško Popara, who builds small boats, and his workers were in charge of the polyester work. The sculpture is three and a half meters wide and was created in 1999.

SAVE THE THREATENED MUSHROOM

2007-03-04T05:43:00.000-08:00

Save the Threatened Mushroom is a mind game played by two players. This is its gigantic version that was displayed in the exhibition THE END held in Dom HDLU (the Home of the Croatian Association of Artists), i.e. the so-called Džamija. The exhibition included some 600 drawings and graphics of critically endangered animal and plant species, which were also used to create the animated film Stabat Mater (music was composed by Bero Puhlovski, a radio jazz drummer), which will soon be published on this blog.

GAME RULES: The game starts on the empty board, while the players alternately set 34 figures on the black round fields in such a way that the next move has to be made on the field next to the previously placed mushroom, or if that is not possible, the figure should be placed on the nearest available field. When all the figures have been placed, the game continues. Any figure can be moved for one field or by jumping over one or more figures onto the free field (as in the game of checkers). The same figure cannot be moved twice, i.e. one full round since the previous move. The aim of the game is to win a square, thus saving a threatened mushroom species, i.e. to score a point. Each square can be conquered four times, and at each scoring the player puts a chip on the conquered field. The square is being won by putting the same four kinds of mushrooms (either poisonous red ones or edible white ones). A yellow mushroom is a joker and worths the same as the poisonous or edible mushroom, i.e. it can replace them. There are 34 chips and the winner is the player with the most points won. The chips have the photos of the threatened species of mushrooms in Croatia. There are more than 350 of them!!!

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES

2007-03-04T05:12:00.000-08:00

These are but a few out of more than 550 drawings of the endangered species that were shown in the exhibition THE END???. The fact that there are more than 40,000 endangered animal and plant species in the world is simply frightening. Furthermore, almost half of these species are critically endangered. The drawings were made after the photos of the species available on the net. These are graphite drawings on paper 30x30 cm. The web site of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and their Red List were immensely helpful. Here’s the link to this great page: http://www.iucnredlist.org/

Finally, from all this drawings I made video Stabat mater with beautiful music from jazz drummer Bero Puhlovski. Here is link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz1IvqVxOks

PULPO PETRIFICADO (PETRIFIED POLYP)

2007-03-04T05:08:00.000-08:00

The painting was created in 2006 for a big exhibition featuring Federico Garcia Lorca, the famous Spanish poet. The exhibition was held in the National and University Library in Zagreb, where I had a chance to meet Lorca’s niece – a really nice lady with whom I talked about him. Lorca was brutally killed by the Spanish fascists. Pero Smiljanić, an art collector and merchant from Bjelovar, almost got hold of the painting, but luckily it didn’t fit into his car (it was a few centimeters too wide for his car). I’ve decided to give it to Ms Lorca and I’m waiting for Enes Quien to get better, so we can figure out how to get this painting to Spain. The painting was made in acrylic and by gluing photocopies on canvas. Lorca was a great poet, so here’s a poem to remind us of that:

Horseman's Song
Cordoba.
Distant and alone.

A black nag, the giant moon,
and olives in my saddlebag.
Even if I know the way,
I never will reach Cordoba.

Over the plain, through the wind,
A black nag, the bloody moon.
The Reaper is watching me
From the tall towers of Cordoba.

Oh, such a long road!
Oh, my valiant nag!
Oh, the Reaper awaits me
before I ever reach Cordoba!

Cordoba.
Distant and alone.

PROFESSOR LOZIĆ’S SUNDAY AFTERNOON

2007-03-04T05:06:00.000-08:00

This drawing on A4 paper, created in 1999, was exhibited only once in Ortona, Italy in 2001. There, my colleagues Zlobec, Friščić, Mezak, Đukić I had a joint exhibition that was held in an old Masonic palace. We slept in an old people’s home, where we had an entire floor to ourselves. The biggest fun for us was racing in the wheelchairs and pouring water from the hydrant on the terrace of this terrifying building, where every night we could hear an old man incessantly wailing mamma mia, mamma mia. The month spent in Italy was a terrific experience, and the entire event was described in Zlobec’s book Abruzzo – on the other side of the sea (the book was translated to Albanian). Yesterday, the owner of this drawing became Irena Kuduzova, who kept begging me to give it to her, since it had been for certain time with her husband Igor Kuduz, an artist and designer, who published the drawing in his advertising leaflet.

