CURRICULUM VITAE

 

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 Meštrović’s 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.

 

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 Rector’s 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''