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RENATA
POLJAK
         
     
WORKS
CONTACT
       
  BIOGRAPHY
   
  filmography    
  festivals & screenings    
    born in 1974, in Split, Croatia.  
       
  Education / Residencies    
       
  2010 ArtOmi, Ghent, New York  
  2009 Skowhegan, Maine, U.S.A.  
  2008 Artist in Residency, Art in General, New York.  
  2008 - 2007 Artist in Residency, Cité des Arts, Paris.  
  2004 Artist in Residency, Museum Quartier, Vienna.  
  2002 ArtsLink, Artist in Residency San Francisco Art Institute.  
  1998 - 1999 Post - diplôme, E.R.B.A.N., Nantes.  
  1992 - 1997 Arts Academy, Split.  
       
  Awards    
  2006 Great Expectations,
Golden Black Box Short Award at the Balkan Black Box Festival, Berlin.
 
    Great Expectations,
2nd Award at the 7th Days of Film - Mediterranean Festival of Documentary Films, Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 
    Great Expectations,
Best film in national competition at the 4th Tabor film festival, Croatia.
 
  2000 Souvenirs (Memories) / Tito, Tata,
Public Award, Balkan Video Federation, Belgrade.
 
    Skok/Jump,
VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad.
 
  1999 Souvenirs (Memories) / Tito, Tata,
VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad.
 
  1997 I, the Housewife!,
Annual Award of Women`s Art Center Electra, Zagreb.
 
       
 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2011

2009

Renata Poljak, 3 solo shows in Gallery Luka, Pula, Gallery Rigo, Novigrad, Small Gallery,Porec, Istria, Croatia

I Need You to Believe in Something, Galerie Artopia, Milan

 
  2008 Ruta and the Monument, Art in General, New York.  
  2007 All One Knows, Gallery Kraljevic, Zagreb.  
  2006 All One Knows, Vukovar City Museum, (Kuba project) Vukovar.  
  2005 The View, Galery SC, Zagreb (cat.).  
  2003 Emergency Tensions, (with D. Figarella), Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami.  
  2002 Wonderland, Galerie Soardi, Nice.  
  2001 Did she Fall or was She Pushed?, Extended Media Gallery, Zagreb (cat.).  
  2000 Renata Poljak, Galerie Soardi, Nice.  
  1998 Noise / Criteria, Gallery Otok, Dubrovnik.  
    Noise / Criteria, Architects` Club, Zagreb.  
 