SAVING ONESELF

2007-03-04T05:03:00.000-08:00

Saving oneself, diptych, acrylic on canvas

The work was created in 2005 in an art colony in Ptuj, Slovenia. Actually, in this workshop, I was supposed to make a wooden sculpture Prayer Bench, which was to be displayed in the atrium of a beautiful renovated baroque castle with a hi-tech library. Prayer Bench was supposed to be 3 meters high. Of course, I asked for some material for the entire project and a symbolic fee of 500 euros. My request was rejected and the Tenzor Gallery director, who organized the entire event, hurled insults at me for that. Well, great! At least my compatriots won’t have to breathe in the smell of chicken shit (there is a huge chicken farm near Ptuj) which you can sense every now and then in this otherwise beautiful small town near the Drava river. Since I did spend four days there, I left them this painting, more because of Maja Marković, a custodian from Samobor, who invited me to this colony, than anything else. It is really incredible how some people are used to having artists work for free. Nothing is for free in this world (except maybe with the naive artists, but definitely not the ones from Hlebine). I have no idea where the painting ended up, but I hope they gave it to some of the sponsors.

HILLS, NEEDLES AND I

2007-03-04T04:54:00.000-08:00

Hills and needles(s) to say me

Oh, my people

STUCK-UP

Needle I

Desert Needle (owner Enes Quien)

Hills, Needles and I was an exhibition held in the Izidor Kršnjavi Gallery, which I am currently running. It should have been held in the private gallery Stančić, but ten days before the opening, the director told me that there would be no exhibition, even though everything had already been arranged. After we settled our dispute, four days before the opening night, I accidentally found out that two days after the opening of my exhibition, some fashion designers’ works and a fashion show were to be presented in the same space. Unbelievable! Naturally, I cancelled everything and threw the invitations away. Enes Quien and Igor Zlobec (who was really funny this time, and what’s best he quoted Stanko Špoljarić – only Zlobek can to that) wrote an excellent foreword. In short, this series is concerned with me and my surroundings.

HOW THE DAMNED FROM HELL SAVED GANGSTER, RONALD REAGAN

2007-03-04T04:48:00.000-08:00

This animated film was created in 2000. Ivan Roca helped me immensely with his knowledge of video technique and computers. This is definitely the most successful work I’ve done so far. It has been shown in many countries around the world (Los Angeles, Berlin, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Budapest, Belgrade,...). The same year, I also won the Youth Salon Grand Prix in Zagreb. It was a money award I had to wait for six months, and if I hadn’t gone directly to the Zagreb City Department of Cultural Affairs, I would have waited probably even longer. This short film consists of two drawings and the only thing in motion is our hero’s mouth. Ronald (by the way, a real person) retells his life story and his experience of clinical death. Previously, he had been a criminal, drunkard, thief and junkie, but after this hellish nightmare, he experienced an epiphany and became a priest. The duration of the film is 10 minutes and I will soon put it on the web as well as the other 15 videos, some of which are: Kupa Danube Adriatic, Woman Photo Robot, Stabat Mater, Circle, Exotics, etc.

SELF-PORTRAIT WITH AN ANGEL AND A DEVIL

2007-03-04T04:46:00.000-08:00

This is my first serious, well-thought work (in alabaster) which I made on my sophomore year. Well, isn’t it true that good and evil constantly whisper into your ear? It requires considerable skill to recognize which voice is good, especially when you’re 18. I remember how my professors chose this work for the Academy holdings without my knowledge, and they decided to take only my head, saying that they don’t need the angel and the devil. Embarrassing! How is it possible for the people who perceive my work in such a way to teach anyone anything? I never gave them my head!

