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Toni Meštrović, born 1973 in Split, Croatia, graduated with a Graphic Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1999, where he produced graphic arts, sculpture and installation. Due to his interest in electronic audiovisual media, he studied Video/Digital Imaging at the International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art in Salzburg in 1997, and completed a two-year postgraduate diploma in Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne in 2004. Video, sound and audiovisual installations produced during Meštrovićs postgraduate studies explore his personal perception of the sea, and the island where he grew up. Since 1992, he has taken part in group and solo shows, as well as video festivals. Lives in Rijeka and Kaštela, teaches at the Arts Academy University of Split, Department of Film and Video. |
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BORN: 1973 Split, Croatia
EDUCATION: 2001 - 2004 postgraduate study at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Media Art, by Prof. David Larcher and Prof. Anthony Moore, Cologne, Germany 1999 - 2000 guest student at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Media Art, by Prof. Valie Export, Cologne, Germany 1997 International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art, Video/Digital Imaging, class of Prof. Valie Export, Salzburg, Austria 1991 - 1999 graduate study at the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU), Graphic Arts, class of Prof. Zdravko Tišljar, Zagreb, Croatia 1987 - 1991 High School for Applied Art and Design, Graphic Design, Split, Croatia
SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS/GRANTS: 2011 Fonds Roberto Cimetta Paris Travel Grant 2007 Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU) Zagreb Annual Award for Young Artist 2006 Siemens Go Global Price 2003 Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology Grant 2001 - 2002 City of Kaštela Scholarship 1999 - 2000 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship 1998 University of Zagreb Rectors Award 1997 KulturKontakt Austria Scholarship 1997 Institute for Contemporary Art SCCA Zagreb Travel Grant 1994 - 1999 City of Kaštela Scholarship
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Welcome to Dalmatia – Mediterranean as it once was, Museum of Contemporary Art / Media Facade, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Tihomir Milovac) 2009 Abyssos 6, Grey Area Gallery, Korčula, Croatia (curated by: Darko Fritz) 2008 Continuum Continuus #3, Kranjčar Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Dean Jokanović Toumin, Blaženka Perica) 2007 O (Circle), Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia 2006 Perpetuum mobile, Karas Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Ivana Kancir) 2005 Abyssos, Galerija umjetnina, Split, Croatia (curated by: Jasminka Babić) 2005 Psychotic, Start Solo #014, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: WHW collective) 2004 Abyssos, Experimental Program PILOT 04, Studio of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Jasna Jakšić) 2004 When my thoughts become liquid shadows, (performance), Galerie-Projektraum, Cologne, Germany 2004 Abyssos (DVD-06), Galerie-Projektraum, Cologne, Germany 2004 Abyssos, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany 2001 Between Two Images, Moria Gallery, Stari Grad, Island of Hvar, Croatia 1999 Intimate act, (performance & product), Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia 1999 Monograph of Vrbnik, SC Gallery , Zagreb, Croatia 1997 Structure of Media, Architect Club, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Ana Peraica) 1996 Zavičajni muzej kaštela, Kaštel Novi, Croatia 1996 Kula Lotrščak, Zagreb, Croatia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2012 Abstraction – modernism and contemporaneity, Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Ana Medić, Ivana Mance) 2012 Removed together: ST <-> LJ, MKC Dom mladih, Split, Croatia (curated by: Brian Willems) 2012 T-HTnagrada@MSU.hr, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (juried) 2011 24. Instants Video Festival, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France (juried) 2011 37. Split Salon, Izlagati (se), basement of the Diocletian's palace, Split, Croatia (curated by: Barbara Vujanović, Dalibor Prančević) 2011 Od kipa do ispovijedi: autoportret - autobiografija, Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Ive