RENATA |
POLJAK |
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| BIOGRAPHY |
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| 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. |
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| Great Expectations, 2nd Award at the 7th Days of Film - Mediterranean Festival of Documentary Films, Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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| Great Expectations, Best film in national competition at the 4th Tabor film festival, Croatia. |
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| 2000 | Souvenirs (Memories) / Tito, Tata, Public Award, Balkan Video Federation, Belgrade. |
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| Skok/Jump, VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad. |
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| 1999 | Souvenirs (Memories) / Tito, Tata, VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad. |
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| 1997 | I, the Housewife!, Annual Award of Women`s Art Center Electra, Zagreb. |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||||