GOOD NIGHT

2007-03-04T04:39:00.000-08:00

My father

Bird in barcode

Conversation with Prehistoric Man

In 1997, Zlatan Vrkljan offered me to hold a one-man exhibition in the Arterija Gallery. I named it Good Night and it consisted of some ten works which, actually, didn’t have that much in common (why should they, after all). At that point, the arrogant and conceited Vrkljan pissed me off because ten days before the exhibition he kept complaining how I hadn’t done what he asked me to do, which is extremely stupid of a person who once represented Croatia at the Venice Biennale. I see no reason why I should listen to a mediocre painter telling me what to do, and on the top of everything, all that without the money. The central object was Wooden Bed accompanied by other works in various media. Here, you can see three works – a photo of my father on a meadow in his birthplace, a wood relief Conversation with Prehistoric Man and engraved granite Bird in Barcode, which describes consumerism, also bought by my friend Ivan Roca.

DOOR

2007-03-04T04:37:00.000-08:00

This long drawing (some 2 meters) in coal and Indian ink is placed in laminate, a technique I and my cousin Pavel Majerle were the first to use for the artistic drawing. This technique involves putting a drawing on formica, which is then covered with foil, subsequently pressed by the weigh of ten tons and heated to the temperature of 100 degrees, which makes the drawing entirely protected. This work symbolizes the fact that there is only one right door in life. However, most people like to open all the other doors. In other words, there is only one truth!

POMEGRANATE

2007-03-04T04:35:00.000-08:00

This stonework was created in a small fishing town Sućuraj on the island of Hvar and it remained there. Wine maker Ivica Vujnović, who in fact didn’t pay me anything for it, financed it. Instead, Together with my friend Danko Friščić, I enjoyed his hospitality for three weeks. The work was finished in the first couple of days because I wanted to enjoy my stay on Hvar without having to do anything. Dalmatians looked at me as if I was crazy since I worked even around noon when the sun is at its peak. Since then, on my way to the south, I always stop for a day or two at Vujović’s so here’s the link to this beautiful little town: http://www.sucuraj.com/

WINNING LAZINESS

2007-03-04T04:00:00.000-08:00

Winning Laziness

Madonna di Campiglio

This Is How Green My Valley Was

If There Is No River You Can Take the Road

Crocodile

Winning Laziness (the title is ambiguous) was an exhibition held in the Karas Gallery in 1998. This is also the name of the installation that consisted of a stretched hammock, a photomontage of a row of palms (which I gave to Smiljan Tolj as his wedding gift) and a blue column. This is the expression of my yearning for a relaxed and carefree life. This installation was also exhibited in the Traffo Gallery in Budapest on the occasion of the presentation of Croatian art. The reliefs were presented in a series and are actually allegorical, minimalist landscapes. Toni Barbić, a worker in the Klovićevi dvori Gallery, owns the work If There Is No River You Can Take the Road. I exchanged it for a bunch of their publications and he keeps nagging me to give him Elephant Foot, so I guess I’ll have to give in. Vatroslav Kuliš bought Madonna di Campiglio, while This Is How Green My Valley Was and Crocodile are still in my possession.

SUN IS SHINING

2007-03-04T03:54:00.000-08:00

This small work (only 35 cm high) is one of my greatest works. I even won the second prize at the sculpture competition in 1993 in Lipik, where the Germans built a new neighborhood after the town had been destroyed in the war. I got a large sum of money, some 1500 German marks, which was around ten monthly wages then. Ivan Kožarić was a member of the jury and the first prize went to my professor Marija Ujević, while the other professors didn’t win anything. After the award ceremony in Lipik, Igor Zlobec and I went to Prekopakra, a village where we threw a terrific party for the entire village. This is a well-known village between Lipik and Pakrac that didn’t fall into the hands of Četniks, and I remember meeting a man whose head was half-blown by a grenade, but he was nevertheless very vivacious. On our way back, we partied some more with the soldiers from Jordan on the border of the then UNPA zone, who thought I was a king because I told them how one of my relatives was the midwife to Muammar al-Gaddafi’s children. Later, we barely managed to get back home alive in our old Yugo and the next day we were already on our way to Venice to visit my friends Robert Sošić, Damir Tripar, and Ljiljana Vlačić.