Šimat Banov, Dalibor Prančević) 2011 Picture of Sound, Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia (curated by: Evelina Turković) 2011 /Si:n/ 2 Festival of video art & performance, The Ethnographic & Art Museum at Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine (curated by: Marc Mercier) 2011 Picture of Sound, Museum of Contemporary Art, NO Gallery Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Evelina Turković) 2010 Picture of Sound, MKC Dom mladih, Split, Croatia (curated by: Evelina Turković) 2010 We are here 2, Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, Pula, Croatia (curated by: Mladen Lučić) 2010 Permanent exhibition, Galerija umjetnina, Split, Croatia (curated by: Božo Majstorović) 2010 Participation, not simulation, Old City Hall, Split, Croatia (curated by: Dalibor Prančević) 2010 T-HTnagrada@MSU.hr, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (juried) 2009 22. Instants Video Festival, Montévidéo, Marseille, France (juried) 2009 18. dokumentART - European Film Festival for Documentaries, National Museum, Szczecin, Poland (curated by: Antoni Karwowski) 2009 Otvoreni prostori - Pomaknuti zapleti, AKC Medika, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Irena Borić, Lana-Linda Fisković, Ana Kršinić-Lozica) 2009 Video Vortex 4, MKC Dom mladih, Split, Croatia 2009 Kriza, MSUI / The Old Printshop, Pula, Croatia (curated by: Mladen Lučić) 2009 DOPUST - Dani otvorenog performansa u Splitu, City Aquarium Bačvice, Split, Croatia 2008 Space for New Dialogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia (curated by: Ksenija Orelj) 2008 Polylog, Mediterranean Biennale, SIDISPOT, Cologne, Germany 2008 Galerija Tutnplok, Lazareti / Otok Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia (curated by: Toni Horvatić) 2008 Island map, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Marina Viculin) 2008 Paso Doble, MKC Dom mladih, Split, Croatia (curated by: Ana Janevski, Branko Franceschi) 2008 Welcome, Reykjavik Art Festival, 100° Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (curated by: Iva Radmila Janković) 2008 Croatia First Minute, Verket, Avesta, Sweden (curated by: Jasna Jakšić, Vesna Meštrić) 2008 Galerija Tutnplok, MKC Dom mladih, Split, Croatia (curated by: Toni Horvatić) 2008 Island map, Island of Zlarin, Croatia (curated by: Marina Viculin, Vedran Perkov) 2007 Im_polis, Transitio_MX02 Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico (curated by: Ale de la Puente, Rogelio Sosa, Iván Abreu, Karla Jasso) 2007 5+, ALU Awarded Students, Gliptoteka HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia 2007 Island map, Island of Zlarin, Croatia (curated by: Marina Viculin, Vedran Perkov) 2007 BUK (Baranja Art Colony), Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia 2006 L'Usage de Monde, MMSU - Mali salon, Rijeka, Croatia (curated by: Ana Janevski) 2006 Siemens Go Global, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (juried) 2006 The Little Earth, MSU / Makronova, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Tihomir Milovac) 2006 Young Art Europe 2006, MOYA - Museum of Young Art, Vienna, Austria 2006 Insert, Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia (curated by: Tihomir Milovac, Branko Franceschi, Silva Kalčić, Antonia Majača) 2006 Contemporary Art in Split - New Generation, Dom HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Božo Majstorović) 2006 Contemporary Art in Split - New Generation, Galerija umjetnina, Split, Croatia (curated by: Božo Majstorović) 2005 Gemine:Muse, Young Artists in European Museums, Ivan Meštrović Gallery, Split, Croatia (curated by: Dalibor Prančević) 2005 34th Split Salon Landscape in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture - Between Fetishes and Ideology, City Aquarium Bačvice, Split, Croatia (curated by: Branko Franceschi) 2005 Insert, Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, Zagrebački Velesajam, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Tihomir Milovac, Branko Franceschi, Silva Kalčić, Antonia Majača) 2005 Četiri autora i slika, Punta arta, Island of Zlarin, Croatia (curated by: Vedran Perkov) 2005 39th Zagreb Salon, Dom HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia (juried) 2005 Sub-Art, Gliptoteka HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia 2004 ArtiST Now An Underground Garden, basement of the Diocletian's palace, Split, Croatia (curated by: Dragica