Group exhibitions

   
  2011 Shift And Flow, Dorsky Gallery, New York  
    Myth - Reality, Constructing Cult-u’re, Gallery The Guild, Mumbai  
    Where is my Place? Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice  
    The Big Screen Project, Public Plaza, 6th avenue - 29 and 30th, NYC  
    37 Splitski Salon, HDLU, Split  
  2010 Renata Poljak, Prospective Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris  
  2010 Paris Photo, Carrousel de Louvre, Louvre, Paris  
    Art to Be, Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d'art contemporain, Rennes  
    The Big Wave, 8th biennial of contemporary art “August in Art”, Varna, Bulgaria  
    Where Everything Is Yet to Happen: Exposures, SPAPORT Biennial 2009/10, Banja Luka  
    255 804 km², Mestna galerija, Ljubljana  
    T-HTnagrada,Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb  
  2009 The Things Fall Apart, Gallery Winkleman, New York  
    t.error-your fear is an exsternal object, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York  
    History Memory Identity, Fondazione - Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italie  
    Where to go? Rotor association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria  
    West 4, La Generale en Manufacture, Paris  
    The state of Things, Galerie Cettina, Umag, Croatia  
    43ème salon de Zagreb, Zagreb  
  2008 The Experience of Atopia, Lokall 01, Breda.  
    Micro-Narratives - temptation of small realities, Museum of Modern Art of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne.  
    Paso Doble, MKC / Multimedia Culture Center, Split.  
    Biennale Transfrontaliera dell’arte contemporanea VAPARTEC _ Evento Trasforma Arte e città sostenibile, Senigallia, Italy.  
    Passages, passagen, pasàz, projections at Jeu de Paume, Paris, Gallery Kraljevic, Zagreb and in Art in General, New York.  
  2007 Challenging the East West Art Map, U-Turn Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen.  
    Passages, passagen, pasàz - hommage à Walter Benjamin, Gandy Galerie, Bratislava.  
    48th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade.  
    Central Europe Revisited I, Esterhazy Palace, Eisenstad, Austria.  
    Strictly Berlin 007, Galerie der Kunste, Berlin.  
    Woman at the crossroad of ideologies, international art and science event / exhibition, screenings, lectures, debates with edited book, HULU, Split.  
  2006 Cooling Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz / Basel.  
    Kuba: Journey Against the Current, Nestroyhof, Vienna.  
    Normalization, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö.  
    International Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art, Central European University, Budapest.  
    Sigmund's Stories - Perception as Spatial Transgression, gallery SC, Zagreb.  
    L’usage du monde, Mali Salon, Rijeka.  
    Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka.  
  2005 Landscape in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture Between Fetishes and Ideology,- 34th Split Salon, Split.  
    Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.  
    Binder, Milunovic, Poljak, gallery Ernst Hilger Contemporary, Vienna.  
  2004 Passage d’Europe, Musée d’Art Moderne de St-Etienne, France.  
    Love It or Leave It, Cetinje Biennial V, Cetinje, Montenegro.  
  2003 First View, gallery Ernst Hilger Contemporary, Vienna.  
    High Hills, public space project, Krems, Austria.  
    C’est(-)à(-)dire!, Palais de Papes, Avignon, France.  
    Rest Assured, CCS Museum, Bard College, New York.  
    Remediation Variants, WRO 03 Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland  
    Sharks In The Morning, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami.  
  2002 Here Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.  
  2001 “video / je vois” La  création vidéo en France, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain  
    Central, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Quartier 21, Vienna.  
    Höchstleistung, Le Centre d’Art Shed im Eisenwerk de Frauenfeld, Switzerland.  
    Freedom and Violence, National Museum-Krolikarnia, Warsaw.  
    Provisoirement / Provizorno, La Station, Dubrovnik.  
    Dare to be different, Fier, Albania.  
    Adriatico: le due sponde, Michetti Museum, Francavilla a Mare, Italy.  
    WRO 01 Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland  
    To tell a story, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.  
  2000 BIG TORINO 2 000, Biennal of emerging artists, Turin.  
    A Small Country for a Big Vacation, Galerie SKUC, Ljubljana.  
    Actif-Réactif-la création vivante à Nantes, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes.  
    12 Positionen zeitgenossischer Kunst, Palais Harrach et Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna.  
    What, How & For Whom, dom HDLU, Zagreb.  
  1999 A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris.  
    Post Diplome, Glassbox, Paris.  
    Estatic memory, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.  
    Post Diplome, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, ZOO Galerie, Nantes.  
    10 Artists/ 8 Months/ Nantes, Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid.  
  1998 Utopia, Chateau de Beaumanoir, Le Leslay, Quintin, France.  
    33 Zagreb Salon, Zagreb.  
    Messages (Public Art Project), Zagreb.  
  1997 As large as life, Raum fur Kunst, Steirischer Herbst, Graz.  
    Biennale of Young Artists/Artisti del Mediterraneo, Rijeka / Fiume.  
    Exchange Art Festival, Split.  
  1996 Visual Arts Section of the International Festival of New Film and Video, Split.  
  Bibliography (selection) :    
    Anne Kerner, Paris Photo, Ouvretesyeux, Renata Poljak 19.11.2010.  
    Art magazin Kontura, Renata Poljak : Plava kao metfora smisla, Barbara Vujanovic, 109/110, October, 2010.  
    Lovely Daze: Issue 7, Good Intentions Lead to Hell, 2010  
    Lori Cole, Things Fall Apart, ArtForum Pick, ArtForum, January 26, 2009  
    Kimberly Lamm, Like Going Underwater, Art in General brochure 2008  
    Lejla Topic, Renata Poljak, Camera Austria, Forum, No. 99/2007  
    Natasa Ilic, All One Knows, in cat. Kuba - Journey Against the Current, 2006.  
    L.Topic, At the Court of the Transition King, in cat.The View, Renata Poljak, 2005  
    R. Ratkovic Arhitektonsko nasilje kao paradigma obiteljskih odnosa, Covjek i prostor, br.09-10, 2005  
    M. Golub Renata Poljak u Galeriji SC, radio 101, likovnost, studeni 2005  
    R. Marcoci Here Tomorrow, in cat. Here Tomorrow, 2002  
    N. Ilic, Falling into Circularity, in cat. did she fall  o r was she pushed ?, Zagreb, 2001  
    Ana Devic, Croatia, Young Art, in cat. Adriatico, Le Due Sponde, 2001  
    M.Mercier, Video indépendante en Croatie, BREF- le magazine du court métrage, n°43, hiver 99/2000  
    Janka Vukmir Renata Poljak-Issues of Intimacy and Femininity, SIKSI - The Nordic Art Review, vol.12/no.4, winter 1997