I WAS LOOKING FOR SALVATION IN A GLASS (BUT I COULDN’T FIND IT)

2007-03-04T03:51:00.000-08:00

This miniature work, made in 1997, was exhibited in the Architects’ Club on the occasion of Earth Day. Actually, the exhibition, which was conceived by Tihomir Milovac, the custodian of the Contemporary Gallery, was dedicated to the miniatures and the entire exhibition could fit in a little suitcase. The idea of this work was to describe the horror of alcohol, with which I have had more or less problems since high school. I made a realistic copy of my hand and put it, as a cry for help, into a small glass filled with brandy. John Barleycorn (as Jack London calls it in his masterpiece King Alcohol) gets you high, but it also creates some serious problems. Alcohol, oh alcohol, I love you in my brains. Alcohol, oh alcohol, I never want you again, as British punk band G.B.H puts it.

GRADUATION THESIS

2007-02-12T23:25:00.001-08:00

Well, this is my graduation thesis, which means that it was created in 1994, and it represents a depiction of heaven with a musician, a dancer, bumblebees, doubting Thomas and Jesus. I remember that after it had been exhibited at the Academy, none of my professors deigned to come to me and voice their opinion. Only my professor Stanko Jančić told me that I wouldn’t win the Rector’s Award, but rather my colleague Krešimir Rod because, supposedly, he was poor, but I remember that people used to tell how his family owned 16 cows and a big land in Zagorje! I also remember how 9 of us lived in 60 square meters because it was wartime, so we took care of our relatives who escaped from Osijek. I sold the Angels-Bumblebees to Marin Marinić and Ljubo Gamulin. It should be pointed out how the tank watch that was a part of the installation was stolen from a tank in front of the building of the Assembly of SFRY in 1991 during the demonstrations against Milošević by my friend Boris Pikelja. The music I recorded on the church organ also played an important part of the ambience. It consisted of two tones that reminded of ship sirens. While recording it, the nuns got so sick of me that they chased me away from the organ!

FOUR SEASONS

2007-02-12T23:24:00.001-08:00

This work, created in 1993, was exhibited at the Zagreb Salon. It consists of four objects with the names of the seasons inscribed on them, symbolizing life. It represents my youth vision of the four phases of life. The Fall also contained a rhythm machine ELKA (the first Croatian rhythm machine from 1972 which I still own). This was the first time I have been noticed as an author. The work was also exhibited at the Sculpture Triennial the same year and there were talks that I should get the Grand Prix, but it went to Danijel Kovač, who was also the one to beat me ten years later when he became teaching assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Gračan and Vuco lobbied for him because he was their protégé.

GOD IS GREAT AND THE MIDDLE EAST

2007-02-12T23:21:00.000-08:00

God is great

Middle East

God Is Great or Allah-u Ekber is a painting from the cycle Hills Needles and I that was created as a sign of my respect towards Islam and a critique of the Western system, which is so inconsiderate towards Islam, and the values of Islamic peoples. George Bush and his vassals attacked Iraq, relentlessly trying to dominate the entire Middle East because they consider this faith less important and primitive! I gave the painting God Is Great as a gift to photographer Marko Ercegović. These acrylic on canvas paintings are 2 meters wide.

SALAMANDER

2007-02-12T23:19:00.000-08:00

This is yet another painting from the Elephant Cycle created in 2001. The painting is 3 meters wide and it portrays Karolina Pernar, my unfortunate love, patting salamander and herself, while I am standing there as an elephant. Pero Smiljanić, a merchant, art collector, and dandy from Bjelovar, owns the painting (which I found out accidentally). Even though I have no idea how the painting ended with him, I am glad that it is as far away from me as possible because it reminds me of one really unpleasant period. I came to realize that one doesn’t need war, sickness or natural disaster to be miserable; the woman who you love and who betrays you is more than enough!