Čakić) 2004 Altitude 04, Open day at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Klanglabor, Cologne, Germany 2004 Hicetnunc, dell'Antico Ospedale dei Battuti, San Vito al Tagliamento (Pordenone), Italy (curated by: Angelo Bertani) 2004 GoToAndStop, 17th European Media Art Festival, Student Forum, DGB-Building, Osnabrueck, Germany 2004 Forgotten Places, MKC Dom mladih, Split, Croatia (curated by: Tamara Visković) 2004 5to1, Gigacenter, Cologne, Germany (curated by: Matthias Neuenhofer) 2003 Altitude 03, Open day at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany 2003 Streams of Encounter, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (curated by: Andreas Walther) 2002 Perception, Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia (curated by: Jean de Breyne) 2002 Panta rhei, Aquarius Wassermuseum, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany 2000 Open day at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany 1999 SG2.0, Salon Galić, Split, Croatia 1998 25th Youth Salon, Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika, Arterija Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (juried) 1998 24th Zagreb Salon, MGC Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Igor Zabel) 1998 Academy of Fine Arts Graduates Exhibition, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia 1997 Neighbours, Lamparna, Labin, Croatia 1997 1700 + International Architectural Seminar, Fort Gripe, Split, Croatia 1997 Exhibition of the Salzburg International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art, Hallein, Austria 1997 Earth Day, The Little Earth, Architect Club, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Tihomir Milovac) 1996 Split Salon, basement of the Diocletian's palace, Split, Croatia (juried) 1996 24th Youth Salon, Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika, Zagreb, Croatia (juried) 1996 Vrbnik Printmaking Academy, Mali salon, Rijeka, Croatia 1996 Earth Day, T.Est, Cvjetni trg, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by: Tihomir Milovac) 1995 Earth Day, Exhibition in the Tunnel, Tunnel Grič, Zagreb, Croatia 1994/95 Biennale of small forms, Gospe od Zdravlja Gallery, Split, Croatia (juried) 1994 Art Squat, ex Dom omladine, Split, Croatia 1994 Earth Day, Installations, The Old Printshop, Zagreb, Croatia 1992 Eyes of Truth, ALU Students, MGC Gradec, Zagreb, Croatia
VIDEO-FILM FESTIVALS (COMPETITION): 2003 AsoloArtFilmFestival, Asolo, Italy 2003 8th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia 2003 21st Munich Film Festival, VideoArt & Experimental Film, Munich, Germany 2003 16th European Media Art Festival, Student Forum, Osnabrueck, Germany 2003 Shorts! 4th International Short Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2001 6th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia 2001 Extra Short Film Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia 2001 10th Days of Croatian Film, Zagreb, Croatia 2000 5th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
OTHER SCREENINGS: 2010 17 Days #2, Digital Media and Animation Gallery, Alfred State College, Alfred (NY), USA (curated by: Adriane Little) 2009 7th International Film Festival Yerevan / One Minute Film Collection, Yerevan, Armenia (curated by: Agricola de Cologne) 2009 17 Days #2, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo (NY), USA (curated by: Adriane Little) 2008 17 Days #2, The Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), USA (curated by: Adriane Little) 2007 12th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia (curated by: Mladen Lučić) 2007 Video selection by Alen Floričić, Mali salon, Rijeka, Croatia (curated by: Alen Floričić) 2005 Visura aperta Momiano 05, Momjan, Croatia 2005 2nd Video Festival Natures, Bežigrajska galerija 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004 3rd International Video Art Festival, Prishtina, Kosovo (curated by: Antonija Majača) 2004 Frischzelle - Abyssos, Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany 2004 Spots und Experimente, Kulturbunker Mülheim, Cologne, Germany 2003 Pula Off - Videopuzzle, MM centar Luka, Pula, Croatia 2003 XII Punto de Encuentro, Festival Internacional de musica electroacustica, Fabrica de Harinas, Albacete, Spain 2003 Lange Nacht der Kölner Museen, Academy of Media Arts Cologne as a guest in Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany 2002 Days of the Croatian Culture in Macedonia, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia 2002 11th Edition of the VideoGallery, Switzerland 2001 10th Edition of the VideoGallery, Switzerland 2001 Call me Sarajevo, Sarajevo Winter 2001, Sarajevo, Bosnia 2000 Video-Output, Video works of the International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art, 5020 Gallery, Salzburg, Austria 2000 Open day at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Cologne, Germany