CALVARY

2007-02-12T22:43:00.000-08:00

Jesus Falls Under the Cross

Veronica’s Veil
Jesus Is Stripped

Altar (Jesus’ grave), my friend Danko Friščić helped me paint it

Via Crucis or Calvary (Križeva pot in Slovenian) was created in 2000 and is now in Stari trg (ob Kolpi), a village near Predgrad, Slovenia, where my late Old Dad used to live, i.e. in my father’s birthplace. It was mostly created with a CNC machine according to my original drawings that I made after the photographs of my students whom I dressed as Jesus and the Romans. I was also partly inspired by P. P. Pasolini and his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew! It is entirely my authorial work, and local parish priest Jože Pavlaković accepted all of my ideas. He is a really nice man, a vegetarian and a yachtsman who, every year, gets away for a couple of months to the Adriatic sea, where he has his wooden sailboat which he made by himself. It meant a great deal to me that my dearest Old Dad had a chance to see this work just before he passed away and he was so exhilarated to be sitting next to the bishops at the same table (he was a modest peasant!)! It should also be mentioned that during the Second World War the Italians destroyed all the chapels with the Calvary under the excuse that they could be used as bunkers! You should go and visit this area because the nature is magnificent!

PHOTO COMIC: OYSTRICHES TO AFRICA

2007-02-12T22:40:00.000-08:00

These are huge prints on 5-meter-long tarpaulin created for the exhibition Much to Much, held in 2003 in the Art Pavilion in Zagreb. They are currently being exhibited in my school as part of teachers’ exhibition. Last year, they were exhibited in Lazareti in Dubrovnik. Mr. Željko Sarić helped me take the photos in Crna Mlaka near Zagreb. The shooting was very pleasant, even though the weather was bad (it was raining), so we decided to sit and wait in a small bar. It was funny that no one even bothered when they saw the girls in costumes. It was obviously something totally normal for the inhabitants of this village.

SAN REMO

2007-02-12T22:39:00.001-08:00

These big ties were created for the exhibition the Challenge of Cravat, which is currently being exhibited somewhere around the globe. The work was commissioned by Mr. Marijan Bušić, the manager of the company Kravata Croata, who also made a big cravat around the Arena in Pula. He is also the one to blame for the action Cravat around Croatia that reminds me of the communist Youth Relay. Red thread around Croatia, oh, my God, how stupid.

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JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD

2007-02-12T22:34:00.000-08:00

Whale, owned by painter Vatroslav Kuliš

Journey to the End of the World is my first serious one-man exhibition, held in 1995 in the Nova Gallery in Zagreb. I carved the sculptures in the country in Jelenja Vas near Predgrad in Slovenia where my dearest man in the world – my Old Dad (grandfather) - lived. This is where I realized what it means to have time for creative work. Polar animals were carved of linden wood in a little old workshop. It is wonderful to carve the wood, not having to bother with anything else. I led an ascetic life then and I was very diligent. I hope I will once again follow that path!

HORSE, FISH, WOLF, GEESE, BEAR, GRAIN, AND APPLE

2007-02-12T22:31:00.000-08:00

This photo was taken 10 years ago in front of Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana, where I created the sculptures for Marko Pehljan’s play Ladomir-Fraktura IV površina-površina stika. In this otherwise boring play, my sculptures of paper and painted styrofoam functioned pretty interestingly. They were passing across the stage on a movable line, which turned them into a sort of illusion and animation. The play was also performed the same year at Eurokaz in the Gavella Theater in Zagreb.

SILIVIJA AND VLADO

2007-02-12T22:28:00.000-08:00

This wood sculpture is a melodramatic representation of a love relationship between turtle Silvija and butterfly Vlado. Their love will leave an indelible mark on Silvija’s psyche, since butterflies live only for a day, while she will have to live some 100 years longer with her love sufferings. The sculpture was made in maplewood which I tore down together with my late Old Dad.

SINGULINAC

2007-02-12T22:26:00.000-08:00

This sculpture is placed in the courtyard of Children’s hospital for upper respiratory tract on Srebrnjak in Zagreb and is in a way a mascot for some kind of medicine for children with asthma. It wasn’t that easy to create a sculpture based on a linear, plane drawing (drawn by Igor Vilagoš), but all in all, the agency Tridvajedan paid me rather adequately for my work. I am surprised that advertisers don’t recognize the value of sculpture in their campaigns and promotional activities. They always play it safe and use billboards, what losers and posers.

MAN-ANIMAL-PLANT

2007-02-12T22:20:00.000-08:00

This work was created in 2001 as part of my Elephant Cycle, i.e. a series of paintings featuring elephant. Here I wanted to create a being out of a mixture of various life forms and my aim is to add green leaves to the branches once I happily fall in love. The work was exhibited at the Izidor Kršnjavi Gallery, which I am currently running, in the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb. Here’s the link to school's web page : http://www.skola-primijenjene-umjetnosti.htnet.hr/salon.html

BED

2007-02-12T22:18:00.000-08:00

This work, created in 1998, is actually a copy of my own bed in which I used to sleep for many years. It is conceived as a tribute to a vitally important object in our lives. It was made in poplar wood and maplewood and was exhibited in Italy (Museo dell’aredo contemporaneo, Russi-Ravenna), Slovenia (BREAK, Ljubljana), in the Arterija Gallery in Zagreb as well as the Sculpture Trienniale at the Sculpture Museum of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts.

SAINT STEPHEN

2007-02-12T22:17:00.000-08:00

This is a sketch (attention should be paid to its composition) for a big painting which I was supposed to do for a chapel in Kočevje (Slovenia), but they decided not to commission the work because the price was too high for them (actually they were stingy). The man in the center (above St. Stephen) is Saint Paul, then called Saul, who prosecuted Christians and who also ordered the execution of a young deacon. Later, he experienced an epiphany. How absurd life can be sometimes, hallelujah!

DON’T

2007-02-12T22:06:00.000-08:00

Don’t Make Me Dirty is the heaviest work in the cycle DON’T, weighing 136 kilos!

Don’t Jump Over Me, owned by Azinović, an art collector, graphic artist, and usurer, who took a great deal of my works for some small favors he did for me. Unfortunately, even these small numbers of art collectors in this raped and suffering country are inconsiderate plunderers who ask for way too much in exchange for the little money given or some petty favors they do!

Don’t Kidnap Me

Entrepreneur Predrag Đukić bought the work Don’t Take Me Off for his wife and it is currently in Prague. My friend, artist Sandro Đukić, is Predrag’s brother.

Don’t Interrupt me, owned by Enes Quien, the man who wrote the majority of texts for me, among others the one for the exhibition DON’T catalogue! Quine, a critic and professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, is also known as big Latino lover. He is now in hospital, plugged to the machines because he contracted meningitis, God help him!

These are my cast iron artworks that were presented at the exhibition DON’T in the Gradec Galley in 2003 and there are 60 of them! They were cast in the Foundry Bjelovar. I am immensely grateful to their workers for their support. STAND UP YOU EARTHLY SLAVES!

COMIC: JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD BY GENERAL UMBERTO NOBILE EXPEDITION

2007-02-12T10:54:00.000-08:00

The comic Journey to the End of the World by General Umberto Nobile Expedition is an authorial interpretation of a real event that took place in the 20’s of the 20th century. It is a sensational experience of the Italian expedition that tried to conquer the North Pole in a balloon, but they were entrapped by their own fixation. The expedition took its toll and many innocent people lost their lives including the famous polar explorer Amundsen! In 1996, this comic was a part of the project “Journey to the end of the world” held in the Nova Gallery in Zagreb, which incorporated ambient music by Toni Ostojić as well as wood sculptures of polar animals and icebergs. Last year, on the occasion of 40 years of Croatian comic, in the Q magazine, Darko Macan, a great connoisseur and comic author, proclaimed it to be one of the 5 best comics. It’s really flattering, but it also obliges me to continue dealing with this fantastic medium. It should be mentioned that Sandro Đukić helped me in the realization of the comic with his profound knowledge of computers and his superb eye of a designer.