BROADCASTING: 2009 Picture of Sound, Croatian National Radio - HR3, Croatia 2002 Videodrom 02, Croatian National Television - HRT1, Croatia 2001 Transfer, Croatian National Television - HRT1, Croatia
PRESENTATIONS: 2011 /Si:n/ 2 Festival of video art & performance, Al Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine 2011 Lost in Transition, Trubarjeva hiša literature, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010 La Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda, Mexico City, Mexico 2007 La Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda, Mexico City, Mexico 2007 21000: First Behind, Kuda.org / CK13, Novi Sad, Serbia 2006 Back to the Future - SC Gallery 40th Anniversary, MM centar, Zagreb, Croatia 2005 6th Meeting of Mediterranean Schools of Art, École des Beaux-Arts d'Alger, Algeria
COLLABORATIONS: 2011 The Additional Act, camera for the project by Nadija Mustapić, Bužančić Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia 2010 An Afternoon Without Gravity, multichannel sound editing for the project by Nadija Mustapić, MKC Dom mladih, Split, Croatia 2010 Culturing Community, The Moving Crew: Ideal X, member and participant in a project by artist collective, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, Iowa, USA 2010 What's Inside Ideal X?, member and participant in a project by The Moving Crew artist collective, Molekula, Rijeka, Croatia 2009 E, moj Pinokio, video for set design (set designers: Iva Matija Bitanga & Leo Vukelić) for theater performance directed by Dražen Ferenčina, GKM, Split, Croatia 2007 Zvrk, video for a project by Vlasta Žanić, Galerija Bačva, Zagreb, Croatia 2007 Cartographies of time and necessary utopias, sound for a project by Neli Ružić, Ex Teresa, Mexico City, Mexico 2007 Et In Barbaria Ego, multichannel video/sound installation for a project by Milivoj Bijelić, Galerija Bačva, Zagreb, Croatia 2005 Lady Macbeth has nothing to lose, video for theater performance by Marjana Krajač, ZKM, Zagreb, Croatia
RECENT WORKS: 2012 Sol, video/sound installation, 23'00'' loop 2011 Welcome to Dalmatia – Mediterranean as it once was, single channel video installation, 53'00'' loop 2011 hOrizon (Ramallah – Tel Aviv), video installation, 8'24'' loop 2010 hOrizon (Macaknara), video/sound installation, 8'42'' loop 2010 Welcome to Dalmatia – Mediterranean as it once was, multichannel video installation, 53'00'' loop 2009 Lovers, multichannel sound composition, 10'00'' 2009 Aquarium, multichannel sound performance, ca. 60' 2009 Continuum Continuus #4, stereo sound composition, 20'00'' 2008 Continuum Continuus #3, multichannel video/sound installation, 15'54'' loop 2008 Continuum Continuus #2, video/sound installation, 15'00'' loop 2007 Continuum Continuus #1, video/sound installation, 6'40'' loop 2007 Continuum Continuus (Trailer), video film, 1'00'' 2006 Tikveš by Night, multichannel soundscape, 3'00'' 2006 Perpetuum Mobile, multichannel sound installation, 20'00'' loop 2005 Untitled (Meštrović vs. Meštrović), video installation, 7'22'' loop 2005 O-tok (Macaknara), video/sound installation, 6'13'' loop 2004 Continuum, video/sound installation, 6'07'' loop 2004 Abyssos, video film, 17'35'' 2004 When my thoughts become liquid shadows, closed-circuit video performance, ca. 3 hours 2004 Abyssos, multichannel video/sound installation, loop 2003 A Blue Note, video/sound installation, 0'06'' loop 2003 Lanterna, video sculpture, 0'12'' loop 2003 The State of Mind, multichannel video/sound installation, 4'00'' loop 2002 The State of Mind, video film, 1'30'' 2002 Sub-Sea-Net, sound installation, 3'37'' loop 2002 Vacuum, multichannel video/sound installation, 0'40'' loop 2000 Escape, video film, 3'30'' 2000 Changing the State of Matter in Stereo, closed circuit video/sound installation 2000 Illegal Operation, multichannel video/sound installation, 4'30'' loop 2000 Brain Washing 2, video film, 2'46'' 2000 Scream, video film, 0'08'' 2000 Veli Drvenik, video film, 5'32'' 2000 28. 10. 1999, video film, 3'32''
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