Here is the link:
http://www.pipschipsvideoclips.com/fightclub/kraskovic/index.htm

2007-02-12T10:28:00.000-08:00

Denis Krašković – BIOGRAPHY

1972 Born in Zagreb, Croatia on 23 March
1990 Graduated from the School for Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, Croatia
1995 Graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Visual Arts, sculpture department
1996-2007 Working as a teacher of sculpturing in the School of Applied Arts and design in Zagreb, Croatia
2007-2011 Working as professor of sculpturing on Osijek Art Academy, Croatia
2010 Graduated on Postgraduate studing of sculpturing and video in Ljubljana, Slovenia

One man exhibitions
1994
Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
1995
Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
1996
SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Rigo Gallery, Novigrad, Croatia
Otok Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
1997
Concordia, Zagreb, Croatia
Arteria, Zagreb, Croatia
1998
Karas Gallery , Zagreb, Croatia
1999
Palazzo Mignoti, Ortona, Italy
2000
Palach Club, Rijeka, Croatia
2001
Izidor Krsnjavi Exhibition Space, Zagreb, Croatia
Galzenica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2002
Gradec Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2003
Club Atack, Zagreb, Croatia
2004
Izidor Krsnjavi Exhibition Space, Zagreb, Croatia
2005
Prica Gallery, Samobor, Croatia
Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2006
Dom HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2007
Kazamat Gallery, Osijek, Croatia
AŽ Gallery, Žitnjak studios, Zagreb, Croatia
City museum Šibenik, International children festival, Croatia
Palmižana, St. Klement island, Hvar, Croatia
Ružić Gallery, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
2008
City museum Rovinj, Sv. Toma Gallery, Croatia
City museum Labin, Croatia
2009
SC Gallery Zagreb, Croatia
2010
Archaeological museum Osijek, Croatia
2011
City museum Požega, Croatia

Group exhibitions (selection)
1991
Young Croatian Painters, Karas Gallery Salon, Zagreb
1992
Youth Salon, Gliptoteka HAZU, Zagreb
1993
Zagreb Salon, Gradec Plateau, Zagreb, Croatia
XXXIII Annale, Porec, Croatia
1993
Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
1994
5th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Gliptoteka HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
1995
30th Zagreb Salon, Zagreb, Croatia
Tracce di Grafica Croata, Torino, Italy
Comics Salon, Vinkovci, Croatia
1996
Triennial of Drawing, Zagreb, Croatia
Otok Gallery, annual exhibition of SCCA, Dubrovnik, Croatia
DDDA, CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia
Modernita-Progetto, Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino
1997
Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Gliptoteka HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
Art Workshop Rovinj, City Museum, Croatia
Earth Day, Architects club, Zagreb, Croatia
1998
Festival 98, Mainz, Germany
Show of Ladomir Faktura, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999
Break 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Palazzo Mignoti, Ortona, Italy
Triennial of Drawing, Zagreb, Croatia
2000
A New Beginning, SC, Zagreb, Croatia
Momiano OO festival, Istria, Croatia
Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
Triennal of Croatian Sculpture, Zagreb, Croatia
2001
Contemporary Croatian Art, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, USA
Sculpture, Skopye, Macedonia
26th Youth Salon, Zagreb Trade Fair, Croatia
Contemporary Croatian Ceramics, Koprivnica Town Museum, Croatia
2002
Contemporary Croatian Art, Ravenna, Italy
Janos Sugar Studio, Budapest, Hungary
Human-nature, Traffo, Budapest, Hungary
Skopje Film Festival, Multimedia, Skopye, Macedonia
Local/Global, Koprivnica Town Museum, Croatia
Croatian Film Days, Kinoteka, Zagreb, Croatia
Burning Coals 2: Ashes, Bjelovar Town Museum, Croatia
Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy
Man/Nature, Slavonski Brod Town Museum, Croatia
Utopia Travel (Kairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Sofia, Skoplje, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Graz)
Contemporary Croatian Photography, Amsterdam, Nederlands
The Unadapted, Kunstlerhaus Betanien, Berlin, Germany
Schonbrunn, Vienna, Austria
2003
Much to much, Art pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
Sociability, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Cite des arts, Paris, France
2004
Bad art, VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2005
The cravat challenge, Pretoria, Johannesburg, South Africa
Back to the future, SC gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Insert, retrospecitive of Croatian video, Museum of modern art, Velesajam, Zagreb, Croatia
2006
New sacral art in Croatia, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Retrospective of video works KMRF, MM centar, Zagreb, Croatia
Insert, retrospecitive of Croatian video, Mali salon, Rijeka, Croatia
The cravat challenge - Krakov (POL), Gdanjsk (POL), Berlin (D), Sofia (BUL), Moskow (RUS), Vienna (AUT)
Art workshop Rovinj, City museum Rovinj, Croatia
Croatian films days, SC cinema, Zagreb, Croatia
Shifting ground, West Coast, Republic of Irland
Etno-natura, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Faux mouvment, Centre d'Art Cotemporain, Metz, France
Vienna biennale, Plattform-raum fur kunst, Vienna, Austria
2007
10 years of MMC-a & 40 years of Palach club, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Videorats, Video festival, Celje, Slovenija
Universality of museum subject, Post museum, Zagreb, Croatia
Young artists video, Izidor Kršnjavi Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Op.Art -quisisana festival of urban culture, Opatija, Croatia
Return of lost generation, Izidor Kršnjavi Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Art and crime, Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, Rijeka, Croatia
Rehab, Balen Gallery, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
2008
Labor Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Rotonda a mare di Senigallia, Italy
Ooooze festival, Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Art workshop Rovinj, Gradski muzej Rovin, Croatia j
Truth and fake (Red Peristil), Diocletian basements, Split, Croatia
Boys & their toys, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Sculpture workshop Zemlja, Vinkovci, Croatia
George's cathedral, St. Krševan Gallery, Šibenik, Croatia
Vinorelli, atelier Lučko, Zagreb, Croatia
Slavonian bienalle, Fine art Gallery, Osijek, Croatia
2009
Zagrebi festival, klub Močvara, Zagreb, Croatia
Return to inheritance, St. Dominic church, Gradska loža, Zadar, Croatia
Triennale of Zagorje, City museum, Krapina, Croatia
Surduk festival, Suza, Baranja, Croatia
Udarac, posters exhibition, Tončićeva street, Split, Croatia
Art Workshop Rovinj, City Museum, Croatia
X triennale of Croatian sculptures, Gliptoteka Hazu, Zagreb, Croatia
2010
DDDDA, Oroslavlje castle, Croatia
1+1, Kazamat Gallery, Osijek, Croatia
The Residents, Caesar Gallery, Czech Republic
Tenda Gialla, culture camp, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
Slavonian bienalle, Fine art Gallery, Osijek, Croatia
2011
T-ht award, Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb, Croatia
Popart is not dead, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Sculpture, Kazamat Gallery, Osijek, Croatia

Public sculptures
1995 Doors, park of Jakovlje Castle, Croatia
1997 Sculpture for the dead soldiers from Trnje, Zagreb, Croatia
1998 Dog rose, Hvar Island, Croatia
2000 Way of the Cross, Stari Trg, Slovenia
2001 Whale, Lake Jarun, Zagreb, Croatia
2002 Singulinac, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Seal, Arena Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Lamb, Arena Zagreb, Croatia

Awards
1993 Second Prize at the Skulptura competition in Lipik, Croatia
1997 Young Artist Prize, Art workshop Rovinj, Croatia
2001 Grand prix of the Youth Salon in Zagreb, Croatia
2010 The Residents, second prize for video, Caesar Gallery, Czech Republic